Patent ID: 7216584

Claim:
A method of forming an alignment layer for a liquid crystal display device, comprising: attaching a transfer film on a printing roll, the transfer film including a convex portion having first-sized halftone dots , first-sized grooves proportional to the first-sized halftone dots, second-sized halftone dots and second-sized grooves proportional to the second-sized halftone dots, wherein the first-sized halftone dots are located in a central part of the convex portion and the second-sized halftone dots are located in an edge part of the convex portion and wherein the central part has 400 meshes and the edge part has 400 to 600 meshes; positioning a substrate on a printing table; providing aligning solution on an anilox roll using a doctor roll; and transferring the aligning solution on the anilox roll to the transfer film while moving the printing table and rotating the printing roll, and then coating the aligning solution on the substrate to thereby form an alignment layer on the substrate, wherein the alignment layer has a uniform thickness within a range of about 700 Å to about 1,100 Å and wherein the first-sized halftone dots are larger than the second-sized halftone dots and the first-sized grooves are larger and deeper than the second-sized grooves.