Patent ID: 8105762

Claim:
A method for forming a pattern, comprising: providing a substrate on which a plurality of unit panels and etching object layers on the respective unit panel areas are formed, each of the unit panels including a plurality of gate lines and data lines defining a plurality of pixels, a thin film transistor in each pixel, and a pixel electrode in each pixel; providing a cliché on which a plurality of grooves are formed, the cliché being divided into a plurality of portions corresponding in number and size to the plurality of unit panels of the substrate; filling resist in the grooves; transferring the resist in the grooves of at least one divided portion of the plurality of divided portions of the cliché but less than the total number of the plurality of the divided portions of the cliché onto substantially the whole area of a blanket applied on a surface of a printing roll by contacting and rotating the printing roll with respect to said at least one divided portion but less than the total number of the plurality of the divided portions of the cliché, the whole area of the blanket applied on the surface of the printing roll corresponding in size to (1) the area of said at least one divided portion of the plurality of divided portions of, but less than the total number of, the plurality of divided portions of the unit panels and (2) the area of at least one divided portion of the plurality of divided portions of, but less than the total number of, the plurality of divided portions of the cliché; applying the resist transferred on the whole area of the surface of the blanket of the printing roll on to the etching object layer on said at least one divided portion of the plurality of divided portions of, but less than the total number of, the plurality of divided portions of the unit panels of the substrate; and repeating the transferring process and applying process to the etching object layer on at least one other unit panel of the substrate from at least one other divided portion of the cliché using the printing rolling.