Patent ID: 8850973

Claim:
A method for activating a print pattern of a transfer film formed by applying the print pattern on a water-soluble film with an activating agent and thereafter carrying out a water pressure transfer of said print pattern on a surface of an article, said method comprising the steps of preparing said transfer film having said print pattern including a first area of an ink layer and a second area of no ink layer or an ink layer thinner than that of said first area and having a whole outer surface exposed; forming activating agent convex collection portions by protruding on said surface of said article a surplus portion of said activating agent which is applied onto said surface of said transfer film to activate an ink of said first area while said surplus portion of said activating agent is collected in said second area by being pushed by said surface of said article on said water pressure transfer; and shrinking said activating agent convex collection portion when said print pattern on said article is hardened whereby a portion corresponding to said second area projects beyond an ink print portion corresponding to said first area to thereby form a decorative layer having a three-dimensional unevenness shape imparted to said surface of said article, said activating agent characterized by including ultraviolet ray hardening resin composite to be applied to the surface of said transfer film having at least resin main component including first photo-polymerization monomer A of three or more functional groups and second photo-polymerization monomer B of two functional groups and photo-polymerization initiator, said first and second photo-polymerization monomers being blended so as to be a whole volume shrinkage ratio of 10 to 20% and a viscosity of 100 to 500 CPS.