Patent ID: 7987782

Claim:
A patterning method according to the following sequence: (1) coating a pattern material on a coating roller through a printing nozzle while the coating roller is spaced from a blanket adhered to a surface of a printing roller, wherein solvent included in the coated pattern material on the coating roller is vaporized during the coating step; (2) transferring pattern material from the coating roller onto the blanket after one of the coating roller and the printing roller moves toward the other of the coating roller and the printing roller; (3) loading a printing plate having a plurality of projections to print some of the pattern material, a substrate and a cleaning unit on a conveyer belt system; (4) rolling the printing roller onto the projections of the printing plate to leave pattern material of a predetermined pattern remaining on the blanket; (5) cleaning the printing nozzle using a nozzle bath and cleaning the coating roller using a cleaning nozzle; and (6) rolling the printing roller having the pattern material of the predetermined pattern coated onto the blanket on the substrate to print pattern material of the predetermined pattern onto the substrate.