JPS6321188A - Transferring method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable character patterns to be transferred to an object securely and easily without generating slippage, by a method wherein variable information is thermally transferred from an ink surface provided on a first sheet to a second sheet by a thermal printing means, the second sheet is brought into contact with the object, and pressure and heat are applied to them through a sheet member having a high thermal conductivity, whereby the transfer patterns are sublimation transferred to the object. CONSTITUTION:In a transfer material 1, an ink surface 4 is covered by the lower side 30 of a second sheet 3, and a first sheet 2 is made to be a transfer sheet capable of being used for sublimation transfer of reversed patterns. The transfer material 1 is inserted between a thermal dot printer 5 for printing variable information outputted from a computer as transfer patterns and a platen 6, and the thermal patterns 7 are printed on the transfer material 1 from the lower side of the first sheet 2 or from the upper side of the second sheet 3, whereby the transfer patterns 7 are thermally transferred from the ink surface to the lower side of the second sheet 3. The first sheet 2 or the second sheet 3 is sandwiched together with an object A between the halves of a doubled sheet member 9, and the object A and the sheet member 9 are passed between heated rollers B to apply pressure and heat to the sandwich- shaped assembly, whereby the transfer patterns 7 or transfer patterns 8 are sublimation transferred.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a transfer method for transferring a transfer pattern output by a computer, such as a name or number, onto a transfer object such as clothing.

[Conventional technology]

Traditionally, in competitions such as marathons and school sports days, Zetsukens with numbers printed or written on them are used to identify athletes, and in schools, especially elementary and junior high schools, names are printed on gym uniforms. Students are distinguished from each other by reading their numbers, and in order to make it easier for others to tell them apart, it has traditionally been the practice to stamp a number or name on a part of their clothing or use a ``Zetsuken''.

(Problem to be solved by the invention) However, since the above-mentioned numbering and naming differ for each individual, it is possible to change the numbers and characters that make up the variable information (i.e. numbers and names) to be displayed. There is a problem that printing (or writing) is required, and when the numbering and name tags are in a uniform font and are distributed over a large number of characters, the work becomes extremely complicated.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention was made in consideration of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and a second sheet is placed on top of a first sheet provided with an ink surface made of thermal transfer sublimation ink with different melting V&temperature and rise 1i temperature. , print a transfer pattern such as a number or name output by a computer using a heating printing means, thermally transfer the transfer pattern from the ink surface to the opposite surface of the second sheet, and then transfer the transfer pattern to the second sheet and onto the object to be transferred. A transfer pattern capable of sublimation transfer is provided, and a second sheet and an object to be transferred are combined together with a sheet material covering the second sheet, and the transfer pattern is sublimated and transferred to the object by applying pressure and heating from above the sheet material. The above-mentioned conventional problems are solved by providing a transfer method characterized by the following.

[For production]

In the present invention, the transfer pattern is thermally transferred from the ink surface of the first sheet to the opposite surface of the second sheet using a heating printing means that prints a pattern based on variable information, such as a heating dot printer, and the thermally transferred second sheet (also The first sheet (on which thermal transfer sublimation ink remains) is configured as a transfer sheet in which the transfer pattern can be sublimated and transferred to a transfer target such as cloth, and this second sheet (also the first sheet) is configured as a transfer sheet that can be sublimated and transferred to a transfer target such as cloth By applying heat and pressure to the sheet material in accordance with the object, the transfer pattern corresponding to variable information such as numbers and names can be reliably transferred onto the object without shifting.

(Example) Next, the present invention will be described in detail based on an example shown in FIGS. 1 to 7.

1 in the figure is a transfer material, and the transfer material 1 is made of a material such as polylaminate paper or a sheet-like material whose upper surface is coated with urethane resin, vinyl chloride resin, etc. as shown in Fig. 1. A first sheet 2 and a second sheet 3 located above made of a material such as capacitor paper, polyester film, or polyimide film are bound together so that they can be spread open by adhering their edges to each other with an adhesive S. It is.

Furthermore, as described above, since the first sheet 2 is formed from polylaminated paper or a sheet-like material whose upper surface is coated, the upper surface 20 of the first sheet 2 has good releasability to ink. , an ink surface 4 formed by applying thermal transfer sublimation ink is formed on this upper surface 20.

The thermal transfer sublimation ink applied to the upper surface 20 is formed by blending an ink composition such as wax, resin, pigment, sublimation dye, etc., and melts at a temperature of, for example, 40 to 120°C to enable thermal transfer. It sublimes at a temperature of about °C, making sublimation transfer possible, and the melting temperature and sublimation temperature are different.

In the transfer material 1, the ink surface 4 is covered with the lower surface 30 of the second sheet 3, and the thermal transfer sublimation ink on the ink surface 4 is thermally transferred in an arbitrary pattern to the lower surface 30 of the second sheet 3 by an appropriate means. When the pattern is transferred to the lower surface 30, the second sheet 3 is constructed as a transfer sheet that can sublimation transfer the pattern onto another transfer object, and the first sheet 2 also has a pattern with an outline pattern. It is constructed as a transfer sheet that can be subjected to sublimation transfer (see Figure 2).

In addition, in the transfer material 1, the first sheet provided with the ink surface is located at the bottom, but the first sheet and the second sheet are reversed, and the second sheet is located at the bottom of the first sheet. It may be arranged so as to cover the ink surface.

When transferring a character pattern using the transfer material having the above structure, as shown in FIG. The heating dot printer 5 is inserted with the transfer material 1 between them.
For example, as shown in the figure, the transfer pattern 7 of "Yama" and "Ta" for the output information of the name "Yamada" is transferred to the transfer material 1.
The transfer pattern 7 is thermally transferred from the ink surface 4 to the lower surface of the second sheet 3 by printing from the lower surface side of the first sheet 2 or from the upper surface side of the second sheet 3.

On the other hand, by thermally transferring the transfer pattern 7 to the lower surface of the second sheet 3, a transfer pattern 8 with white characters is provided on the ink surface 4 of the first sheet 2, and as described above, the first and second sheets are The transfer sheet is configured to be capable of sublimation transfer of a character pattern and a white character pattern onto a transfer object.

Then, the second sheet 3 with the transfer pattern 7 thermally transferred or the first sheet 2 with the transfer pattern 8 with residual thermal transfer sublimation ink is applied to the variable information written portion of the transferred material A such as cloth. One sheet 2 (or second sheet 3) and transfer target A are sandwiched between sheet materials 9 that are folded in half. This sheet material 9 is made of polyester paper with a thickness of about 100 μm, but other sheet materials may be used as long as they are thin and have good thermal conductivity, and this sheet material and high-quality paper can be used as double-page spreads. You may also use one that is bound together and sandwiched between them.

Next, the first sheet 2 (or second sheet 3), transfer target A, and sheet material 9 are inserted into a heat roller B and heated under pressure to form a transfer pattern 7 (or transfer pattern 8).
) can be transferred by sublimation, and the character pattern (or character pattern treated as white) can be reliably written on the transferred material A using thermal transfer sublimation ink. The first sheet and the second sheet do not shift relative to each other (see Fig. 5).

When the transfer pattern 8 sublimation-transferred from the first sheet 2 is written as an inverted character pattern on the transfer object, the character pattern is transparent from the back side of the transfer object A (for example, thin cloth) to the front surface a. can be displayed (see Figure 6).

The transfer pattern on the first sheet will be reversed by sublimation transfer as described above, but when using the first sheet as a transfer sheet and providing a white character pattern on the surface of the transferred object to improve the display effect, The transferred pattern can be reversed in advance at this point by changing the direction in which the heated dot printer hits the transfer material, or the signal output from the computer can be changed so that the printed pattern of the heated dot printer is reversed in advance. This makes it easy to adapt to the usage method and purpose of the transferred material.

Further, as shown in FIG. 7, not only variable information but also fixed information (for example, competition name, organization name, etc.) is entered into the transfer material 1, and a transfer pattern 70 corresponding to the fixed information is applied to the transfer material 1.
A transfer pattern 80 is thermally transferred to the lower surface of the sheet 3 and a white outline is also formed on the ink surface, and the transfer pattern 80 is transferred from the first sheet 2 side or the transfer pattern 70 is transferred from the second sheet 3 side. It is also possible to perform sublimation transfer onto a transfer material.

In the transfer material of the embodiment described above, the first sheet and the second sheet
The binding form with the sheet is such that one edge can be peeled off from each other.
It is not only possible to attach the paper at random, but it may also be of a form in which the two edges or the four edges are stitched together, and a separating means such as a perforation may be provided as appropriate to make it possible to spread the paper. Further, the ink surface may be in a divided form coated with a plurality of thermal transfer sublimation inks of different colors, and when it is divided into different colors in this way, character patterns of different colors can be formed. can be written on the transferred material.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, a transfer pattern forming variable information outputted by a computer such as a name and number from an ink surface provided on a first sheet is thermally transferred to a second sheet by a heating printing means, A transfer pattern is provided on the second sheet, and a transfer pattern made of thermal transfer sublimation ink remaining on the ink surface is also provided on the first sheet. Since the transferred pattern is sublimated and transferred to the transferred object using pressure and heating along with a sheet material with good conductivity, variable information such as numbers and names can be transferred without wrinkles or misalignment of the sheet or transferred object during pressurized heating. It is possible to obtain a transfer pattern corresponding to variable information at any time, easily produce a transfer sheet corresponding to variable information, and transfer variable information reliably as a character pattern or a white character pattern without causing any misalignment on the transferred object. It has become possible to write information quickly and easily, eliminating the poor workability that occurred with conventional direct printing and writing, that is, the trouble of changing the transfer pattern each time in response to variable information, and eliminating the need for a large amount of variable information. It has excellent practical effects, such as being able to easily process information.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing the main parts of the transfer material in an embodiment of the transfer method according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the state after thermal transfer in the embodiment, and FIG. An explanatory diagram showing the state of thermal transfer, Fig. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the pressurized and heated state, Fig. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the object to be transferred on which the transfer pattern is provided, and Fig. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing the transferred object on which the transfer pattern is provided on the back side. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing the object to be transferred. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which fixed information is also thermally transferred in one embodiment. 1... Transfer material 2... First sheet 20...
・Top surface 3...Second sheet 30...
...Bottom surface 4...Ink surface 9...Sheet material patent applicant Trapan Moore Co., Ltd. Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5! ! l Figure 7

Claims (1)

[Claims] A second sheet is placed on top of the first sheet, which has an ink surface made of thermal transfer sublimation ink having different melting temperatures and sublimation temperatures, and a transfer pattern such as a number and a name outputted by a computer is printed by a heating printing means. thermally transferring the transfer pattern from the ink surface to the opposing surface of the second sheet;
The second sheet is provided with a transfer pattern that can be sublimated and transferred to the object to be transferred, and the second sheet and the object to be transferred are combined together with a sheet material that covers the second sheet, and the transfer is performed by applying pressure and heating from above the sheet material. A transfer method characterized by sublimation transfer of a pattern onto an object.