INKJET PRINTER, DYE PRINTING METHOD AND INK

摘要

[Problem] To provide a dye-printing method and an ink that enable printing on a larger variety of media than conventionally. [Solution] A dye-printing method using an ink 10 that includes a solvent 11 and thermoplastic resin particles 12, which are dispersed in the solvent 11 and include a dye 13, is characterized by including: a printing step in which printing is performed on a medium 20 using the ink 10; a particle-fixing step in which the solvent 11 in the ink 10 that has been printed onto the medium 20 in the printing step is dried to thereby fix the particles 12 on the medium 20; and a resin-fixing step in which the particles 12 that have been fixed on the medium 20 in the particle-fixing step are heated at least to or above a glass-transition temperature to thereby fix the thermoplastic resin onto the medium 20.