PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such a problem that it is difficult to reduce the cost for printing in a conventional printing method.SOLUTION: A printing method includes the steps of: making a transfer sheet Ts and a printing sheet W abut on each other in a pattern formation region 75 as a region on the printing sheet W where a transfer patter 89 is formed with a metal film 85 when the transfer pattern 89 is formed with the metal film 85 on the printing sheet W by transferring the metal film 85 of the transfer sheet Ts to the printing sheet W which is conveyed; and separating the transfer sheet Ts and printing sheet W from each other in at least a portion of a gap region 76 as a region interposed between two pattern formation regions 75 present side by side along a conveyance path Rw for the printing sheet W.