摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer and a printing method in which an appropriate quantity of powder for absorbing an ink liquid drop sufficiently can be applied easily, and both non-reusable powder and reusable powder can be separated and reused without requiring any special separator, or the like. SOLUTION: The recording method comprises a step for previously forming a layer of a material 11 soluble into a liquid or swelling with a liquid to increase the viscosity thereof onto an intermediate transfer body belt 21 separably therefrom, a step for forming a visible image onto the intermediate transfer body belt 21 by ejecting a liquid 33 in response to a signal, and a step for transferring the visible image onto a recording body 42, wherein the material layer is formed by filling the recessed in the intermediate transfer body belt 21 having protrusions and recesses 25 with the material. |