摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve ink transfer efficiency and ink absorption efficiency and form clear images, particularly, multicolor images by specifying a compressibility and a surface roughness in a thicknesswise direction of a body to be recorded which is used in. SOLUTION: According to an electric congelation printing, a special water-based ink supplied between an anode and a cathode is turned to a gel by metallic ions generated because of a potential difference between the anode and cathode in accordance with an image signal, and the solidified ink colloid is adhered onto a surface of a metallic cylinder 1. A quantity and a position of the colored solidified colloid are controlled, whereby an optional image is reproduced on the cylinder 1. The image is pressed and transferred to a body 8 to be recorded. The body 8 to be recorded which is used in this printing method is formed to have a compression modulus in a thicknesswise direction of not larger than 650 kgf/cm<2> and a maximum distortion in the thicknesswise direction of not smaller than 0.08 when a pressure of 40 kgf/cm<2> is applied. moreover, a maximum height per reference length of 2.5 mm of a recording surface (surface roughness) of the body 8 to be recorded is made not larger than 35μm.
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