Abstract: A dry release transfer is disclosed in which the design layer is formed by printing one or more inks onto a carrier sheet, at least one of the inks being a photopolymerizable composition, and subjecting the design layer to ultra-violet radiation or an electron beam discharge in order to polymerize the photopolymerizable ink. By suitable selection of polymerizable components of the ink so that the photopolymerized ink has a high Young's modulus, a stress-resisting design layer is produced which will release readily from the carrier on mechanically stressing the carrier, e.g. by rubbing lightly with a ball-point pen.

Abstract: A method of printing textile and other surfaces and particularly relates to a transfer sheet comprising a flexible carrier sheet having a design in a drying ink surface which design is not transferable to a receptor material by the application of heat alone and a polymer layer applied over the design so that the application of heat to the transfer sheet causes the polymer layer to adhere to the receptor material so that the carrier sheet can be removed leaving the ink design transferred to the polymer which itself is totally transferred to the receptor material. The invention also includes a method of forming a transfer and a method of decorating a material, particularly a textile material, using the transfers and methods of the invention.

Abstract: A dry transfer sheet of the kind described comprising a carrier sheet, at least one design carried by said carrier sheet and releasably bonded thereto, and a layer of shrinkable pressure sensitive adhesive covering said design and overlapping said carrier sheet to stress the edges of the design to cause at least a reduction of bonding between the edges of the design and the carrier sheet.