Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink-jet printing apparatus that is capable of obtaining printed materials having good appearance while maintaining high quality of printed characters or images even when printed on a resin printing medium using a water-based ink, and an ink-jet printing method.

Abstract: Provided are a method of producing a mesh filter, which is capable of forming more minute holes than by punching processing, and which makes it possible, by forming meshes of different openings on the same base material, to appropriately change a flow rate or a light amount with the various opening sizes, and a mesh filter. The method of producing a mesh filter includes a step of producing a mesh filter by continuously plating a platable metal using a roll with a DLC pattern, wherein a mesh filter-shaped resist pattern is obtained by forming multiple mesh filter-shaped resist patterns of different openings on the same cylindrical metal base material.

Abstract: Provided is a gravure printing apparatus, a gravure printing method, and a printed matter manufacturing method in which the ink transfer characteristics in gravure printing are controlled to be improved. The gravure printing apparatus includes: a gravure plate cylinder; a doctor blade configured to scrape off a superfluous ink from a plate surface of the gravure plate cylinder; an impression cylinder configured to press a base material to be printed against the plate surface to transfer the ink remaining in a cell of the gravure plate cylinder; and a transfer characteristics control mechanism configured to control ink transfer characteristics by supplying a gas selected from the group consisting of air having predetermined humidity, dry air, and an inert gas to at least a part of an ink transfer characteristics control area between an ink scraping-off point of the doctor blade on the plate surface and a pressing point of the impression cylinder on the plate surface.

Abstract: Provided are a functional cylinder body, including a plurality of layers having magnetic patterns and non-magnetic patterns formed adjacently, and a manufacturing method therefor. The functional cylinder body comprises at least: a cylinder main body; a first functional pattern part, which includes first patterns and first functional patterns, the first patterns having first recess patterns and first non-recess patterns formed by forming recesses on a first material layer made of any one of a magnetic material and a non-magnetic material, the first functional patterns being made of any one of the magnetic material and the non-magnetic material embedded in the first recess patterns; and a second functional pattern part, which is formed in a position of the cylinder main body shallower than a position of the first recess patterns and has magnetic patterns of the magnetic material and non-magnetic patterns of the non-magnetic material formed adjacently.

Abstract: A gravure printing plate and a method of manufacturing a gravure printing plate, which are capable of increasing a density range as compared to the conventional case to enable suppression of moire as well as to achieve rich gradation and enable fine tone settings. The gravure printing plate includes FM screen cells and AM screen cells which are concurrently formed in a plate surface thereof, and the FM screen cells and the AM screen cells are different in depth. It is preferred that, of the cells which are different in depth, shallower cells correspond to subcells and deeper cells correspond to main cells.

Abstract: Provided is a printing-lamination inline system and method being suitable for manufacturing packages having various kinds of package designs in small quantity and being capable of performing inkjet printing and lamination in an inline manner.

Abstract: Provided is a printing-lamination inline system and method being suitable for manufacturing packages having various kinds of package designs in small quantity and being capable of performing inkjet printing and lamination in an inline manner.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink-jet printing method that is capable of obtaining good printed materials that are free of occurrence of color migration and deformation of a printing medium even when printed on a resin printing medium. The present invention provides an ink-jet printing method using a water-based ink containing a black ink, a chromatic ink and a white ink which each contain a pigment (A), an organic solvent (C) having a boiling point of not lower than 90° C. and lower than 250° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink-jet printing method that is capable of obtaining good printed materials that are free of occurrence of color migration and deformation of a printing medium even when printed on a transparent resin printing medium using a water-based ink containing a white ink, and a black or chromatic ink.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink-jet printing apparatus that is capable of obtaining printed materials that are free of occurrence of color migration and have good appearance even when printed on a resin printing medium using a water-based ink, and an ink-jet printing method. The present invention provides an ink-jet printing apparatus including an ink-jet printing head that ejects a water-based ink onto a resin printing medium that is transported in a feeding direction thereof, and an under heater that heats the printing medium from a rear side surface of the printing medium opposed to a front side surface thereof which faces to the ink-jet printing head, in which the under heater is disposed at a position spaced at a distance of from 0.05 to 3.0 mm apart from the rear side surface of the printing medium upon printing, and an ink-jet printing method using the ink-jet printing apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink-jet printing apparatus that is capable of obtaining printed materials having good appearance while maintaining high quality of printed characters or images even when printed on a resin printing medium using a water-based ink, and an ink-jet printing method.

Abstract: Provided is an inkjet printer which is capable of preventing ink flow and color blurring as well as color mixing during multicolor printing when image formation is performed with aqueous ink on a web-shaped printing base material, and an inkjet printing method using the inkjet printer.

Abstract: Provided are a seamless cylindrical offset printing plate which enables seamless continuous printing to be performed, a manufacturing method therefor, and a reproduction processing method. The seamless cylindrical offset printing plate comprises: a cylindrical plate base material; a hydrophilic satin-like rough surface which is formed on a surface of the cylindrical plate base material; and a hydrophobic resist pattern part which is formed on the satin-like rough surface, wherein an exposed part of the satin-like rough surface serves as a non-printing area and the resist pattern part serves as a printing area.

Abstract: Provided are an offset printing plate, an offset printing apparatus, and an offset printing method, which are capable of printing a high-definition image by waterless offset printing. The offset printing plate comprises: a cylindrical plate base material; a silicon resin layer formed on the cylindrical plate base material; and a resist pattern part formed on the silicon resin layer, in which the silicon resin layer serves as a non-printing area, and the resist pattern part serves as a printing area. The silicon resin layer is preferably formed on the cylindrical plate base material seamlessly.

Abstract: Provided are a center drum type gravure printing apparatus comprising a plurality of gravure plate cylinders, which generates no volatile organic compound, eliminates printing misregistration, requires only a small installation space, and is suitable for performing multi-color printing, and a gravure printing method and a method of manufacturing a printed matter, which use the center drum type gravure printing apparatus.

Abstract: Provided is an aqueous gravure ink that is environmentally friendly, allows high-resolution printing by virtue of its excellent highlight suitability, and is excellent in drying property. The aqueous gravure ink comprises: a pigment; a polymer; a water-soluble organic solvent; a surfactant; and water, in which the water-soluble organic solvent has a boiling point of 100° C. or more and 260° C. or less, in which a content of the water-soluble organic solvent in the aqueous gravure ink is 10 mass % or more and 35 mass % or less, and in which a content of the water in the aqueous gravure ink is 50 mass % or more and 70 mass % or less.

Abstract: Provided is a gravure printing method by which high printing density and excellent highlight suitability are obtained, even if a gravure plate having high resolution and reduced thickness is used. The gravure printing method comprises: using an aqueous ink having a Zahn cup #3 viscosity at 20° C. of 11.0 seconds or more and 20.0 seconds or less, and having an evaporation rate of 30 mass % or less in a drying test, the drying test involving drying 1 g of the ink at a temperature of 40° C. and an air flow of 1,400 L/min for 30 minutes; and transferring 1 ml/m2 or more and 7 ml/m2 or less of the ink onto a printing medium.

Abstract: Provided are a manufacturing method for an embossing roll which is capable of being manufactured in a wide variety in small quantities and has uneven patterns formed uniformly and precisely without irregularities, and the embossing roll. The manufacturing method for the embossing roll comprises: a step of preparing a cylindrical base material; and a modeling step of modeling embossing onto a surface of the cylindrical base material with a three-dimensional printer based on three-dimensional processing data. It is preferred that the three-dimensional processing data is created by subjecting an embossing roll model to three-dimensional scanning.

Abstract: Provided are a functional cylinder body, including a plurality of layers having magnetic patterns and non-magnetic patterns formed adjacently, and a manufacturing method therefor. The functional cylinder body comprises at least: a cylinder main body; a first functional pattern part, which includes first patterns and first functional patterns, the first patterns having first recess patterns and first non-recess patterns formed by forming recesses on a first material layer made of any one of a magnetic material and a non-magnetic material, the first functional patterns being made of any one of the magnetic material and the non-magnetic material embedded in the first recess patterns; and a second functional pattern part, which is formed in a position of the cylinder main body shallower than a position of the first recess patterns and has magnetic patterns of the magnetic material and non-magnetic patterns of the non-magnetic material formed adjacently.

Abstract: Provided are a functional cylinder body comprising magnetic patterns and non-magnetic patterns formed on a circumferential surface and a manufacturing method therefor.