To provide a heat-pressing machine capable of appropriately performing a thermal transfer process. A heat-pressing machine includes: a base member on which a transfer object and a thermal transfer sheet are placed, a rotating member that is attached to the base member via a rotating shaft, and a pressing member that rotates together with the rotating member to press the base member. The base member includes a base body and a placement plate movably attached to the base body. The pressing member includes a pressing body movably attached to the rotating member, and a heater unit. When the rotating member rotates relative to the base member, the pressing member presses the base member while the heater unit faces the placement plate. The placement plate and the pressing body are movable so that a placement surface of the placement plate and a heater surface of the heater unit are aligned.

The invention discloses a method of forming a graphic on a flexible sheet material. Firstly, printing a pattern on a heat transfer material; then preparing a covering film and attaching to the heat transfer material, cutting out a graphic from the heat transfer material and the covering film attached to each other, and then adhering the graphic onto a flexible sheet material by hot ironing. The invention discloses another method of forming a graphic on a flexible sheet material. Firstly, printing a pattern on a heat transfer material, cutting out a graphic from the heat transfer material, hot ironing the graphic onto a flexible sheet material; preparing a covering film and cutting out a graphic film from the covering film, and adhering the graphic film onto the graphic. The graphic and the pattern formed by the method of the invention are covered by the covering film, which is capable of maintaining an integrity of the graphic and maintaining colors of the pattern.