A screen-printing screen for printing electrically conductive patterns on glass sheets, includes a main mask, the aperture size of the main mask being larger in a lateral portion than in the central portion, the screen furthermore including, in at least one double-mask zone, located in the central portion, at least one secondary mask fastened to a face of the main mask, the aperture size of the or each secondary mask being larger than the aperture size of the main mask in the central portion, and the mesh of the or each secondary mask making, with the mesh of the main mask, an angle ? comprised between 1 and 89?.

Provided are a printing plate and a printing method that allow for high-resolution printing and efficient use of printing ink. The printing plate has an image area and a non-image area. The image area of the printing plate is a recessed area formed by a layer containing silicone rubber. The non-image area is a raised area formed by a layer containing a fluorine compound on a surface of the layer containing silicone rubber. The height difference between a surface of the image area and a surface of the non-image area of the printing plate is from more than 0.1 m to 10 m. The printing method includes an ink-applying step of applying a printing ink to an image area of a printing plate and a transfer step of transferring the printing ink from the image area to a substrate. A method for manufacturing a printing plate has the steps of forming a second layer containing silicone rubber in a region that becomes a non-image area on a first layer containing silicone rubber to obtain a layer containing silicone rubber; and forming the layer containing the fluorine compound on a surface of the second layer containing silicone rubber.

Provided are a printing plate, a method for manufacturing a printing plate, and a printing method that allow for high-resolution printing and efficient use of printing ink. The printing plate has an image area and a non-image area. The image area is formed by a layer containing silicone rubber. The non-image area is formed by a layer containing a fluorine compound on a surface of the layer containing silicone rubber. The height difference between a surface of the image area and a surface of the non-image area is 100 nm or less. The method for manufacturing a printing plate has the steps of subjecting a region of a surface of a layer containing silicone rubber to chemical treatment or physical treatment to form hydroxyl groups, the region being a region that becomes a non-image area; and binding a fluorine compound to the region, having the hydroxyl groups formed thereon, of the surface of the layer containing silicone rubber to form a non-image area. The printing method has an ink-applying step of applying a printing ink to an image area and a transfer step of transferring the printing ink from the image area to a substrate.

A foam printing method includes producing and programming a design being formed on a substrate using a computer program, forming the design on a plate, removing a part of a surface of the substrate along the design, combining the substrate and the plate to coincide a designed portion formed on the plate and a removed portion of the substrate, printing a foam constituting the design on the plate combined with the substrate, separating the plate from the substrate and drying the substrate, and applying a pressure to the foam passing the plate to be set on the substrate to be foamed. The foam passes the designed portion of the plate to be set on the removed portion of the substrate during the printing.

The present invention relates to a thermoplastic screen printing paste comprising one or more hydroxyfunction polyesters, one or more blocked polyisocyanates, pigments, and additives.

The invention is characterized in that the melting or softening range of the thermoplastic screen printing paste lies at temperatures below 90 C. and the paste is free of bisphenol-A is and free of other substances directly involved in the polymerization itself.

The present invention relates to a thermoplastic screen printing paste comprising one or more hydroxyfunction polyesters, one or more blocked polyisocyanates, pigments, and additives.

The invention is characterized in that the melting or softening range of the thermoplastic screen printing paste lies at temperatures below 90 C. and the paste is free of bisphenol-A is and free of other substances directly involved in the polymerization itself.

Methods for applying a label and may include applying a label and/or ink to form at least part of artwork, graphic, or indicia on a surface of a target object without applying a curing energy to the one or more of the label or the ink following application of the one or more of the label or the ink. Optionally, the label or ink is applied without heating or exposing the label or ink to ultraviolet light following application of the label or ink.

Methods for applying a label and may include applying a label and/or ink to form at least part of artwork, graphic, or indicia on a surface of a target object without applying a curing energy to the one or more of the label or the ink following application of the one or more of the label or the ink. Optionally, the label or ink is applied without heating or exposing the label or ink to ultraviolet light following application of the label or ink.

In printed wiring that is formed, on a surface of a base member. by a film of cured electrically conductive ink and that includes: a wavy line; a first wiring element located at one side of both sides sandwiching the wavy line in a width direction; and a second wiring element located at the other side of the both sides and adjacently to the wavy line; a surplus wavy line is provided which is another wavy line, which extends along the wavy line adjacently to the wavy line between the wavy line and the first wiring element, and which is connected to the wavy line to have the same potential.

A producing method of a base member provided with a printed layer, the method including: disposing a printing plate including a screen plate having an opening pattern and a frame body supporting the screen plate so that the printing plate is opposed to a printing target surface of the base member having at least one bent portion; disposing a squeegee so as to be opposed to a plate surface of the screen plate opposite to the base member; and forming the printed layer by extruding a printing material onto the printing target surface by the squeegee via the opening pattern of the screen plate in a state where the frame body is supported so as to be relatively movable with respect to the printing target surface in a normal direction of the printing target surface.