Here is proposed a method for bonding a pellicle to a stencil such as mask plate, which is characteristic in that the stencilbonding agglutinant layer of the pellicle is warmed under load while the pellicle is being bonded to the stencil, preferably at a temperature in a range of 35 through 80 degrees C, and the load is increased stepwise and with intermittent removal of the load.

A printing sheet 1 comprising a base sheet 5 and an inorganic solidified matter layer 3 laminated on the surface of the base sheet 1, the surface 3a of the inorganic solidified matter layer 3 serving as the printing surface, wherein, in an electron microphotograph magnified by 100 times, the printing surface is a surface on where continuous flat surfaces and indefinite protuberances surrounded by said flat surfaces are present being mixed together, the protuberances being present at a ratio of 10 to 30% per a unit area and being observed having sizes or long diameters of 10 to 300 µm and in a number of 50 to 300 per 1 mm². With this printing sheet, the fiber is effectively prevented from adhering on the surface of the inorganic solidified matter layer on which the printing is to be executed, and images can be finely printed maintaining in good quality without being blurred.

A main object of the present invention is to provide an intermediate transfer belt for image-forming devices and a method for producing the intermediate transfer belt, the intermediate transfer belt having excellent image transfer to rough paper and resistance to abrasion and being free from problems such as filming, by forming a surface layer that has excellent resistance to abrasion and in which defects such as pinholes are not likely to occur even when the surface layer is thinned.

An intermediate transfer belt for image-forming devices and a method for producing the same, the intermediate transfer belt comprising at least the following three layers laminated in the described order: (a) a base layer formed from resin, (b) a rubber-elastic layer formed from a rubber or elastomer, having a thickness of 200 to 400 µm and (c) a surface layer formed from resin, having a thickness of 0.5 to 6 µm, wherein the intermediate transfer belt has the following properties: (i) the dynamic ultramicro hardness (ISO14577-1) measured from the surface layer side is 2.5 to 4.5 N/mm² at the indentation depth of 2 µm, and 1.0 N/mm² or less at the indentation depth of 10 µm, and/or (ii) the rubber-elastic layer contains a filler in a proportion of 0.4 to 4.0 vol.%, and the ratio (M₁/M₃) of the mass concentration M₁ of the filler in the region from the interface between the surface layer and the rubber-elastic layer toward the base layer to a depth of 20 µm, to the mass concentration M₃ of the filler in the region from 120 µm to 140 µm in depth from the interface between the surface layer and the rubber-elastic layer toward the base layer is 1.3 or higher.

The object of the present invention is to provide a coating material for coating from which a fixing belt that meets demand characteristics such as heat resistance to fixing temperatures and releasibility toward toner can be manufactured at low cost, and to provide the coating material for coating that does not produce "sag", "slack", or uneven thickness in a fluororesin coating film. The coating material for coating according to the present invention comprises fluororesin particles, a liquid dispersion of volatile resin particles, a thixotropy-imparting agent and an organic solvent. The liquid dispersion of volatile resin particles contains volatile resin particles and a nonvolatile portion. Furthermore, the volatile resin particles are resin particles that undergo volatilization or thermal decomposition at a temperature lower than the thermal decomposition temperature of fluororesin. Moreover, the nonvolatile portion is contained at ≥5 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of fluororesin particles.