TRANSFER APPARATUS AND TRANSFER METHOD THEREOF

There is provided a transfer apparatus in which a transfer material can be effectively used without wasting and a return distance can be shortened in accordance with a carrying state of the transfer material so that carrying action of the transfer material is stabilized and yield may be improved.A plate cylinder 20 has two or more transfer faces, a distance between the transfer faces is three or more than a distance needed for transfer by one transfer face, a transfer material 6 is sequentially transferred to a base material to be transferred 7 by two or more transfer faces during one rotation of the plate cylinder 20, a control part 5 controls a step back to carry the transfer material 6 backwardly after finishing one rotation of the plate cylinder 20, so that an area to be used by the first transfer face during next rotation comes to an area adjacent to and on a downstream side in the carrying direction of an area of the transfer material 6 which has been used by the second transfer face during previous rotation.