TRANSFER FILM FOR GOLF BALL, PRODUCTION THEREOF AND GOLF BALL PRINTED BY USING THE TRANSFER FILM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To print the image of a photographic film on a golf ball in plural colors as a picture pattern. SOLUTION: A color original 11 is photographed while using complementary color filters 12-14, and image decomposition films 16-19 corresponding to respective colors are prepared. Then, the image decomposition films 16-19 are respectively placed on a printing plate base stock having a photosensitive material and irradiated with light, only the hardened part of the photosensitive material is taken out and printing plates 30-33 corresponding to the respective colors are prepared. Then, respective transfer pads provided with respect to the respective printing plates 30-33 are pressed onto the respective printing plates 30-33 applied with the corresponding inks to stick inks thereto, successively overlapped and pressed at prescribed positions on a base film while sticking inks so that a transfer film 40 having an ink layer 42 composed of plural colors can be prepared.