Apparatus and method of forming a spacer for use in a liquid crystal panel
are capable of economizing materials used for spacers for use in the
liquid crystal panel and reducing a quantity of waste of the materials
used, while being suitable for a large-scaled liquid crystal panel. A
recording medium having an image forming layer is superposed on a
substrate used to form a liquid crystal panel, then the recording medium
is exposed through irradiation of a laser beam emitted from a recording
head, and an image pattern of spacers is thereby recorded in the image
forming layer. The image pattern of spacers thus recorded is then recorded
on the substrate to be used as spacers for use in the liquid crystal panel
by peeling off the recording medium from the substrate.
