CN112046156A - Ink-jet printing system - Google Patents

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CN112046156A
CN112046156A CN202011012413.3A CN202011012413A CN112046156A CN 112046156 A CN112046156 A CN 112046156A CN 202011012413 A CN202011012413 A CN 202011012413A CN 112046156 A CN112046156 A CN 112046156A
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赵建武
袁文
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41JTYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
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    • B41J2/005Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01Ink jet
    • B41J2/21Ink jet for multi-colour printing
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41JTYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01Ink jet
    • B41J2/135Nozzles
    • B41J2/165Preventing or detecting of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41JTYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01Ink jet
    • B41J2/135Nozzles
    • B41J2/165Preventing or detecting of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles
    • B41J2/16517Cleaning of print head nozzles
    • B41J2/16535Cleaning of print head nozzles using wiping constructions
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41JTYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J29/00Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
    • B41J29/38Drives, motors, controls or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
    • B41J29/393Devices for controlling or analysing the entire machine ; Controlling or analysing mechanical parameters involving printing of test patterns
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41JTYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J3/00Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/54Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed with two or more sets of type or printing elements
    • B41J3/543Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed with two or more sets of type or printing elements with multiple inkjet print heads

Abstract

The invention discloses an ink-jet printing system, which comprises an image processing module for processing printing image data, a motion control module for controlling multi-axis motion and a maintenance device for maintaining a printing nozzle, wherein the image processing module is used for calculating and processing the printing image data and distributing the printing image data to the printing nozzle; the scanning type movement of paper feeding and printing nozzles is carried out through the motion control module, automatic maintenance control of the nozzles is achieved before printing is started, in the printing process and in the whole printing process after printing is finished, time can be effectively saved through automatic maintenance of the nozzles, and printing quality is improved.

Description

Ink-jet printing system
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of printing, in particular to an ink-jet printing system.
Background
The printer is used as common office equipment, and great convenience is provided for modern office. Conventional printers include, mainly, ink jet printers that form characters or patterns to be printed on a recording medium such as paper by mounting an ink cartridge containing ink on a carriage.
There are two main techniques used in ink jet printers: continuous ink jet technology and random ink jet technology. Early inkjet printers and large format inkjet printers currently used continuous inkjet technology, while the inkjet printers currently on the market used random inkjet technology. The continuous ink jet technology is represented by a charge modulation type, and the ink in a random ink jet system is ejected only when required for printing, so that the technology is also called an on-demand type.
An inkjet printing system generates print data by processing an input image and generates an image by ejecting ink droplets from a head to a print medium through a control system. In the printing process, a series of control operations are required, including head scanning type motion control, paper feeding control and the like, in order to enable the heads to have good printing states, maintenance operations are often required to be performed on the heads in the continuous scanning printing process of the heads, if the nozzles of the heads need to be kept wet and not dry, operations for uniformly jetting ink droplets by each nozzle are maintained, and related maintenance operations are generally required to be performed, for example, manual ink squeezing operations are performed before printing starts, then the heads are wiped and cleaned, printing is performed, and after a period of printing time, some nozzles are prevented from having no data and not jetting ink droplets to become dry, and then ink squeezing and cleaning operations are performed.
Therefore, the prior art has the problems that the maintenance operation of the nozzle in the inkjet printing process often requires manual intervention, and the manual intervention in the process is time-consuming and cannot maintain and control the nozzle in a good continuous manner.
Disclosure of Invention
To the above-mentioned problem that prior art exists, the application provides an inkjet printing system, realizes in whole printing flow, the control operation of automatic maintenance shower nozzle.
The technical scheme of the invention is as follows:
an ink-jet printing system comprises an image processing module for processing printing image data, a motion control module for controlling multi-axis motion, and a maintenance device for maintaining a printing nozzle, wherein the image processing module calculates and processes the printing image data and distributes the printing image data to the printing nozzle, the motion control module is used for carrying out scanning movement of paper feeding and the printing nozzle, and the maintenance control is realized before printing is started, in the printing process and in the whole printing process after printing is finished.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: the image processing module is used for realizing the processing of the printing nozzle data, separating cyan, magenta, yellow and black spatial images from an original image, generating the printing data of the printing nozzle by the spatial image data according to a data structure required by the printing nozzle, and sending the data to the printing nozzle.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: the motion control module includes multiple axial controls including paper feed direction, print head scanning movement, and control of the head maintenance device.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: the control of the printing nozzle maintenance device comprises the control of a lifting platform, the realization of the moisturizing function of the printing nozzle, the control of a scraping blade and the scraping and cleaning function of the printing nozzle.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: in the printing process, automatic control operation of maintaining the spray head is realized.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: before printing begins, the lifting platform is lowered, the scraping blade device is extended out, the printing nozzle is controlled to flash and jet ink, and the scraping blade is retracted to finish the ink scraping and cleaning operation of the printing nozzle.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: the lifting platform comprises a water tank and is filled with water, the water tank and the printing spray head are correspondingly installed, and the lifting platform is in a lifting state and is attached to the bottom of the printing spray head to keep the nozzle of the printing spray head moist.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: the printing nozzle is provided with a flash nozzle which can jet ink rapidly at high frequency.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: the maintenance device is set for 10 minutes to maintain, the printing nozzle returns to the lifting platform to maintain, and the motion control module controls the lifting platform to lift up to moisturize the printing nozzle.
The beneficial technical effects of the invention are as follows:
the utility model provides an ink jet printing system, before printing and opening, in printing the in-process and the whole printing flow that the printing finished, realizes the automatic maintenance control to printing the shower nozzle, through the automatic maintenance to printing the shower nozzle, can effectual save time to improve and print the quality.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an ink jet printing system according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic mechanical diagram of an ink jet printing system according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of a printing process of an inkjet printing system according to the present invention.
Reference numerals: c-cyan, M-magenta, Y-yellow, K-black.
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The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples. It is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention, and not restrictive of the full scope of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1, an inkjet printing system, where a print image is processed by an image processing module, such as four-color printing (C = cyan, M = magenta, Y = yellow, and K = black), separates C, M, Y, K color space images from an original image, and generates print data of a print head according to a data structure required by the print head by using the image data, where a motion control module implements issuing of a relevant motion command, including X-direction scanning motion control during printing by the print head, Y-direction paper feeding control of a printing platform, and the like, the printing device generally includes a head board, a main board, a print head, and a motor with relevant multi-axis motion, and the head board implements controlling the print head to eject ink droplets according to the print data, and the main board implements a series of motion operation commands according to the received motion control command, the movement instruction processed by the main board finally realizes specific movement by the multi-shaft motor, the automatic maintenance control device is responsible for automatic maintenance work of the printing nozzle in the whole printing process, and the automatic maintenance control device comprises a lifting platform with a moisturizing function and a scraping blade device for scraping and cleaning the printing nozzle after the printing nozzle is flashed.
As shown in fig. 2, 201 is a platform of an inkjet printing apparatus, the printing platform receives a printing medium, such as paper, cloth, etc., 202 is a printing head, and the most basic four-color printing (C = cyan, M = magenta, Y = yellow, K = black) includes four printing heads arranged side by side, for convenience of description, a three-dimensional space coordinate is defined, an X direction is a scanning printing direction of the printing head, a Y direction is a medium stepping direction on the platform, a Z direction is an up-down direction, and 203 is a wiper blade device, which can perform a wiping and cleaning function on the printing head, a moving direction of the wiper blade is a Y direction, when the wiper blade needs to be wiped and cleaned, the wiper blade extends out to wipe and is retracted to the original place after use. 204 is lifting platform, realizes the control function of moisturizing to the printing shower nozzle, has the basin in the lifting platform to fill with clean water, basin and printing shower nozzle one-to-one when printing the shower nozzle and idle, through raising lifting platform and printing the laminating of shower nozzle bottom, realize the control of moisturizing to the printing shower nozzle.
As shown in fig. 3, a printing flow diagram of an inkjet printing system:
step 301, printing is started, and when printing is started, because a printing nozzle may not be used for a long time, the printing is influenced due to unsmooth nozzles, and the printing nozzle needs to be maintained firstly;
and 302, performing maintenance operation on the printing nozzle, automatically completing a series of actions by controlling the printing nozzle and multi-axis motion, wherein the actions comprise lowering the lifting platform, extending the scraping blade device, controlling the printing nozzle to flash to eject ink, and withdrawing the scraping blade to complete ink scraping and cleaning operation on the printing nozzle.
In step 303, the image module performs image processing related tasks such as four color printing (C = cyan, M = magenta, Y = yellow, K = black), separates the image from the original image into C, M, Y, K color space images, generates print data for the print head from the image data according to the data structure required by the print head, and sends the data to the print head.
And step 304, checking the set maintenance time of the printing nozzle, and if the set maintenance time is 10 minutes, performing automatic maintenance operation on the printing nozzle every 10 minutes, so that the condition that some nozzles are not used for a long time and are dry and blocked can be effectively prevented, the printing nozzle can be protected from normal ink output, and the printing quality is improved.
And 305, when the time reaches the maintenance time of the printing nozzle, performing automatic maintenance operation on the printing nozzle, including controlling the printing nozzle to move to the lifting platform, extending out the scraping blade device, controlling the printing nozzle to flash to eject ink, and withdrawing the scraping blade to complete the ink scraping and cleaning operation on the printing nozzle.
And step 306, printing the image, wherein the printing nozzle performs scanning printing along the X-axis direction in the printing process, and the printing medium performs stepping operation along the Y-axis direction.
Step 307, determining whether the printing of the image is completed, if the printing of the image is not completed, returning to step 303 to continue the circular processing of the image for printing, and performing corresponding printing work.
And 308, automatically performing related maintenance operations after the image printing is finished, wherein the related maintenance operations comprise that the printing nozzle returns to the lifting platform, and the lifting platform is controlled to lift, so that the printing nozzle is moisturized.
In step 309, the printing process ends.
In summary, the inkjet printing system of the present invention realizes automatic maintenance control of the printing nozzle before starting printing, during printing, and during the whole printing process after finishing printing, and can effectively save time and improve printing quality by automatic maintenance of the printing nozzle.
While the embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed above, it is not limited to the applications listed in the description and embodiments, but is fully applicable to various fields suitable for the present invention, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in the embodiments without departing from the principle and spirit of the present invention, and therefore the present invention is not limited to the specific details without departing from the general concept defined in the claims and the scope of equivalents thereof.

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1. An inkjet printing system, characterized by: the printing device comprises an image processing module for processing printing image data, a motion control module for controlling multi-axis motion and a maintenance device for maintaining a printing nozzle, wherein the image processing module is used for calculating and processing the printing image data and distributing the printing image data to the printing nozzle, the motion control module is used for carrying out paper feeding and scanning movement of the printing nozzle, and the maintenance control is realized before the printing is started, in the printing process and in the whole printing process after the printing is finished.
2. The inkjet printing system of claim 1, wherein: the image processing module is used for realizing the processing of printing nozzle data, separating cyan, magenta, yellow and black spatial images from an original image, generating the printing data of the printing nozzle by the spatial image data according to a data structure required by the printing nozzle, and sending the data to the printing nozzle.
3. The inkjet printing system of claim 1, wherein: the motion control module includes a plurality of axial controls including paper feed direction, print head scanning movement, and control of the print head maintenance device.
4. The inkjet printing system of claim 3, wherein: the control of the printing nozzle maintenance device comprises the control of a lifting platform, the realization of the moisturizing function of the printing nozzle, the control of a scraping blade and the ink scraping and cleaning function of the printing nozzle.
5. The inkjet printing system of claim 1, wherein: in the printing process, automatic control operation of maintaining the spray head is realized.
6. The inkjet printing system of claim 4, wherein: before printing begins, the lifting platform is lowered, the scraping blade device is extended out, the printing nozzle is controlled to flash and jet ink, and the scraping blade is retracted to finish the ink scraping and cleaning operation of the printing nozzle.
7. The inkjet printing system of claim 6, wherein: the lifting platform comprises a water tank and is filled with water, the water tank and the printing spray head are correspondingly installed, and the lifting platform is in a lifting state and is attached to the bottom of the printing spray head to keep the nozzle of the printing spray head moist.
8. The inkjet printing system of claim 6, wherein: the printing nozzle is provided with a flash nozzle which can jet ink rapidly at high frequency.
9. Inkjet printing system according to claims 4-8, wherein: the maintenance device is set for 10 minutes to maintain, the printing nozzle returns to the lifting platform to maintain, and the motion control module controls the lifting platform to lift and moisturize the printing nozzle.
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