CN112060782A - Multi-machine processing wide ink-jet printing method - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a multi-machine-processing wide ink-jet printing method, which realizes cascade connection through a plurality of independent computers connected with each other, is used for improving the data processing speed of wide printing formed by splicing a plurality of spray heads and realizes quick wide printing. The method comprises the steps of cascading printing nozzles, splicing the nozzles into a printing width with a specified width, dividing the printing nozzles into a plurality of groups, configuring a control processor for each group for processing and controlling the data of the group of nozzles, and printing by unified management control of a main control processor.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of printing, in particular to a multi-machine-processing wide-width ink-jet printing method.
Background
In recent years, the wide-width inkjet printing market is developed rapidly, the use of large-width inkjet printing products is more and more extensive, the wide-width inkjet printing product is applied to outdoor media such as buildings, lamp box advertisements, decoration, photography and other industries, and the wide-width inkjet printing equipment industry is developed rapidly. At present, the control system of the wide-width jet printing machine product mainly has the following technical bottlenecks: high-speed transmission capability of large amounts of image data; the ability to accurately control the motion actuator in real time; realizing complex logic time sequence of the work of each work module and the spray head; and upgrading the software and hardware of the new product.
The inkjet printing system generates printing data by processing an input image, and generates an image by a control system through spraying ink drops to a printing medium by a spray head, the inkjet printing system generally comprises a plurality of spray heads to realize printing of corresponding colors, the printing efficiency is often lower due to the limitation of printing width, the plurality of spray heads can be combined and spliced to realize printing of wider breadth, the printing of wider breadth means the increase of the printing data amount, the requirement on the data processing capacity is higher, and in addition, along with the increase of the number of the spray heads, the complexity of control management is increased.
The prior art has the problems that a quick and efficient data processing method is lacked for wide-format printing, and the relationship between a control spray head and data cannot be well managed.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above problems in the prior art, the present application provides a multi-machine-processing broad-width inkjet printing method, which realizes an efficient broad-width printing system by a plurality of interconnected computers.
The technical scheme of the invention is as follows:
a multi-machine processing broad width ink jet printing method is characterized in that: comprises the following steps of (a) carrying out,
splicing the nozzles into a printing width with a specified width by cascading the printing nozzles;
dividing the printing nozzles into a plurality of groups, wherein each group is provided with a control processor for processing and controlling the data of the group of nozzles;
printing is managed and controlled in a unified manner by the main control processor.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: the printing nozzle cascade is formed by splicing a cyan nozzle, a magenta nozzle, a yellow nozzle and a black nozzle, each nozzle prints different colors, and 4 nozzles can be spliced in cascade corresponding to one of the cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: the printing breadth is obtained through splicing 4 shower nozzles, and every shower nozzle prints a colour, can increase and use to 8 shower nozzles, makes the printing breadth be the twice of single shower nozzle through the concatenation, so on and so on can use more shower nozzles extension to print the breadth.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: for the cascade of heads, 8 heads are used, 4 heads of the corresponding color are placed in the first row horizontally, cyan, magenta, yellow, black, respectively, and another 4 heads of the corresponding color are placed in the second row horizontally.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: the printing nozzles are divided into two groups, wherein the first row of 4 nozzles in the horizontal direction is one group, and the second row of 4 nozzles in the horizontal direction is the other group.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: each group is provided with a control processor which controls the nozzles of the group and processes the printing data of the nozzles.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: the control of the control processor on the group of spray heads comprises the configuration of relevant parameters of the group of spray heads, the issuing of instructions of the spray heads and the state inspection.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: and the control processor processes the print data of the group of nozzles, including calculating the print data required by each nozzle and sending the print data to the nozzles.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: the main control processor manages all the control processors in a unified mode, including configuring needed printing page parameters to all the control processors, checking whether all the control processors synchronously send printing data to a printer or not, and issuing instructions for starting and stopping the processing to all the control processors.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention: and the main control processor performs printing control operation, performs job printing according to the status information returned by each control processor, and performs corresponding printing motion control.
The beneficial technical effects of the invention are as follows:
the wide ink-jet printing method with the multiple machines is reasonable in design, the data processing speed of wide format printing formed by splicing a plurality of spray heads is increased, quick wide format printing is realized, the printing data of the wide format can be processed, and the wide printing efficiency is effectively improved.
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FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a printing system for a multi-station broad inkjet printing method according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a nozzle group of a multi-station wide inkjet printing method according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a configuration associated with a multi-station broad inkjet printing method according to the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a printing apparatus associated with a multi-machine broad inkjet printing method 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, a multi-station wide inkjet printing method:
101, cascading and splicing the spray heads to obtain a specified printing width;
102, grouping the printing nozzles, wherein the printing nozzles can be correspondingly grouped according to actual requirements and hardware conditions, for example, 8 nozzles in a printing system can be divided into two groups, for example, a first row of 4 nozzles in the horizontal direction is one group, and a second row of 4 nozzles in the horizontal direction is the other group; and configuring a control processor for each group of spray heads, wherein the control processor controls the group of spray heads and processes the print data of the spray heads, and the control of the group of spray heads comprises configuration of relevant parameters of the group of spray heads, issuing of instructions of the spray heads, state inspection and the like.
And 103, setting one of the control processors as a main control processor to realize the unified management of each control processor, configuring the required printing page parameters to each control processor by the main control processor, and starting a processing command.
And 104, controlling the group of nozzles by the control processors, including configuring nozzle parameters, issuing nozzle instructions and the like, processing data among the control processors in parallel, and sending the print data processed by the control processors to the corresponding nozzles.
In step 105, the main control processor performs printing control operations, checks the status returned by each control processor, and performs corresponding operations such as printing motion control.
As shown in fig. 2, 16 heads are used as an example for layout and grouping, the heads form a 4 × 4 arrangement layout, the horizontal direction includes four colors (C = cyan, M = magenta, Y = yellow, K = black), each head prints one color, the first row of 4 heads in the horizontal direction is a group, which is numbered as group 0, and so on, and the heads are divided into four groups.
As shown in the schematic structural diagram of fig. 3, the shower head structure includes a plurality of groups of shower heads and a plurality of groups of control processors, and the control processors control the corresponding shower heads and process data; the control processor comprises a main control processor, the main control processor realizes the unified management of all the control processors, and the main control processor realizes the control of printing motion to finish the printing operation; the control processors are connected with each other through a network, the main control processor can realize the control of each control processor through the network, including configuring the needed printing page parameters to each control processor, issuing processing commands of starting, pausing, stopping and the like to each control processor, checking the state of each control processor and the like, and meanwhile, each processor can report the control and data processing results of the corresponding group of spray heads to the main control processor.
As shown in the schematic diagram of the apparatus shown in fig. 4, an inkjet printing system is implemented by a plurality of groups of interconnected computers, the printing apparatus includes a head board, a main board, a nozzle, and a motor device, the head board mainly controls the nozzle to spray ink droplets according to print data, the main board mainly completes processing of a series of motion operation commands according to received motion control commands, and the motion commands processed by the main board finally implement specific motion by the motor. The computers are connected with the switch to realize network communication, each computer is connected with the corresponding main board to realize control of a group of spray heads, one printer is connected with the head board to realize control of printing movement, and other computers are managed and controlled through the computers.
In summary, the multi-machine-processing wide ink-jet printing method realizes cascade connection through the plurality of independent computers connected with each other, improves the data processing speed of wide printing formed by splicing the plurality of spray heads, realizes quick wide printing, can process wide printing data, and effectively improves the wide printing efficiency.
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. A multi-machine processing broad width ink jet printing method is characterized in that: comprises the following steps of (a) carrying out,
splicing the nozzles into a printing width with a specified width by cascading the printing nozzles;
dividing the printing nozzles into a plurality of groups, wherein each group is provided with a control processor for processing and controlling the data of the group of nozzles;
printing is managed and controlled in a unified manner by the main control processor.
2. The multi-machine wide inkjet printing method of claim 1, wherein: the printing nozzle cascade is formed by splicing a cyan nozzle, a magenta nozzle, a yellow nozzle and a black nozzle, each nozzle prints different colors, and 4 nozzles can be spliced in a cascade mode corresponding to one of the cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
3. The multi-machine wide inkjet printing method of claim 1, wherein: the printing breadth is obtained by splicing 4 spray heads, each spray head prints one color, the number of the spray heads can be increased to 8, the printing breadth is twice of that of a single spray head through splicing, and the printing breadth can be expanded by using more spray heads by analogy.
4. The multi-machine wide inkjet printing method of claim 1, wherein: for the cascade of heads, 8 heads are used, 4 heads of the corresponding color are placed in the first row horizontally, cyan, magenta, yellow, black, respectively, and another 4 heads of the corresponding color are placed in the second row horizontally.
5. The multi-machine wide inkjet printing method of claim 1, wherein: the printing nozzles are divided into two groups, wherein the first row of 4 nozzles in the horizontal direction is one group, and the second row of 4 nozzles in the horizontal direction is the other group.
6. The multi-machine wide inkjet printing method of claim 1, wherein: each group is provided with a control processor which controls the nozzles of the group and processes the printing data of the nozzles.
7. The multi-machine wide inkjet printing method of claim 6, wherein: the control processor controls the group of spray heads, including configuration of relevant parameters of the group of spray heads, issuing of instructions of the spray heads and state inspection.
8. The multi-machine wide inkjet printing method of claim 6, wherein: and the control processor processes the printing data of the group of nozzles, including calculating the printing data required by each nozzle and sending the printing data to the nozzles.
9. The multi-machine wide inkjet printing method of claim 1, wherein: the main control processor manages all the control processors in a unified mode, including configuring needed printing page parameters to all the control processors, checking whether all the control processors synchronously send printing data to a printer or not, and issuing instructions for starting and stopping the processing to all the control processors.
10. The multi-machine wide inkjet printing method according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein: and the main control processor performs printing control operation, performs job printing according to the status information returned by each control processor, and performs corresponding printing motion control.
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