CN210270862U - Food customized printing system - Google Patents

Abstract

The application discloses food customization printing system, wherein the system includes: a terminal for editing and transmitting customized image information; the server is used for receiving the image information and forwarding the image information to the printing device; printing means for printing the image information on food or tableware based on the image information; the terminal, the server and the printing device are sequentially in communication connection. The purpose of customizing food or tableware printing at any time is achieved, so that the customization efficiency is high: the system can be updated in real time and can take effect; the cost is low: the technical effects of a customized mould or a pre-printed sticker are not required.

Description

Food customized printing system

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of food printing, in particular to a food customized printing system.

Background

Traditional personalized customization (pictures or characters), generally using a customized mold, and then spraying edible material powder for molding; or edible paper is printed in a factory with customized pictures (or characters) and then is pasted on food/tableware to complete the customization of the food; or issued after batch printing in a factory.

The traditional scheme has the following technical defects:

the customization period is long, and the real-time performance is poor;

high cost-requiring custom templates and edible paper;

the process is complex-the production links are many;

the application range is narrow-the powder can only be used on milk foam or partial pastries.

Aiming at various technical problems in the related art, no effective solution is provided at present.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

It is a primary object of the present application to provide a customized food printing system to solve at least one technical problem in the related art.

To achieve the above object, according to one aspect of the present application, there is provided a customized food printing system.

A food customized printing system according to the present application includes:

a terminal for editing and transmitting customized image information;

the server is used for receiving the image information and forwarding the image information to the printing device;

printing means for printing the image information on food or tableware based on the image information;

the terminal, the server and the printing device are sequentially in communication connection.

Further, the food customized printing system as described above, the printing device comprising: 3D printer and the inkjet printer that is used for printing the figure.

Further, the food customized printing system as described above, the terminal comprising: smart phones, PCs, tablets and electronic books.

Further, as for the food customized printing system, a first communication module is further arranged on the terminal; the server is provided with a second communication module; the printing device is provided with a third communication module;

the first communication module, the second communication module and the third communication module are in communication connection with each other.

Further, as with the food customized printing system described above, edible materials are used in the 3D printer and edible inks are used in the inkjet printer.

Further, as the food customized printing system, the communication mode among the terminal, the server and the printing device includes: a Bluetooth communication module, a WiFi module or a mobile network module.

In an embodiment of the present application, a method of customizing a printing system for a food product is employed, wherein the system comprises: a terminal for editing and transmitting customized image information; the server is used for receiving the image information and forwarding the image information to the printing device; printing means for printing the image information on food or tableware based on the image information; the terminal, the server and the printing device are sequentially in communication connection. The purpose of customizing food or tableware printing at any time is achieved, so that the customization efficiency is high: the system can be updated in real time and can take effect; the cost is low: the technical effects of a customized mould or a pre-printed sticker are not required.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, serve to provide a further understanding of the application and to enable other features, objects, and advantages of the application to be more apparent. The drawings and their description illustrate the embodiments of the invention and do not limit it. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system architecture according to an embodiment of the present application; and

FIG. 2 is a flow chart illustrating a control method of the system according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical solutions better understood by those skilled in the art, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only partial embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. 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 application.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of this application and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It should be understood that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that embodiments of the application described herein may be used. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

In this application, the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "front", "rear", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "middle", "vertical", "horizontal", "lateral", "longitudinal", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings. These terms are used primarily to better describe the present application and its embodiments, and are not used to limit the indicated devices, elements or components to a particular orientation or to be constructed and operated in a particular orientation.

Moreover, some of the above terms may be used to indicate other meanings besides the orientation or positional relationship, for example, the term "on" may also be used to indicate some kind of attachment or connection relationship in some cases. The specific meaning of these terms in this application will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.

Furthermore, the terms "mounted," "disposed," "provided," "connected," and "sleeved" are to be construed broadly. For example, it may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or a unitary construction; can be a mechanical connection, or an electrical connection; may be directly connected, or indirectly connected through intervening media, or may be in internal communication between two devices, elements or components. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.

It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present application will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.

According to one embodiment of the present application, as shown in FIG. 1, a customized food product printing system is provided.

A food customized printing system according to the present application includes:

a terminal 1 for editing and transmitting customized image information;

specifically, the terminal 1 includes, but is not limited to, a smart phone, a PC, a tablet computer, and an electronic book;

a server 2 for receiving the image information and forwarding the image information to the printing apparatus 3;

a printing device 3 for printing the image information on food or tableware according to the image information;

the terminal 1, the server 2 and the printing device 3 are sequentially connected in a communication manner. The communication method among the terminal 1, the server 2 and the printing device 3 includes: bluetooth, WiFi or mobile network. Therefore, the transmission of image information can be realized under various network environments, and corresponding food or tableware can be printed;

furthermore, the system composed of the device can realize the following technical effects by customized printing:

the customization efficiency is high: the system can be updated in real time and can take effect;

the cost is low: no need to customize the mold or print the sticker in advance;

the definition is high: the traditional mold spraying mode only supports black and white binary images, and the system can support gray level images.

In some embodiments, as in the foregoing customized food product printing system, the printing device 3 comprises: 3D printer and the inkjet printer that is used for printing the figure. Specifically, through the 3D printer can print out the comparatively three-dimensional pattern of shape or shape, through the mainly used planar image of printing of inkjet printer.

In some embodiments, as the food customized printing system, the terminal 1 is further provided with a first communication module; the server 2 is provided with a second communication module; the printing device 3 is provided with a third communication module;

the first communication module, the second communication module and the third communication module are in communication connection with each other.

By making the first communication module communicatively connectable with a third communication module; further, the terminal 1 and the printing apparatus 3 can realize direct communication without a server, and can be applied to processing of print orders under some lines, so that the processing efficiency in this case can be effectively improved, and the data processing amount of the server can be effectively reduced.

In some embodiments, the edible material is employed in the 3D printer and the edible ink is employed in the inkjet printer, as previously described for the custom food printing system.

In some embodiments, the food customized printing system as previously described, the first and third communication modules each comprise: a Bluetooth communication module, a WiFi module or a mobile network module.

A method of controlling a food customized printing system in one embodiment described above.

The food customized printing system control method according to the present application is as shown in fig. 2, and includes steps S1 to S3 as follows:

s1, a terminal sends customized image information to a server; preferably, the image information may include: information such as pictures, picture size and direction;

specifically, a user can select a picture in a terminal album or take the picture in real time, and then send corresponding image information to a server; the selection and uploading of the specific pictures can be performed through an APP, an applet or a webpage end and the like; preferably, the user can obtain a result preview image in advance before uploading so as to select the size and the direction of the image information;

s2, after receiving the image information, the server forwards the image information to a printing device;

that is, the server is mainly used to receive image information and distribute print jobs to corresponding printing devices; in some embodiments, the printing devices may be automatically assigned by the server, or the user may select the printer while uploading the image information, and preferably, each printing device further has an equipment address and geographic location information corresponding to the printing device, so that when the user selects printing, the user may select the printing device according to the geographic location information, so as to facilitate later product pickup and receiving;

and S3, the printing device prints the image information on the food or the tableware according to the image information.

That is, the printing apparatus can print on food or tableware based on image information, and preferably, in monochrome printing, the image information is converted into a grayscale image and then the image is printed based on the grayscale image.

The application method of the food customized printing system in the foregoing embodiment further includes:

after the image information is forwarded to the printing device, the method further comprises the following steps:

predetermining a first corresponding relation between the gray information of the printing surface and the brightness of the image information; wherein the printing surface is an area for printing images on food or tableware;

acquiring first gray information of a printing surface on food or tableware to be printed;

determining first brightness of the image information according to the first gray information and a first corresponding relation;

adjusting the image information according to the first brightness to obtain adjusted image information;

the printing device prints the image information on the food or the tableware according to the image information, and specifically comprises:

and the printing device prints the adjusted image information on the printing surface of the food or tableware to be printed.

Specifically, the invention of the application can print pictures or characters on different media, and the different media have different requirements on ink output amount. When the tableware to be printed is a white dish, the medium is special, the ground color is white, and the contrast is large, so that the ink quantity is minimum, otherwise, the condition of ink drop accumulation occurs. When the food to be printed is hamburgers, the background color exists, the ink output is required to be maximum, otherwise, the printed patterns and the background coincide to influence the recognition degree. In the monochromatic inkjet printer in the prior art, the product color depth is realized by modifying the size of ink drops on a printer driver setting interface, but in the invention, the ink output amount can be adjusted by adjusting the brightness of an input picture, so that the operation processing can be carried out at a server end, the dependence on a bottom hardware equipment platform is reduced, and the transplantation among different products is facilitated.

In some embodiments, since there may be multiple sides of the utensil or food item that can be printed with images or graphics, it is desirable to identify the areas where printing can occur and then identify the images that each area prints; enabling the selected image information to be printed in the selected area at the time of final printing.

The application method of the food customized printing system in the foregoing embodiment further includes:

the terminal receives text input and sends corresponding text information to the server;

specifically, the text input can be performed on a human-computer interaction interface of the terminal, and after confirmation, the text input is uploaded and sent to the server;

after receiving the text information, the server forwards the text information to a printing device;

and the printing device prints the text information on the food or the tableware according to the text information.

That is to say, the method can enable the user to edit a segment of characters at any time and print the segment of characters on corresponding food or tableware, and further enrich the printed content on the basis of image printing.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims (4)

1. A food customized printing system, comprising:

a terminal (1) for editing and transmitting customized image information;

a server (2) for receiving the image information and forwarding the image information to a printing device (3);

printing device (3) for printing the image information on food or cutlery according to the image information, wherein the printing device (3) comprises: the printing system comprises a 3D printer and an ink-jet printer for printing graphics, wherein edible materials are adopted in the 3D printer, and edible ink is adopted in the ink-jet printer;

the terminal (1), the server (2) and the printing device (3) are sequentially in communication connection.

2. The custom printing system for foodstuffs according to claim 1, wherein the terminal (1) comprises: smart phones, PCs, tablets and electronic books.

3. The customized food printing system according to claim 1, wherein a first communication module is further provided on the terminal (1); the server (2) is provided with a second communication module; a third communication module is arranged on the printing device (3);

the first communication module, the second communication module and the third communication module are in communication connection with each other.

4. The custom food printing system of claim 3, wherein the first and third communication modules each comprise: a Bluetooth communication module, a WiFi module or a mobile network module.

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