EP1004058A1 - Systeme et procede d'imprimerie servant a produire une serie de feuilles de couleurs melangees - Google Patents

Systeme et procede d'imprimerie servant a produire une serie de feuilles de couleurs melangees

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EP1004058A1
EP1004058A1 EP98948827A EP98948827A EP1004058A1 EP 1004058 A1 EP1004058 A1 EP 1004058A1 EP 98948827 A EP98948827 A EP 98948827A EP 98948827 A EP98948827 A EP 98948827A EP 1004058 A1 EP1004058 A1 EP 1004058A1
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monochrome
printing unit
color
sequence
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Hans Manzer
Bernd Krempel
Manfred Lehmann
Rudolf Seeberger
Hans Hahn
Rüdiger SIEMENS
Wolfgang Schullerus
Andreas Berchtold
Peter Rumpel
Manfred Wiedemer
Gerhard LÖDERMANN
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Canon Production Printing Germany GmbH and Co KG
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Oce Printing Systems GmbH and Co KG
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    • G03G15/0142—Structure of complete machines
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  • the invention relates to a printing or copying machine system for the performance-adapted creation of a predetermined sheet sequence of monochrome and / or color printed single sheets and a printing method for generating a monochrome and colored sheet sequence.
  • continuous paper is fed to a transfer printing point of a photoconductor cylinder, each of which has electrophotographic units on two surfaces for producing differently colored toner images.
  • the continuous paper is printed on the front with a first color, then the continuous paper is deflected and fed to a printing point opposite the transfer point on the same photoconductor cylinder and printed there with the back.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a multicolor printing or copier system with high printing performance, which is particularly suitable for mixed operation, and whose performance is based on the maximum printing performance in monochrome operation.
  • a black and white printer or a printer with a maximum of two colors (highlight color printer) with a digital full color printer can also be mixed
  • a higher-level control unit sends the pages to be printed specifically to the respective printing unit and ensures that the correct final page sequence is produced in a common paper output stream.
  • the control unit controls the printing units during the creation of the mixed print job as a function of the incoming data stream in such a way that both printing units operate in parallel, insofar as the sequence of the single sheets in the print job permits.
  • the aim of the control is to operate in parallel.
  • the monochrome (black and white) and the color information are assigned to the respective printing unit from an original data stream and organized in time.
  • the common paper path then leads the printed single sheets correctly sorted into a common storage (e.g. external, in the output tray of the faster monochrome printer, in the
  • Output tray of the color printer or in the form of a sheet / scale / or packet stream in one
  • one of the digital printing or digital copying machines with a printing function can also take over the collecting function through its internal paper path and / or generate additional printing information on the controlled sheet (for example color front, black back). White or any other combination).
  • the interfaces are designed in such a way that the printers or copiers can be used in accordance with the respective performance requirements of the operator.
  • the common paper path can contain a buffer function to smooth out different peaks in performance (eg a high sequence of monochrome or colored pages).
  • the buffer function can be implemented, for example, by means of a collecting compartment, from which the printed sheets can be output again individually or as a package, if necessary.
  • the paper path itself can also be used as a buffer due to its distance. Buffers in the form of paper loops are known for continuous paper processing printers. The system's productivity is increased by the buffer function.
  • the sheet stream generated by the color printer is, in a preferred embodiment, via a suitable interface, e.g. introduced into the output area of the monochrome or highlight color printer via a paper path coupling module.
  • the color-printed sheets are inserted in the correct sequence in the sheet stream printed by the monochrome or highlight color printer.
  • the monochrome or highlight color printer serves as a mixing device (merger).
  • the advantage of this embodiment is that the high-speed printing operation in the monochrome or highlight color printing unit is not impaired by the feeding of the full-color printed sheets.
  • the full-color printed sheets are stored in a buffer stocked.
  • the intermediate storage makes it possible to print the full-color pages in advance and then feed them into the sheet stream of the monochrome or highlight color printing unit. Despite a slower printing speed of the full-color printing unit compared to the monochrome or highlight color printing unit, the printing speed of the overall system remains high for mixed print jobs.
  • the intermediate storage can take place in the full-color printing unit or in the monochrome or highlight color printing unit, but preferably in a paper path coupling module connected between the printing units. This can be done via a stack of sheets of the sheets or via a corresponding buffer transport path that holds a certain number of single sheets.
  • the sheet stream generated by the color printer is transmitted via a suitable interface, e.g. via a paper path coupling module with a buffer, introduced into the input area of the monochrome or highlight color printer.
  • the full-color printed sheets are then passed within the monochrome or highlight color printer either past the transfer station and / or the fusing station, possibly several such stations, or printed there again in monochrome or two colors at high speed.
  • the full-color printed sheets are inserted into the sheet stream printed by the monochrome or highlight color printer.
  • the invention is in connection with a
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic sectional illustration of an electrographic printing device system comprising a monochrome single-sheet high-performance printer and a single-sheet color printer which are coupled to one another via a paper path coupling module, the sheet-collecting device being arranged integrated in the monochrome single-sheet high-performance printer.
  • Fig. 2 is a schematic sectional view of a
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic sectional illustration of a printing device system corresponding to FIG. 1, with a paper path coupling module containing a sheet buffer memory and a paper switch,
  • FIG. 4 shows a schematic sectional illustration of a printing device system corresponding to FIG. 1, with a paper path coupling module containing a sheet buffer memory and a common output path for the sheet sequence,
  • FIG. 5 shows a schematic sectional illustration of a printing device system corresponding to FIG. 1, the sheet collecting device being arranged integrated in the colored single sheet high-performance printer,
  • Fig. 6 is a schematic sectional view of an electrographic printing device system from a monochrome Endless high-performance printer with associated cutting device and a single-sheet color printer, which are coupled to one another via a paper path coupling module which has a common output path to the sheet collecting device,
  • FIG. 7 shows a schematic sectional illustration of a printing device system corresponding to FIG. 6, in which the paper path coupling module has a sheet buffer memory for the colored single sheets,
  • FIG. 8 shows a schematic sectional illustration of an electrographic printing device system comprising a monochrome continuous high-performance printer and an endless color printer with associated cutting devices, which are coupled to one another via a paper path coupling module which has a common output path and a sheet buffer memory for the colored single sheets,
  • Fig. 9 is a schematic sectional view of a
  • FIG. 10 shows a schematic block diagram of a control for the electrographic printing device system comprising two printing devices each having a data controller
  • FIG. 11 shows a schematic block diagram of a control for the electrographic printing device system comprising two printing devices with a common data controller
  • Fig. 12 is a schematic sectional view of an electrographic printing device system from a highlight color single sheet high performance printer and a single sheet full color printer, the paper transport routes on the Output side of the Highlight Color printing system are connected to each other,
  • Figure 13 is a schematic sectional view of an electrographic printing device system olor from a Highlight C Sheetfed high-performance printer and a single sheet full-color printer, the paper transport paths are connected on the input side of the highlight color printing system.
  • FIG. 14 shows an exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 13, which additionally contains a special transport path for record carriers past two print paths and
  • Fig. 15 is a simplified compared to Figure 14
  • Embodiment in which a monochrome printing system with only one recording color is provided instead of the highlight color printing system.
  • the term “monochrome printing unit” can mostly be understood as a printing unit that can only print a single color.
  • a printing unit that can print two colors is referred to as a so-called highlight printing unit.
  • highlight printing unit For the purposes of the invention, however, the following
  • Embodiments often be provided a monochrome printing unit instead of a highlight printing unit and vice versa.
  • a color printing unit is understood to mean a full color printing unit with which all primary colors can be produced. Such color printing units can be used as YMCK
  • Printing units can be constructed and have, for example, a yellow (Y), a magenta (M), a cyan (C) and a black (K) electographic transfer printing station. Corresponding full-color ink printing units or possibly an offset printing device could also be provided for this.
  • the printing or copying machine systems shown in FIGS. 1 to 9 for the performance-adapted creation of a predetermined sheet sequence from monochrome and / or color-printed single sheets in principle contain a digital monochrome working at a high printing speed of about 50, 100, 200, 400 pages per minute or more Printing unit 10 and a slower, digital color printing unit 11 with a usual printing speed of about 30, 50 or 100 pages per minute.
  • Both printing units are designed as independent, individually controllable units, either as modules or as independent printers. They each have a paper transport channel 12 or 13 with paper transport elements, the aggregates required for printing on the recording media 14 or 15, such as exposure device, developer station, fixing station etc., being arranged along these paper transport channels 12 or 13.
  • the digital electrographic printers 10 and 11 are constructed in the usual way. They can be designed as a single sheet printer or as a continuous printer with an associated cutting device or as digital copiers with a print data input.
  • a controllable paper path coupling module 16 is arranged between the printers 10, 11. It also contains one or more paper transport channels 17 with associated paper transport elements (rolls, etc.) which can be mechanically or functionally coupled to the paper transport channels 12, 13 of the printing units 10, 11, respectively .
  • the paper path coupling module 16 can be designed as an independent structural unit in the form of a module, or as a part integrated in one of the printing units 10, 11. In principle, that connects
  • Paper path coupling module 16 the paper transport channels 12 and 13 of the printing units 10, 11.
  • it takes the printed individual sheets from the paper channel of one printing unit (for example the color printer 11) and feeds them to the paper channel of the other printing unit (for example the monochrome printer 10) , where it works as a monochrome and color-mixed job in a common sheet collecting device 18 (stacker) can be stored ( Figures 1, 2, 3, 5), or else it accepts the printed single sheets from both printing units 10, 11 ( Figures 4, 6-9) and guides them with the intended sheet sequence to a common output path 19 ( Figures 4, 6-9).
  • a post-processing device for example a binding device or a sheet collecting device 18 in the form of a stacker, can be coupled to the output path 19.
  • a higher-level control unit shown in FIGS. 10 and 11 and explained in more detail below assigns the printing units 10, 11 the individual sheets to be printed, which are then collected as a job in the common sheet collecting device 18 or in the postprocessing device.
  • the monochrome and color information is separated from an original data stream from an external data source, assigned to the respective printing unit and organized in time. In this way, performance-adapted, time-saving and economical operation of the system can be achieved.
  • the aim is largely parallel operation of the printing units 10, 11.
  • the electrographic printing device system consists of the monochrome single-sheet high-performance printer 10 and the single-sheet color printer 11, which are coupled to one another via the paper path coupling module 16.
  • the paper path coupling module 16 takes over the color-printed individual sheets 15 from the color printing unit 11 and leads them to the paper channel 12 of the monochrome printing unit 10 in a time-organized manner.
  • the sheet collecting device 18 is arranged integrated in the monochrome single sheet high-performance printer and consists of two storage compartments there, which can each be used individually for mixed job creation. there one storage compartment can be used as temporary storage while the other is being filled.
  • the paper path coupling module 16 guides the colored printed single sheet
  • the sheet collecting device 18 is designed in accordance with FIG. 1.
  • the monochrome printing unit uses a contactless fixing method such as e.g. a flash fixation, a radiation fixation or a fixation with solvent (so-called cold fixation), because the pre-printed color page is then not adversely affected by the fixing process of the monochrome printing unit.
  • the paper path coupling module 16 contains a sheet buffer store 20 and a switchable paper switch 21 in the paper transport channel 17.
  • the sheet buffer store 20 is designed to be controllable and consists of a controllable single sheet storage container with associated transport elements for intermediate storage of the printed colored single sheets. Different power peaks of the printing units 10, 11 can be smoothed by the buffer function.
  • the colored single sheets are already created with the slow color printing unit 11 and temporarily stored in the sheet buffer memory 20 until they are in the correct sequence
  • Paper transport channel 12 of the monochrome printing unit 10 are supplied.
  • the buffer function can also be implemented, for example, by means of a collecting compartment, from which the printed sheets can be output again individually or in package form, if necessary.
  • the electromagnetically switchable paper switch 21 enables the colored single sheets to be fed in via the paper transport channel 12 either directly to the sheet collecting device 18 or for re-printing in an area in front of the electrographic printing unit 22.
  • the paper path coupling module 16 contains a sheet buffer memory 20 and a common output path 19.
  • the colored and monochrome single sheets are combined in the paper path coupling module 16 and output in the correct sequence via the output path 19.
  • a post-processing device can be coupled to the output path 19, e.g. in the form of a binding device.
  • the pressure device system of FIG. 5 corresponds in principle to that of FIG. 1. The difference is that
  • Sheet collecting device 18 is arranged integrated in the colored single sheet printer 11.
  • the electrographic printing device systems of FIGS. 6 and 7 contain, as monochrome printing units 10, a monochrome continuous high-performance printer with associated cutting device 23 for separating the strip-shaped recording medium in sheet form.
  • the paper path coupling modules 16 have a common output path 19. In FIG. 6, this is connected to an external sheet collecting device 29 in the form of a stacker. In the exemplary embodiment in FIG. 7, the paper path coupling module 16 additionally contains a sheet buffer memory 20. Otherwise, the function of the printing device systems corresponds to the exemplary embodiment in FIG. 4.
  • sheets which have been pre-printed in advance by the color printing unit 11 can be buffered . These sheets can then be fed into the sheet stream of the monochrome printer 10 in a precise time and position. In the post-processing stacker 29, the colored and the monochrome printed sheets are then filed in the order of the print job.
  • the monochrome printing unit 10 and the colored printing unit 11 can be designed as continuous printing units with associated cutting device 23.
  • the paper path coupling module 16 contains a sheet buffer memory 20 for the color pages and a common output path 19, in the example of FIG. 9 a common output path 19 which is coupled to a sheet collecting device 29.
  • the functions correspond to those of FIGS. 6 and 7.
  • a sheet collecting device 29 can of course be provided or a buffer memory 20 according to FIGS. 7 and 9.
  • Additional device to be arranged in addition to the color printing unit 11 and are connected to the paper path coupling module 16 via a separate paper transport channel. Sheets of the differently printed type are then stored in the insertion device, individually pulled off and inserted into the sheet stream of the connected printer in a precisely positioned manner.
  • the color printer 11 can alternatively be provided
  • Synchronous control devices such as those shown as block diagrams in FIGS. 10 and 11 are used to control the printing system.
  • both the monochrome printing unit 10 and the colored printing unit 11 have their own data controllers 24/1 and 24/2.
  • the control of the electrographic units 22/1 and 22/2 takes place via a conventional device control 25/1 or 25/2.
  • the basic structure of the data controller and device control is known for example from EP-Bl-0239845 (86P1149). Since both printing units 10 and 11 each have a data controller or a device controller, they can also be operated independently of one another as separate devices.
  • the two printing units 10 and 11 are coupled to one another according to the master-slave principle via a communication module on a device control level 26.
  • the faster monochrome printing unit 10 with its data controller 24/1 preferably takes over the master function. This principle is also generally described in EP-Bl-0239845.
  • the print server 27 in turn communicates with an external data source e.g. B. a PC, a data network or a host.
  • the paper path coupling module 16 is also coupled to the printing units 10 and 11 via control lines.
  • the function of the synchronous control device is as follows: The print data coming from the external source are separated in the job separator 28 of the print server 27 into monochrome and colored print job data, and a specific address or a characteristic feature is assigned to the sequence management of each print page. This data is then transmitted to the data controllers 24/1 and 24/2 of the respective printing units 10, 11. At the same time, the master printing unit, in this case the monochrome printing unit 10, is informed of the sequence of the printed pages as sequence data by the print server 27.
  • the master printer 10 now controls, via the communication module 26, the color printer 11 with the paper path coupling module 16 so that the latter supplies the printed color pages at the right time via the paper path coupling module 16 to the monochrome printed pages, specifically in connection with FIGS. 1 to 9 described way. It may be necessary for the color pages in the paper path coupling module 16 to be temporarily stored in the sheet buffer memory 20 or in the paper transport channel. This right time is taking into account the different
  • Printing speeds of the printing units 10, 11 and the sheet sequence of the job to be created are calculated with a corresponding microprocessor-controlled computing device, which can be part of the device control 25 or the data controller 24/1 or the job separator 28.
  • the synchronous control strives for parallel operation of the printing units. Does the job contain e.g. first 10 monochrome pages and then a color page, the printing units 10, 11 are operated in parallel and the color page is buffered until the 10th monochrome page has been created. The ink page is then fed to the sheet collecting device via the corresponding paper transport channel and the joint job is thus formed.
  • the monochrome printing unit 10 has a common data controller 24/3 for both printing units 10 and 11 on.
  • the job separator can also be integrated in it.
  • the print server 27 sends all print data to this data controller 24/3, which separates the job and in turn controls the color printing unit 11 analogously to the exemplary embodiment in FIG. 10.
  • Communication module 26 is also required in this constellation in order to ensure that the printed pages are combined correctly in the correct sequence.
  • a common data controller 24/3 for both printing units 10 and 11 can then because of the lower controller effort
  • FIG. 12 shows a printing system which corresponds in principle to the exemplary embodiment in FIG. 1.
  • the color printing unit 11 is connected to the output area of the printing unit 10 via the paper path coupling module 16. It can be a single-sheet color printing unit or an endless color printing unit with a downstream cutting device.
  • the printing unit 10 essentially consists of an input station 30, a printing station 38 and an output station 49. In the printing station 38 there are two transfer printing stations D1, D2, each printing monochrome. With this highlight color printing station, a large part of the print data supplied to it can be in a first color, e.g. Black, printed and selected data with a second color, e.g. Red to highlight these areas on the printed material. On the one hand, such a printing station is not capable of producing full-color printing, but on the other hand it can achieve a page yield that is essentially the same as that of a corresponding monochrome printing unit. To a highlight color printing station in an inventive
  • the print server or job separator is also able to control the printing system from the original print data stream of the network or host computer to recognize highlight color print data and to feed the highlight color printing unit 10.
  • the controller 25/1 of the highlight color printing unit 10 then feeds the associated data to the two transfer printing stations D1 and D2, the first transfer printing station D1, for example, data in black and the second transfer station D2 in red.
  • the printing unit 10 shown in FIG. 12 corresponds to the printer with two printing units known by the applicant, which is described in WO 98/18052 A1.
  • the content of this WO publication is hereby incorporated by reference into the present description.
  • the printing station 38 of the printing unit 10 is kept variable insofar as the two transfer printing stations D1, D2 are each interchangeable.
  • the printing station 38 can easily be converted from a highlight color printing station to a monochrome printing station that only prints in one color overall, for example by using both the
  • Transfer station Dl as well as transfer station D2 in the same color, e.g. Black, print.
  • This convertibility results in a large number of possible printing applications, so that overall a very flexible printing system is created.
  • a variety of operating modes can be performed with the printing station 38.
  • the first transfer printing path 35, a connecting channel 37 and a feed channel 39 form a first ring R1, which is assigned to the first transfer printing station DI.
  • a second transfer printing path 41, the discharge channel 40 and the connecting channel 37 form a second ring R2, which is assigned to the second transfer printing station D2.
  • the two rings R1 and R2 thus have a common path section, the connecting channel 37, and form an 8-way structure.
  • a plurality of storage compartments 36 for stacks of single sheets are arranged in the input station 30 in a manner known per se. They are each emptied via a common output path 33 and the sheets are transferred from this output path to the input path 31 of the printing station 38.
  • the input station can be designed as a module that can be mechanically coupled to the printing station 38. Sheets can also be fed from the outside via an input channel 32. This feed can either allow additional input stations to be fed or, as already shown in FIG. 2, feed from the sheet buffer memory 16 or directly from the color printing unit 11.
  • sheets are unilaterally, i.e. Simplex printed in that recording sheets are fed from an input path 31 of the printer via a switch Wl to the transfer printing path 35 of the first transfer printing station Dl for printing.
  • the sheets are then fixed in the fixing station F1 and fed via a switch W2 to a discharge channel 40, from there via the discharge channel 40 to the switch W4 and then into the discharge channel 43.
  • the printed sheets are then fed via the switch 44 directly to the storage compartments 18 or previously still turned at turning station 45.
  • the printed sheets can be made using a
  • Output switch 46 are fed to an output channel 48 through which the printed sheets are fed to further devices for post-processing, for example a binding device 51 or an external stacker.
  • the second transfer station D2 In this simplex operating mode with only one transfer station, the second transfer station D2 is not in operation. This operating mode can be used above all if there is a malfunction at the transfer printing station D2 or minor service interventions have to be carried out.
  • a second simplex operating mode can be carried out, in which the first transfer station D1 is out of operation and leaves from Working path 31 of the printer via switch W1, a feed channel 39, a switch W3 are fed to the transfer printing path 41 of the second transfer printing station D2 for printing. The printed sheets are then fixed in the second fixing station F2 and in turn fed to the output channel 43 via switch W4.
  • a third simplex mode with increased print speed almost twice as many sheets can be printed as in the first two simplex modes.
  • sheets are shot at approximately twice the speed from the input station 30 into the input path 31 and alternately fed directly from the switch W1 to the first transfer printing path 35 or the feed channel 39.
  • the sheets following one another in the input path 31 are then printed almost simultaneously in the two transfer printing stations D1 and D2 and are alternately fed to the output channel 43 on the switch W4 in the original order.
  • sheets are fed from the input path 31 via the first transfer printing path 35, the first transfer printing station D1, for printing in a first color, e.g. Black, fed. From there, the sheets are fed via a switch W2 to a connecting channel 37 and further via a switch W3 to the second transfer printing path 41. There, a sheet is transferred in a second color, e.g. Red, printed on the same side as in the transfer station Dl and then issued.
  • a first color e.g. Black
  • a first duplex mode sheets are fed from the input path 31 to the transfer station D1 for printing on the front side, then to a connecting channel 37 via switch W2 and to the second transfer path 41 via switch W3.
  • the sheet can be turned to switch W2 or switch W3, so that it is printed in the transfer path 41 of the second transfer station D2 on the back.
  • This Duplex mode is particularly suitable for monochrome printing of a sheet on the front and back.
  • sheets are fed from the input path 31 via the first transfer printing path 35 to the first transfer printing station D1 for printing on the front with the color black. From there, the sheets are fed to the second transfer printing path 41 via switch W2, connecting channel 37 and switch W3. There the sheets with the second one
  • Transfer station D2 also printed on the front, but with the second color red.
  • the sheets are then fed via switch W4 to the discharge channel 43, turned there and transported via switch W4 into the discharge channel 40. From there, the sheet is again fed to the connecting channel 37 via switch W2 and to the feed channel 39 via switch W3. From there, the sheet is fed again to the first transfer printing path 35 via switch W1 and printed on the back with the first transfer printing station D1. The sheet can then be transferred to the second transfer station D2 in the same manner as described above
  • the blade is turned in the area of the switch W4.
  • the blade can of course also be turned in turnout W2 or turnout W3.
  • the sheet printed in duplex from the transfer station D1 could be fed to the second transfer station D1 via the connecting channel 37 for duplex printing in the second color.
  • the sheet would have to be fed via switch W4 to the discharge channel 40 and again to the first printing path 41 with turning.
  • the sheet transports (stepper motors) in the feed channel 39 and in the discharge channel 40 can be driven in two opposite directions.
  • a reversible drive can also be provided in the connecting channel 37.
  • a monochrome duplex mode in which printing is carried out only with DI, sheets are in turn fed from the input path 31 via the first transfer printing path 35 to the DI.
  • the sheets are then fed via switch W2 to the connecting channel 37 and via switch W3 to the feed channel 39.
  • the sheet is turned over to switch W2 or switch W3, so that it is printed on the back when the first transfer printing path 35 is run through again.
  • the feed channel 39 thus acts not only as a feed channel in the fast simplex operation described above, but also as a duplex return channel in which the sheets from the end of the first transfer path 35, i.e. from switch W2 to the beginning of transfer path 35, i.e. to be transported back to the Soft Wl.
  • the reversible drives in the feed channel 39 are also necessary for this functionality.
  • Transfer printing station D1 the sheet is discharged via the discharge channel 40 to the discharge channel 43.
  • the second transfer station D2 is also capable of performing a duplex mode on its own without a sheet being printed by the transfer station D1.
  • the sheet is fed directly to the second transfer printing station D2 via feed channel 39.
  • the discharge duct 40 acts in an analogous manner to the feed duct 39 not only as a discharge duct for transfer printing station D1 but also as a duplex return duct for
  • Transfer station D2 the sheet from the end of the second transfer path 41, ie from switch W4 back to its entrance, c ⁇ c ⁇ to to P 1 P 1 c ⁇ o C ⁇ o Cn o C ⁇
  • P- Pt Pt 3 P er P DJ cn ⁇ 3 cn ⁇ . tr yQ 3 P- d rt ⁇ tr rt O 3 o o ⁇ ; rt ⁇ DJ ⁇ rt ⁇ : 3 d P DJ oon P 3 • O P- ⁇ w Pt tr P- ⁇ P 3 P s ⁇ P- .fc »S ⁇ 3 o er o tr Pt cn d ⁇ - 3 P- C ⁇ P
  • FIG. 13 shows the coupling of the color printer 11 via the coupling module 16 to the input station 30 of the monochrome highlight color printing unit 10. Sheets that have been printed by the color printing unit 11 are thereby fed into the printer 10 via the input channel 32 and then either selectively to switch W1
  • a special path 42 is provided, into which 50 sheets can be introduced via an input switch.
  • sheets that have been printed by the color printing unit 11 can optionally be passed past the two transfer printing stations D1 and D2 directly to the output station 49 or via soft Wl the printing station 38 for printing in exactly one color
  • FIG. 15 In a somewhat simplified exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 15 compared to FIG Transfer station D2 and its transfer printing path 41 are dispensed with.
  • the printing system 10 can then only be printed in monochrome in exactly one color with the transfer printing station D1, but has the duplex functionality in which sheets are fed again to the transfer printing station D1 on the output side.
  • the special path 42 can also be used advantageously because sheets coming from the color printing unit 11 do not have to be fed into the ring system R1 of the transfer printing station D1.
  • the remaining elements of the exemplary embodiments in FIGS. 12 to 14 can be adopted here.

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L'invention concerne un système d'imprimerie ou de photocopie servant à élaborer de façon performante une série de feuilles constituée par des feuilles individuelles imprimées soit en une seule couleur, soit en plusieurs couleurs. Ce système d'imprimerie ou de photocopie contient une imprimante numérique (10) fonctionnant à vitesse élevée et imprimant en une seule couleur ou en deux couleurs, ainsi qu'une imprimante couleur numérique (11) couplée à la première par l'intermédiaire d'un module de couplage (16) situé sur le trajet du papier. Une unité de commande supplémentaire attribue aux éléments d'imprimerie les feuilles individuelles à imprimer, qui seront rassemblées en un ensemble commun. Dans le but d'optimiser le réglage de la vitesse du processus d'impression, l'information de monochromie ou de multiplicité de couleurs extraite d'un flux de données d'origine est affectée à l'élément d'imprimerie concerné selon le cas et synchronisée dans le temps.
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