EP1189754A1 - Procede et dispositif d'impression pour imprimer un materiau support et pour nettoyer un cylindre d'impression - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif d'impression pour imprimer un materiau support et pour nettoyer un cylindre d'impression

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EP1189754A1
EP1189754A1 EP00945844A EP00945844A EP1189754A1 EP 1189754 A1 EP1189754 A1 EP 1189754A1 EP 00945844 A EP00945844 A EP 00945844A EP 00945844 A EP00945844 A EP 00945844A EP 1189754 A1 EP1189754 A1 EP 1189754A1
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cleaning
roller
printing
station
depressions
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Martin Berg
Manfred Wiedemer
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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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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters 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
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F9/00—Rotary intaglio printing presses
    • B41F9/003—Web printing presses
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M1/00—Inking and printing with a printer's forme
    • B41M1/10—Intaglio printing ; Gravure printing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41N—PRINTING PLATES OR FOILS; MATERIALS FOR SURFACES USED IN PRINTING MACHINES FOR PRINTING, INKING, DAMPING, OR THE LIKE; PREPARING SUCH SURFACES FOR USE AND CONSERVING THEM
    • B41N3/00—Preparing for use and conserving printing surfaces
    • B41N3/003—Preparing for use and conserving printing surfaces of intaglio formes, e.g. application of a wear-resistant coating, such as chrome, on the already-engraved plate or cylinder; Preparing for reuse, e.g. removing of the Ballard shell; Correction of the engraving
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
    • B41P2235/00—Cleaning
    • B41P2235/10—Cleaning characterised by the methods or devices
    • B41P2235/14—Cleaning characterised by the methods or devices using ultrasonic energy
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
    • B41P2235/00—Cleaning
    • B41P2235/10—Cleaning characterised by the methods or devices
    • B41P2235/20—Wiping devices
    • B41P2235/22—Rollers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
    • B41P2235/00—Cleaning
    • B41P2235/10—Cleaning characterised by the methods or devices
    • B41P2235/27—Suction devices

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  • the invention relates to a method for printing a carrier material, in which a printing roller with a plurality of depressions arranged on the surface of the printing roller for receiving printing fluid rotates about its longitudinal axis during a printing process.
  • a printing roller with a plurality of depressions arranged on the surface of the printing roller for receiving printing fluid rotates about its longitudinal axis during a printing process.
  • pressure fluid is introduced into all depressions that move past the inking station during the printing process.
  • the pressure fluid contained in part of the depressions moving past the transfer printing location is used for printing on the carrier material.
  • the pressure fluid in the other part of the depressions moving past the transfer printing location remains in these depressions.
  • thermoelectric printing unit for transferring an ink onto a recording medium is known from European patent EP 0 756 544 B1.
  • An inking station, a transfer printing station and a cleaning station are arranged around a printing roller with a multiplicity of depressions for receiving ink. Only the inking station and the transfer printing station are in operation during the printing process. After the depressions have been moved past the transfer printing station, they arrive at the inking station. At the inking station, pressure fluid is again introduced into the emptied depressions. The cleaning station is only activated after the printing process has ended.
  • a gravure printing unit is known from DE 295 07 416 U1, in which an intaglio printing plate cylinder has ink-receiving depressions at image points and at non-imaging points has no recesses.
  • the wells are filled with paint at a coloring station. This color is transferred to a rubber cylinder for later transfer to paper.
  • the ink residues are then washed out of the depressions in the image areas on the gravure cylinder using a water jet and thus removed.
  • thermographic printing device in which a glass cylinder has a cup structure on its outer surface, the cells of which are filled with color. With the help of a cooling device, the color in the cells is solidified. Depending on the image structure to be printed, the color in selected cells is melted in a printing zone using laser light and transferred to paper. A squeegee scrapes the remains of the paint off the surface of the ink cylinder, the cells of which are then refilled with paint.
  • DE 195 03 951 AI describes an intaglio printing process in which an intaglio printing cylinder is filled with ink at imaging points in depressions, which is printed directly onto a carrier material. After the printing process, the special depressions are cleaned of ink residues and then filled with ink again for another printing process.
  • an offset rotary printing machine which has a forme cylinder, on the lateral surface of which a planographic printing form is clamped.
  • This planographic printing form absorbs ink in depressions which correspond to image areas to be inked, which is fed via an inking roller.
  • the ink that is not picked up by the forme cylinder is removed by the inking roller and fed to the ink circuit. It is an object of the invention to provide a method for printing a carrier material that is simple and enables printing of high print quality.
  • a printing device suitable for carrying out the method is to be specified.
  • the invention is based on the knowledge that a print of high print quality can only be achieved if, before the wells are transported past the inking station, all the wells are completely emptied and are filled again with pressure fluid by the inking station. This is particularly important in printing processes in which the volume of a respective depression specifies the volume of the printing fluid to be applied to an image element. Even in the case of depressions whose printing fluid is used in printing, it is not ensured that the entire printing fluid can be applied to the carrier material. This applies in particular if the hydraulic fluid is sucked towards the carrier material due to adhesive forces between the hydraulic fluid and the carrier material. In this case, the hydraulic fluid is not driven out of the depression, which is carried out, for example, with the aid of a gas bubble.
  • a cleaning station is used in the method according to the invention, which removes pressure fluid from depressions moving past the cleaning station.
  • the cleaning station and the inking station are in operation simultaneously during the printing process.
  • the hydraulic fluid is removed from all wells before the deepening can be used in a new printing process.
  • the removal of the pressure fluid in the cleaning station also prevents the pressure fluid from drying on the side walls of the depressions during the printing process.
  • the volume of the depressions remains unchanged during the entire printing process in the method according to the invention. It also prevents printing fluid from being in a depression for several revolutions of the printing roller and from being physically or chemically changed during this time, for example in terms of viscosity or composition, if volatile surfactants are present in the printing fluid.
  • a predetermined amount of printing fluid can be used in a predetermined composition and with predetermined physical parameters for each picture element even in continuous operation.
  • the result is a high quality print image.
  • the cleaning station contains a cleaning roller lying parallel to the printing roller, the surface of which touches the surface of the printing roller in a cleaning area during cleaning.
  • the surface of the cleaning roller is made of an elastic or an absorbent material that can be pressed into the recesses.
  • Using a cleaning roller is an easy way to remove pressure fluid remaining in the recesses. If the cleaning roller has an elastic surface, it can be pressed against the printing roller in an enlarged cleaning area. The hydraulic fluid remaining in the depressions therefore has comparatively more time to settle on the surface of the cleaning roller.
  • Cleaning rollers with bristles arranged on their surface are also used. In order to avoid contamination of the printing unit by pressure fluid spraying away during brushing, the cleaning device must lie close to the printing roller.
  • the cleaning roller has a potential that differs from the potential of the surface of the printing roller. This measure makes it easier to detach the hydraulic fluid from the depressions because, in addition to the adhesive forces between the hydraulic fluid and the surface of the cleaning roller, electrostatic forces pull the hydraulic fluid out of the depression. Potentials with different signs are also used.
  • the cleaning station contains, in addition to the cleaning roller, a stripping roller lying parallel to the cleaning roller, the surface of which exerts pressure on the surface of the cleaning roller in a stripping area.
  • the surface of the stripper roller is made of a hard material, e.g. made of metal. While absorbent material can be damaged when being squeezed out with a doctor, the pressure fluid can be wiped off the wiping roller without damage.
  • the scraper roller has a smooth surface on which the doctor blade lies well.
  • the emptied depressions are cleaned with a cleaning fluid after the pressure fluid has been removed from depressions which have moved past the cleaning station and before the pressure fluid has been introduced into the depressions which have moved past the inking station.
  • Cleaning leads to a more thorough emptying and cleaning of the wells and ensures that hydraulic fluid is always filled into the wells in the inking station under the same conditions.
  • dirt particles are also removed from the edges of the depressions. distant, which are generated for example by abrasion of the carrier material or by abrasion at the edges of the depressions.
  • the cleaning liquid is contained in a cleaning container, which is arranged below the pressure roller.
  • the depressions moving past the cleaning container are immersed in the cleaning liquid.
  • the immersion ensures that the cleaning liquid is pressed into the recesses at a certain pressure.
  • the cleaning liquid is moved by immersion.
  • the increased pressure and the movement of the cleaning liquid mean that the dirt particles sitting on the side walls of the depressions are better loosened.
  • pressure fluid is used as the cleaning fluid, so that additional cleaning fluids can be dispensed with.
  • solvents are used as the cleaning liquid.
  • the cleaning liquid is moved by additional measures that go beyond the movement of the cleaning liquid by immersing the pressure roller.
  • the use of ultrasound ensures that dirt particles sitting very firmly on the side walls can be loosened. Larger dirt particles are also crushed by the ultrasound.
  • the cleaning station contains a blower, with the aid of which air is blown into the depressions moving past the cleaning station.
  • the air is blown into the depressions, the hydraulic fluid is blown out at the same time.
  • the air is blown in there place or in combination with cleaning by the cleaning roller.
  • a suction pump is used in the cleaning station, with the aid of which air is sucked out of the depressions which have moved past the cleaning station. Pressurized fluid remaining in the depressions is removed simultaneously with the air. When vacuuming, there is no spraying of pressure fluid, so that measures against pressure fluid spraying around need not be taken.
  • the hydraulic fluid is cleaned and / or reprocessed at one point in the hydraulic fluid circuit. Filtering makes it possible to remove foreign bodies and already dried ink particles from the hydraulic fluid.
  • additives such as water or solvent are introduced into the hydraulic fluid, for example.
  • the invention also relates to a printing device which is used to carry out the method according to the invention.
  • a printing device which is used to carry out the method according to the invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows a section of a printing roller
  • FIG. 2 shows a printing unit of a printer
  • FIG. 3 shows a cleaning station with a cleaning roller and an ultrasonic bath
  • FIG. 4 shows an enlarged illustration of a cleaning area
  • FIG. 5 shows a cleaning station with a potential-carrying cleaning roller
  • Figure 6 is a cleaning station with a blower
  • Figure 7 shows a cleaning station with a suction unit.
  • FIG. 1 shows a longitudinal section along the surface 8 of a printing roller 10.
  • the depressions are arranged side by side in a row direction, cf. Arrow 16.
  • Adjacent depressions 12, 14 are at a distance A from one another which determines the resolution of the printer.
  • Several rows of depressions are arranged one behind the other in the column direction 18, with depressions adjacent to one another also having a spacing which corresponds to the spacing A within a column.
  • the depressions are all constructed identically, so that only the structure of the depression 12 is explained below.
  • the recess 12 is designed as a truncated cone-shaped recess (see outline 20) and thus has circular cross sections.
  • the axis of the truncated cone lies in the direction of the normal to the surface 8.
  • the frustoconical contour 20 tapers with increasing distance from the surface 8 of the pressure roller 10.
  • a bottom surface 24 of the The depression 12 has a smaller diameter than the opening 26 of the depression 12 lying on the surface of the printing roller 10.
  • the circumference of the opening 26 lies on a circle and specifies the shape of the picture elements to be printed.
  • a circumferential side wall 28 of the depression 12 is arranged obliquely to the surface 8 of the pressure roller 10.
  • the frustoconical design of the recess 12 makes it easier to fill in a colored ink 30.
  • Ink 30 is held within well 12 by capillary forces. The capillary forces are greater than the gravitational force exerted on the ink 30, so that the ink 30 also remains within the recess 12 when the opening 26 is directed downwards, i.e. to the center of the earth.
  • the surface 32 of the ink 30 After filling the ink 30 and wiping the platen roller 10 with a doctor blade, the surface 32 of the ink 30 has a surface tension at which a convex curvature occurs, i.e. the surface 32 of the ink 30 is curved inwards.
  • the surface 32 is in a state I in which a contact angle RI has a value of approximately 45 °.
  • the contact angle RI is enclosed by a vector VI of the surface tension on the surface 30 and by the side wall 28.
  • Vector VI begins at the edge of depression 12, i.e. at a point where the liquid 30 borders on the side wall 28 or surface 8.
  • the volume of the recess 12 is selected so that the exact amount of ink 30 can be accommodated, which is required for printing a single pixel.
  • the ink 34 also had an inwardly curved, ie concave surface after being filled into the depression 14.
  • a contact angle RII between a surface tension vector VII and the side wall of the depression 14 has a value of a little over 90 °.
  • the vector VII begins on the side wall of the depression 14 and runs in the direction of the surface tension of the surface 36.
  • the starting point of the surface tension vector VII lies at the boundary between the pressure fluid 34 and the side wall of the depression 14.
  • a central region 38 of the surface 36 protrudes beyond the surface 8 of the printing roller 10 by a distance B. If the depression 14 is guided past the paper to be printed at a distance which is smaller than the distance B, the paper is wetted.
  • the adhesive forces between the paper and the printing fluid 34 are greater than the capillary forces between the printing fluid 34 and the depression 14. Therefore, the entire printing fluid 34 is sucked out of the depression 14 and colors an area on the paper that is provided for a pixel.
  • FIG. 2 shows a printing unit 50 of a printer which has a resolution of 600 dpi (dots per inch).
  • a pressure roller 10a rotates counterclockwise, cf. Arrow 52.
  • the devices explained below are arranged one after the other along the direction of rotation of the printing roller 10a.
  • the depressions extending in the longitudinal direction of the printing roller 10a for printing a line are free of printing fluid, cf. Position P1.
  • ink 56 is filled into the depressions of a line.
  • the inking station 54 contains a scoop roller 58, the axis of which runs parallel to the axis of the printing roller 10a.
  • the surface of the scoop roller 58 touches the Surface of the pressure roller 10a.
  • the scoop roller 58 rotates in the opposite direction to the pressure roller 10a, cf. Arrow 60.
  • the lower part of the scoop roller 58 is immersed in the ink 56 held by a reservoir 62 so that the surface of the scoop roller 58 is wetted with ink when the surface reaches position P2. Due to the capillary forces, the ink 56 is sucked from the surface of the scoop roller 58 into the depressions 12, 14 of the pressure roller 10a, which are located at position P2.
  • a doctor blade 64 with which the surface of the printing roller 10a is swept so that no ink remains on the surface of the printing roller 10a outside of the depressions. After painting with the squeegee 64, the ink has an inwardly curved surface in each of the depressions.
  • the wells of a line filled with ink 56 are then transported by the rotation of the printing roller 10a to a position P4, at which an exposure device 70 changes the surface tension in selected wells.
  • the exposure device 70 contains a tubular flash lamp 72, the longitudinal axis of which is arranged parallel to the longitudinal axis of the printing roller 10a.
  • the flash lamp 72 is located approximately at the focal point of the reflector 74.
  • the exposure device 70 also contains a row of ceramic cells 76 arranged next to one another, the transparency of which can be changed with the aid of a control voltage.
  • the ceramic cells 76 are transparent, ferroelectric ceramic plates. Such ceramic plates are known from optoelectronics knows. For example, such ceramic plates are described in the European Patent EP 0 253 300 B1 as PLZT elements. However, optoelectronic elements that work according to the Kerr principle are also used.
  • the exposure device 70 is controlled by a control device 78 as a function of print data 80, which determine the picture elements of the print image to be printed.
  • a clock signal "8 is generated on a first output line 82 of the control device 78 and clocks the flash lamp 72 synchronously with the rotation of the printing roller 10a, so that each line of depressions which is moved past the position P4 is irradiated exactly once by the flash lamp 72.
  • Output lines 86 lead from the control device 78 to individual ceramic cells 76 of the row of ceramic cells 76.
  • the control unit 78 controls the ceramic cells 76 in such a way that a ceramic cell 76 under consideration is translucent if the depression opposite the ceramic cell 76 in question contains ink which, when next transport at a position P5 to be used for printing.
  • the light coming from the flash lamp 72 can then reach the ink through the relevant ceramic cell 76.
  • the light energy evaporates tensides that are on the surface of the ink. The result is that the surface tension of the ink increases and the contact angle increases.
  • the opposite ceramic cell 76 is darkened with the aid of the control device 78, so that no light from the flash lamp 72 can strike the depression.
  • the surface tension and the contact angle of the ink remain unchanged.
  • a transfer printing zone 92 between the printing roller 10a and a transport roller 90.
  • the longitudinal axis of the transport roller 90 lies parallel to the axis of the printing roller 10a.
  • a transport device (not shown) rotates the transport roller 90 in the opposite direction to the transport roller 10a, cf. Arrow 94.
  • Continuous paper 96 is transported in a transport direction 98 between printing roller 10a and transport roller 90. The continuous paper 96 lies on the surface of the transport roller 90.
  • continuous paper 96 and the surface of the printing roller 10a have the same speed, so that they rest relative to one another.
  • the surface of the continuous paper 96 facing the printing roller 10a has a distance in the transfer printing zone 92 from the surface of the printing roller 10a which is smaller than the distance B, cf.
  • Figure 1 In the area of the transfer printing zone, the continuous paper 96 is printed at locations opposite the depressions, the ink of which has a large surface tension and thus a large curvature on the surface, state II.
  • a cleaning station 100 is located at a position P6.
  • the cleaning station 100 contains a cleaning roller 102, the longitudinal axis of which lies parallel to the longitudinal axis of the printing roller 10a.
  • the cleaning roller 102 rotates in the opposite direction to the pressure roller 10a, cf. Arrow 104.
  • the surface of the cleaning roller 102 and the surface of the pressure roller 10a touch in a cleaning area 105.
  • the surface of the cleaning roller 102 is made of a suction capable material that sucks ink 56 from the wells in which ink is still left.
  • FIG. 3 shows a cleaning device 100b which is used in a printing unit 50b.
  • An exposure device used in the printing unit 50b and a transfer printing station for guiding the carrier material past are not shown in FIG. 3, since their construction is identical to the construction of the exposure device 70 or to the transfer printing station 90 to 98.
  • a printing roller 10b of the printing unit 50b has the same structure as the printing roller 10a and rotates in the direction of an arrow 52b in the counterclockwise direction.
  • the cleaning station 100b is located on the printing roller 10b at approximately the same position as the cleaning station 100 with respect to the printing roller 10a, ie obliquely below the axis of the printing roller 10b.
  • a cleaning roller 102b contained in the cleaning station 100b is arranged parallel to the printing roller 10b.
  • the surface of the cleaning roller 102b is formed by an elastic coating 200.
  • the surface of the coating 200 contacts the pressure roller 10b along a cleaning area. rich 202.
  • the cleaning roller 102b rotates in the same direction as the pressure roller 10b, cf. Arrow 204.
  • a stripping roller 206 On the side of the cleaning roller 102b facing away from the cleaning area 202 there is a stripping roller 206 parallel to the cleaning roller 102b.
  • the stripping roller 206 rotates in the opposite direction to the cleaning roller 102b, cf. Arrow 208.
  • a doctor blade * 210 Below the stripping roller 206 there is a doctor blade * 210, the lower edge of which is directed downward and is arranged above a collecting bucket 108b.
  • the cleaning roller 102b removes ink remaining in the depressions of the printing roller 10b from the depressions.
  • the removed ink is transported to the stripping roller 206 by the rotary movement of the cleaning roller 102b and reaches the stripping roller 206 at a stripping region 212.
  • the stripped ink is then transported along the circumferential direction of the stripping roller 206 to the doctor blade 210 by the stripping roller 206.
  • the doctor blade 210 wipes the ink off the stripper roller 206.
  • the ink drips from the squeegee 210 into the collecting basin 108.
  • the collecting basin 108b is connected via a compensating line 110b to a storage container 62b of an inking station 54b.
  • the compensation line 110b runs through a filter unit 213, which contains a fine-porous filter, in which paper fibers and dried ink collect.
  • a catalyst substance is used in the filter unit, which decomposes foreign bodies in the ink.
  • An ultrasonic bath 214 is arranged between the cleaning station 100b and the inking station 54b below the axis of the printing roller 10b.
  • the ultrasonic bath 214 contains a container 216, the upper edges of which bear against the pressure roller 10b.
  • the container 216 is complete with a cleaning liquid 218 containing solvent filled.
  • An ultrasonic transmitter 220 in the bottom region of the container 216 sends ultrasonic waves through the cleaning liquid 218 to the surface of the printing roller 10b. If depressions of the pressure roller 10b move past the ultrasonic bath 214, the depressions are immersed in the cleaning liquid 218 and are filled with the cleaning liquid 218.
  • the cleaning liquid 218 forms a transmission medium for the ultrasound, so that the ultrasound reaches the side walls of the depressions and releases foreign bodies adhering there. If the depressions leave the ultrasonic bath 214, the cleaning liquid runs out due to gravity and remains in the container 216.
  • the depressions emptied at the cleaning station 100b and cleaned in the ultrasonic bath 214 are transported to the inking station 54b due to the rotary movement of the printing roller 10b.
  • the inking station 54b contains a scoop roller 58b, which is arranged parallel to the printing roller 10b and rotates in the opposite direction to the direction of rotation of the printing roller 10b, cf. Arrow 60b.
  • the scoop roller 58b is immersed in ink 56b, which is located in the reservoir 62b.
  • the rotary movement of the scoop roller 58b transports ink from the reservoir 62b to the printing roller 10b.
  • a squeegee (not shown) is then used to wipe ink off the printing roller 10b that is not located within depressions.
  • the pressure fluid in the recesses is curved inwards.
  • FIG. 4 shows an enlarged illustration of the cleaning area 202. Depressions 230 to 242 in the surface of the printing roller 10b are shown in FIG. 4 in an exaggerated size.
  • the coating 200 is made of an elastic material and is pressed into the recesses in the cleaning area 202, cf. Recess 236. The adhesive force between the pressure fluid 256 and the coating 200 pulls the pressure fluid 256 out of the depression 236.
  • the pressure fluid 260 or 262 which was located in the depression 240 or 242, was already transferred to the coating 200 at the cleaning area 202.
  • FIG. 5 shows a section of a cleaning station 100c, which is constructed essentially like the cleaning station 100b.
  • a cleaning roller 102c is used in the cleaning station 100c, which also has an elastic coating 200c on its surface.
  • the cleaning roller 102c and a pressure roller 10c lie opposite one another, both of which are made of a metallic material.
  • a potential is generated on the pressure roller 10c with the aid of a voltage U1.
  • a voltage U2 generates a potential on the surface of the cleaning roller 102c which is smaller than the potential on the surface of the printing roller 10c.
  • the potential difference means that pressure fluid 252c, 256c, 260c or 262c easily detaches from recesses 232c, 236c, 240c or 242c when the pressure roller 10c and the cleaning roller 102c rotate in opposite directions to one another, cf. Arrows 52c and 204c.
  • one of the voltages U1 or U2 is reversed, so that the potential on the printing roller 10c has a different sign than the potential on the cleaning roller 102c.
  • FIG. 6 shows a cleaning station 100d which is used instead of the cleaning station 100.
  • a printing roller 10d turns counterclockwise, cf. arrow
  • a blower unit 260 is below the axis of FIG Printing roller lOd arranged.
  • An outlet nozzle 262 is directed along the longitudinal direction of the printing roller 10d to the surface of the printing roller 10d.
  • the blower unit 216 generates a pressure p which is greater than the atmospheric pressure patm. As a result, air is blown through the outlet nozzle 262 into the depressions on the surface of the pressure roller 10d. The air flow pushes hydraulic fluid remaining in the depressions out into a catch basin 108d.
  • the cleaning station 100d is surrounded by a housing, not shown, which prevents pressure fluid from splashing out of the cleaning device 100d.
  • FIG. 7 shows a cleaning station 100e which is used instead of the cleaning station 100.
  • a printing roller 10e rotates counterclockwise, cf. Arrow 52e.
  • the cleaning station 100e contains a suction unit 270, which is arranged below the axis of the pressure roller 10e.
  • a suction nozzle 272 of the suction unit 270 is aligned in such a way that a suction opening extends along the longitudinal direction of the pressure roller 10e and is located at a short distance from the depressions moving past the cleaning station 100e.
  • a pressure p prevails in the suction unit 270 which is less than the atmospheric pressure patm.
  • air is drawn into the suction unit 270 through the suction nozzle 272.
  • the printing roller 10e also sucks off printing fluid which has remained in the depressions after being transported past the transfer printing location 92.
  • a drain channel 274 of the suction unit 270 opens into a catch basin 108e. Pressure fluid sucked off from the surface of the pressure roller 10e passes from the interior of the suction unit 270 into the catch basin 108e through the discharge channel 274.
  • a connection between the collecting basin 108e and the storage container 62 is not shown in FIG. 7. Reference character list
  • control device 80 print data

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé pour imprimer un matériau support (96), selon lequel un cylindre d'impression (10a) tourne autour de son axe longitudinal, ledit cylindre présentant une pluralité d'évidements qui sont situés sur la surface dudit cylindre et qui servent à recevoir un liquide d'impression pendant l'impression. Une station de nettoyage (100) et une station d'encrage (54) fonctionnent simultanément pendant l'impression.
EP00945844A 1999-06-30 2000-06-28 Procede et dispositif d'impression pour imprimer un materiau support et pour nettoyer un cylindre d'impression Expired - Lifetime EP1189754B1 (fr)

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