EP1291188A1 - Procédé d'impression sur medium, appareil d'ajout d'un support au medium pour imprimantes à jet d'encre, et imprimante à jet d'encre pour imprimer sur le medium - Google Patents

Procédé d'impression sur medium, appareil d'ajout d'un support au medium pour imprimantes à jet d'encre, et imprimante à jet d'encre pour imprimer sur le medium Download PDF

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EP1291188A1
EP1291188A1 EP01121124A EP01121124A EP1291188A1 EP 1291188 A1 EP1291188 A1 EP 1291188A1 EP 01121124 A EP01121124 A EP 01121124A EP 01121124 A EP01121124 A EP 01121124A EP 1291188 A1 EP1291188 A1 EP 1291188A1
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Pau Soler
Ramon Vega
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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
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/407—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
    • B41J3/4078—Printing on textile
    • 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
    • B41J15/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in continuous form, e.g. webs
    • B41J15/04—Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles
    • B41J15/046—Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles for the guidance of continuous copy material, e.g. for preventing skewed conveyance of the continuous copy material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M5/00—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
    • B41M5/0041—Digital printing on surfaces other than ordinary paper
    • B41M5/0064—Digital printing on surfaces other than ordinary paper on plastics, horn, rubber, or other organic polymers
    • 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
    • B41M1/26—Printing on other surfaces than ordinary paper
    • B41M1/30—Printing on other surfaces than ordinary paper on organic plastics, horn or similar materials
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M5/00—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
    • B41M5/0041—Digital printing on surfaces other than ordinary paper
    • B41M5/0047—Digital printing on surfaces other than ordinary paper by ink-jet printing

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  • the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for printing on media such as fabric in inkjet printers.
  • Suitable apparatus for this purpose could be inkjet printers, which are already used for a wide range of printing media.
  • inkjet printing apparatus and inkjet printers and plotters in particular, are designed to print on paper, and don't usually obtain satisfactory results when attempting to print on fabric, due to the poor stiffness of this medium.
  • Printhead crash occurs when the printhead comes into contact with the media being printed, e.g. due to a wrinkle of the media; it may cause ink smearing, breakage of the media being printed or even damage to the printhead itself.
  • US-5410958 describes a lithographic or screen printing method for printing on silk, which includes applying a backing to the silk fabric before printing it. There is no disclosure in this document on how the backing is applied or removed, and the printing process is a multi-part printing process, in which the fabric is fed several times to the printer in order to complete the desired colour pattern.
  • a method for printing on media in which the media is fed once through an inkjet printer, comprising the steps of:
  • the stiffening backing avoids wrinkles in the media and thus prevents defects in the prints as well as printhead crash; by carrying out the backing operation just before printing, any desired media, such as fabric, can be printed in the inkjet printer.
  • the method can be carried out automatically: the backing is fed to the printer and the media is applied on it, such that the media is automatically backed and fed to the printer in a continuous operation.
  • the method further comprises the step of removing said stiffening backing from the media immediately after printing; the printed media may then be wound and stored as usual.
  • said stiffening backing web is supplied continuously from a feed reel.
  • the method may comprise the step of loading said backing feed reel to the inkjet printer.
  • the backing web may be made of paper and attached to the media with a non-permanent adhesive.
  • said stiffening backing may comprise a continuous web arranged to form a closed loop which has a portion travelling in a printing zone of said inkjet printer; there is therefore no consumption of material for the stiffening backing.
  • the continuous web may be attached to the media by means of hook and loop fasteners or by electrostatic effect, or it may be provided with a non-permanent adhesive.
  • the invention provides a media backing apparatus for inkjet printers, comprising means for applying a removable stiffening backing to a media and means for attachment to the media inlet of an inkjet printer.
  • This apparatus may further comprise means for removing said stiffening backing from the media and means for attachment to the media outlet of said inkjet printer.
  • said removable stiffening backing comprises a continuous web arranged to form a closed loop which has a portion travelling in a printing zone of said inkjet printer.
  • said apparatus is built as a kit which can be attached to an inkjet printer.
  • the apparatus can thus be sold separately from the printer, and can be applied to existing inkjet printers.
  • the power drive for the advance of said stiffening backing is taken from the printer.
  • said stiffening backing is driven through the printer by a media drive roller of said inkjet printer.
  • the present invention also provides an inkjet printer comprising means for applying a removable stiffening backing to a media, and printing means for printing on said media provided with said stiffening backing.
  • the printer further comprises means for removing said stiffening backing from the media after printing.
  • said stiffening backing comprises a continuous web arranged to form a closed loop which has a portion travelling in a printing zone of said inkjet printer.
  • Figure 1 shows diagrammatically an inkjet printer 1, having a printhead 2 and a roller 3 for driving a fabric media to be printed.
  • an apparatus 4 for applying a removable stiffening backing 6 on the fabric 5 to be printed.
  • an embodiment of the method for printing fabric according to the invention involves:
  • the expressions 'immediately before feeding the fabric to the printer', 'immediately prior to printing', or the like are construed to mean that the backing of the fabric is carried out continuously, constituting a step associated with the printing operation itself and performed by an accessory incorporated or coupled to a printer; this is different from a method in which a batch of backed fabric is first prepared and thereafter, in a different operation which can be spaced in time from the first, the backed fabric is fed to a printer.
  • the printing operation is carried out on a fabric that is maintained flat, without wrinkles, folds or the like by virtue of the backing, thus avoiding the risk of poor printing quality or printhead crash.
  • the second unit 4b that removes the backing 6 is optional; the removal the backing could be performed in a separate operation, after the printing of a batch of fabric is completed.
  • the fabric may be fed from a fabric reel 7, and the stiffening backing 6 is here, for example, a web of adhesive paper, supplied continuously from a paper feed reel 8.
  • a protecting layer 9 of the adhesive paper web 6 is withdrawn before the latter is applied to the fabric 5, and it is wound on a first take-up reel 10.
  • the stiffening backing may be an adhesive web without a protective layer, e.g. similar to a Scotch® tape.
  • the two materials run along paths that get progressively closer, e.g. the fabric 5 and the adhesive paper web 6 are brought together by guiding rollers 11.
  • a pair of pressure rollers 12 are provided to apply the backing on the fabric avoiding bubbles or similar defects.
  • friction pads are provided on the spindles that hold the backing reel 8 and the fabric reel 7. These friction pads may be adjustable depending on the type of media to load.
  • the drive roller 3 of the printer pulls from both the backing web 6 and the fabric 5, and therefore no extra motor is needed in the backing unit 4a.
  • the backing web 6 is removed from the fabric 5 and wound on a second take-up reel 13.
  • a motored system is used to remove the backing web 6 automatically, as shown in figure 2, simply by rotating the backing take-up reel 13.
  • the reel 13 may have its own motor, or it can be driven by the media take-up reel 20 that belongs to the printer, for example by adapting a belt 21 as shown in the figure.
  • the media take-up reel is a device already available commercially, which is used for winding up the printed media using a sensor at the bottom of the printer that detects the media movement.
  • Figure 3 shows an alternative embodiment of a fabric backing apparatus, in this case identified with the reference number 14, applied to the inkjet printer 1.
  • the backing apparatus 14 applies a stiffening backing web 16 to the fabric 5 to be printed, then the printing operation is carried out, and finally the backing web 16 is separated from the fabric 5 in a second unit 14b.
  • the backing web 16 is arranged to form a closed loop around a number of rollers 17.
  • the web can be made of a material provided with a non-permanent adhesive, but in this case a better solution is to use a web that doesn't wear with time, for example a web that is attached to the fabric 5 by means of a hook and loop fastener, i.e. a kind of Velcro® in which the fabric 5 itself constitutes one of the coupling elements.
  • Another possible means to attach the backing to the fabric is using the electrostatic effect, i.e. electrostatically charging the web 16 and/or the fabric 5 in order to cause them to temporarily adhere to each other when brought into contact.
  • a portion of the web arranged in closed loop travels through the printing zone of the printer, and the fabric is printed while being attached to the backing web.
  • a single motor can be used for winding up the fabric after it is separated from the backing, and for the movement of the backing web, by providing a transmission belt 21 between the fabric take-up roller 20 and one of the rollers 17.
  • the motor may either be associated to the take-up reel 20, as in the previous embodiment, or to a roller 17; further, since the backing web is driven by friction by the drive roller 3 of the printer, it is also possible to use this drive from the printer instead of providing an extra motor.
  • Another possibility is transmitting the motion of the backing web 16 to the fabric take-up reel 20 by means of a roller in contact with the web itself, instead of taking it from the spindle of a roller 17.
  • both the described apparatus 4 and 14 for backing the fabric to be printed may be provided as accessories that can be coupled to a conventional inkjet printer when a user wishes to print on fabric, and have means for their attachment to the media inlet and to the media outlet of the printer, or they can be incorporated within an inkjet printer such that no additional accessory is needed for printing on fabric.
  • the invention also relates to an inkjet printer that incorporates the described backing means.

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EP1410917A1 (fr) * 2002-09-30 2004-04-21 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Procédé d'impression textile et procédé utilisant une feuille de support amovible/réutilisable
EP1298243A3 (fr) * 2001-09-28 2005-02-16 Hewlett-Packard Company Système d'impression à jet d'encre pour imprimer un motif sur une bande recouvrant un support amovible et procédé d'assemblage du systéme
US8485094B2 (en) 2010-05-05 2013-07-16 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Printer accessory
EP3647064A1 (fr) * 2018-11-05 2020-05-06 Xerox Corporation Support imprimable et procédés pour former une image sur ce support
US20220106735A1 (en) * 2020-10-01 2022-04-07 Xerox Corporation Textiles custom printed with antimicrobial nanoparticles

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EP0693587A2 (fr) * 1994-07-21 1996-01-24 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Tissu pour impression par jet d'encre, procédé d'impression par jet d'encre et procédé de production d'imprimés
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JPH06316147A (ja) * 1993-05-10 1994-11-15 Canon Inc 搬送用基布媒体及びそれを用いる捺染方法とインク記録装置
JPH07101121A (ja) * 1993-10-07 1995-04-18 Toray Ind Inc インクジェット印刷方法およびその装置
EP0693587A2 (fr) * 1994-07-21 1996-01-24 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Tissu pour impression par jet d'encre, procédé d'impression par jet d'encre et procédé de production d'imprimés
JPH0892882A (ja) * 1994-09-26 1996-04-09 Brother Ind Ltd 帯状布カセット
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EP1298243A3 (fr) * 2001-09-28 2005-02-16 Hewlett-Packard Company Système d'impression à jet d'encre pour imprimer un motif sur une bande recouvrant un support amovible et procédé d'assemblage du systéme
EP1410917A1 (fr) * 2002-09-30 2004-04-21 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Procédé d'impression textile et procédé utilisant une feuille de support amovible/réutilisable
US8485094B2 (en) 2010-05-05 2013-07-16 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Printer accessory
EP3647064A1 (fr) * 2018-11-05 2020-05-06 Xerox Corporation Support imprimable et procédés pour former une image sur ce support
JP2020075495A (ja) * 2018-11-05 2020-05-21 ゼロックス コーポレイションＸｅｒｏｘ Ｃｏｒｐｏｒａｔｉｏｎ 印刷可能な媒体及びその上に画像を形成する方法
US20220106735A1 (en) * 2020-10-01 2022-04-07 Xerox Corporation Textiles custom printed with antimicrobial nanoparticles
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