EP1552945A1 - A method for printing and/or cutting an image - Google Patents

A method for printing and/or cutting an image Download PDF

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EP1552945A1
EP1552945A1 EP04447004A EP04447004A EP1552945A1 EP 1552945 A1 EP1552945 A1 EP 1552945A1 EP 04447004 A EP04447004 A EP 04447004A EP 04447004 A EP04447004 A EP 04447004A EP 1552945 A1 EP1552945 A1 EP 1552945A1
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Stefan Heintjens
Kris Berghs
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Mutoh Europe NV
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Priority to EP04447004A priority Critical patent/EP1552945A1/en
Priority to PL04789658T priority patent/PL1702293T3/pl
Priority to PT04789658T priority patent/PT1702293E/pt
Priority to SI200431871T priority patent/SI1702293T1/sl
Priority to ES04789658T priority patent/ES2381980T3/es
Priority to EP04789658A priority patent/EP1702293B1/en
Priority to DK04789658.4T priority patent/DK1702293T3/da
Priority to PCT/BE2004/000153 priority patent/WO2005066881A1/en
Priority to JP2006548043A priority patent/JP4302742B2/ja
Priority to AT04789658T priority patent/ATE545101T1/de
Publication of EP1552945A1 publication Critical patent/EP1552945A1/en
Priority to CY20121100421T priority patent/CY1112726T1/el
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D5/00—Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
    • B26D5/20—Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed
    • B26D5/30—Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed having the cutting member controlled by scanning a record carrier
    • B26D5/34—Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed having the cutting member controlled by scanning a record carrier scanning being effected by a photosensitive device
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D5/00—Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D7/00—Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
    • B26D7/27—Means for performing other operations combined with cutting
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26F—PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; SEVERING BY MEANS OTHER THAN CUTTING
    • B26F1/00—Perforating; Punching; Cutting-out; Stamping-out; Apparatus therefor
    • B26F1/38—Cutting-out; Stamping-out
    • B26F1/3806—Cutting-out; Stamping-out wherein relative movements of tool head and work during cutting have a component tangential to the work surface
    • B26F1/3813—Cutting-out; Stamping-out wherein relative movements of tool head and work during cutting have a component tangential to the work surface wherein the tool head is moved in a plane parallel to the work in a coordinate system fixed with respect to the work
    • 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
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/66—Applications of cutting devices
    • B41J11/663—Controlling cutting, cutting resulting in special shapes of the cutting line, e.g. controlling cutting positions, e.g. for cutting in the immediate vicinity of a printed image
    • 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
    • B41J3/44—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms having dual functions or combined with, or coupled to, apparatus performing other functions

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  • the present invention is related to printing images on a carrier, preferably a sheet or a roll of paper.
  • the invention is related to a method wherein one or more additional processes are performed on the printed image, such as a cutting operation, or a second printing step.
  • a part of the printed image may need to be cut along a predefined cutting path, or a second printing step may need to be undertaken, superimposed on the previously printed image.
  • a reference frame is used as a registration mark, in order to allow a friction feed cutting plotter to automatically detect the reference box/frame size & position.
  • the image is printed inside such a reference frame, which is basically a rectangular box with a given line thickness, surrounding the printed image.
  • the cutter through use of a laser based optical sensor, detects the presence of this frame, and measures the dimensions and position of the frame.
  • An operator then launches the cutting operation on the basis of a source file of printing and cutting data relevant to the image in the detected frame, said data being stored on a computer, which equally calculates the necessary transformation to a given image, to which this image needs to be subjected so that the cutter can perform the cutting operation without errors due to any deformation of the printed image.
  • the essential drawback to this system is the need for manual intervention for the identification of the image present inside the detected frame.
  • the cutter will have to be provided manually with a given data file, before the cutting operation can start. For example, when a random sequence of images has been printed on a roll of paper, the roll is entered into the cutter, and an operator needs to supervise the transmission to the cutter of the right print and cut data, for every image on the roll. Therefore, even though the registration of a printed image takes place automatically through the detection of the reference frame, it is still impossible to print and cut a random series of designs, without supervision.
  • the present invention aims to provide a method and a system which can automatically read the cutting or re-printing information from the inserted media.
  • the present invention is related to a method, a system and a computer program such as described in the appended claims.
  • Fig. 1 represents a schematic overview of a system for performing the method of the invention.
  • Fig. 2 represents a view of one complete image, comprising a reference frame, an image and two barcodes.
  • Fig. 3 represents a view of a roll of paper comprising several images, to be treated according to the method of the invention.
  • the present invention is related to a method for printing an image, followed by one or more further operations, either printing on top of parts of said images, or cutting out a part of said image along a pre-defined cutting path, or other.
  • the method is performed by a system comprising at least (see fig. 1) :
  • a software tool according to the invention runs on the computer 3, and governs the method of the invention, as described hereafter.
  • a 'job' is defined as a sequence of operations, the first of which is the operation of printing an image by device 1.
  • the initial printing step is performed on the basis of an image file, such as a bitmap, created for example by a known design software.
  • an image 4 is printed on a carrier 5, for example a roll of paper, and a number of features are added to the image per se :
  • the carrier After the initial printing step of one image on a sheet or a series of images on a roll of paper, the carrier is inserted into the second device 2, for example a cutter. Meanwhile, the invention's software has generated a job specific file for every image.
  • This file is uniquely defined by its name or an ID tag embedded in the data, and by which the file is linked to the identifier 7. This means that reading the identifier, for example scanning the barcode, allows to identify the ID tag and thus the job specific file.
  • This file comprises the data or a link to the source data of the job which is stored on the computer 3 : bitmap data of the printed image, coordinates of the reference frame, information about subsequent operations in the job (e.g. vector path for a cutting operation).
  • the output data may comprise the source data, supplemented by additional data, for example data relevant to the orientation of the image and/or the transformation which is to be applied to the image due to scaling or a deformation during printing.
  • the transformation matrix may be calculated by the central computer, or by a processing means present in the second device 2.
  • the second device may be a second printer/plotter, for example when the first printing operation is a white ink or coating printing onto a non-white carrier. Then this first printing step may be followed by a normal inkjet printing step on another printer on top of the white layer. Possibly, this second operation may be followed by a third, for example a position-related lamination, performed through the same sequence of steps described above. In between these operations, process steps may be performed which are unrelated to the image or the position of the reference frame, for example a position-unrelated lamination step.
  • the identifiers 7 are barcodes, which are read by the same laser based sensor already used in the art to detect the reference frame.
  • the barcode may be scanned by a separate scanner, possibly even a hand-held scanner.
  • the scanning of the identifier reveals the ID tag of the relevant source data, comprising the necessary input to the operation which is to be performed by the second device 2.
  • the new and inventive concept of the present invention lies in the fact that an identifier is added to the image, and subsequently read by another device, allowing automatic identification of a particular job.
  • the operations taking place after the computer has sent the necessary output data to the cutter, may be performed according to the method already known and documented.
  • the difference is that according to the invention, it is not an operator who manually transmits the output data to the second device, but it is this device itself which detects the ID of the job, and requests automatic transmittal of the output data.
  • the cutter can move to the next job, detecting automatically the next image, for example by detecting the lower side of the next frame. This way, the cutter can cut out vector trajectories for all printed images on a roll, until the end of the roll is detected.
  • the invention is equally related to any system able to perform the method of the invention.
  • One embodiment of such a system is shown in figure 1, even though it may take one other forms.
  • more than two devices might be coupled to the computer 3, for performing a series of consecutive operations.
  • the devices might be coupled to several computers linked together in a network.
  • the second and third devices are equipped with a means for reading the identifying elements. As described above, this preferably takes on the form of a laser based sensor, able to detect the frame 6 and to read the barcodes 7.
  • the device 2 needs to be able to communicate with the computer 3 and needs to be equipped with a means for doing this.
  • the computer which is equipped with a means for communicating with the second device.
  • the invention is equally related to the software which is to be run on the computer 3, for governing the method of the invention.

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EP04447004A 2004-01-09 2004-01-09 A method for printing and/or cutting an image Withdrawn EP1552945A1 (en)

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EP04447004A EP1552945A1 (en) 2004-01-09 2004-01-09 A method for printing and/or cutting an image
EP04789658A EP1702293B1 (en) 2004-01-09 2004-10-27 A method for printing and/or cutting an image
PT04789658T PT1702293E (pt) 2004-01-09 2004-10-27 Método para impressão e/ou corte de uma imagem
SI200431871T SI1702293T1 (sl) 2004-01-09 2004-10-27 Postopek za tiskanje in/ali izrezovanje slike
ES04789658T ES2381980T3 (es) 2004-01-09 2004-10-27 Procedimiento para imprimir y/o cortar una imagen
PL04789658T PL1702293T3 (pl) 2004-01-09 2004-10-27 Sposób drukowania i/lub wycinania obrazu
DK04789658.4T DK1702293T3 (da) 2004-01-09 2004-10-27 Fremgangsmåde til at trykke og/eller skære et billede
PCT/BE2004/000153 WO2005066881A1 (en) 2004-01-09 2004-10-27 A method for printing and/or cutting an image
JP2006548043A JP4302742B2 (ja) 2004-01-09 2004-10-27 像を印刷し、さらなる工程を実施するための方法並びにその方法を実施するためのシステム及びコンピュータプログラム
AT04789658T ATE545101T1 (de) 2004-01-09 2004-10-27 Verfahren zum bedrucken und/oder zum schneiden von einem bild
CY20121100421T CY1112726T1 (el) 2004-01-09 2012-05-07 Μεθοδος για την εκτυπωση και/ή κοπη μιας εικονας

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ATE545101T1 (de) 2012-02-15
JP2007518313A (ja) 2007-07-05
DK1702293T3 (da) 2012-05-29
JP4302742B2 (ja) 2009-07-29
ES2381980T3 (es) 2012-06-04
CY1112726T1 (el) 2016-02-10
EP1702293A1 (en) 2006-09-20
PL1702293T3 (pl) 2012-07-31

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