EP1575779B1 - Farbtintenstrahldruckverfahren mit optimierung der abgesetzten tröpfchenzahl und zugehöriger drucker - Google Patents

Farbtintenstrahldruckverfahren mit optimierung der abgesetzten tröpfchenzahl und zugehöriger drucker Download PDF

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EP1575779B1
EP1575779B1 EP03782520A EP03782520A EP1575779B1 EP 1575779 B1 EP1575779 B1 EP 1575779B1 EP 03782520 A EP03782520 A EP 03782520A EP 03782520 A EP03782520 A EP 03782520A EP 1575779 B1 EP1575779 B1 EP 1575779B1
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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
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    • 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
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    • B41J2/2056—Ink jet for printing a discrete number of tones by ink density change
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    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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  • the present invention relates to color inkjet printing using an ink jet printer comprising a plurality of cartridges each containing an ink to be projected in the form of drops onto a printing medium.
  • inkjet printers comprise four cartridges each containing a basic or primary color, namely yellow, magenta, cyan and black.
  • printers also include additional cartridges containing so-called "clear" primary color inks such as light magenta, light cyan and light black.
  • the present invention provides a solution to these problems.
  • It relates to a method of printing a color inkjet printer of the type comprising at least four ink cartridges each containing a base color selected from yellow, magenta, cyan and black and at least one additional cartridge containing an ink of a so-called light base color, and in which a print order containing information relating to the color requested and / or the number and color of the ink drops to be superimposed required to obtain the requested color in a given pixel of a selected printing medium.
  • the method comprises an optimization mode in which the requested color and / or the number and the color of the drops to be superposed required to obtain the requested color at said pixel with a equivalent color and / or equivalent number and color of drops to be superimposed making it possible to obtain a substantially equivalent and satisfactory color rendering in accordance with the sensory response of the human eye, and applying to the printer the equivalent color and / or or the number and the color of the drops to be superposed equivalents thus determined for each print order received.
  • the number of drops to be superposed equivalent is less than the number of drops to be stacked required, preferably less than or equal to four or three drops of different color ink when the printer is equipped at least six ink cartridges.
  • the optimization mode comprises several levels of correspondence.
  • the present invention also relates to a color ink jet printer capable of implementing the method according to the invention, said printer being of the type comprising at least four cartridges each containing a base color chosen from yellow, magenta, cyan and black and an additional cartridge containing a so-called clear basic color ink, and processing means able to process a printing order comprising information relating to the color requested and / or the number and color of ink drops to be superimposed required to obtain the requested color at a given pixel of a selected print medium.
  • the processing means are capable of matching the requested color and / or the number and the color of the drops to be superposed required to obtain the requested color at said pixel with an equivalent color and and / or a number and a color of the equivalent superimposed drops making it possible to obtain a substantially equivalent and satisfactory color rendering in accordance with the sensory response of the human eye, and to apply to the equivalent color printer and / or the number and the color of the drops to be superposed equivalents thus determined for each print order received.
  • the correspondence is established according to a law or a pre-established correspondence table.
  • the present invention further relates to software for controlling a color ink jet printer of the type comprising at least four cartridges each containing a base color selected from yellow, magenta, cyan and black and an additional cartridge containing a so-called clear basic color ink, said software comprising instruction codes able to process a printing order comprising information relating to the requested color and / or the number and color of the ink drops to be superimposed required to obtain the requested color in a pixel considered from a chosen print medium.
  • the instruction codes of the software are able to match the requested color and / or the number and the color of the drops to be stacked required to obtain the color requested from the level of said pixel with equivalent color and / or equivalent number and color of drops to be superimposed to obtain substantially equivalent and satisfactory color rendering in accordance with the sensory response of the human eye, and to apply to the printer the equivalent color and / or the number and the color of the equivalent superimposed drops thus determined for each print order received.
  • the present invention is suitable for any color inkjet printing process.
  • a color ink jet printer comprises four cartridges each containing a color chosen from the four basic colors: yellow J, magenta M, cyan C and black K.
  • a stack E6 of six drops of ink of different colors (here yellow J, light magenta lightning, black K, cyan C and magenta M) is produced in a given pixel of a printing medium given from a seven-cartridge printer.
  • Such an E6 stack has a color rendering of a wavelength of the order of 560 nm ( figure 3 ).
  • a stack E3 ( figure 2 ) three drops of ink of different colors (here magenta M, cyan C and black K) has a color rendering of a substantially equivalent wavelength, here of the order of 550 nm to that of the stack E6, and that the spectral shift between the two color renditions (here of the order of 10 nm) does not affect, or very little, the sensory response of the human eye.
  • the method according to the invention thus makes it possible to obtain a reduction G5 of three drops of ink.
  • the optimization mode can also include several levels of correspondence, for example fine, coarse or normal. Each level is assigned a threshold whose value corresponds to a spectral shift (expressed in nm) between the requested color and the equivalent color. For example, the Spectral shift corresponding to the coarse level is greater than 20 nm while the spectral shift of the fine level is less than 10 nm.
  • the Applicant has obtained a savings of about 25% on the amount of ink used to print logos on smart cards with a volume of a drop of the order of 18 picolitre and an average volume per side of the order of 60 microliter with the optimization method according to the invention.
  • the color inkjet printer 1 comprises for example six to eight cartridges 2, four cartridges of which each contain a color chosen from the four basic colors: yellow J, magenta M, cyan C and black K and of which two, three or four cartridges contain light-colored inks selected from light magenta lightning, light cyan lightning and light black Kclair.
  • a controller or driver 3 of the printer 1 receives a printing command 4 comprising information relating to the requested color CC and / or the number and color of the ink drops G to be superimposed to reproduce a color chosen at a determined location, said pixel Pi, on a chosen print medium.
  • the order 4 emanates from an image processor (not shown) of RIP type for "Raster Image processor" residing in a remote computer (not shown) containing the digital image to be printed.
  • the RIP processor resides in the printer 1.
  • the controller 3 consults, via the link 6, a memory 7 containing a table TAB or law of correspondence between the requested color and / or the number and the color of the drops to be superposed required ED to reproduce at least one chosen color in a pixel considered on the one hand and an equivalent color CE and / or a number and a color of the drops to be superimposed equivalent EE making it possible to obtain a substantially equivalent and satisfactory color rendering in accordance with the sensory response of the eye on the other hand.
  • a memory 7 containing a table TAB or law of correspondence between the requested color and / or the number and the color of the drops to be superposed required ED to reproduce at least one chosen color in a pixel considered on the one hand and an equivalent color CE and / or a number and a color of the drops to be superimposed equivalent EE making it possible to obtain a substantially equivalent and satisfactory color rendering in accordance with the sensory response of the eye on the other hand.
  • the correspondence is established by software whose instruction codes are executed by the controller 3 or another microprocessor (not shown).
  • the instruction codes of the software are contained in a storage medium (not shown).
  • the controller 3 requests the print head (not shown) containing the ink cartridges 2 according to the equivalent color CE and / or the number and the color of the drops to be superimposed equivalent EE thus determined for each requested color CD and / or for each stack requested ED.
  • the print head thus solicited brings the ink from the ink cartridges 2 to the nozzles (not shown) of the printer's print head to be expelled in the form of drops G in accordance with the color.
  • CE equivalent and / or the number and color of EE equivalent superimposed drops thus determined.

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  1. Druckverfahren eines Farbtintenstrahldruckers (1) vom Typ mit mindestens vier Tintenpatronen (2), die jeweils eine Grundfarbe enthalten, gewählt unter Gelb (J), Magenta (M), 2yan (C) und Schwarz z (K), und mindestens einer zusätzlichen Patrone, die eine Tinte einer sogenannten klaren Grundfarbe enthält, und bei dem man einen Druckbefehl (4) erhält, der Informationen bezüglich der Anzahl und der Farbe der Farbtropfen (ED) enthält, die an einer bestimmten, Pixel (Pi) genannten Stelle übereinander abschieden werden, auf einen gewählten Druckträger (5), dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es ferner einen Optimierungsmodus umfasst, bei dem man gemäß einer vorher festgelegten Korrespondenz die erforderliche Anzahl und die Farbe der übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen (ED), um eine gewählte Farbe in einem betrachteten Pixel (Pi) zu erhalten, in Übereinstimmung bringt mit einer äquivalenten Anzahl und Farbe von übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen (EE), um eine etwa gleichartige und befriedigende Farbenwiedergabe zu erhalten, gemäß der sensoriellen Antwort des menschlichen Auges, wobei die äquivalente Anzahl der übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen (EE) kleiner ist als die erforderliche Anzahl der übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen (ED), und dass man auf den Drucker (1) die so festgelegte äquivalente Anzahl und Farbe der übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen (EE) bei jedem empfangenen Druckbefehl anwendet.
  2. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 1, bei dem die verwendeten Farben zu einer Gruppe gehören, die gebildet wird aus: Gelb (J), Magenta (M), Cyan (C), Schwarz z (K) , Hellmagenta (clair), Hellzyan (Cclair) und Hellschwarz (clair) .
  3. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 oder 2, bei dem der Drucker (1) sechs bis acht Tintenpatronen umfasst, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die äquivalente Anzahl von übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen weniger oder gleich drei oder vier beträgt.
  4. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Optimierungsmodus mehrere Korrespondenzebenen umfasst.
  5. Farbtintenstrahldrucker vom Typ mit mindestens vier Tintenpatronen (2), die jeweils eine Grundfarbe enthalten, gewählt unter Gelb (J), Magenta (M), Zyan (C) und Schwarz (K), und mindestens einer zusätzlichen Patrone, die eine Tinte einer sogenannten klaren Grundfarbe enthält, und mit Bearbeitungsmitteln (3,7), die einen Druckbefehl (4) erhalten können, der Informationen bezüglich der Anzahl und der Farbe der Tintentropfen (ED) enthält, die an einer bestimmten, Pixel (Pi) genannten Stelle übereinander abschieden werden, auf einen gewählten Druckträger (5), dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Bearbeitungsmittel (3, 7) einen Optimierungsmodus umfassen, bei dem man gemäß einer vorher festgelegten Korrespondenz die erforderliche Anzahl und Farbe (ED) der übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen, um eine gewählte Farbe in einem betrachteten Pixel (Pi) zu erhalten, in Übereinstimmung bringt mit einer äquivalenten Anzahl und Farbe von übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen (EE), um eine etwa gleichartige und befriedigende Farbenwiedergabe zu erhalten, gemäß der sensoriellen Antwort des menschlichen Auges, wobei die äquivalente Anzahl der übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen (EE) kleiner ist als die erforderliche Anzahl der übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen (ED), und dass man auf den Drucker (1) die so festgelegte äquivalente A1 und Farbe der übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen (EE) bei jedem empfangenen Druckbefehl anwendet.
  6. Drucker gemäß Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Korrespondenz gemäß einem Gesetz oder einer vorher erstellten Korrespondenztabelle (TAB) bestimmt wird.
  7. Software für die Steuerung eines Farbtintenstrahldruckers (1) vom Typ mit mindestens vier Tintenpatronen, die jeweils eine Grundfarbe enthalten, gewählt unter Gelb, Magenta, Zyan und Schwarz, und mindestens einer zusätzlichen Patrone, die eine Tinte einer sogenannten klaren Farbe enthält, wobei die genannte Software Anweisungscodes enthält, die einen Druckbefehl verarbeiten können, der Informationen bezüglich der erforderlichen Anzahl und Farbe der übereinander anzuordnenden Tintentropfen (ED) enthält, um eine gewünschte Farbe in einem betrachteten Pixel eines gewählten Druckträgers zu erhalten, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Anweisungscodes der Software in der Lage sind, eine erforderliche Anzahl und Farbe der übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen (ED) in Übereinstimmung zu bringen, um die gewünschte Farbe für den genannten Pixel zu erhalten, mit einer äquivalenten Anzahl und Farbe von übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen (EE), um eine etwa gleichartige und befriedigende Farbenwiedergabe zu erhalten, gemäß der sensoriellen Antwort des menschlichen Auges, wobei die äquivalente Anzahl der übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen (EE) kleiner ist als die erforderliche Anzahl der übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen (ED), und dass man auf den Drucker die so festgelegte äquivalente Anzahl und Farbe der übereinander anzuordnenden Tropfen bei jedem empfangenen Druckbefehl anwendet.
  8. Speicherträger, der die Anweisungscodes der Software gemäß Anspruch 7 enthält.
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