EP1882597B1 - Verfahren zum Herstellen eines geteilten Druckproduktes - Google Patents

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EP1882597B1
EP1882597B1 EP20070112257 EP07112257A EP1882597B1 EP 1882597 B1 EP1882597 B1 EP 1882597B1 EP 20070112257 EP20070112257 EP 20070112257 EP 07112257 A EP07112257 A EP 07112257A EP 1882597 B1 EP1882597 B1 EP 1882597B1
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Cornelis A. De Waal
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M3/00—Printing processes to produce particular kinds of printed work, e.g. patterns
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44C—PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; MOSAICS; TARSIA WORK; PAPERHANGING
    • B44C3/00—Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing ornamental structures
    • B44C3/12—Uniting ornamental elements to structures, e.g. mosaic plates
    • B44C3/123—Mosaic constructs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44F—SPECIAL DESIGNS OR PICTURES
    • B44F1/00—Designs or pictures characterised by special or unusual light effects
    • B44F1/02—Designs or pictures characterised by special or unusual light effects produced by reflected light, e.g. matt surfaces, lustrous surfaces

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  • the invention relates to a method of producing a tiled print product, wherein the print product is composed of a plurality of print substrates that are printed separately and are disposed adjacent to one another in at least one row, and each substrate is printed by means of a print process that creates a gloss gradient in a characteristic direction of production that is parallel to the row.
  • the printed images on the individual substrates may have a gloss gradient in the direction of the rows of the tiled print product, that is, the gloss of the printed image on an individual tile slightly decreases or increases in the direction in which the tiles are juxtaposed in a row. This gloss gradient is determined by a direction of production that is characteristic for the print process employed for printing the individual substrate.
  • the characteristic direction of production will be the direction in which the printhead moves across the substrate in the first scan pass in the process of printing an individual image swath.
  • the printhead will then move across the same swath in the opposite direction.
  • the timings at which image dots are formed in the first and second passes, respectively are separated by a relatively large time interval, corresponding to the time that the printhead needs to move back and forth across the substrate.
  • the image dots in the second pass will be formed immediately on the dots that have been printed in the first pass, and the interval between the two timings will be very small. These different time intervals gives rise to a slight change in the image gloss.
  • the slight gradient in the image gloss is normally not perceptible to the human eye and is therefore not considered to degrade the image quality.
  • a discontinuous change in the gloss will occur at the transitions between the adjacent substrates, and these discontinuous changes may be visible and may disturb the appearance of the print product as a whole.
  • this object is achieved by the feature that the characteristic direction of production is inverted for every second substrate in the row.
  • the print process used for printing the second, fourth and any further even substrate in the row will be modified such that the characteristic direction of production is from right to left.
  • the gloss will alternatingly rise and fall, with continuous transitions at the borders between adjacent substrates.
  • One method of inverting the characteristic direction of production comprises the steps of subjecting the image information that is to be printed on every second substrate to an image processing that rotates the image by an angle of 180°, printing all substrates with the same print process, so that a rotated image is printed onto every second substrate, and then physically rotating every second substrate before the substrates are put together to form the tiled print product.
  • this method which is applicable to any print process giving rise to a gloss gradient, the characteristic direction of production for every second substrate is inverted relative to the orientation of the image on the substrate rather than relative to the printer hardware.
  • each substrate will be adjacent to a high-gloss edge of the neighbouring substrate, and each low-gloss edge will be adjacent to a low-gloss edge, so that no gloss discontinuities will appear on the print product.
  • the method will be employed in the same way for forming each row, with the result that the adjacent high-gloss edges in one row will coincide with adjacent high-gloss edges in the other rows, so that there will be no gloss discontinuities at the row-to-row transitions, neither.
  • a print process such as a colour ink jet process
  • a plurality of printheads e.g. for different colours
  • printheads it is a known and frequently preferred practice to arrange the printheads in a mirror-symmetrical configuration, so that printheads of each type (e.g. each colour) are present in duplicate and are arranged to be mirror images of one another (possibly with the exception of a single central printhead which will be the mirror image of itself).
  • This has the advantage that the sequence in which the ink dots from the various printheads are deposited on the substrate can always be the same, regardless of the direction in which the carriage is moved.
  • the characteristic direction of production may be the direction in which the carriage moves in the first scan pass (for example from the upper left-hand corner to the upper right-hand corner), and this direction can be inverted by causing the carriage to start with the scan movement from the opposite side of the substrate (in this case from the upper right-hand corner to the upper left-hand corner).
  • the direction of production will be inverted relative to the printer hardware for every second image, and it is not necessary to rotate the images to be printed on the even and uneven substrates.
  • a first set of printheads can be used for a first scan pass, when the carriage on which the printheads are mounted moves in a first direction, and a second set of printheads, which is the mirror image of the first set, can be used for the second pass, when the carriage moves in the opposite direction.
  • Fig. 1 shows a tiled print product 10, e.g. a billboard, that is composed of two rows 12, 14 of print substrates 16, 18 and has been produced by a method according to the prior art, wherein each substrate 16, 18 has been printed separately on an ink jet printer.
  • each row 12,14 includes four substrates, and the first and third substrate in each row, i.e. the uneven substrates, have been designated by reference numeral 16, whereas the second and fourth (even) substrates have been designated by reference numeral 18.
  • An arrow X which is parallel to the direction of the rows 12, 14, designates a characteristic direction of production for the ink jet print process employed for printing each of the substrates 16, 18.
  • this characteristic direction of production gives rise to a gradient in the gloss of the images on the individual substrates 16, 18.
  • This gloss gradient has been symbolised here by a gradient in shading.
  • the gloss (shading) gradually increases in the direction X, but then changes abruptly at each transition from one substrate to the next one in the same row.
  • Each substrate 16, 18 bears a part of the total image to be shown on the billboard, and these part images are perfectly stitched or tiled together. However, the discontinuities at the transitions between the substrates 16, 18 will be perceptible and degrade the image quality of the print product 10.
  • Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate a method according to the invention, by which this degradation in image quality can be avoided.
  • Fig. 2 shows an "exploded" view of the print product 10 which bears the same image as in Fig. 1 , but with the substrates 16, 18 now being printed in accordance with the invention.
  • Each substrate has been shown in the orientation in which it has left the printer.
  • the part images on the uneven substrates 16 are the same as in Fig. 1 .
  • the images on the even substrates 18 show the same motives as in Fig. 1 , but are rotated by an angle of 180°, so that they appear upside down.
  • “rotated” does not refer to a physical rotation of the substrate sheets, but rather to a rotation of the images printed on the substrates.
  • the even substrates 18 in Fig. 2 have to be rotated physically, i.e. the sheets have to be rotated, before the substrates are put together in the manner shown in Fig. 3 .
  • a combined effect of the rotation of the image data prior to printing and the physical rotation of the sheets 18 after printing is that the characteristic directions of production, X2, are inverted in comparison to the characteristic directions of production, X1, of the uneven substrates 16.
  • the gloss now gradually increases from left to right on the first substrates 16 in each row, reaches a maximum at the transition between the first substrates 16 and the second substrates 18 and then gradually decreases again towards the transition from the second substrates 18 to the third substrates 16, and so on.
  • the gloss is now a continuous function of the position in the direction indicated by the arrow X, and gloss discontinuities are removed, so that the gloss differences will practically be invisible.
  • Figs. 4 and 5 schematically illustrate a well known two-pass ink jet print process that may be employed for printing the substrates 16, 18 shown in Fig. 2 .
  • a printhead 20 is moved across the substrate 16 (or 18) in the direction of arrow X, and ink droplets are expelled from nozzles (not shown) of the printhead 20, so as to form a regular pattern of ink dots 22 on the ink substrate 16.
  • the printhead 20 will have a plurality of nozzles aligned in the direction normal to the plane of the drawing in Fig. 4 , so that ink dots 22 are simultaneously formed in a large number of parallel lines forming a swath of the image to be printed.
  • the printhead 20 has completed its stroke or pass in the positive X-direction and now travels across the substrate 16 in opposite direction to perform a second pass.
  • An ink dot 24 is the last one that has been formed in the first pass, and then the timings at which the nozzles are fired have been controlled such that, during the second pass, ink dots 26, 28 are formed to fill the gaps between the dots 22, 24 of the first pass.
  • the ink dot 26 has been formed shortly after the ink dot 24, so that the ink dot 24 had practically no time to dry-out. As a consequence, the inks of the dots 24 and 26 have merged to give a relatively smooth ink surface having a relatively high gloss.
  • the ink of the dot 22 has dried already to a considerable extent, so that the ink surface formed in this part of the substrate 16 will be rougher and will have a somewhat lesser gloss.
  • the gloss difference between the left and right edges of the substrate in Fig. 5 may be significant, especially in a case when the printer is a large format printer and the substrate 16 (or 18) has a large width, for example in the order of 1 m.
  • the substrate 16 (or 18) has a large width, for example in the order of 1 m.
  • even these large gloss differences will not give rise to any perceptible discontinuities in the gloss.
  • FIG. 6 schematically illustrates a well known two-pass colour ink jet print process employing an array 30 of eight printheads that are designated by the letters C, N, Y and K. These letters designate the colours cyan, magenta, yellow and black (K) of the inks of the respective printheads.
  • the printheads are arranged mirror-symmetrically, so that a first set 32 of printheads CMYK forms the mirror image of a second set 34 of printheads KYMC, and vice versa.
  • the array 30 might comprise only seven printheads with only a single black printhead (K) in the center.
  • the printheads forming the array 30 will be mounted on a common carriage (not shown) that travels across the substrate 16.
  • the printheads have completed a first pass in which the carriage has travelled in the direction X1 which forms the characteristic direction of production. During this pass, only the printheads of the set 34 have been active, so that ink dots of different colours were deposited on the substrate 16 in the order C-M-Y-K. Now, in Fig. 6 , the printheads perform the second pass in the direction opposite to X1, and now only the printheads of the set 32 are active. This has been symbolised by asterisks in the corresponding printheads. It will be appreciated that the order in which the inks of different colours are deposited is the same in both passes. When the second pass has been completed, the substrate 16 will be advanced by the width of the printed swath in a sub-scanning direction normal to the plane of the drawing, and then the first pass for the next swath will commence.
  • Fig. 7 illustrates the same situation as Fig. 6 , but now for the case that an even substrate 18 is printed.
  • the characteristic direction of production, X2 has been inverted, i.e. the direction in which the array 30 has travelled in the first pass is opposite to that shown in Fig. 6.
  • Fig. 7 shows the array during the second pass, when it travels from left to right.
  • the active printheads have again been designated by asterisks, and these printheads are now those of the set 34.
  • the characteristic direction of production is inverted by inverting the directions in which the array 30 travels across the substrate in the first and second passes.
  • the substrates 16, 18 forming the print product 10 may be put together in the manner shown in Fig. 3 in the same orientation in which they have left the printer, i.e. it is not necessary to perform image processing for rotating the print data, and it is not necessary to physically rotate the even substrates before the substrates 16, 18 are put together.

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  1. Verfahren zur Herstellung eines geteilten Druckproduktes (10), bei dem das Druckprodukt aus mehreren Drucksubstraten (16, 18) zusammengesetzt ist, die getrennt bedruckt und in wenigstens einer Reihe (12, 14) aneinander angrenzend angeordnet werden, und bei dem jedes Substrat (16, 18) mit Hilfe eines Druckprozesses bedruckt wird, das einen Glanzgradienten in einer charakteristischen Produktionsrichtung (X1, X2) erzeugt, die parallel zu der Reihe (12, 14) verläuft, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die charakteristische Produktionsrichtung (X1, X2) für jedes zweite Substrat (18) in der Reihe (12, 14) umgekehrt wird.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, bei dem der Prozess der Umkehr der Produktionsrichtung (X1, X2) die folgenden Schritte umfasst:
    a) Anwenden einer Bildverarbeitung, die zu einer Drehung des zu druckenden Bildes um einen Winkel von 180° führt, auf die Bildinformation, die dem Drucker zugeführt wird,
    b) Drucken aller Substrate (16, 18), die das Druckprodukt (10) bilden, mit Hilfe desselben Druckprozesses und
    c) physikalisches Drehen jedes zweiten Substrats (18) um einen Winkel von 180°, bevor die Substrate (16, 18) zur Bildung des geteilten Druckproduktes (10) zusammengefügt werden.
  3. Verfahren nach Anspruch 2, bei dem das Druckprodukt (10) mehrere Reihen (12, 14) aufweist und dasselbe Verfahren zur Erzeugung jeder der Reihen (12, 14) angewandt wird, so daß in dem Druckprodukt (10) benachbarte Substrate in zwei benachbarten Reihen (12, 14) denselben Glanzgradienten haben.
  4. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, bei dem alle Substrate (16, 18), die das Druckprodukt (10) bilden, mit einem Drucker gedruckt werden, der ein Feld (30) von Druckköpfen unterschiedlicher Typen (C, M. Y, K) aufweist, die spiegelbildlich angeordnet sind, wobei der Drucker in einem Mehrpassagen-Druckmodus betrieben wird und die charakteristische Produktionsrichtung (X1, X2) als die Richtung definiert ist, in welche sich das Feld (30) der Druckköpfe in der ersten Passage bewegt.
  5. Verfahren nach Anspruch 4, bei dem Druckköpfe eines ersten Satzes (32) nur in geraden Passagen aktiv sind und Druckköpfe eines zweiten Satzes (34), die das Spiegelbild des ersten Satzes (32) sind, nur in der zweiten Passage aktiv sind.uniquement.
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