EP1927471A2 - Installation d'impression de CD à plusieurs trajectoires - Google Patents

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EP1927471A2
EP1927471A2 EP07016034A EP07016034A EP1927471A2 EP 1927471 A2 EP1927471 A2 EP 1927471A2 EP 07016034 A EP07016034 A EP 07016034A EP 07016034 A EP07016034 A EP 07016034A EP 1927471 A2 EP1927471 A2 EP 1927471A2
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Alfred Bausenwein
Rainer Endres
Peter Schmitt
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  • the invention relates to a method for monochromatic or multicolor printing of individual objects, in particular with variable data and in particular with at least one flat surface to be printed, wherein the individual objects are brought to at least one input station in a production path, are treated during the production by means of at least one treatment and be removed from the production by means of at least one output station.
  • the invention further relates to a printing machine for monochromatic or multicolor printing of individual objects, in particular with variable data and in particular with at least one flat surface to be printed, with at least one input station and at least one output station for individual objects to be printed.
  • the printing itself is used for decoration, advertising and / or information either of the end user or for product tracking for the manufacturer.
  • efforts are increasingly made the printing of an object as a tool for customization or for To use product assurance, for example, by printing variable data in plain text or as machine-readable code.
  • a variable serial number or a release code can be printed in addition to an otherwise non-changeable background image.
  • either separate marking methods or additional digital printing methods such as, for example, lnkJet printing, laser printing, transfer printing, etc., are used in order to achieve a partial individualization of all the print data.
  • CD printing machines are equipped with digital printing units, with which it is possible, the entire surface to be printed To provide the CD with a multi-colored printing.
  • the treatment stations may include handling devices, testing and reading devices, substrate pretreatments, printing stations, coating stations, drying stations, etc.
  • the material flow of the objects through all of the treatment stations present in a particular printing press is designed in such a way that each object has to Each time a subsequent object or at least one object position follows, creating a linear processing chain, in which each object passes successively through each successive treatment station. A fault in this chain at any point will interrupt the entire production run and stop production until the fault is cleared and restarted.
  • inkjet printheads have been found to be particularly prone to interference, which can be triggered either by external effects such as shock, high accelerations, dust, electrostatic charge, mechanical shocks, etc. or internal effects such as ink contamination, ink outgassing, etc., resulting in, for example, single or multiple nozzles or Nozzle groups or even entire printheads can fail.
  • the printheads used in this printing process operate on the principle of drop-on demand, they have a variety of individually controllable nozzles, so that fail in case of failure, one or more nozzles of a printhead and unwanted stripes in the printed image or even individual colors completely or partially fail.
  • An automatic or manual cleaning and recommissioning of the affected printheads usually eliminates the error, however, during the period of cleaning, this printing station is not available in the printing press, so that forced the printing press also stands still, which as already mentioned, the effective production capacity considerably sinks.
  • An increase in the effective production capacity can therefore in this embodiment of the printing press only by a significantly increased reliability of the printheads and / or by a considerable increase in speed of the Printing itself and all other treatment stations done so as to compensate for downtime.
  • Even a simultaneous printing of multiple objects in a common printing unit provides only limited effective improvement, because although the current printing speed increases, but now not only an object is incorrectly printed in the event of an error, but a certain number, whereby the amount of waste increases significantly.
  • the object of the invention is to eliminate the disadvantages described and to provide a method with which it is possible to compensate for the individual limitations and disadvantages of digital printing units and to create a printing machine, with which it is possible, a continuously high production performance to print on any object.
  • the object is achieved by a method of the type mentioned above, in which the production path between an input and an output station, especially at those points of the production chain, which are experience particularly susceptible to failure, is split at least one treatment in several at least parallel production production paths ,
  • the object is achieved by a printing machine of the aforementioned type in which the production path between an input and an output station is split at least with respect to a treatment in several at least production-parallel production paths.
  • the type of treatment of the printing of objects by means of printing units can be split into several production-parallel production paths, each of the parallel production paths passing through one or more printing units and thus the same type of treatment being carried out within the parallel production paths, in this example the printing.
  • the splitting not only takes place with regard to the type of treatment of a printing, but, for example, also regarding drying or other types of treatment.
  • the printing with printing units has the greatest susceptibility to failure within an entire production path, at least the splitting of the production path into several production paths is preferably selected with regard to the printing with printing units.
  • the production path split into a plurality of parallel production paths is brought together again after a splitting and, after a merger, if necessary after one treatment, once more or several times further splits and merges take place.
  • the respective paths operating in parallel work independently and are in particular synchronized only via their associated input and output stations with the superordinate production plant.
  • This has the advantage that, for example, arranged in one of these paths print module can be cleaned automatically or manually, without affecting the functionality of the other paths or even stop the parent production plant.
  • the printing modules operating in parallel for example in the different production paths can be supplied with different print jobs by software control, whereby it is possible to process several different print jobs simultaneously in the production plant.
  • the respective different print jobs can be assigned to the objects that are given in one of the parallel production paths. This can e.g. based on an identifier that carries an object and can be detected by means of which the parallel production paths an object must be initiated, especially if within such a parallel production path of the print job is always the same and / or as after introduction of an object in a possibly any, eg free parallel production path a printing unit must be reprogrammed to process the correct print job assigned to the identifier.
  • the printing modules working in parallel work software-controlled with different print resolutions and / or color profiles, so as to optimally print different print jobs, for example.
  • This software control can also take place using identifiers of the type mentioned above.
  • the printing modules operating in parallel for example, in the different paths work with the same print resolutions and / or color profiles and produce the same print qualities via a separately performed calibration of the individual printing units, whereby it is possible to execute identical print jobs to send multiple and / or arbitrary paths without causing noticeable quality differences in the print.
  • the printing press has different additional treatment stations, which can be upstream or downstream of said pressure modules, and whereby the objects can be provided for example with a farbanterrorismden substrate and / or a protective lacquer.
  • said different additional treatment stations which have a high reliability and reliability according to experience, are only present individually in the printing machine and through which all objects to be treated and / or printed pass. Before such treatment stations, it may be provided to recombine a production path which has previously been split into a plurality of paths and, if necessary, to split it up again after such a treatment station.
  • each object to be printed on the basis of an embossed identifier software detected and tracked within their production path or the entire path that it is possible to transport this after the successful printing in an associated storage position.
  • This ensures that there is no mixing of simultaneously located in the press different print jobs.
  • an identifier on or in the object-as already mentioned by way of example-it can be determined on which of several parallel production paths an object is distributed.
  • a treatment is performed, which is associated with the identifier of the object.
  • FIG. 1 shows an example of the logical operation of a conventional printing press, for example, for the printing of CDs.
  • the production flow begins at an input station where the CD spindles filled with unprinted CDs are inserted into the machine. Since usually several filled CD spindles are present in the input at the same time to ensure, for example, by an automatic device for changing the spindles a continuous flow of material, the CD spindles are successively fed to a separating station, on which on one on each spindle located Dorn thrown CDs are removed from the spindle and placed on a first subsequent transport device or a first processing station.
  • FIG. 1 This can for example be like in FIG. 1 be shown a code check reading system, which is checked by means of which each CD embossed plain text code or machine-readable code, whether this CD to that in the following Print engine to be printed image fits.
  • This reference information which printed image belongs to which CD code, has expediently been deposited in a higher-level control before the beginning of the respective print job. If the test is unsuccessful, the CD is removed from the normal production process and stored, for example, on a dedicated Reject spindle.
  • the CD is transferred by means of a transport system to a next processing station, for example to a white work, in which a white background is printed on the surface of the CD to be printed, so as to provide a uniform background for the subsequent multicolor printing create.
  • a subsequent further treatment station for example a CMYK printing unit, with which the respective color separations cyan, magenta, yellow and black of a printed image to be printed are printed on the previously applied white background.
  • a protective coating can be applied to the previously printed printed image in a subsequent processing station and then dried.
  • a subsequent Print Check System the print quality achieved is checked against a reference image previously stored in the memory of a higher-level controller, and the printed CD is either rejected if the test has not been passed and stored, for example, on a further reject spindle provided for this purpose, or on the next succeeding test Stacking on blank CD spindles forwarded to the output where the spindles filled with printed CDs can be removed by an operator. It is easy to see that in this type of production flow, only a single print job can ever be processed to avoid mixing different print jobs on the output spindles. It is also easy to see that an interruption of the exemplified production process at any point of the production chain to a stop the entire production machine because there is only one single production line.
  • FIG. 2 shows by way of example the production process and the product flow of an embodiment of the invention.
  • the example also of the following figures, is described by means of CDs as objects. Without limiting the generality, the example applies analogously to any other objects.
  • CDs are taken alternately or in any desired order by means of a common singulation system and transported to a first treatment station. Since there are only CDs of a certain type on each of the CD spindles due to the previous production of the CDs and these are assigned to a respective print job, several CD spindles filled with different CDs can be located in the input stations. Depending on the desired type of production flow, the removal of the CDs from the different removal stations can be cyclical or generally random, so that initially apparently a mixing of CDs of different types takes place along the following treatment stations.
  • One of the removal station first subsequent treatment station for example, the in FIG. 2 be shown code check reading device in which checks whether the CD read belongs to one of several stored in a higher-level control current print jobs. Is not this the If this CD is discarded in the usual way and the stored and stored in the higher-level control stored CD position is marked as empty position.
  • the removal of CDs from the spindle can be prevented, from which this CD was removed, for example, until new information on further processed jobs to be stored in the controller, or the spindle has been replaced by the operator.
  • the CD is forwarded by means of a transport system to a next downstream treatment station, for example to a white workstation in which a white background is printed on the surface of the CD to be printed, as already described the subsequent multicolor printing to create a uniform background.
  • the CDs thus printed are distributed to one of the following production paths, along which the CDs are each printed by a multi-color printing unit with the associated images.
  • the code information previously acquired in the reader and the associated detected position of the CD in the CD sequence are transferred to the respective production path and thus to the respective multi-color printing unit ,
  • each of these printing units works independently as a stand-alone programmable printing unit with its own memory as long as the remaining printing machine, as long as a CD to be printed is in their own workspace, the required print image from the memory of a higher-level control at an appropriate time be transferred to the respective printing unit, without causing a significant impairment of the other production units.
  • the corresponding printing unit reports, for example, a BUSY signal to the higher-level controller, as a result of which this production path and this printing unit for the distributor system is at least temporarily blocked.
  • the BUSY signal is reset and this state reported as a READY signal to the higher-level control, which for example a CD just printed in this printing unit is taken from a distribution system from this production path and optionally in the same cycle by a subsequent printed CD is replaced.
  • the transfer of the intended for the new CD print data in the printing unit is also possible to carry out cyclical or non-cyclical maintenance work, such as the automatic cleaning of the print heads, adjustments etc. as a self-running program within each of the multi-color printing units without affecting the other production units.
  • the corresponding printing unit reports, for example, a BUSY signal to the higher-level controller, as a result of which this production path and this printing unit for the distributor system is at least temporarily blocked.
  • the BUSY signal is reset and this state reported as a READY signal to the higher
  • a CD printed in such a multicolor is fed in a subsequent step to a shared coating unit in which the CD can receive a final protective coating. Since these types of treatment stations experience has a high production reliability and reliability, it is expediently only available in a simple manner and all CDs printed in the preceding printing units pass through this treatment station, so that again a mixing of the different print jobs can take place at this point.
  • the CDs are transported by a subsequent handling system in a final test device in which the respective printed images are checked against the respective reference images stored in the memory of the test device. It may be expedient to simultaneously check the respective CD code again in this test device in order to ensure a 100% certainty of the affiliation of the printed image to the CD code read.
  • those CDs which have failed the exam are stored in a dedicated ejection station, for example on a Reject spindle.
  • the successfully tested CDs are distributed with a subsequent distributor device on one of the output stations with the associated output spindles so that in each case an output spindle of an output station only records CDs of a job.
  • the information read in the test device for example the CD code, is transferred to the control of the distributor device, whereby the corresponding CD is transferred to the associated output station.
  • FIG. 3 schematically shows a first possible inventive embodiment of an operating according to this principle printing machine.
  • the entire production path here runs from an input unit or input station 1 via the treatment station 8, through 4 parallel production paths in which printing units 13a-f are arranged via the drying device to the output station or output unit 23.
  • An input unit 1 in this case has a plurality of input stations 1 a to 1 d, at which 4 each filled with unprinted CDs spindles 4 a to 4 d are. These are previously set as required, for example, by an operator on a transport device 2, whereby the spindles are transported to a respective input station 1 a to 1 d.
  • a removal system 3 which consists for example of a rotary star 3a with a plurality of arms 3b, takes from the input stations 1a to 1d each a CD 4 and transports them to a first treatment station 5, for example, a CD-code reader.
  • a gripping device To remove the CDs 4 is located at the end of each of the arms 3b a gripping device, not shown, which each removes a single CD 4 of one of the spindles 4a to 4d.
  • a lifting device may additionally be present for each gripping device, so as to compensate for the increasing height differences in the removal of CDs 4 from one of the spindles 4a to 4d in the course of the CD removal.
  • the order of CD removal from the different CD spindles 4a to 4d can either be cyclical or optional, depending on the selected for a particular print job execution.
  • the CD 4 transported in the first example as a CD-code reader treatment station 5 is checked here on the basis of the impressed in each CD identifier to see whether it belongs to one of the currently printing images, which are stored in a higher-level control.
  • the CD codes and the associated print images for example, passed by an operator as needed to the higher-level control or this information is queried online, for example via a computer network from the controller or passed to this. If a match is found, the thus-tested CD 4 is transported, for example, by means of the removal system 3 into a receiving device 6a of a downstream transport device 6. If no match is found, then this CD 4 is transported by means of the removal unit 3 in a dedicated ejection station 7, for example, a designated Reject spindle.
  • the CD 4 stored in the receiving device 6a is transported in a subsequent step by means of the transport device 6 into a subsequent treatment station 8, for example a first printing unit, in which it can be provided with a primer 9.
  • the printing unit can be a flexographic printing unit, screen printing unit, gravure printing unit, high-pressure unit or coating unit or the like, but also a freely programmable printing unit, for example an inkjet printing unit.
  • the properties of the primer 9 or a corresponding printing ink are expediently chosen so that a printing taking place in the subsequent printing units 13a to 13d can be carried out without problem and moreover provides an optimum printing result.
  • the primer 9 or the ink may be colored white or colored, or even transparent, as required.
  • the primer 9 applied here is therefore expediently a white printing ink, a microporous coating, an ink-absorbing lacquer coating, etc., or a combination of the layers mentioned. It is also possible for this primer 9 applied in the treatment station 8 to take place as a combined layer structure by means of a plurality of printing units located in the treatment station 8 so as to create an optimum substrate for subsequent printing with the freely programmable printing units 13a to 13d.
  • a downstream of the transport device 6 of the treatment station 8 drying device 10 cures the thus applied primer 9, depending on the type of primer or ink used, for. by means of hot air, heat treatment or radiation hardening.
  • the thus coated CD 4 is transported to a subsequent removal position 11, from which the CD 4 is removed by means of a manipulator 12 and transported to one of the following printing units 13a to 13d.
  • the removed from the manipulator 12 from the position 11 CD 4 is stored at a time available for this recording position 14a to 14d one of the printing units 13a to 13d.
  • the current state of all printing units 13a to 13d and their associated CD recording positions 14a to 15d and their associated CD removal positions 15a to 15d reported by suitable, not shown sensors to the higher-level control.
  • the superordinate controller is aware of which printing unit 13a to 13d is printing at a particular time, for example, or ready for a new print job, or of automatic maintenance, e.g. performs a print head cleaning, etc., and at which pickup position 14a to 14d and at which picking position 15a to 15d a blank or printed CD is or which of the above positions are free.
  • the superordinate controller decides which printing unit 13a to 13d is to be read by means of the manipulator 12, e.g. in turn, a rotary star, the CD taken from the position 11 4 is transferred by the CD 4 is deposited on the associated free pickup position.
  • the assigned printing unit 13a to 13d can still process a preceding print job at this time.
  • this printed CD 40 is transported by means of a respectively integrated in the printing unit transport 16a to 16d to the respective removal position 15a to 15d and transported the unprinted CD 4 from the respective storage position 14a to 14d in the associated printing unit 13a to 13d inside ,
  • the respective now printed CD 40 is transported by means of the respective transport means 16a to 16d to the respective removal position 15a to 15d, from where it is moved by means of a manipulator 17, e.g. in turn, a rotating star is removed and passed to a subsequent transport device 18, for example, a conveyor belt.
  • a subsequent treatment station 19 for example a coating unit, arranged along the transport device 18, a lacquer can be applied to the printed surface of the CD 40 in a subsequent process step, for example to achieve mechanical protection of the printed image and / or a glossy surface to achieve.
  • a downstream drying device 19a hardens the applied paint, for example by means of heat or UV radiation.
  • the subsequent manipulator 20 removes the lacquered CD 40 from the removal position 18b and feeds it in a subsequent step to a print check device 21, in which the printed image is checked against the assigned reference image stored in the memory of the higher-level control.
  • a print check device 21 in which the printed image is checked against the assigned reference image stored in the memory of the higher-level control.
  • one or more reference pictures may be stored in the controller, so that in a first checking step it is necessary first to determine the type of print image using previously defined and unambiguous criteria and a subsequent step to create an evaluation of the print result.
  • the print-check system Since such a procedure usually requires a longer period of time, it may be expedient to equip the print-check system additionally with a code-check system, so on the one hand within a very short time an assignment of the respective reference image to obtain the CD to be tested 40 and the corresponding actual printed image.
  • this procedure simultaneously checks once again the correct assignment of the CD to be tested to its printed image, so that a correct assignment from CD to print image is always ensured. If the print result and / or the CD-print image assignment does not correspond to the stored criteria, the CD 40 is rejected by means of the manipulator 20, eg a rotary star, by being deposited, for example, on a reject spindle 22 provided for this purpose.
  • the CD 40 is transferred to a specific output spindle 23a to 23d in the output area 23 in accordance with its associated print job.
  • the determination of the respective output spindle 23a to 23d determined for a specific print job is carried out by removing the spindle 24a to 24d filled with these CDs after completion of a preceding print job from its storage position 25a to 25d and transporting it to a removal position 26a to 26d which it can be safely removed by an operator.
  • An empty spindle 31 is automatically transported to this position 25a to 25d so that an empty spindle 23a to 23d is again ready for filling at the respective position 25a to 25d.
  • the superordinate controller assigns one or more of these positions 25a to 25d each a new, subsequent print job, so that the printed and checked CDs 40 of this subsequent print job are transported exclusively to this position (s). This ensures that only CDs from a given print job are on one spindle and no mixing of different print jobs occurs.
  • the provision of said empty spindles 31 in the dispensing area 23 can be effected, for example, by automatically removing the spindles emptied in the input area from their respective removal position and by means of a transport device 30, for example, to a conveyor belt to the dispensing area 23 are transported, where they are ready for assignment to one of the storage positions 25a to 25d.
  • the essential advantage of the invention which can be seen in this embodiment is that the production path for printing the CDs in this embodiment is divided into four production-parallel paths, wherein in each of the parallel production paths the necessary units are provided to carry out a printing.
  • FIG. 4 An alternative embodiment according to the invention with six multicolor printing stations is shown schematically in FIG. 4 shown.
  • the production route runs from right to left.
  • the input unit 1 there are a plurality of input stations 1a to 1f, wherein the number of input stations expediently and advantageously corresponds to the number of used CMYK printing units 13a to 13f.
  • This advantageously results in the possibility of processing an equal number of print jobs in parallel during the production process.
  • the CDs 4 to be printed are provided with a first manipulator 50, which can be embodied, for example, as a robot arm with mutually movable arm segments 51 and 52 and can be moved about an axis of rotation 53 by means of a drive (not shown) from the spindles 4a to 4f filled with unprinted CDs 4f taken.
  • a gripping device located in the same or similar manner at the end of the arm segment 52, with which the CDs 4 are each removed individually from the spindles 4a to 4f.
  • Each CD 4 removed in this way is subsequently stored in a recording device of a code reading device 5, where it is identified on the basis of its registered identifier.
  • the removal of the CDs from the spindles 4a to 4f can be like in the first embodiment, cyclically or in variable order, and is dictated by a higher level sequencer as needed.
  • the CD 4 identified in the reading device 5 is either transported to a reject spindle 7 or deposited on a storage position 6a of a downstream transport device 6, as already described. For example, this can be done with a manipulator 3, e.g. take a turnstile. From here, as already described, the CD enters a first printing device 8, in which it is provided with a corresponding primer. A subsequent drying device 10 fixes the primer 9, so that the CD 4 can be subsequently further processed without any problems.
  • the thus primed CDs 4 are distributed on one of the following multicolor printing units by being stored on one of the receptacles 14a to 14f a printing device 13a to 13f.
  • the removal positions 15a to 15f are identical to the storage positions 14a to 14f, i. the production route does not pass unidirectionally through the printing units but bidirectionally out in the same way as they were introduced.
  • the multicolor printing of a CD 4 then takes place in that after the storage of the CD 4 on the position 14a to 14f, the CD 4 is transported by means of a transport device 16a to 16f in the printing unit 13a to 13f and printed there. Characterized in that the movements of the transport device 16a to 16f by the respective controls of the printing units 13a to 13f, the positioning of the CD in the printing unit in particular to the printheads is carried out so that an optimum printing result is achieved. After completion of the printing, the CD 4 is transported by means of the transport device 16a to 16f to the discharge position 15a to 15f, from where it can be removed by means of the manipulator 12.
  • the transport of the CD 4 into the printing units 13a to 13f then takes place in that the receiving devices 70a to 70f with the CD 4 fixed thereon are transported by means of the transport devices 16a to 16f.
  • the invention after printing a CD 4, for example, in a first printing unit 13a, the CD so printed by the manipulator 12 not initially to the output position 18a to transport, but in a receiving position 14b to 14f of another printing unit 13b to 13f, so as to achieve an additional printing of the CD 4.
  • the CD 4 is transferred to the printing unit 13f and there are special colors in this printing unit, such as gold color, silver color, fluorescent color or the like, additional effects can be produced in the printed image or printed images with more than the usual CMYK colors.
  • the printed CD 4 is stored by means of the manipulator 12 at the storage position 18a of the transport device 18 and transported by this in a subsequent treatment station, for example, a coating unit 19 with downstream drying device 19a, in which, for example a protective coating can be applied to the printed CD 4.
  • the thus-printed CD 40 is then released by means of a manipulator 20, e.g. a rotating star removed from the removal position 18b and fed to a test system 21, in which the print quality is evaluated.
  • the CD 40 is removed from the testing device 21 by means of the manipulator 20 and then deposited on a reject spindle 22.
  • the CD 40 is removed from the following manipulator 60 from the test device and assigned to one or more specific storage positions 25a to 25f according to the print job and stored on the corresponding output spindle 23a to 23f.
  • the manipulator 60 may be, for example, a robot arm with individual arm segments 61 and 62, which are moved about a rotation axis 63 can, wherein at the end of the arm segment a gripping device, not shown, for the CDs is.
  • the manipulators 50 and 60 may be identical.
  • the filled spindles 24a to 24f are then transported via transport devices 27a to 27f to the removal positions 26a to 26f, from where they can be safely and easily removed by an operator.
  • the provision of the empty spindles 31 in the dispensing area 23 can be effected, for example, as described in the first embodiment, by automatically removing the spindles emptied in the input area from their respective removal positions 1a to 1f and transporting them to the dispensing area 23 by means of a transport device 30, for example a conveyor belt Where they are ready for assignment to one of the storage positions 25a to 25d and transported as needed by means not shown to the respective storage positions 25a to 25f.
  • the transport device 30 can thereby run around the circularly arranged printing units 13a to 13f.

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