EP1979170B1 - Verfahren zum tintenstrahldrucken mit lichthärtender tinte - Google Patents

Verfahren zum tintenstrahldrucken mit lichthärtender tinte Download PDF

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EP1979170B1
EP1979170B1 EP07702891A EP07702891A EP1979170B1 EP 1979170 B1 EP1979170 B1 EP 1979170B1 EP 07702891 A EP07702891 A EP 07702891A EP 07702891 A EP07702891 A EP 07702891A EP 1979170 B1 EP1979170 B1 EP 1979170B1
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Albrecht Schierholz
Dieter Stellmach
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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
    • 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
    • B41J11/0015—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 for treating before, during or after printing or for uniform coating or laminating the copy material before or after printing
    • B41J11/002—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating
    • B41J11/0021—Curing or drying the ink on the copy materials, e.g. by heating or irradiating using irradiation

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  • the invention relates to a method according to the features of the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • Light-curing ink-operable ink printers have an exposure head for irradiating and exposing the photocuring ink. It is moved traversing between two housing sides of the ink printer when exposing the print head and irradiates the sprayed via nozzles of the print head on the print material ink. The emitted light is selected in its wavelength so that the photoinitiator is excited and the ink is at least partially polymerized. The polymerization leads to an increase in viscosity and solidification of the ink. The degree of solidification depends on the duration of the irradiation and on the radiation power of the exposure head.
  • the difficulty with ink jet printing is that very high radiant energy is required in a very short time to cure the ink sprayed on the print material.
  • the curing energy required for UV-curable inks is on the order of one joule.
  • radiation powers are required by a kilowatt-area exposure head entrained with the print head.
  • an exposure head with a very large radiation power is to be selected in order to solidify the ink and effectively prevent bleeding of the ink.
  • the exposure head is to be selected so large in dimensions that it is no longer suitable for use in an ink printer designed as a tabletop device.
  • the progression process depends on the ratio of the surface tensions between the ink and the print material and thus also on the surface roughness of the print material.
  • the rougher the surface to be printed the faster the ink runs in the capillary structures.
  • the ink runs only slightly with a smooth surface of the print material without capillary structures.
  • it is again disadvantageous that the Adhesion between the ink and the surface of the print material is low and thus no smudge-proof connection can be achieved.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method for ink-jet printing with light-curing ink, which can be performed with an ink tray designed as a desktop printer and with a sharp edge, through-hardened print image is generated.
  • the printhead and an exposure head connected thereto are moved traversing in printing operation between a first housing side and a second housing side.
  • first housing side On the way to the first housing side, light-curing ink is sprayed onto the printed matter, while the exposure head irradiates the light-curing ink sprayed onto the print material.
  • the exposure head On its way back to the second housing side, the exposure head re-irradiates the light-curing ink sprayed onto the print material, ie a second time. After the second irradiation, the print material is transported transversely to the direction of movement of the print head.
  • the viscosity of the sprayed ink is increased and it is gelified. This avoids bleeding of the sprayed-on ink and ensures a sharp-edged print image.
  • the ink is cured. This provides the advantage that the printed image of the sprayed ink is smudge and scratch resistant.
  • the invention has the advantage that the light-curing ink is cured with low radiation powers of the exposure head.
  • Low radiant powers are sufficient in the method of the present invention because the photocurable ink is first irradiated on the path of the exposure head to the first housing side and then again on the way to the second housing side, the printhead on the way to the second housing page stores and retains all ink. Thus, no light-curing ink is sprayed out of the print head in this way. After reaching an end position of the exposure head in the region of the second housing side, the print material is then transported transversely to the direction of movement of the print head.
  • the radiation energy of an exposure head required for printing results essentially from two functions.
  • the ink sprayed onto the surface of the print material is to be fixed in order to prevent the ink from bleeding.
  • the radiant energy used for curing and hardening the sprayed ink so that it adheres to the print.
  • the two functions are substantially successively met in a printing process that the exposure head is moved in the on state on the way to the first housing side and on the way to the second housing side at different speeds .
  • the sprayed-on ink is gelatinized on the way to the first housing half and fixed on the print material while it is hardened out and hardened on the way to the second housing half. Due to the different speeds of the exposure head and the correspondingly different irradiation periods, the radiation energy can be split and reduced functionally.
  • the printer can be operated particularly energy-saving with its exposure head when the exposure head is moved to the first side of the housing a lot faster than the second side of the housing, since only a small amount of radiation energy is needed to fix the ink.
  • Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 show a printer according to the invention with a print head and an associated exposure head in a longitudinal section and in a plan view.
  • the printer according to the invention is preferably designed as a tabletop printer and essentially consists of a housing pan 1 and a housing top part 2, in which a printer frame with side walls 3, 4 is provided. These are spaced by an angular traverse 5.
  • a carriage guide 6 is mounted on which a carriage 7, 7.1 is mounted.
  • the carriage 7, 7.1 is driven by an endless traction means 9 via a motor 10, wherein the traction means 9 is deflected via a roller 11.
  • On the carriage 7, 7.1 is a printhead 12, 12.1 and next to an exposure head 13,13.1 mounted.
  • a heat shield 14,14.1 which protects the print head 12, 12.1 from heat radiation of the exposure head 13, 13.1.
  • a cleaning device 16 is provided for the print head 12 in the basic position of the carriage 7.
  • a light transformation device 17 in which the light energy of the exposure head 13 is converted into heat in the basic position of the carriage 7 and dissipated to the outside.
  • a label carrier 18 in cross section as the print material represented, which is transported transversely to the carriage transport direction by the transport device 19, 19.1 and is pressed by the pressing elements 20, 20.1 to the transport elements 19, 19.1.
  • an ink supply 23, 23.1 through which the print head 12, 12.1 is supplied with ink via a hose, not shown here, from a tank mounted on the carriage 7, 7.1.
  • the transport device 19, 19.1, 20, 20.1 is arranged, which moves the print image carrier 18 line by line in the direction of the arrow designated 26.
  • the label carrier 18 consists of guide webs 27, 28, between which labeling elements 29 are attached to predetermined breaking points 30.
  • a first row 31 of the labeling elements 29 is shown inscribed, while the second row 32 is in the labeling position.
  • the carriage 7, 7.1 is in position 7.1.
  • the carriage moves 7.1 with the printhead 12.1 and the exposure head 13.1 at high speed to the right in the direction of the side wall 3.
  • the printhead 12 injects programmatically at selected locations drops of ink on the label carrier elements 33 of the labeling element row 32nd
  • the printhead 12 is followed at a short distance 34 of the exposure head 13, which has a rectangular exposure window 39 with a width 35 and a length 36. Due to the high printing speed and the small distance 34 selected between the print head 12 and the exposure window 39, the ink sprayed onto a print material is irradiated by the exposure head 13 via the exposure window 39 shortly after its impact on the print material.
  • the ink sprayed onto the print material forms lenticular drops, which are irradiated shortly after their formation with the light emitted by the exposure head 13. Due to the small time difference between the impact of the ink on the print substrate and its irradiation with light is achieved that the lenticular ink droplets are polymerized at least in their edge regions. As a result, the viscosity increases in the drop edge areas, whereby the ink is fixed. Thus, in a first step with a relatively low irradiation power, a sharp-edged print image is achieved, but overall this is not yet smudge-proof.
  • the exposure head 13 and the print head 12 move on the carriage 7 to the left in the direction of the side wall 4, wherein the exposure head 13, the sprayed ink and the print head 12 releases no ink.
  • the exposure head 13 is moved at different speeds to the right and left. Preferably, its speed to the right is greater than that to the left.
  • the ratio of the speeds can be up to a factor of 10, depending on the ink used and the print material to be printed.
  • the speed to the left and / or to the right can also be matched to the ink and the print material.
  • Essential parameters for the speeds and the ratio of the speeds are, for example, the material and the surface roughness of the printed matter and the ink composition.
  • the print image carrier 18 is further moved by the transport device 19, 19.1, 20, 20.1 to a label element row and the labeling cycle begins again.
  • characteristic values can be entered manually into the device control 21, which then processes and compares the information with stored data and classifies it.
  • the device controller 21 controls the print head 12 and the exposure head 13 in their speeds.
  • the device control in addition to the speeds and the radiant power of the exposure head 13 in dependence of the print material and / or the ink controls.

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