EP2295248A1 - Procédé et dispositif de détermination du comportement spécifique de transfert d'encre d'un cylindre de transfert d'encre - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de détermination du comportement spécifique de transfert d'encre d'un cylindre de transfert d'encre Download PDF

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EP2295248A1
EP2295248A1 EP09011580A EP09011580A EP2295248A1 EP 2295248 A1 EP2295248 A1 EP 2295248A1 EP 09011580 A EP09011580 A EP 09011580A EP 09011580 A EP09011580 A EP 09011580A EP 2295248 A1 EP2295248 A1 EP 2295248A1
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Andreas Ihme
Martin FLASPÖHLER
Bruno Zimmermann
Peter Ehbets
Daniel Fitze
Stefan Bornschein
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  • the invention relates to an apparatus and a method for determining the specific color transport behavior of a color-transporting roller for a printing ink, which has a certain pigment composition.
  • the printing inks usually consist of a mixture or a solution of color-active substances, waste and solvents. Cuttings here are a liquid component of the color without color pigments. The addition of waste to the color pigments thus changes the color impression of the printed image, but not the viscosity. If, however, solvents are added to the color pigments and the blend, both the color impression of the print image (since the proportion of color pigments decreases overall) and the viscosity of the color change.
  • ink transport adhesion of different inking rollers is different with respect to the different color components, so that the selection of the rollers has a significant influence on the color impression that the viewer has perceived.
  • different rollers take on different color volumes and transfer these color components in different ways again to the substrate or other rolls and machine components. The latter process is often referred to by the term color split.
  • rollers The physical reason for this different behavior of the rollers lies in their differently shaped surfaces, which have different adhesion properties. A significant influence - especially with anilox rollers - also has the surface structure. Among other things, for this reason, the rollers may change their color transporting properties during their lifetime due to wear.
  • Transport properties of an inking roller are determined by determining the layer thickness of the ink application on the substrate.
  • the application of paint or the layer thickness can be characterized by a density measurement - which is carried out with a densitometer - in the absorption range of the remission spectrum of the ink.
  • the densitometer is used to determine a value for the color density.
  • the color density is proportional to the layer thickness of the paint applied to the substrate, so that from the Color density value, the layer thickness of the color can be calculated or calculated.
  • the reflectance spectrum of the color can be detected with a spectrophotometer. From the reflectance spectrum, the density or extinction spectrum, which characterizes the spectral absorbance, can be determined with a color model.
  • a so-called blend series comprises measurements of the spectral intensity of the light reflected from a printed image at a plurality of blend concentrations of a printing ink.
  • the characteristic element of a printing ink is the color pigments contained in the printing ink and, if appropriate, in the case of several pigment types, their mixing ratio with one another.
  • Such a series of cuts could be recorded by successively printing a printing machine of a differently diluted color using the roller to be tested and measuring the printed images accordingly.
  • the printed image produced in this way is compared with a printed image printed in a test stand (test printing unit) with the same color and combination of blanks.
  • the test stand or the test printing unit is often referred to by the expert as a proofing device.
  • test stands are also known in which a printing material is unrolled over a stationary gravure printing plate. All of these test stands and sample printing devices are referred to for the purposes of this document as a test printing unit, since their function as in a printing or inking unit is just printing on substrate.
  • the object of the present invention is to facilitate the cost of the entire process from the test of the color transport properties of the roller to achieve the desired color impression in the actual printing process and thus to reduce the cost of this process.
  • the object is achieved by the method claim 1 and the device claim 15.
  • the method according to the invention proceeds from the above-described method for determining the specific ink transport behavior of a ink-transporting roller for a printing ink which has a certain pigment composition.
  • the roller to be tested is used in a printing unit and printing substrate printed with ink of this pigment composition.
  • the printing unit can be a complete printing unit of the printing press and / or to be a test stand. It is important that a printed image can be produced there using the roller to be tested under similar conditions as in the printing press.
  • the pressure is carried out at least with a number N of mixing ratios of the pigment composition to waste.
  • N a number of mixing ratios of the pigment composition to waste.
  • one or two mixing ratios are sufficient for the roller to be tested.
  • At least a part of the printed image, which is produced using the roller to be tested, is examined in an optical measuring device.
  • the part of the printed image can be a partial area or the whole area. Examining brands in addition to the actual print motif is also possible here.
  • the measurement should be performed in an area containing the solid surface of the color mixture.
  • the optical measuring device obtains by their measurements data that - as they were obtained using the roller to be tested - are called test data in the present context.
  • the known method is further developed in that a control device compares the test data with data on the color transport behavior of an arbitrary roller.
  • the arbitrary roller is usually another ink-transporting roller, which may have a different surface texture or different inking volume compared to the roller to be tested.
  • Extrapolation data is obtained from the comparison of the data. This is already possible in an advantageous manner by obtaining a normalization factor.
  • the normalization factor is determined in such a way that the course of the spectral intensity of the remitted light with the smaller number of measurements N with the roller to be tested is readjusted with the course of the spectral intensity of the remitted light in the measurements with or with respect to the arbitrary roller can. In this case, measurements should be made at the same or similar waste concentration.
  • any roll means that in addition to true measurements, extrapolated or with a similar roll (such as the aforementioned gravure roll having a comparable surface area) measurements can be used. As already mentioned, measurements can be made in the same printing or inking unit and / or in a test inking unit.
  • a normalization factor can be obtained. For example, if a measurement of the light intensity in a spectral range with respect to the roller to be tested at a waste concentration of 25% results in a lower light intensity than the corresponding measurement of the desired roller, it can be assumed that the roller to be tested, for example, at 21% waste comparable result as the arbitrary roller produces at 25%. This assumption can be based on a whole series of blends. The assumptions may be based on empirical values or simply estimates.
  • color formulation software (often referred to as Ink Formulation Software) in this context offers favorable opportunities to calculate such normalization factors - so-called layer thickness factors.
  • the mentioned color formulation software products provide the ability to control the spectral light intensities of the reflected light that they have be assigned by suitable sensors, the various influencing factors, such as different pigment types, the substrate or the like to assign.
  • the color recipe software requires the spectral data of the colors from a color assortment that was generated with the desired roller (reference roller) or with the corresponding test stand.
  • the typical field of application of these software products in the field of the printing industry is the control of the resulting print images.
  • these software products can detect deviations from a desired color location and suggest corrective measures (mixture of a correction color).
  • the software should at least "know” the type of optical activity of the correction color (the course of the spectral light intensity of the reflected light is stored in the software's access).
  • An advantageous possibility to use the method according to the invention is to test the roller to be tested immediately in the printing press, which is to process a print job with the printing ink having the specific pigment composition. It is advantageous here, first a relatively small amount of color with a blend / pigment mixture ratio, which can cause the desired color impression, in the printing press too place. In this way, there is more scope for the subsequent corrections.
  • the comparison of the test data and the data on the arbitrary roller will reveal differences which can be remedied by suitable measures on the printing machine.
  • a recipe software is able to adjust the concentration of the color pigments and the blend.
  • the printing speed also has an influence on the color transport behavior and can be used in this context.
  • the thickness of the ink application can also be influenced by the relative position of the rollers involved in ink transport. An increase in the thickness of the paint job has a similar effect as a reduction in the proportion of waste in the paint.
  • the adjustment of the zone screw has a similar role, which influences the thickness of the ink application.
  • the relative position can be adjusted by means of optical measurements of the printed image.
  • densitometric measured values can be used simply and advantageously. These can be obtained either by scanning the printed image with a densitometer or by reducing, for example, spectrophotometrically to densitometric measured values.
  • test data can also be increased by, inter alia, varying the already mentioned pressure parameters between at least two measurements.
  • An apparatus for determining the specific color transport behavior of a ink-transporting roller for a printing ink, which has a certain pigment composition requires an interface via which data can be fed to the device of an optical measuring device.
  • the adjustment may be to program a suitable controller of a printing press or independent computer with sufficient hardware requirements.
  • a suitable controller of a printing press or independent computer with sufficient hardware requirements.
  • the implementation of the method steps described above with a computer-like device set in this way is advantageous.
  • preference is given to a control device of a printing press, since these can generally also adjust further printing parameters-such as the relative positions of rollers involved in the ink transport-directly.
  • FIG. 1 An inking unit 8 of a central cylinder flexographic printing machine 2 is shown. This example is intended to illustrate some terms used, such as the color-transporting roller 41a.
  • paints 11 are generally mixtures or solutions of color-active substances - usually color pigments - waste and solvents. Based on FIG. 1 can the color transport of a paint reservoir, the color is supplied from outside the printing press - here the paint bucket 10 - sketch to the substrate 6.
  • the color lines 13 establish the connection between the paint bucket 10 and the doctor chamber 40.
  • paint 11 is directed to the doctoring chamber (as indicated by arrow 46) and in the other conduit 13 from doctoring chamber 40 to bucket 10 (as indicated by arrow 47).
  • the ink flow in the ink ducts 13 of the printing press from and to the bucket 10 is therefore often referred to as a color cycle, but this is ambiguous, as well as color from the doctor chamber to the anilox roller 41, which rotates in the direction indicated by the arrow C, is delivered.
  • the anilox roller 41 delivers the ink to the plate 43 of the plate roller 42, which rotates in the direction indicated by the arrow B.
  • the printing substrate 6 is printed with the cliché while it passes through the printing gap 48 defined by the cliché roller 42 and counter-pressure cylinder 45.
  • the printing material is further promoted in the direction of rotation A of the impression cylinder, runs past the guide roller 49, is lifted from the impression cylinder 45 and examined by the optical measuring device 4.
  • the light cone 7 represents the remitted from the printed image 9 light.
  • FIG. 4 For the purpose of weighing or determining the color mass or the color volume of the relevant ink 11 on the printing machine 2 is in FIG. 4 only the weighing device 12, which monitors the weight of the bucket 10 shown.
  • the color lines 13 could also be weighed. It seems more appropriate to determine their volume and thus to estimate or calculate the volume of the paint in the pipes.
  • the doctor chamber 40 contains appreciable color volumes and therefore could also be weighed. In view of the vibrations prevailing in an inking unit, however, a weighing device was dispensed with at this point and moved in the same way as the volume determination in the color lines.
  • the color located on the rollers 41, 42 or the cliché in the broadest sense also belongs to the color contained in a color supply system. However, only a fraction of the paint once on one of the rollers returns to the paint bucket 10, so that the volume of this paint need not be taken into account, or only slightly, for example, to conclude the color composition of the paint after a color correction.
  • both the cliché roller 42 and the anilox roller 41 could be referred to as a color-transporting roller, since both rollers 41, 42 transport color to the printing substrate 6. In reality, however, only blending rows to anilox rollers 41 play a role.
  • FIG. 2 is intended to clarify a method already described above for determining a series of blends.
  • a processing step I. is in an inking unit 8, which in principle the in FIG. 1 printed inking unit 8 is similar printed substrate 6 with the aid of the cliché roller 42a and the anilox roller 41 a printed.
  • the anilox roller 41a is the test roller 11 transporting roller.
  • the cliché roller supplies a full-tone image for these test purposes and is equipped with a corresponding cliché 43. It would be possible to print 8 to 12 consecutive times with different blend concentrations on a printing press 2 in another even more elaborate method of the prior art, wherein the color 11 different waste concentration would have arrived on the klichee each time the measurements take place. This is already avoided today as the amount of waste, unusable ink and machine downtime would be too high as a result of the tests.
  • a test inking unit 100 which is constructed here not by the flexographic printing principle but by the gravure printing principle, is printed with a test gravure cylinder 101.
  • the gravure printing cylinder 101 has very high surface areas different engraving. For printing, the same color and the same amount of waste as in processing step 1 are selected.
  • the resulting printing substrate 6 (or the printed images 9) is examined.
  • the area of the printing material (along the working width) in which the color impression most closely matches the color impression of the first working step (using the roller 41a to be tested) is selected.
  • the area of the test gravure cylinder 101 which has printed this area is determined.
  • Another special gravure cylinder 102 is made which has the surface properties of this area of the test gravure cylinder.
  • the test gravure printing unit 100 is equipped with the special gravure cylinder 102, and it is printed with the color having different waste concentration (processing step V.).
  • the investigation of the resulting printing material sections 58 in the measuring station 60 now provides a series of cuts, which is based on at least one measurement on the actual printing or inking unit 8 and thus on the printing machine 2.
  • FIG. 3 shows the sequence of an embodiment of a method according to the invention.
  • a first processing step I printed in a flexographic inking unit.
  • the roller to be tested is the anilox roller 41 a.
  • the printed image is examined, whereby the color location is determined.
  • the investigation can also be made on-line if a suitable spectrophotometer 54 is used for this, or if spectrophotometric data are approximated with densitometric data.
  • a suitable spectrophotometer 54 is used for this, or if spectrophotometric data are approximated with densitometric data.
  • This is for example in the still unpublished German patent applications with the application numbers 102007059176 . 102007059175 and 102007059177 as well as in the still unpublished application PCT / EP 2008/000992 described.
  • the relevant passages of these documents are hereby expressly referred to and they are included in the scope of the present document.
  • the measurement results are transmitted to a suitable computer-like device 3, which may also be the control device 3 of a printing machine 2.
  • This apparatus 3 is known a waste series, which was made for any anilox roller 41b, preferably on the same printing unit, preferably at the same color (pigment composition). Based on these data, the computer-like device 3 extrapolates the blend row for the roller 41 a to be tested.
  • FIG. 5 shows a diagram 103 in which the intensity value I R of the reflected light was recorded and plotted over the wavelength ⁇ .
  • a series of blends consists of a plurality of such graphs which were taken up at different blending concentrations (blending ratio blending into color-active substances or pigments) of the same color.
  • FIG. 4 is symbolized that a theoretical spectral course graph 105 is extrapolated on the basis of a symbolized by the graph 106 real spectral course (measured values).

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GB1150709A (en) * 1966-11-26 1969-04-30 Ernest Arthur Timson Improvements in or relating to Inking Mechanisms for Printing Machines
EP0282446A1 (fr) * 1987-02-23 1988-09-14 GRETAG Aktiengesellschaft Procédé de réglage continu de l'encrage en impression en creux ou flexographique et machine correspondante
EP1249346B1 (fr) 2001-03-27 2005-10-12 Windmöller & Hölscher KG Dispositif de repérage de l'image d'impression dans une machine d'impression flexographique
EP2008815A2 (fr) * 2007-06-26 2008-12-31 WIFAG Maschinenfabrik AG Procédé et dispositif destinés à l'application d'un matériau humide ou d'une couleur
DE102007059177A1 (de) 2007-12-06 2009-06-10 Windmöller & Hölscher Kg Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Regelung der Zusammensetzung der Druckfarbe an einer Druckmaschine
DE102007059176A1 (de) 2007-12-06 2009-06-10 Windmöller & Hölscher Kg Vorrichtung und ein Verfahren zur Farbmassen- und Viskositätsermittlung an einer Druckmaschine zur Farbkorrektur
DE102007059175A1 (de) 2007-12-06 2009-06-10 Windmöller & Hölscher Kg Extrapolation densitometrischer Messwerte in nicht gemessenen Wellenlängenbereichen
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GB1150709A (en) * 1966-11-26 1969-04-30 Ernest Arthur Timson Improvements in or relating to Inking Mechanisms for Printing Machines
EP0282446A1 (fr) * 1987-02-23 1988-09-14 GRETAG Aktiengesellschaft Procédé de réglage continu de l'encrage en impression en creux ou flexographique et machine correspondante
EP1249346B1 (fr) 2001-03-27 2005-10-12 Windmöller & Hölscher KG Dispositif de repérage de l'image d'impression dans une machine d'impression flexographique
EP2008815A2 (fr) * 2007-06-26 2008-12-31 WIFAG Maschinenfabrik AG Procédé et dispositif destinés à l'application d'un matériau humide ou d'une couleur
DE102007059177A1 (de) 2007-12-06 2009-06-10 Windmöller & Hölscher Kg Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Regelung der Zusammensetzung der Druckfarbe an einer Druckmaschine
DE102007059176A1 (de) 2007-12-06 2009-06-10 Windmöller & Hölscher Kg Vorrichtung und ein Verfahren zur Farbmassen- und Viskositätsermittlung an einer Druckmaschine zur Farbkorrektur
DE102007059175A1 (de) 2007-12-06 2009-06-10 Windmöller & Hölscher Kg Extrapolation densitometrischer Messwerte in nicht gemessenen Wellenlängenbereichen
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