EP2461295A1 - Farbdruckmodul für Frankiermaschine - Google Patents

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EP2461295A1
EP2461295A1 EP11191754A EP11191754A EP2461295A1 EP 2461295 A1 EP2461295 A1 EP 2461295A1 EP 11191754 A EP11191754 A EP 11191754A EP 11191754 A EP11191754 A EP 11191754A EP 2461295 A1 EP2461295 A1 EP 2461295A1
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Romain Pillard
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00516—Details of printing apparatus
    • G07B2017/00524—Printheads
    • G07B2017/00532—Inkjet
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00653—Special inks, e.g. fluorescent

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  • the present invention relates to the field of mail processing and more particularly that of franking machines or other envelope printers comprising a digital inkjet printing module.
  • the printing methods implemented in a color printer use the cyan (C), magenta (M), yellow (J) primary inks, to which black (N) is added to enhance the color contrast.
  • C cyan
  • M magenta
  • J yellow
  • N black
  • the franking marks must meet the postal specifications as defined, for example, in the Universal Postal Union (UPU) Standard S44, particularly in terms of contrast and modulation for reading bar codes and, in practice it is very difficult to obtain satisfactory franking marks beyond a certain printing speed, typically 1m / s, with a combination of inks.
  • UPU Universal Postal Union
  • errors in the positioning of ink drops from different heads disturb the re-reading of the bar codes, even though they are barely discernible to the naked eye.
  • integrated tri- or quadric-chromatic printheads comprising several rows of nozzles each corresponding to one of the primary inks, as used in office inkjet printers.
  • this franking machine is provided with two printing modules, one classically allowing the monochrome printing of the franking mark and the other four-color printing of other printed graphic elements.
  • the present invention aims to provide a printing method for a color franking machine whose cost is comparable to that of a monochrome machine (that is to say, only printing with an ink postal color), without noticeable reduction in printing speed.
  • An object of the invention is also to provide a printing module that can be mounted in the current franking machine architectures and therefore without requiring significant changes in its hardware configuration.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a franking machine using the same set of primary inks and thus can be used both in countries requiring a red postal ink than in those that require a blue mailing ink .
  • a color printing system for franking system for printing a postage mark on a mail piece from at least the three primary inks Cyan, Magenta and Yellow characterized in that at least one of said Cyan or Magenta primary inks is made of a similar color postal ink, namely postal blue for Cyan and / or postal red for Magenta.
  • this method in which a franking system comprises a printing module fed by three or four ink tanks each having a different color ink to provide a CMYK or CMYK printing or tri-color printing is characterized in that, to provide printing of said postage mark by means of a postal ink, the Cyan color ink tank is replaced by a postal blue postal ink tank and / or the reservoir Magenta ink is replaced by a 185U red ink or fluorescent red ink tank.
  • said postage mark can be printed with a combination of postage and black ink.
  • said postage meter may be printed with a combination of a postal ink and at least one of said remaining inks.
  • said mail item further comprising graphic elements or identification of the sender or third parties associated with said franking mark, said elements can be printed from a single ink other than that which has made it possible to print said franking mark or else in a color obtained from at least two inks.
  • the invention also relates to a franking machine or an envelope printer comprising a printing module fed by at least three ink tanks, each having a different color ink, of which at least one postal ink and capable of enabling the setting in. of the aforementioned postal ink color printing method.
  • the figure 1 shows in partial diagrammatic view an inkjet franking machine 10 with its printing head 12 overhanging a guide plate 14 on which are transported, in a longitudinal direction D of displacement and taped against a referencing wall 16
  • These mail items are transported, as is known, by rollers (only the counter-rollers 20A, 20B are shown above the guide plate 14 just upstream and downstream of the printhead 12 and defining between them a minimum printing length for mail items) or transport belts of the franking machine, so as to pass under the print head and thus allow the printing of a 18A postmark on each of these mail items.
  • control circuits are provided in its base to ensure its operation and in particular the rotation of the transport rollers according to the position of the mail items through the machine picked up by different sensors (not shown).
  • the print head 12 comprises four ink tanks 12C, 12M, 12Y, 12K each associated with means for ejecting this ink (typically one or two rows of ink jet nozzles) and is controlled by a set electronic circuits conventionally comprising a microprocessor or microcontroller 22, a memory 24 and a control circuit (driver 26).
  • the control circuit provides control of the ink ejection nozzles of the print head under the control of the microprocessor and according to a control program stored in the memory.
  • the control circuit may or may not be integrated with the print head while the microprocessor and its memory are advantageously integrated into the base of the franking machine to which the print head is connected, and of which they can constitute a part control circuits.
  • the ink of the reservoir 12C and the ink of the reservoir 12M comprising, in the context of a four-color process according to the CMYK model, respectively a Cyan ink and a Magenta ink are replaced by the specific postal inks, namely the postal blue in place of the Cyan and the red postal, red 185U or fluorescent red (depending on the country of installation of the machine), instead of the Magenta.
  • the width of the printing module is not increased due to the presence of a second head and the printing speed, at least in the case of printing the only franking mark, does not increase. is not reduced, this impression (and in particular that of its 2D barcode) with the postal ink being made from the single row of nozzles associated with the reservoir filled with this ink, as in the prior art.
  • the color control program stored in the memory 24 can be adapted to take account of this substitution of the primary inks, as shown by the example of FIG. figure 2 wherein a first set of primary inks has been replaced by a second set of similar color inks.
  • similar color is meant a color having the same color base.
  • Cyan which is also called light blue or sky blue, is similar to postal blue which has the same blue base
  • Magenta also called fuchsia red or purplish red is similar to fluorescent red or 185U red which both have the same base red.
  • the figure 2 shows the colorimetric range obtained with the primary inks of the first set (in solid lines) and that with the primary inks of the second set (in dashed lines), both projected on the a * b * plane in the CIE LAB space, which is a uniform color space representing all the colors perceived by the standard human eye. It can be noted that the two curves do not overlap, which indicates that some colors printable with the first game can not be with the second. Moreover, without color compensation, a color printed with the same proportions of primary inks will be perceived differently with the first or the second set.
  • the adjustment of the color profile consists in modifying the proportions of primary inks of each color to obtain an equivalent rendering.
  • the method of clipping is to reduce the non-printable colors to the border of the curve corresponding to the second set. Compression is used to distribute the distortion caused by the differences in inks throughout the range, compression being used to compensate for significant distortions while respecting the perception of color deviations.
  • the printing speed may vary according to the expected quality of the graphic elements or identification to be printed. Thus, if only postal ink is used, this speed will not differ from that of a traditional printing module containing only a postal ink. It will be the same if, in addition to the postal ink, these printed elements in addition to the franking mark only require the independent use (without mixing) of one or more of the other three inks of the head (logo in yellow and black message for example), the printing of the three colors (yellow, black and blue postal for example) being made indeed then at the same speed.
  • the printing speed can be maintained if the quality obtained is sufficient, or reduced to obtain better print quality and especially better contrast.
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