EP2476558A1 - Dispositif d'impression faisant appel à une technologie d'injection d'encre - Google Patents

Dispositif d'impression faisant appel à une technologie d'injection d'encre Download PDF

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EP2476558A1
EP2476558A1 EP10813377A EP10813377A EP2476558A1 EP 2476558 A1 EP2476558 A1 EP 2476558A1 EP 10813377 A EP10813377 A EP 10813377A EP 10813377 A EP10813377 A EP 10813377A EP 2476558 A1 EP2476558 A1 EP 2476558A1
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José Vicente TOMÁS CLARAMONTE
Antonio Manuel Querol Villalba
Rafael VICENT ABELLÁ
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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
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/28—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for printing downwardly on flat surfaces, e.g. of books, drawings, boxes, envelopes, e.g. flat-bed ink-jet printers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F17/00—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for
    • B41F17/24—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for for printing on flat surfaces of polyhedral articles
    • 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
    • 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
    • B41J15/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in continuous form, e.g. webs
    • B41J15/04—Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles
    • B41J15/08—Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles characterised by being applied to printers having transversely- moving carriages
    • 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
    • B41J25/00—Actions or mechanisms not otherwise provided for
    • B41J25/001—Mechanisms for bodily moving print heads or carriages parallel to the paper surface
    • 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
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/407—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
    • 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
    • B41J2202/00—Embodiments of or processes related to ink-jet or thermal heads
    • B41J2202/01—Embodiments of or processes related to ink-jet heads
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  • the present invention refers to a printing device using "Inkjet" technology.
  • the main aim of the invention is to provide a printing device, especially applicable to the decoration of ceramic tiles without ruling out other applications, in which the failure of one or more of the print head nozzles does not cause major defects in the corresponding decoration.
  • the invention combines the mobility of a conveyor belt with that of the at least one print head support that acts as a multi-axis Cartesian robot, these movements being governed by a programmable controller which can also be responsible for managing the execution of the corresponding printing.
  • printers which print heads remain stationary, said print heads being fixed and distributed so as to cover the width of the object to be decorated, in this case, only the object is moved.
  • These printers are so-called “single-pass” printers, being an example of this type of printers the patent WO2000021760A1 / EP1038689B1 / ES2219068T3 stated as "DEVICE FOR DECORATING CERAMIC TILES".
  • the invention consists of a printing device using inkjet technology having print heads, each one equipped with various nozzles, and used in printings (so-called “single-pass") wherein the print heads are stationary and the object to be printed is moved beneath them.
  • the device itself has a conveyor belt capable of moving in a direction X and additionally in a direction Y perpendicular thereto, placing in such belt the objects to be printed; said device further having at least one head support on which several of the mentioned print heads are mounted; each support having independent scrolling means, at least in a direction parallel to the referred direction X and according to one or more directions different of the aforementioned direction parallel to the direction X; the movements of the belt and of each support being governed by using a programmable controller, so that the impression being performed can combine the movements of the objects to be printed and the movements of print heads in all of these directions.
  • the said print heads are distributed in the corresponding support so that they are oriented along perpendicular and oblique directions with respect to the main plane of the conveyor belt, thus allowing a simultaneous printing throughout the width of the object to be printed.
  • the displacements of the support in that direction parallel to the direction X are between a standby position and a limit switch position set in a portion of the conveyor belt length.
  • the mentioned one or more directions different to the direction parallel to the direction X, in the displacements of the print head support may include at least one U transverse direction with respect to the mentioned direction X that facilitates the interlaced print of the nozzle in a single head, as well as the interlaced print of the nozzle in different heads.
  • the print head support in addition to those parallel and transverse directions with respect to the direction X of the belt, has a vertical scroll direction that allows adjusting the height of the printing and the access to maintenance stations; so that said support can act as a three-axis Cartesian robot.
  • the aforementioned programmable controller manages the movements of the movable elements of the belt and supports, so that such movements are executed simultaneously, sequentially or in a combination of both, to either directions (forward/reverse) of each scroll direction existing in the scrollable belt and support elements; allowing the printing during both motion and stop at one, several or all of the scrollable elements.
  • the aforementioned programmable controller that governs the movements of the belt and supports of the print heads is further responsible for managing the print run, commanding the electronic signals from the nozzles of the print heads.
  • the number of supports for print heads is sized based on the number of inks to be used in the corresponding printing.
  • the device of the invention has advantages concerning to which gives movement to the print head support used in fixed head printings, and/or to the conveyor belt.
  • the movement of the supports can be combined with the movement of the object to be decorated, whereby the benefits of high productivity of "single-pass" printers are brought together with the benefits of high quality printers such as "plotter”, although the requirement of the head movements in the device of the invention in the case do not need to have such extent as in "plotter” printers, since the width of the object to be decorated is covered by the special distribution of print heads in each print head support.
  • Using the device of the invention allows the use of the functionalities of a "plotter” or a “single-pass” printer or a combination of both, thereby increasing the flexibility of printings according to the required productivity and the quality.
  • the device thereof is capable of simultaneously working with the belt running (non-stop) and performing the decoration of the object by consecutive passes of the print heads with some interlacing, by the oscillating moving of the head supports in directions parallel to the movement of the conveyor belt and perpendicular thereto.
  • the device thereof is capable of simultaneously working with the belt running (non-stop) and performing the decoration of the object by consecutive passes of the print head with an interlaced hit, by the oscillating movement of the conveyor belt in directions perpendicular to those of the movement of the object to be decorated.
  • the device of the invention behaves like a "single-pass" machine in which the print head supports, and therefore also such heads, have complete mobility in three axes, two of them being parallel to placement plane of the object to be printed and the other perpendicular to that plane in order to provide, in the case of such perpendicular axis, the benefits of allowing adjustments in the printing height and facilitating functionalities to a maintenance station.
  • the printing device using "Inkjet” technology in this example of the invention has a conveyor belt 2, in which the object to be printed 1 is located, as well as a support 4 on which various print heads 3 are distributed, as can be seen in all the figures.
  • Heads 3 are placed on the support 4 so that they are distributed perpendicularly and obliquely to the path 5 of the conveyor belt 2 in order to ease decorations throughout the width of the object 1 to be decorated 1.
  • the support 4 has its own scrolling means 6, such as shown in Figure 4 , which allow moving the support in a direction parallel to that of the referred path 5 from a standby position 8 to a limit switch position 9 such as shown in figure 2 .
  • these independent scrolling means 6 of the support 4 facilitates its horizontal movement, but in a direction perpendicular to the referred path 5 of the belt 2, allowing the interlaced print of the nozzles of the same print head or different injection heads, especially between adjacent print heads.
  • the conveyor belt 2 has means to facilitate its horizontal movement in a direction Y perpendicular to the referred path 5 of the objects to be decorated 1, allowing the interlaced print of the nozzles of the same print head or different injection heads, especially between adjacent print heads.
  • the scrolling means 6 of the support 4 are applied to a vertical axis perpendicular to the former ones, thus allowing the adjustment of the printing height and the access to maintenance stations, having referred as 7 all these possible paths in the displacement of the support 4 determining a movement in such support 4 similar to that of a three-axis Cartesian robot.
  • Print heads 3 may act decorating the object 1 both by being the conveyor belt 2 moving and the position of the support 4 fixed, and by being both in motion or by being the belt 2 stopped and the support 4 in motion. Furthermore, these movements of the belt 2 and support 4 may be simultaneously or sequentially. Furthermore, these movements may be in each direction from two directions, i.e. forward and reverse.
  • All these movements of the belt 2 and support 4 are managed by a programmable controller that also manages the execution of printing commanding the electronic signals associated with the nozzles of each print head 3.
  • this example shows a single support 4, other embodiments has a plurality of supports 4, number of which is defined depending on the number of inks used in certain decoration; all the movements of all the supports 4 and the conveyor belt 2 being synchronized by the referred programmable controller.

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ES200930657A ES2354667B1 (es) 2009-09-07 2009-09-07 Dispositivo de impresión mediante tecnología de inyección de tinta.
PCT/ES2010/070442 WO2011027012A1 (fr) 2009-09-07 2010-06-30 Dispositif d'impression faisant appel à une technologie d'injection d'encre

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