EP3148809B1 - Multiformatdrucker - Google Patents

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EP3148809B1
EP3148809B1 EP15727915.9A EP15727915A EP3148809B1 EP 3148809 B1 EP3148809 B1 EP 3148809B1 EP 15727915 A EP15727915 A EP 15727915A EP 3148809 B1 EP3148809 B1 EP 3148809B1
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Abraham Thijssen
Patrick G.H. VESTJENS
Jacobus J. KANDELAARS
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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
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/135—Nozzles
    • B41J2/165—Prevention or detection of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles
    • B41J2/16585—Prevention or detection of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles for paper-width or non-reciprocating print heads
    • B41J2/16588—Print heads movable towards the cleaning unit
    • 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
    • B41J11/0025—Handling copy materials differing in width
    • 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
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/135—Nozzles
    • B41J2/165—Prevention or detection of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles
    • B41J2/16517—Cleaning of print head nozzles
    • B41J2002/1657—Cleaning of only nozzles or print head parts being selected
    • 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
    • B41J2/00—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed
    • B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
    • B41J2/01—Ink jet
    • B41J2/135—Nozzles
    • B41J2/165—Prevention or detection of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles
    • B41J2/16585—Prevention or detection of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles for paper-width or non-reciprocating print heads
    • B41J2002/16591—Prevention or detection of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles for paper-width or non-reciprocating print heads for line print heads above an endless belt

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  • the invention relates to a printer comprising:
  • US 7 036 897 B2 discloses a printer, more specifically an ink jet printer in which the printing elements are formed by nozzles and actuators associated therewith for expelling ink droplets from the nozzles.
  • the nozzles are not active, the ink in the nozzle orifices starts to dry out, so that the nozzle orifice is contaminated and eventually clogged with dried ink, which disturbs the drop generation process and may eventually lead to a complete failure of the nozzle.
  • a maintenance operation is performed at the start of a new print job.
  • the maintenance operation consists in activating the nozzle for several hundreds of times so as to purge the nozzle orifice with liquid ink, thereby to remove any contaminants and to clear the nozzle orifice.
  • this maintenance operation would be performed for all the nozzles of the print head, a considerable amount of ink would be wasted for the maintenance operation. For this reason, it is proposed in the cited document to perform the maintenance operation only for those nozzles that will actually be needed for printing in the print job.
  • printers especially ink jet printers which are capable of processing print media sheets in different formats in random succession.
  • the print head As long as the format of the sheets does not change, it is possible to control the print head such that all nozzles that are located within the width range of the sheets are activated so frequently that the time in which an individual nozzle has been idle, the so-called nozzle open time, is kept below a certain limit which, when exceeded, would necessitate a maintenance operation.
  • the print process may involve nozzles that have not been actuated for a considerable time period, larger than the admissible nozzle open time, because these nozzles were located outside of the width range of the sheets that have been processed previously, so that the droplets ejected by these nozzles would not have hit the recording medium but would have stained the conveyer. It has therefore been common practice to perform a maintenance operation each time when such a format change occurs.
  • the maintenance operation is performed for the entire print head which, to this end, is lifted off from the conveyer and moved aside into a maintenance station where the maintenance operations are performed.
  • the maintenance operations may comprise purging the nozzles and wiping the surface in which the nozzle orifices are formed.
  • the invention provides a printer of the type indicated above, wherein the maintenance manager is adapted to decide on a maintenance operation on the basis of whether or not the actuation instructions for the dot printing elements located outside of the width range of the narrow format but inside the width range of the wider format specify that at least one of these dot printing elements is needed for printing a part of the image.
  • the invention is based on the consideration that, when the format of the sheets changes from a narrower format to a wider format, this does not necessarily mean that a maintenance operation is actually needed. For example, there may be cases in which the nozzles that are located outside of the width range of the narrower format that has been processed previously are not needed for printing an image on the sheets of the wider format, neither. For this reason, the invention involves an analysis of the actuation instructions for the printing elements, which permits to decide whether the nozzles located outside of the width range of the previous format will actually be needed.
  • the invention permits to avoid unnecessary but time-consuming maintenance operations, so that the productivity of the printer can be increased and less ink, to the extent needed by the maintenance operations, will be spoiled.
  • the actuation instructions for all printing elements on the entire width of this format include spitting instructions assuring that all nozzles will be actuated in time intervals smaller than the admissible nozzle open time.
  • the maintenance manager may therefore preferably perform an analysis of the actuation instructions, including the spitting instructions, for a number of sheets that have been processed earlier, in order to determine the nozzle open times.
  • the maintenance operations may include different types of operations which differ in their cleaning efficiency, and the maintenance manager may decide on the basis of the nozzle open times not only whether a maintenance operation is to be performed at all, but also which of the available maintenance operations shall be performed.
  • the printer shown in Fig. 1 comprises a conveyer 10 arranged to convey print media sheets 1 - 9 one after another in a conveying direction X, and a print head 12 disposed at the conveyer 10 and having an array 14 of dot printing elements, the array extending in a direction Z normal to the conveying direction.
  • the print head is arranged to print images 16, 18 onto the media sheets 1 - 9 in accordance with actuation instructions 20 sent to the print head.
  • the printer further includes an electronic controller 22 which controls the overall operation of the printer.
  • the controller 22 receives print instructions 24 from a print job file that is transmitted to the controller 22 via a network or has been temporarily stored on a storage medium that is connected to the controller 22.
  • the controller 22 On the basis of the print instructions 24, the controller 22 generates the actuation instructions 20 for the print head 12.
  • the print instructions 24 may further include format instructions specifying a format of the sheets 1 - 9 on which the pages of the print job shall be printed.
  • a feeder 26 is disposed at an upstream end of the conveyer 10 and arranged to receive instructions from the controller 22 so as to withdraw cut sheets with the required format from one of a plurality of bins (not shown) and to feed these sheets in the desired sequence to the conveyer 10.
  • the print instructions 24 may further comprise instructions specifying whether the images 16, 18 are to be printed only on one side of each sheet (simplex printing) or on both sides (duplex printing).
  • duplex printing the sheets with a first image printed on one side thereof are re-circulated via a duplex loop 28 back to the feeder 26, and they are fed to the conveyer 10 in reverse orientation, so that another image will then be printed on the second side of the sheet.
  • the print head 12 is disposed above the conveyer 10 in a position in which the array 14 of printing elements extends over the entire width of the conveyer 10.
  • the printer is an ink jet printer, and the printing elements are constituted by nozzles from which ink droplets are expelled onto the media sheets 1 - 9 in accordance with the actuation instructions 20.
  • each nozzle is associated with an actuator, e.g. a piezoelectric actuator that generates a pressure wave in the liquid ink, such that the pressure wave may propagate to the nozzle to cause a droplet to be formed and expelled.
  • the ink in the nozzle orifice may dry out, so that a certain amount of dried ink is deposited in the nozzle orifice and will disturb the subsequent droplet generation or will clog the nozzle orifice completely, causing the nozzle to fail. In such a case, a maintenance operation is required for cleaning the nozzle again.
  • the print head 12 is disposed on a manipulator 30 that is arranged to lift the entire print head 12 off from the conveyer 10 and to move it laterally to a maintenance station 32 where all the nozzles of the print head are purged with either ink or a specific cleaning liquid.
  • the maintenance operation may further include a wiping step in which a surface of the print head 12 that includes the nozzle orifices is wiped, e.g. with a wet sheet, so as to remove any remnants of dried ink.
  • the manipulator 30 moves the print head 12 back to the operative position shown in Fig. 1 .
  • the maintenance station 32 and the manipulator 30 are controlled by a maintenance manager 34 which is capable of analysing the print instructions 24 as well as the actuation instructions 20 being generating in the controller.
  • the controller 22 - including the maintenance manager 34 - is arranged to schedule all operations of the printer in advance for a certain number of pages, e.g. 200 pages to be printed in accordance with the print instructions 24.
  • the time interval for which an individual nozzle has not been active since the last actuation is called the nozzle open time.
  • the maintenance manager 34 is capable of monitoring the nozzle open times of each individual nozzle and to compare these nozzle open times to certain limits which indicate the necessity of a maintenance operation.
  • the printer is capable of performing different types of maintenance operations, and each of these types of maintenance operations is associated with a specific limit.
  • a maintenance operation will be performed when the nozzle open time exceeds the associated limit but does not exceed a higher limit that is associated with another (more intense or efficient) maintenance operation.
  • a maintenance operation with a relative low open time limit is a so-called pre-fire operation which can be performed by the print head 12 itself without using the maintenance station 32.
  • the actuators for the pertinent nozzles of the print head are energized to cause vibrations in the liquid ink in the nozzle orifice with an amplitude that is not sufficient for expelling an ink droplet.
  • these vibrations will help to remove or dissolve possible contaminations in the form of dried ink in the nozzle orifice, especially, when the ink is just about to dry out and has not yet dried completely.
  • the ink droplet will be "spit" onto a portion of the sheet which should remain white according to the print instructions.
  • the spitting process does not degrade the quality of the printed image but nevertheless helps to keep the nozzle open times low.
  • the nozzle that performs the spitting operation is located within the contour of the sheet, because otherwise the ink droplet would be spit onto the surface of the conveyer 10 and would stain the conveyer (and consequently the back sides of the sheets and the images printed thereon in the duplex mode).
  • the spitting instructions are generated in the controller 22 on the basis of the monitored nozzle open times and can be considered as a specific type of actuation instructions.
  • the maintenance monitor 34 checks whether or not a maintenance operation is necessary and, if yes, which maintenance operation should be performed. The decision is taken on the basis of the actuation instructions 20, including the spitting instructions, for the pertinent nozzles. Among others, the maintenance manager 34 will derive from the actuation instructions, at least for those nozzles that will be required for printing the next sheet, the nozzle open times that will have elapsed when the nozzle is actuated for printing on the next wide format sheet as scheduled.
  • Fig. 2 is a flow diagram illustrating the operations that the maintenance manager 34 will perform for each sheet that is being scheduled for printing.
  • step S1 it is decided whether the sheet (sheet n) that is being scheduled for printing has a width, i.e. a dimension in the direction Z, which is smaller than or equal to the width of the last sheet (n-1) that has been scheduled before. If that condition is fulfilled (Y), then the sheet n is scheduled for printing in step S2, which means that no maintenance operation shall be performed immediately before that sheet n reaches the print head 12.
  • step S1 If the condition specified in step S1 is not fulfilled (N), then the maintenance manager 34 checks the nozzle open times for all nozzles that will be used for sheet n but were not used for sheet n-1.
  • the "nozzles that will be used for sheet n" include only those nozzles that are actually needed for printing the desired image, but not the nozzles that will only be scheduled for spitting.
  • the nozzles that were "not used for sheet n-1" will include the nozzles that have been used neither for printing the desired image nor for spitting. Consequently, all the nozzles of the print head 12 that are located in the width range w1 of the narrow format sheets (sheets 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8 in Fig. 1 ) may be excluded from consideration in step S3 because these nozzles will have been used at least for spitting.
  • the nozzle open times to be checked in step S3 for each of the remaining nozzles is counted from the last instant when the nozzle has been used either for printing an image dot (firing) or for spitting until the time instant when the nozzle is scheduled for being actuated again, either for printing actual image information or for spitting.
  • a nozzle may be scheduled for spitting as soon as the leading edge of a sheet has reached the X position of the nozzle.
  • a nozzle may be scheduled for spitting as soon as the leading edge of a sheet has reached the X position of the nozzle.
  • there may be a large number of nozzles that need spitting at that time so that a faint line would be printed on the leading edge of the sheet.
  • step S4 the maintenance manager 34 checks for each of the nozzles which have not been used for sheet n-1, whether the nozzle open time is larger than a first limit T1 that is associated with the purge and wipe maintenance operation to be performed in the maintenance station 32. If that is the case (Y), this maintenance operation is performed in step S5. This means that the print production process has to be interrupted for the duration of the maintenance operation. Subsequently sheet n is planned in step S8.
  • step S6 When the limit T1 has not been exceeded in step S4 (N), it is checked in step S6 whether the nozzle open time for at least one of the nozzles that will be needed for the sheet N exceeds a lower second limit T2. If that is the case (Y), the maintenance manager schedules, in step S7, a pre-fire maintenance operation which is less efficient than the purge and wipe maintenance operation performed in step S5 but is sufficient if the nozzle open time was not too long.
  • the pre-fire maintenance operation has the advantage that it may be performed with the print head 12 remaining "in-situ", i.e. in the operative position shown in Fig. 1 .
  • the sheet In continuation from step S7 the sheet is planned in step S8.
  • step S6 If it is found in step S6 that the nozzle open time for the nozzles in consideration does not even exceed the lower limit T2 (N), then the sheet n is scheduled for printing without any maintenance operation at all, so that even the less time-consuming maintenance operation in step S7 can be spared.
  • step S6 is left out from the method and from step S4 (N) the method continues with step S7.
  • the format changes from the narrow format of the sheet 2 to the wide-format of the sheet 3 and, consequently the maintenance manager 34 decides on a maintenance operation.
  • the maintenance manager my find in step S6 that the nozzle open times for the nozzles, even in the above-mentioned image parts near the edges of sheet 3, exceed only the smaller limit T2 but not the larger limit T1. Consequently, the maintenance manager will decide to perform a pre-fire maintenance operation before printing the sheet 3.
  • the nozzle open time will again exceed the higher limit T1, and then a decision on a maintenance operation has to be made for the next wide format sheet 9.
  • the image 16 to be printed on the sheet 9 overlaps the margin areas 36, so that nozzles will be needed for which the limit T1 has been exceeded. Consequently, the maintenance manager 34 will in this case decide in step S4 that the time-consuming purge and wipe maintenance operation in the maintenance station 32 cannot be avoided.
  • the sheets 1 - 9 shown in Fig. 1 are to be printed in the duplex mode, the sheets will be re-circulated through the duplex loop 28 and back to the feeder 26.
  • the time required for re-circulating the sheets through the duplex loop is larger than the time needed for printing the sheets 1 - 9 on the first side, there may be a time gap in the printing sequence, and this gap will add to the nozzle open times that are checked in step S3.
  • the nozzle open time should be checked for all the nozzles of the print head including those within the width range w1 of the narrow format, because there is actually no sheet that immediately precedes the sheet to be scheduled (no sheet n-1), and consequently no nozzles have been used at all.
  • the purge and wipe maintenance operation in step S5 may of course be scheduled for a time so early that the time gap in the print sequence may be utilized for performing at least a part of the maintenance operation, thereby to enhance productivity.

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  1. Drucker mit:
    - einer Fördereinrichtung (10), die dazu ausgebildet ist, Bögen (1 - 9) einen nach dem anderen in einer Förderrichtung (X) zu transportieren;
    - einem Druckkopf (12), der an der Fördereinrichtung (10) angeordnet ist und ein Feld von Punktdruckelementen aufweist, wobei das Feld sich in einer Richtung Z rechtwinklig zu der Förderrichtung erstreckt, der Druckkopf (12) dazu ausgebildet ist, Bilder (16, 18) in Übereinstimmung mit Betätigungsbefehlen (20), die an den Drucckopf gesendet werden, auf die Bögen (1 - 9) zu drucken; und
    - einem Wartungsmanager (34), der dazu eingerichtet ist, die Betätigungsbefehle (20) zu analysieren und auf der Grundlage der Betätigungsbefehle (20) über eine Wartungsoperation für den Druckkopf (12) zu entscheiden, und
    - einer Steuereinrichtung (22), die dazu ausgebildet ist, Druckbefehle (24), die auf die Medienbögen (1 - 9) zu druckende Bilder (16, 18) spezifizieren, in Betätigungsbefehle (20) für den Druckkopf (12) umzuwandeln,
    - wobei die Fördereinrichtung (10) dazu ausgebildet ist, Bögen (1 - 9) mit unterschiedlichen Formaten, die sich in ihrer Abmessung in der Richtung Z unterscheiden, zu transportieren, und der Wartungsmanager (34) dazu eingerichtet ist, über die Wartungsoperation zu entscheiden wann immer das Format der zu dem Druckkopf (12) zu transportierenden Bögen sich von einem schmaleren Format auf ein breiteres Format mit einer Abmessung in Z-Richtung größer als die des schmaleren Formats ändert, auf der Grundlage von Betätigungsbefehlen (20) für druckende Elemente, die sich innerhalb des Breitenbereiches (w2) des breiteren Formats jedoch außerhalb des Breitenbereiches (w1) des schmaleren Formats befinden,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Wartungsmanager (34) dazu eingerichtet ist, über eine Wartungsoperation zu entscheiden abhängig davon, ob die Betätigungsbefehle (20) für die Punktdruckelemente, die sich außerhalb des Breitenbereiches (w1) des schmaleren Formats jedoch innerhalb des Breitenbereiches (w2) des breiteren Formats befinden, spezifizieren, dass wenigstens eines dieser Punktdruckelemente für das Drucken eines Teils des Bildes benötigt wird oder nicht.
  2. Drucker nach Anspruch 1, der dazu ausgebildet ist, eine Wartungsoperation für den gesamten Druckkopf (12) auszuführen.
  3. Drucker nach Anspruch 2, mit einer Wartungsstation (32) und einem Manipulator (30) zum Bewegen des Druckkopfes (12) zwischen der Wartungsstation (32) und einer Betriebsposition an der Fördereinrichtung (10).
  4. Drucker nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, bei dem die Steuereinrichtung (22) dazu ausgebildet ist, Betätigungsbefehle (20) zu erzeugen, die Spül-Befehle zum Drucken von Punkten darstellen, die nicht Teil eines Bildes sind, wie es durch die Druckbefehle (24) spezifiziert wird.
  5. Drucker nach Anspruch 4, bei dem der Wartungsmanager (34) dazu ausgebildet ist, über eine Wartungsoperation zu entscheiden auf der Grundlage von Düsen-Öffnungszeiten, die von dem Zeitpunkt an gezählt werden, für den das Punktdruckelement dazu eingeplant war, das letzte Mal betätigt zu werden, bis zu der Zeit zu der das Punktdruckelement nächstes Mal zu betätigen ist, und zwar für jedes der Punktdruckelemente, die sich außerhalb des Breitenbereiches (w1) des schmaleren Formats und innerhalb des Breitenbereiches (w2) des breiteren Formats befinden.
  6. Drucker nach Anspruch 5, dazu ausgebildet, verschiedene Typen von Wartungsoperationen auszuführen, wobei der Wartungsmanager (34) dazu eingerichtet ist, auf der Basis der Düsen-Öffnungszeiten zu entscheiden, welche Art von Wartungsoperationen auszuführen ist, wenn überhaupt eine Wartungsoperation auszuführen ist.
  7. Drucker nach Anspruch 6, bei dem die Typen der Wartungsoperationen eine Vor-Feuer-Wartungsoperation einschließen.
  8. Drucker nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, bei dem der Wartungsmanager dazu eingerichtet ist, die Betätigungsbefehle vorab für eine Vielzahl von Seiten zu analysieren, die nach einer Seite zu drucken sind, die aktuell zu dem Druckkopf (12) zugeführt wird.
  9. Druckverfahren mit:
    - transportieren einer Vielzahl von Bögen (1 - 9) eines Druckmediums eins nach dem anderen in einer Förderrichtung (X), wobei die transportierten Bögen unterschiedliche Formate haben, die sich in ihrer Abmessung in einer Richtung Z senkrecht zu der Förderrichtung (X) unterscheiden,
    - verarbeiten von Druckbefehlen (24) für eine Vielzahl von Seiten, die auf die Medienbögen (1 - 9) zu drucken sind, und umwandeln derselben in Betätigungsbefehle (20) für Punktdruckelemente eines Druckkopfes (12), wobei die Punktdruckelemente in einem Feld (14) angeordnet sind, das sich in der Richtung Z erstreckt;
    - wann immer das Format eines zu dem Druckkopf (12) zu transportierenden Bogens sich von einem schmaleren Format auf ein breiteres Format mit einer Abmessung in der Richtung Z größer als diejenige des schmaleren Formats ändert, entscheiden, abhängig davon, ob die Betätigungsbefehle (20) für die Punktdruckelemente, die sich außerhalb des Breitenbereiches (w1) des schmaleren Formats jedoch innerhalb des Breitenbereiches (w2) des breiteren Formats befinden, spezifizieren, dass wenigstens eines dieser Punktdruckelemente für das Drucken eines Teils des Bildes benötigt wird oder nicht, über eine Wartungsoperation, die sofort auszuführen ist, bevor der Bogen mit dem breiteren Format den Druckkopf (12) erreicht.
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