EP3318411B1 - Druckvorrichtung und einstellungsverfahren für eine druckvorrichtung - Google Patents

Druckvorrichtung und einstellungsverfahren für eine druckvorrichtung Download PDF

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EP3318411B1
EP3318411B1 EP17199592.1A EP17199592A EP3318411B1 EP 3318411 B1 EP3318411 B1 EP 3318411B1 EP 17199592 A EP17199592 A EP 17199592A EP 3318411 B1 EP3318411 B1 EP 3318411B1
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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
    • 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
    • B41J15/048—Conveyor belts or like feeding devices
    • 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
    • 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
    • B41J11/007—Conveyor belts or like feeding devices
    • 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
    • B41J11/008—Controlling printhead for accurately positioning print image on printing material, e.g. with the intention to control the width of margins
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H23/00—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs

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  • the present invention relates to a printing apparatus that performs printing on a printing medium transported by a belt, and to an adjustment method for the printing apparatus.
  • an ink jet printer that, just like, for example, a fabric printing apparatus that performs printing on long-sized fabric, performs printing on a printing medium having been transported by a transport belt has been well known.
  • a printing apparatus techniques for reducing the degradation of printing quality due to transport accuracy (error) in the transport of the printing medium by the transport belt have been considered.
  • a printing apparatus image formation apparatus
  • a transport belt configured to transport a printing medium (printing paper) in a transport direction (sub-scanning direction)
  • a line head including nozzles extending along a main-scanning direction orthogonal to the transport direction
  • a correction means configured to correct timing points of the discharge of ink droplets from the line head so as to allow the timing points to be associated with ink-droplet landing-position discrepancies that occur along with the revolving of the transport belt.
  • JP-A-2015-187035 there is disclosed a printing apparatus including a meandering detection means configured to detect meandering of a printing medium (recording medium) in a state of being transported, and a control means configured to perform meandering elimination processing for eliminating the detected meandering.
  • the occurrence of rucks can be reduced by detecting and eliminating the meandering of the printing medium, but there is a room for improvement in the correction of ink-droplet landing-position discrepancies in the main-scanning direction orthogonal to the transport direction (the sub-scanning direction) because of situations, such as a situation where it is difficult to achieve sufficient correction in the sizes of ink droplets and the accuracy in the pitch between ink droplets.
  • US 2005/0219557 A1 discloses a printer which ejects ink droplets continuously onto the left edge of an endless belt while the endless belt is rotating, stops the endless belt, detects the positions of the ink droplets on the endless belt, and thereby detects meandering of printing paper. This makes it possible to prevent distortion of printed images caused by meandering of the printing paper based on the detected meandering, allowing information to be printed on an entire printing surface of the printing paper unlike, for example, a conventional method which prints register marks on printing paper, checks for meandering of the register marks, and thereby detects meandering of the printing paper.
  • An advantage of some aspects of the invention is that a printing apparatus and an adjustment method for the printing apparatus are provided that enable a correction relative to displacements of a transport belt that occur in a direction intersecting with a transport direction of the transport belt to be made with higher accuracy.
  • the invention can be achieved as the following application examples and an embodiment described later.
  • a printing apparatus according to this application example is set out in claim 1.
  • the control section corrects positions for imparting ink droplets, in the direction intersecting with the transport direction, on the basis of the displacement characteristic data indicating the displacement amounts of the transport belt that arise in the direction intersecting with the transport direction along with the movements of the transport belt in the transport direction. That is, the positions of the ink droplets imparted onto the printing medium which is transported by the transport belt and whose position is displaced along with the displacements of the transport belt are corrected on the basis of the displacement characteristic data, indicating the displacement amounts of the transport belt that arise in the direction intersecting with the transport direction along with the movements of the transport belt in the transport direction.
  • a correction relative to the displacements of the transport belt that occur in the direction intersecting with the transport direction is made with higher accuracy, and the degradation of printing quality that occurs along with the displacements is further effectively minimized.
  • control section determines a reference position for the printing in the direction intersecting with the transport direction based on the displacement characteristic data.
  • control section determines a reference position for the printing in the direction intersecting with the transport direction on the basis of the displacement characteristic data indicating the displacement amounts of the transport belt that arise in the direction intersecting with the transport direction along with the movements of the transport belt in the transport direction.
  • the displacement characteristic data includes at least one cycle of data in which the displacement values vary, and, based on at least one displacement amount which is among the displacement amounts and each of which is associated with and obtained at a corresponding one of at least one circumferential position of the transport belt within the one cycle, the control section corrects positions for imparting the ink droplets, in the direction intersecting with the transport direction at each said at least one circumferential position.
  • the displacement characteristic data indicating the displacement amounts of the transport belt that arise in the direction intersecting with the transport direction along with the movements of the transport belt in the transport direction includes at least one cycle of data in which the displacement amounts vary. Further, based on at least one displacement amount which is among the displacement amounts and each of which is associated with and obtained at at least one corresponding circumferential position of the transport belt within the one cycle, the control section corrects positions for imparting the ink droplets, in the direction intersecting with the transport direction at each said at least one circumferential position.
  • the positions of the ink droplets imparted onto the printing medium which is transported by the transport belt and whose position is displaced along with the displacements of the transport belt are corrected on the basis of the displacement characteristic data, that is, data indicating displacement values each associated with a corresponding one of movement positions of the transport belt in the transport direction.
  • the correction with the displacements of the transport belt in the direction intersecting with the transport direction is made with higher accuracy, and the degradation of printing quality is minimized.
  • an image processing section configured to obtain the displacement characteristic data by recognizing an image of a predetermined pattern having been printed by the printing section, and performing image processing on the recognized image of the predetermined pattern is further included.
  • the printing apparatus is configured to, in order to measure the displacement values that arise in the direction intersecting with the transport direction along with the movements of the transport belt in the transport direction, include an image processing section configured to obtain the displacement characteristic data by recognizing an image of a predetermined pattern having been printed by the printing section, and performing image processing on the recognized image of the predetermined pattern.
  • a user of the printing apparatus is able to update the displacement characteristic data so as to allow the displacement characteristic data to reflect the latest condition of the printing apparatus.
  • the correction with the displacements of the transport belt in the direction intersecting with the transport direction is made with higher accuracy, and the degradation of printing quality is minimized.
  • the adjustment method for the printing apparatus includes a step of obtaining displacement characteristic data indicating displacement values of the transport belt that arise in the direction intersecting with the transport direction along with movements of the transport belt in the transport direction, and a step of determining, based on the displacement characteristic data, at least one circumferential position of the transport belt at which the adjustment of the printing apparatus is performed. Further, at each said at least one circumferential position having been determined, the adjustment of ink-droplet imparting positions in the direction intersecting with the transport direction is performed.
  • the adjustment of the ink-droplet imparting positions in the direction intersecting with the transport direction is performed at each said at least one circumferential position having been determined on the basis of the displacement characteristic data indicating the displacement values of the transport belt that arise along with the movements of the transport belt in the transport direction.
  • This configuration therefore, enables the adjustment of the ink-droplet imparting positions to be performed at positions where the displacements of the transport belt in the direction intersecting with the transport direction are further stable, and as a result, this configuration enables the adjustment to be performed further appropriately.
  • the adjustment of an ink-droplet imparting position in the direction intersecting with the transport direction can be performed at the most frequent position at which the transport belt is most frequently located in the direction intersecting with the transport direction, and thus, an effective adjustment that allows the ratio of a contribution of a period of time during which the adjustment result is reflected to be higher is achieved.
  • a Z-axis direction indicates an upper-lower direction; a +Z-axis direction indicates an upper direction; an X-axis direction indicates a front-back direction; a -X-axis direction indicates a front direction; a Y-axis direction indicates a left-right direction; a +Y-axis direction indicates a left direction; and an X-Y plane is a horizontal plane.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a fabric printing apparatus 100, that is, a fabric printing apparatus taken as an example of a printing apparatus described by way of background to the present invention, and illustrates a front view of the fabric printing apparatus 100 installed on a floor surface 9.
  • the fabric printing apparatus 100 is an ink jet printing apparatus that performs printing on fabric 1, that is, fabric taken as an example of a "printing medium", by discharging (imparting) ink droplets onto the fabric 1 to form an image thereon.
  • fabric used as the fabric 1 include, but are not limited to, cotton, silk, wool, synthetic fabric, and blended fabric.
  • the fabric printing apparatus 100 includes a fabric supplying section 10, a fabric transporting section 20, a fabric collecting section 30, a printing section 40, a maintenance section 50, a fabric pressing and adhering section 60, an apparatus controller 80, an image processing device 90, and any other component.
  • the fabric supplying section 10 contains the fabric 1 before subjected to the imparting of inks, that is, in a state not subjected to formation of a desired image.
  • the fabric supplying section 10 includes a shaft portion 11 and a shaft receiving portion 12.
  • the shaft portion 11 supports the band-shaped fabric 1 in a state of being wounded in a roll shape so as to allow the fabric 1 to be rotatable in a circumferential direction.
  • the shaft portion 11 is attached to the shaft receiving portion 12 so as to be attachable/detachable to/from the shaft receiving portion 12.
  • the shaft receiving portion 12 includes a rotation driving portion (omitted from illustration) for driving the rotation of the shaft portion 11, and supports the shaft portion 11 so as to allow the shaft portion 11 to be rotatable.
  • the rotation driving portion is controlled by the apparatus controller 80 so as to rotate the shaft portion 11 in a direction in which the fabric 1 is fed out in the case where the fabric 1 is stretch fabric. Further, in the case where the fabric 1 is fabric to which tension is required to be applied, control that allows a load to be applied so as not to rotate the shaft portion 11 is performed.
  • the fabric transporting section 20 transports the fabric 1 using a transport path from the fabric supplying section 10 to the fabric collecting section 30 via the printing section 40.
  • the fabric transport section 20 includes transport rollers 21, 26, and 28, a tension roller 22, a transport belt 23, a belt rotation roller 24, a belt driving roller 25, a drying unit 27, a belt guide 29, and any other constituent element.
  • the transporting belt 23 is formed in an endless shape, and is hung on the belt roller 24 and the belt driving roller 25.
  • the transporting belt 23 is kept in a state in which predetermined tension is applied to its portion hung across the belt rotation roller 24 and the belt driving roller 25 so as to allow the portion hung therebetween to be kept parallel to the floor surface 9.
  • the transport belt 23 includes an adherence layer (omitted from illustration) provided on the surface thereof (i.e., on a support face 23a thereof) and causing the fabric 1 to adhere to the support face 23a.
  • the transport belt 23 supports the fabric 1 using the support face 23a, on which the adherence layer is provided.
  • the belt rotation roller 24 and the belt driving roller 25 support an inner circumference face 23b of the transport belt 23.
  • a configuration that allows a support portion for supporting the transport belt 23 from the inner circumference face 23b to be provided between the belt rotation roller 24 and the belt driving roller 25 may be employed.
  • the belt driving roller 25 is disposed at the downstream side of the belt rotation roller 24.
  • the belt driving roller 25 allows its rotation to be controlled by the apparatus controller 80.
  • the rotation of the belt driving roller 25 causes the transport belt 23 to rotate, and with the rotation of the transport belt 23, the belt rotation roller 24 rotates.
  • the rotation of the transport belt 23 transports the fabric 1, which is supported by the transport belt 23 (using the support face 23a), in a transport direction. That is, a direction from the belt rotation roller 24 toward the belt driving roller 25 corresponds to the transport direction.
  • the tension roller 22 is provided between the fabric supplying section 10 and the transport belt 23 in the transport path, and generates and applies predetermined tension to the fabric 1 between the transport belt 23 (the support face 23a adhered to the fabric 1) and the tension roller 22 itself.
  • the transport roller 21 relays the fabric 1 between the fabric supplying section 10 and the tension roller 22.
  • the transport roller 26 relays the fabric 1 having been transported by the transport belt 23.
  • the drying unit 27 is provided between the transport roller 26 and the transport roller 28 to guide and dry the fabric 1 after being subjected to the imparting of inks.
  • the transport roller 28 relays the fabric 1 having been guided by the drying unit 27 to the fabric collecting section 30.
  • the belt guide 29 is a pair of flat-plate shaped guides that is provided so as to pinch the transport belt 23 from the both width-direction edge sides of the transport belt 23 in a region (a printing region) existing on the transport belt 23 and facing the printing section 40, and restrains the displacement of the transport belt 23 in a direction intersecting with the transport direction.
  • the fabric collecting section 30 contains the fabric 1 having been subjected to the imparting and the drying of inks (that is, having been subjected to formation (printing) of a desired image).
  • the fabric collecting section 30 includes a shaft portion 31 and a shaft receiving portion 32.
  • the shaft portion 31 is provided so as to be rotatable in a circumferential direction to wind the fabric 1 in a roll shape and contain it.
  • the shaft portion 31 is attached so as to be attachable/detachable to/from the shaft receiving portion 32.
  • the shaft receiving portion 32 includes a rotation driving portion (omitted from illustration) for driving the rotation of the shaft portion 31, and supports the shaft portion 31 so as to allow the shaft portion 31 to be rotatable.
  • the rotation driving portion is controlled by the apparatus controller 80 to rotate the shaft portion 31 in a direction in which the fabric 1 is wound.
  • the printing section 40 is controlled by the apparatus controller 80, and discharges ink droplets to the fabric 1.
  • the printing section 40 includes a head 41, a head moving section 42, and an ink supplying section (omitted from illustration).
  • the head 41 includes a discharge face 41a, and from this discharge face 41a, inks supplied from the ink supplying section are discharged as ink droplets.
  • a plurality of nozzles 43 are formed on the discharge face 41a, and the ink droplets are discharged through these nozzles 43.
  • the discharge face 41a is provided so as to face the fabric 1 in a state of being transported by the transport belt 23.
  • the head moving section 42 includes a carriage mounting the head 41 therein, a guide shaft provided in a direction intersecting with the transport direction of the fabric 1, a driving mechanism for moving the carriage along the guide shaft, and any other component (these components being omitted from illustration), and moves the head 41 in a width direction of the fabric 1 (the X-axis direction), that is, in a direction intersecting with the transport direction.
  • Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of the arrangement of the nozzles 43 that is seen from the bottom face side of the head 41.
  • the head 41 allows the plurality of nozzles 43 arranged along the transport direction (the Y-axis direction) of the fabric 1 to form, for example, four nozzle rows, and is configured to discharge, for each of the nozzle rows, a corresponding one of mutually different colors (for example, cyan: C, magenta: M, yellow: Y, and black: K).
  • each of the nozzle rows is constituted by 400 nozzles 43, that is, #1 to #400 nozzles 43.
  • the maintenance section 50 (see Fig. 1 ) is controlled by the apparatus controller 80, and performs the maintenance of the transport belt 23.
  • the maintenance section 50 includes a processing portion 51, a base portion 52, and any other component.
  • the processing portion 51 includes mechanisms for performing various processes on the transport belt 23, such as a removal portion for removing foreign matters, such as dust and lint, adhered to the transport belt 23, an adherence layer repairing portion for repairing the adherence layer of the transport belt 23 when the adherence layer has been degraded (these mechanisms being omitted from illustration).
  • the base portion 52 supports the processing portion 51 so as to enable the processing portion 51 to move up and down.
  • the fabric pressing and adhering section 60 is disposed above the transport belt 23 at the upstream side of the printing section 40 in the transport path.
  • the fabric pressing and adhering section 60 presses and adheres the fabric 1 onto the support face 23a, including the adherence layer, to prevent the fabric 1 from separating (floating) from the transport belt 23.
  • Fig. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the functions of the apparatus controller 80 and the image processing device 90.
  • the image processing device 90 includes an image control section 91, an input section 92, a display section 93, a storage section 94, and any other component, and performs processes, such as transmitting/receiving of data to/from external electronic devices connected to the image processing device 90 itself via networks or the like, job control of the printing performed by the fabric printing apparatus 100, and an image process in relation to the printing.
  • the image processing device 90 is constituted using a personal computer as a suitable example.
  • Software in accordance with which the image processing device 90 operates includes commonly-used image processing application software (hereinafter referred to as application) for dealing with image data on the basis of which printing is performed, and printer driver software (hereinafter referred to as a printer driver) for generating printing data needed for the execution of the printing by the fabric printing apparatus 100 based on the image data.
  • application image processing application software
  • printer driver software hereinafter referred to as a printer driver
  • the image control section 91 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 95, an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) 96, a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) 97, a memory 98, an interface 99, and any other component.
  • CPU Central Processing Unit
  • ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
  • DSP Digital Signal Processor
  • the input section 92 is an information inputting means serving as a human interface.
  • the input means 92 corresponds to components, such as a key board and ports to which information input devices are connected.
  • the display section 93 is an information display means (a display) serving as a human interface, and allows information input from the input section 92, an image to be printed, information in relation to the printing job, and any other information to be displayed on the display section 93 itself on the basis of the control of the image control section 91.
  • a display serving as a human interface
  • the storage section 94 is a rewritable storage medium, such as a hard disk drive (HDD) or a memory card, and allows software in accordance with which the image processing device 90 operates (i.e., programs operated in the image processing section 91), an image to be printed, information in relation to the printing job, and any other information to be stored in the storage section 94 itself.
  • HDD hard disk drive
  • the storage section 94 allows software in accordance with which the image processing device 90 operates (i.e., programs operated in the image processing section 91), an image to be printed, information in relation to the printing job, and any other information to be stored in the storage section 94 itself.
  • the memory 98 is a storage medium for securing an area for storing therein programs in accordance with which the CPU 95 operates, a work area for use in the operation of the CPU 95, and any other area, and is constituted by storage elements, such as RAM and EEPROM.
  • the device control section 80 includes an interface 81, a CPU 82, a memory 83, a driving control section 84, and any other component, and performs overall control of individual driving portions of the fabric printing apparatus 100. Specifically, the device control section 80 performs control of the printing section 40 (ink discharge control on the head 41 and head movement control on the head moving section 42), transport drive control on the fabric transporting section 20, and any other control.
  • the device control section 80 performs control so as to allow two successive operations to be repeated: one being an operation of discharging ink droplets from the head 41 onto the fabric 1 having been supplied to the printing region by the fabric transporting section 20 in accordance with the printing data having been sent from the image processing device 90 while moving the carriage supporting the head 41 in a main-scanning direction (the X-axis direction) along the guide shaft; the other being an operation of causing the fabric transporting section 20 (the transport belt 23) to move the fabric 1 in the transport direction (the Y-axis direction) intersecting with the main-scanning direction. With the repetition of these two successive operations, a desired image is formed (printed) on the fabric 1.
  • the interface 81 is connected to the image processing device 90 (the interface 99), and transmits/receives data to/from the image processing device 90.
  • the CPU 82 is an arithmetic processing device for performing driving control of the whole of the fabric printing device 100.
  • the memory 83 is a storage medium for ensuring an area for storing therein programs in accordance with which the CPU 82 operates, a work area for use in the operation of the CPU 82, and any other area, and is constituted by storage elements, such as RAM and EEPROM.
  • the CPU 82 controls the fabric supplying section 10, the fabric transporting section 20, the fabric collecting section 30, the printing section 40, the maintenance section 50, and the fabric pressing and adhering section 60 via the driving control section 84 in accordance with the programs stored in the memory 83 and the printing data having been received from the image processing device 90.
  • Fig. 3 is a diagram illustrating the fundamental functions of the printer driver.
  • the printing on the fabric 1 is started at the time when the printer driver transmits printing data from the image processing device 90 to the apparatus controller 80.
  • the printing data is generated by the printer driver.
  • the printer driver Upon receipt of image data from application, the printer driver converts the image data into printing data having a format interpretable by the apparatus controller 80, and outputs the printing data to the apparatus controller 80.
  • the printer driver When converting the image data from the application into the printing data, the printer driver performs resolution conversion processing, color conversion processing, halftone processing, rasterization processing, command addition processing, and any other processing.
  • the resolution conversion processing is processing for converting the resolution of the image data having been output from the application into a resolution (printing resolution) for printing on the fabric 1.
  • a resolution printing resolution
  • the image data of a vector format having been received from the application is converted into image data of a bitmap format and a resolution of 720 ⁇ 720 dpi.
  • Each piece of pixel data constituting the image data after the resolution conversion processing is constituted by pixels arranged in a matrix shape.
  • Each of the pixels has a grayscale value among, for example, 256 grayscale values in an RGB color space. That is, each piece of pixel data after the resolution conversion processing indicates the grayscale values of a corresponding pixel.
  • Pieces of pixel data corresponding to a row of pixels arranged in a predetermined direction among the pixels arranged in the matrix shape are called raster data.
  • the predetermined direction in which the pixels corresponding to the raster data are arranged corresponds to the movement direction of the head 41 (i.e., the main-scanning direction) at the time of the execution of printing of an image.
  • the color conversion processing is processing for converting RGB data into data in a CMYK color system space.
  • the CMYK color corresponds to cyan (C), magenta (M), yellow (Y), and black (K), and the image data in the CMYK color system space is data corresponding to the colors of the inks provided in the fabric printing apparatus 100.
  • the printer driver generates image data corresponding to ten dimensional spaces in the CMYK color system on the basis of the RGB data.
  • the color conversion processing is performed on the basis of a table in which grayscale values of RGB data are associated with grayscale values of CMYK color system data (i.e., a color conversion lookup table LUT).
  • pixel data after having been subjected to the color conversion processing is CMYK color system data represented by the CMYK color system spaces and corresponding to, for example, 256 grayscale levels.
  • the halftone processing is processing for converting data having high grayscale levels (256 grayscale levels) into data having grayscale levels formable by the fabric printing apparatus 100.
  • each piece of data representing one of 256 grayscale levels is converted into, for example, a piece of one-bit data representing one of two grayscale levels (i.e., a dot presence and a dot absence), or a piece of two-bit data representing one of four grayscale levels (i.e., a dot absence, a small size dot, a middle size dot, and a large size dot).
  • dot generation ratios for example, dot generation ratios each associated with a corresponding one of the dot absence, small size dot, middle size dot, and large size dot in the case of the four grayscale levels
  • image data is generated so as to allow dots to be formed in a distributed state by means of a dither method, an error diffusion method, or the like.
  • the rasterization processing is processing for rearranging pixel data arranged in a matrix shape (for example, the one-bit data or the two-bit data, such as described above) in accordance with order in which dots are formed at the time of the execution of printing.
  • the rasterization processing includes allocation processing for allocating image data constituted by the pixel data having been subjected to the halftone processing to individual pass operations through which ink droplets are discharged from the head 41 (the nozzle rows) being allowed to move and scan.
  • the pixel data arranged in a matrix shape is allocated to actual nozzles forming individual raster lines constituting an image to be printed.
  • the command addition processing is processing for adding command data in accordance with a printing method to the data having been subjected to the rasterize processing.
  • Examples of the command data include, but are not limited to, transport data in relation to a transport specification (for example, a movement amount, a speed, and the like in the transport direction) with respect to a printing medium (the fabric 1).
  • printer driver These kinds of processing by the printer driver are performed by the ASIC 96 and the DSP 97 (see Fig. 2 ) under the control of the CPU 95, and the generated printing data is transmitted to the apparatus controller 80 via the interface 99 by printing data transmission processing.
  • the fabric printing apparatus 100 having the aforementioned fundamental configuration, a situation where, in the printing region, when the transport belt 23 is displaced by a slight distance in the width direction of the fabric 1 (the X-axis direction) intersecting with the transport direction (the Y-axis direction), the position of the fabric 1 in the X-axis direction is displaced along with the displacement of the transport belt 23, and the displacement of the position of the fabric 1 in the X-axis direction causes the discrepancies of the landing positions of the ink droplets discharged onto the fabric 1 (i.e., the positions of dots formed by the ink droplets), thereby causing the degradation of the quality of printing (the quality of an image) constituted by the plurality of dots has sometimes occurred.
  • the belt guides 29 guide the transport belt 23 so as to come into contact with the width-direction edge portions of the transport belt 23, the displacements of the transport belt 23 in the width direction of the fabric 1 (the X-axis direction), intersecting with the transport direction (the Y-axis direction), are prevented from causing large meandering.
  • the transport belt 23 may be slightly displaced along with the revolving of the transport belt 23 due to the stress from the belt guides 29 with which the transport belt 23 is in sliding contact.
  • the transport belt 23 may be slightly displaced.
  • the fabric printing apparatus 100 is configured to preliminarily obtain and evaluate displacement characteristic data in relation to the fabric printing apparatus 100, that is, data indicating the amounts of displacements of the transport belt 23 that occur in the direction intersecting with the transport direction of the transport belt 23 along with the movements of the transport belt 23 in the transport direction, and the apparatus controller 80 is configured to be capable of correcting ink-droplet imparting positions in the direction intersecting with the transport direction on the basis of the displacement characteristic data.
  • An adjustment method for the fabric printing apparatus 100 includes a step of obtaining the displacement characteristic data.
  • the displacement amounts that is, the amounts of displacements of the transport belt 23 in the direction intersecting with the transport direction, are obtained by printing a predetermined pattern on a printing medium (the fabric 1 or printing paper mounted (supported) on the transport belt 23 and having been transported to the printing region, and analyzing the predetermined pattern having been printed thereon.
  • Fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of the predetermined pattern used for obtaining the displacement amounts.
  • the predetermined pattern is constituted by a landing pattern (a dot row K shown in Fig. 5 ) formed by ink droplets discharged through a specific nozzle row provided in the head 41.
  • the specific nozzle row corresponds to any nozzle row among the nozzle rows constituted by the plurality of nozzles 43, which are arranged along the transport direction (see Fig. 4 ), and corresponds to, for example, a nozzle row through which the black ink (K) is discharged.
  • the dot row K formed as the specific pattern and shown in Fig. 5 is illustrated as a ruled line composed of dot rows.
  • the transport belt 23 is caused to stop at the position of a starting point in a transport system, and then, the head 41 is caused to stop at a predetermined position in the main-scanning direction (the X-axis direction) (this predetermined position being located at, for example, an approximately central position of the width of the transport belt 23) to allow a one-shot ink droplet to be discharged through each of the nozzles 43 in the nozzle row K so as to allow a dot row K1 to be formed.
  • the printing medium moved in the transport direction (the +Y direction) by a length D, that is, a length equal to that of the nozzle row, to allow one-shot ink droplets to be discharged again through all the nozzles in the nozzle row so as to allow a dot row K2 to be formed.
  • the movement of the printing medium and the discharge of ink droplets are repeated in a similar manner, and as a result, the dot row K formed as the specific pattern and composed of dot rows K1 to Kn is printed.
  • the position of the starting point in the transport system is a predetermined given position from which circumferential positions of the transport belt 23 constituting the fabric transporting section 20, and rotation positions of the individual transport rollers are specified, and any repeatable position may be employed as the position of the starting point.
  • Information in relation to the circumferential positions of the transport belt 23 and the rotation positions of the individual transport rollers are obtained through components, such as encoders, provided at individual portions.
  • the printing medium on which the predetermined pattern (the dot row K) has been printed is removed from the fabric printing apparatus 100, and displacement amounts of the respective dot rows K1 to Kn in the main-scanning direction (the X-axis direction) are measured.
  • a method of measuring the displacement amounts is not particularly limited, but, for example, the image of the predetermined pattern (the dot row K) is read in as image data using a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image sensor or the like, and image processing is performed on the image data to obtain the displacement amounts.
  • the predetermined pattern (the dot row K) is read into the image processing device 90 as image data, and the displacement amounts can be obtained by allowing the image control section 91 to perform image processing on the image data.
  • the image processing device 90 includes the function as an "image processing section” configured to obtain the displacement characteristic data by recognizing the image of the predetermined pattern having been printed by the printing section 40 for the purpose of the measurement of the displacement amounts, and performing image processing on the recognized image of the predetermined pattern.
  • the fabric printing apparatus 100 may be configured to include an image obtaining section, such as a CCD image sensor.
  • the image obtaining section is disposed at a position at which the image of the printed predetermined pattern (the dot row K) can be obtained, that is, at the downstream side of the head 41 in the transport path for the fabric 1.
  • the image data having been obtained by the image obtaining section is preferably configured so as to be transmitted to the image processing device 90.
  • the image processing device 90 exerts the function as the "image processing section" including the image obtaining section.
  • a straight line serving as a reference line (i.e., a reference line extending in the transport direction) on a printing medium on which the predetermined pattern (the dot row K) is to be printed is preferably provided in advance.
  • the displacement amounts can be obtained as relative values relative to the reference line in the X-axis direction.
  • Examples of a method of obtaining the displacement amounts from the image data corresponding to the predetermined pattern (the dot row K) using image processing include a method of obtaining the positions of gravity points P (in other words, the centre) of the respective dot rows K1 to Kn (in Fig. 5 , the gravity point of the dot row K3 being shown as P), and then obtaining the displacement amounts thereof in the X-axis direction.
  • the displacement characteristic data is obtained as the values of the differences of the positions of the gravity points P (X values) of the respective dot rows Kn relative to a reference position, that is, the position of the gravity point P of the dot row K1 (an X value).
  • Fig. 6 is a graph illustrating an example of plotted pieces of displacement characteristic data related to the transport belt 23 and having been obtained from image data corresponding to the predetermined pattern (the dot row K) shown in Fig. 5 .
  • the printed position of the dot row K2 is out of alignment in the +X-axis direction relative to a reference position, that is, the position of the dot row K1, and this means that the printing medium (the transport belt 23) is displaced in the -X-axis direction, and thus, the X-axis polarity represented by each of the plots of the graph shown in Fig. 6 is reverse to the polarity of the X-axis direction discrepancy of a corresponding one of the dot rows shown in Fig. 5 .
  • the predetermined pattern is not limited to the aforementioned pattern. Any pattern that enables the displacement amounts of the transport belt 23 in the direction intersecting with the transport direction to be obtained as the displacement characteristic data using positions in the transport system (the fabric transporting section 20) (for example, the positions being circumferential positions of the transport belt 23) may be employed. For example, a pattern obtained by forming a row of consecutive dots in a way that allows an ink droplet to be sequentially discharged at a constant interval through a specific nozzle 43 having been moved at an approximately central position of the width of the transport belt 23 while allowing the transport belt 23 to revolve at a constant speed from the position of the starting point in the transport system may be employed.
  • the cycle of the displacement characteristic data corresponds to the cycle of the revolving of the transport belt 23, but in the case where any other factor is involved, the cycle of the displacement characteristic data may be longer.
  • Fig. 7 is a graph illustrating an example of two cycles of plotted pieces of displacement characteristic data having been obtained through a measurement.
  • a cycle T of the displacement characteristic data becomes longer than the cycle of the revolving of the transport belt 23.
  • the degradation of printing quality is minimized by correcting ink-droplet imparting positions in the direction intersecting with the transport direction in accordance with transport amounts from the position of the starting point in the transport system on the basis of the displacement characteristic data. Further, the degradation of the printing quality is minimized by adjusting the fabric printing apparatus 100 on the basis of the size of the displacements of the transport belt 23 in the direction intersecting with the transport direction (width direction) and the distribution of displacement positions.
  • One of the contents of the adjustment of the fabric printing apparatus 100 is the adjustment of ink-droplet landing positions in the main-scanning direction (the X-axis direction).
  • This adjustment involves the correction of ink-droplet landing-position discrepancies that occur along with the scanning movement of the head 41.
  • ink-droplet landing positions in an outward path of the scanning movement are determined as target points, and next, ink-droplet landing positions in a return path of the scanning movement are adjusted so as to correspond to the respective ink-droplet landing positions in the outward path (that is, the correction of position discrepancies is made).
  • the target points are points for determining the position of a printing region in the main-scanning direction (the X-axis direction), and with this determination of the target points, with respect to the aforementioned pieces of image data corresponding to a printed image and arranged in a matrix shape, their X-axis positions relative to the fabric 1 are determined.
  • the ink-droplet landing positions in the return path are caused to move in the X-axis direction, as a result, the position of a corresponding printing region is also shifted by the amount of the movement in the X-axis direction.
  • the adjustment method for the fabric printing apparatus 100 includes a step of determining circumferential positions of the transport belt 23 at which the adjustment of the fabric printing apparatus 100 is performed. Specifically, circumferential positions of the transport belt 23 at each of which the aforementioned target points are determined is determined on the basis of the displacement characteristic data. More specifically, the central value of the width within which the transport belt 23 is displaced in the direction intersecting with the transport direction is obtained on the basis of the displacement characteristic data, and circumferential positions of the transport belt 23 at each of which the transport belt 23 is located at the central value are determined as the circumferential positions of the transport belt 23 at each of which the target points are determined. For example, in an example shown in Fig.
  • positions y1, y2, and y3 are circumferential positions of the transport belt 23 at which the transport belt 23 is located at a central value (x3) of a width (x1 to x2) within which the transport belt 23 is displaced in the direction intersecting with the transport direction, and thus, at any one of these points, the adjustment of the fabric printing apparatus 100 (i.e., the determination of the target points and the correction of the ink-droplet landing position discrepancies) is performed.
  • the center of the image in the width direction is aligned with the center of the belt at these circumferential positions.
  • the ink-droplet landing positions at subsequent circumferential positions may be corrected relative to the landing positions at circumferential positions of the transport belt 23 at which the transport belt 23 is located at a central value.
  • the positions y1, y2, and y3 can be simply and easily obtained as positions at each of which the central value x3 is given, by referring to the displacement characteristic data.
  • the displacement characteristic data is obtained as, for example, a function f (m, n, I), these m, n, and I being factors
  • a method that allows the central value x3 to be obtained from a minimum value x1 and a maximum value x2, and allows a position in the transport system (the fabric transporting section 20) to be derived as a position at which the factors m, n, and I give the central value x3 may be employed.
  • the displacement characteristic data having been obtained in the image processing device 90 is stored in the memory 83 included in the apparatus controller 80.
  • the apparatus controller 80 determines a reference position for the printing in the direction intersecting with the transport direction on the basis of the displacement characteristic data having been stored in the memory 83. Specifically, first, the apparatus controller 80 derives a position used for determining the target points and included in the transport system (the fabric transporting section 20) (the position being, for example, a circumferential position of the transport belt 23) on the basis of the displacement characteristic data, and drives the transport system (the fabric transporting section 20) to allow relative movement of the head 41 to the derived position. Next, the apparatus controller 80 derives target points (ink-droplet landing positions in the outward path of the scanning movement) on the basis of the displacement characteristic data, and drives the head moving section 41 to allow the head 41 to move to the target points.
  • target points in the outward path of the scanning movement
  • the fabric printing apparatus 100 can perform the adjustment of the ink-droplet landing positions in the return path of the scanning movement (i.e., the correction of position discrepancies) so as to allow the ink-droplet landing positions in the return path to correspond to the target points.
  • the target points are points for determining a printing region in the main-scanning direction (the X-axis direction), and the determination of the target points is, namely, equivalent to the determination of the reference position for the printing in the direction intersecting with the transport direction.
  • the target points are points for determining a printing region in the main-scanning direction (the X-axis direction), and thus, the determination of the target points based on the displacement characteristic data is, in other words, equivalent to the correction of the ink-droplet imparting positions in the direction intersecting with the transport direction. Correction of Ink Discharging Positions
  • the apparatus controller 80 corrects ink-droplet imparting position in the direction intersecting with the transport direction at each of the circumferential positions.
  • the apparatus controller 80 can allow the discontinuous straight lines to be printed as straight lines more similar to one straight line by correction-controlling the timing of the discharge of ink droplets so as to allow the timing to be associated with the position of each of the passes (that is, each of the circumferential positions of the transport belt 23).
  • the apparatus controller 80 includes a data table in which each of ink-droplet discharge timing correction values is associated with a corresponding one of correction values in the X-axis direction. Allowing the driving control section 84 (see Fig. 2 ) to correct the timing of driving the head 41 at each pass by a correction value associated with each pass enables the position of a straight line to be printed to be corrected to an appropriated position.
  • the correction value of the timing of the discharge of ink droplets can be simply and easily calculated from the movement speed of the carriage, and thus, a real-time correction that allows the movement speed of the carriage to be constantly detected and allows the ink discharge to be performed at timing at which an integrated value of the movement speed of the carriage coincides with a target correction value in the X-axis direction may be made.
  • the apparatus controller 80 corrects ink-droplet imparting positions in the direction intersecting with the transport direction on the basis of the displacement characteristic data indicating the displacement amounts of the transport belt 23 that arise in the direction intersecting with the transport direction along with the movements of the transport belt 23 in the transport direction. That is, the positions of the ink droplets imparted onto the fabric 1 which is transported by the transport belt 23 and whose position is displaced along with the displacements of the transport belt 23 are corrected on the basis of the displacement characteristic data indicating the displacement amounts of the transport belt 23 that arise in the direction intersecting with the transport direction along with the movements of the transport belt 23 in the transport direction.
  • the correction relative to the displacements of the transport belt 23 in the direction intersecting with the transport direction is made with high accuracy, and the degradation of printing quality that occurs along with the displacements is further effectively reduced.
  • the apparatus controller 80 determines a reference position for the printing in the direction intersecting with the transport direction on the basis of the displacement characteristic data indicating the displacement amounts of the transport belt 23 that arise in the direction intersecting with the transport direction along with the movements of the transport belt 23 in the transport direction. As a result, printing on the fabric 1 which is transported by the transport belt 23 and whose position is displaced along with the displacements of the transport belt 23 is performed at further appropriated positions.
  • the apparatus controller 80 corrects ink-droplet imparting positions in the direction intersecting with the transport direction at each of the circumferential positions.
  • the ink-droplet imparting positions on the fabric 1 which is transported by the transport belt 23 and whose position is displaced along with the displacements of the transport belt 23 are corrected on the basis of the displacement characteristic data, that is, data indicating displacement values each associated with a corresponding one of movement positions of the transport belt 23 in the transport direction.
  • the correction with the displacements of the transport belt 23 in the direction intersecting with the transport direction is made with higher accuracy, and the degradation of printing quality is minimized.
  • the fabric printing apparatus 100 is configured to, in order to measure the displacement values of the transport belt 23 that arise in the direction intersecting with the transport direction along with the movements of the transport belt 23 in the transport direction, include the image processing device 90 serving as an image processing section that obtains the displacement characteristic data by recognizing the image of the predetermined pattern having been printed by the printing section 40, and performing image processing on the recognized image of the predetermined pattern.
  • the image processing device 90 serving as an image processing section that obtains the displacement characteristic data by recognizing the image of the predetermined pattern having been printed by the printing section 40, and performing image processing on the recognized image of the predetermined pattern.
  • a user of the fabric printing apparatus 100 is able to update the displacement characteristic data so as to allow the displacement characteristic data to reflect the latest condition of the fabric printing apparatus 100.
  • the correction with the displacements of the transport belt 23 in the direction intersecting with the transport direction is made with high accuracy, and the degradation of printing quality is minimized.
  • the adjustment method for the fabric printing apparatus 100 includes a step of obtaining displacement characteristic data indicating displacement values of the transport belt 23 that arise in the direction intersecting with the transport direction along with the movements of the transport belt 23 in the transport direction, and a step of determining circumferential positions of the transport belt 23 at which the adjustment of the fabric printing apparatus 100 is performed on the basis of the obtained displacement characteristic data. Moreover, at each of the circumferential positions having been determined in the above step, the adjustment of ink-droplet imparting positions in the direction intersecting with the transport direction is performed.
  • the adjustment of the ink-droplet imparting positions in the direction intersecting with the transport direction is performed at each of the circumferential positions having been determined on the basis of the displacement characteristic data indicating the displacement values of the transport belt 23 that arise along with the movements of the transport belt 23 in the transport direction.
  • This configuration therefore, enables the adjustment of the ink-droplet imparting positions to be performed at positions where the displacements of the transport belt 23 in the direction intersecting with the transport direction are further stable, and as a result, this configuration enables the adjustment to be performed further appropriately.
  • the adjustment of the ink-droplet imparting positions in the direction intersecting with the transport direction can be performed at circumferential positions of the transport belt 23 at each of which the transport belt 23 is located at the central value of the width within which the transport belt 23 is displaced in the direction intersecting with the transport direction.
  • This configuration therefore, enables the adjustment of the ink-droplet imparting positions to be performed at positions where the displacements of the transport belt 23 in the direction intersecting with the transport direction are further stable, and as a result, this configuration enables the adjustment to be performed further appropriately.
  • a method of obtaining the most frequent position at which the transport belt 23 is most frequently located in the direction intersecting with the transport direction, and determining a circumferential position of the transport belt 23 at which the transport belt 23 is located at the most frequent position or positions, as a circumferential position of the transport belt 23 at which the adjustment of the fabric printing apparatus 100 is performed may be employed.
  • the adjustment of an ink-droplet imparting position in the direction intersecting with the transport direction is performed at the most frequent position at which the transport belt 23 is most frequently located in the direction intersecting with the transport direction, and thus, an effective adjustment that allows the ratio of a contribution of a period of time during which the adjustment result is reflected to be higher is achieved.
  • a position to the side or the edge could also be used instead of or as well as the central position.
  • the image processing device 90 includes the function of an "image processing section" configured to obtain the displacement characteristic data by recognizing the image of the predetermined pattern having been printed by the printing section 40, and performing image processing on the recognized image of the predetermined pattern has been described, but the fabric printing apparatus 100 need not include the "image processing section".
  • a configuration that allows a manufacturer that manufactures the fabric printing apparatuses 100 to obtain, for each of the fabric printing apparatuses 100, displacement characteristic data in relation to the transport belt 23, and allows the manufacture to provide a user with the fabric printing apparatus 100 including the displacement characteristic data stored in the memory 83 or the storage section 94 may be employed.
  • the same adjustment and correction as those in the aforementioned embodiment can be performed by allowing the apparatus controller 80 to obtain the displacement characteristic data stored in the memory 83 or the storage section 94.
  • a method that allows the displacement characteristic data to be generated using a means other than the image processing device 90 by, at the execution of maintenance of the fabric printing apparatus 100, printing the predetermined pattern used for obtaining the displacement characteristic data and having been described in the aforementioned embodiment, and analyzing the result of the printing may be employed.

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  1. Druckvorrichtung (100), umfassend:
    ein Transportband (23), das gestaltet ist, ein Druckmedium (1) in einer Transportrichtung (Y) zu transportieren;
    einen Druckabschnitt (40), der gestaltet ist, Druck durch Abgeben von Tintentröpfchen auf das Druckmedium, das transportiert wird, durchzuführen; und
    einen Steuerabschnitt (80), der gestaltet ist, Positionen zum Abgeben der Tintentröpfchen zu steuern, wobei, basierend auf Verschiebungseigenschaftsdaten, die Verschiebungsausmaße des Transportbands angeben, die in einer Richtung, die die Transportrichtung schneidet, bei Bewegungen des Transportbands in der Transportrichtung auftreten, der Steuerabschnitt gestaltet ist, die Druckvorrichtung durch Korrektur der Positionen zur Abgabe der Tintentröpfchen in der Richtung, die die Transportrichtung schneidet, einzustellen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    basierend auf den Verschiebungseigenschaftsdaten eine häufigste Position, an der sich das Transportband am häufigsten in der Richtung, die die Transportrichtung schneidet, befindet, erhalten wird und eine Umfangsposition des Transportbands, an der sich das Transportband an der häufigsten Position befindet, als eine Umfangsposition des Transportbands bestimmt wird, bei der die Einstellung der Druckvorrichtung durchgeführt wird.
  2. Druckvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, wobei der Steuerabschnitt gestaltet ist, eine Referenzposition für den Druck in der Richtung, die die Transportrichtung schneidet, basierend auf den Verschiebungseigenschaftsdaten zu bestimmen.
  3. Druckvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder Anspruch 2, wobei die Verschiebungseigenschaftsdaten mindestens einen Zyklus (T) von Daten enthalten, in dem die Verschiebungswerte variieren, und
    wobei, basierend auf zumindest einem Verschiebungsausmaß, das unter den Verschiebungsausmaßen ist und das mit mindestens einer Umfangsposition des Transportbands innerhalb des einen Zyklus verknüpft ist und an einer entsprechenden derselben erhalten wird, der Steuerabschnitt gestaltet ist, Positionen zum Abgeben der Tintentröpfchen in der Richtung, die die Transportrichtung schneidet, an jeder der mindestens einen Umfangsposition zu korrigieren.
  4. Druckvorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche weiter umfassend, zur Messung der Verschiebungswerte, einen Bildverarbeitungsabschnitt (90), der gestaltet ist, die Verschiebungseigenschaftsdaten durch Erkennen eines Bildes eines vorbestimmten Musters, das durch den Druckabschnitt gedruckt wurde, zu erhalten, und Bildverarbeitung an dem erkannten Bild des vorbestimmten Musters durchzuführen.
  5. Einstellverfahren für eine Druckvorrichtung (100), die ein Transportband (23), das gestaltet ist, ein Druckmedium (1) in einer Transportrichtung (Y) zu transportieren, und einen Druckabschnitt (40), der gestaltet ist, Druck durch Abgeben von Tintentröpfchen auf das Druckmedium, das transportiert wird, durchzuführen, enthält, wobei das Einstellverfahren umfasst:
    Erhalten von Verschiebungseigenschaftsdaten, die Verschiebungsausmaße des Transportbands angeben, die in einer Richtung, die die Transportrichtung schneidet, bei Bewegungen des Transportbands in der Transportrichtung auftreten; und
    Bestimmen, basierend auf den Verschiebungseigenschaftsdaten, mindestens einer Umfangsposition des Transportbands, an der eine Einstellung der Druckvorrichtung durchgeführt wird,
    wobei eine Einstellung von Positionen zum Abgeben der Tintentröpfchen, in der Richtung, die mit der Transportrichtung schneidet, an jeder der mindestens einen Umfangsposition durchgeführt wird, die bestimmt wurde, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    basierend auf den Verschiebungseigenschaftsdaten eine häufigste Position, an der sich das Transportband am häufigsten in der Richtung, die die Transportrichtung schneidet, befindet, erhalten wird und eine Umfangsposition des Transportbands, an der sich das Transportband an der häufigsten Position befindet, als eine Umfangsposition des Transportbands bestimmt wird, bei der die Einstellung der Druckvorrichtung durchgeführt wird.
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