EP3450187B1 - Drucksteuergerät - Google Patents

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EP3450187B1
EP3450187B1 EP18190362.6A EP18190362A EP3450187B1 EP 3450187 B1 EP3450187 B1 EP 3450187B1 EP 18190362 A EP18190362 A EP 18190362A EP 3450187 B1 EP3450187 B1 EP 3450187B1
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Lioudmila Semouchine
Vincent Leymarie
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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
    • 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
    • B41J11/66—Applications of cutting devices
    • B41J11/663—Controlling cutting, cutting resulting in special shapes of the cutting line, e.g. controlling cutting positions, e.g. for cutting in the immediate vicinity of a printed image

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  • the invention relates to a print controller for a printer having a supply roll for a web of a recording medium, a print engine arranged to print a number of images onto the web, and a cutter for cutting the web.
  • a printer to which the invention is applicable may be a roll-to-roll printer or a roll-to-sheet printer wherein the recording medium is withdrawn from the supply roll in the form of an endless web and is moved past the print engine where one or more images are formed on the web. Thereafter, a cut command is issued for causing the cutter to cut the web so as to separate the recording medium that carries the printed images from the blank web on the supply roll.
  • US 2003/107640 A1 , US 2014/306395 and US 9120330 B1 provide cut marks for a cutter in order to cut the web.
  • the print controller according to the invention is defined in claim 1.
  • the print controller is capable of handling cut commands that are accompanied by certain attributes that specify certain actions that shall be taken by the print engine and/or the cutter at the time when the web is to be cut or immediately before that time.
  • attributes may specify not only the position of the cut line relative to the printed images but may also specify certain printable objects that do not form part of the printed images as specified in the print job but are to be printed, in addition to these images, onto the recording medium that will then be separated from the blank web by means of the cutter.
  • the trailing edge of the sheet or web that is separated from the blank web on the supply roll may be used for conveying useful information to any entity that will be in charge of the further processing of the printed products.
  • the information specified by the cut command attributes may comprise finishing instructions specifying a finishing method or finishing parameters to be applied to the print product or metadata of the print job or images to be printed.
  • the invention offers the possibility to separate the print process from the finishing process, i.e. to allocate the tasks of printing and finishing to independent entities which may even be remote from one another, and nevertheless assure that the entity in charge of the finishing process receives the required information. Since the information is printed directly on the web or sheet to be processed, the risk that the information gets lost or is assigned to the wrong print product is minimized. If the printer is a roll-to-roll printer wherein the web carrying the printed images is wound onto another roll, the information specified by the cut command attributes will be printed on the outermost layer of the roll so that it is readily visible.
  • a print job being printed is to be interrupted, for example to print a rush job.
  • the already printed part of the job will necessarily be separated from the still to be printed part of the job with the additional risk of also becoming separated from any metadata of the job such as order information and instructions on further processing operations such as finishing operations.
  • the effects of the latter separation is mitigated by the present invention by printing the necessary metadata as soon as the printer operator issues an interrupt or cut command in order to be able to start processing the rush job.
  • the cut command and its attributes may form part of a job specification that is sent to the print controller.
  • job command attributes are created or edited locally, e.g. by an operator of the printer.
  • a printer 10 has a media supply roll 12, a print engine 14, and a cutter 16.
  • the supply roll 12 stores a web 18 of a recording medium and is associated with a feed system 20 having a motor for rotating the supply roll 12, thereby to pay out the web 18 onto a print surface 22 of the printer.
  • the print engine may be activated to print an image 24 onto the web of recording medium.
  • the print engine 14 is an ink jet print head having a web-wide print head.
  • the cutter When the image 24 has been formed and the web 18 has been advanced so far that the trailing edge of the image reaches the position of the cutter 16, the cutter is activated so as to separate a print product 26, which in this case takes the form of a media sheet 28 carrying the image 24, from the rest of the web 18.
  • the cutter 16 may not necessarily be operated after each printed image 24, but may -in some cases- be operated after a number of images 24 have been printed that together form a batch of images, for example because all images in the batch belong to the same order, or are to be further processed by the same operator, or are to be subjected to similar finishing operations, etc.
  • the print controller 30 has a user interface 34, e.g. in the form of a touch screen or a monitor screen, a keyboard and a mouse, permitting a user or operator to edit the print jobs as long as they are stored in the print controller 30 and have not yet been processed.
  • a print job may comprise a plurality of images 24 which may be printed onto a common sheet 28 or on separate sheets, depending upon the job specifications.
  • a cut command will cause the cutter 16 to cut the web in order to separate the last one of the completed print products 26 from the web 18.
  • the cut command may be included in the job file, may be generated automatically in the print controller 30, or may be generated by a manual command by the printer operator.
  • the print controller 30 is capable of handling, and possibly creating, cut commands that include certain attributes relating to the position where the web 18 is to be cut and to printable objects that do not form part of the printed images 24 but are associated with the cut command.
  • the print controller 30 includes a cut command attribute processor 36 that may be constituted by a software module in the control software of the print processor and is capable of translating the cut command attributes into actions to be performed by the cutter 16, the print engine 14 and, as the case may be, by the feed system 20. These actions may comprise for example:
  • the cut commands including the above-mentioned attributes may be included in the job files and/or may be created or edited by an operator or user by means of the user interface 34. In the latter case, the cut command attributes may be changed up to the very moment when the cutter 16 is activated.
  • the feed system 20 In order to enable the print engine 14 to print onto the part of the recording medium that will be separated from the web 18, it may be necessary to activate the feed system 20 for withdrawing the web in the reverse direction (the direction opposite to the regular advance direction) until the part of the recording medium where the printable objects are to be printed is located underneath the print engine 14. Thereafter, the web will be advanced in forward direction again until the intended cut line reaches the position of the cutter 16.
  • cut commands may also have attributes of the type indicated above.
  • Fig. 2 shows an example of a printer 10' which is configured as a roll-to-roll printer and comprises a take-up roll 38 on which a print product 26', which takes the form of an endless web carrying the printed images 24, may be wound-up.
  • the printer 10' is controlled by a print controller which has basically the same functions as the print controller 30 described above.
  • the print product 26' has a plurality of printed images 24, 24a of different sizes, and the cut command attributes have specified that some printable objects are printed on a margin 40 between a trailing edge of the last-printed images 24a and a cut line where, in the situation shown in Fig. 2 , the cutter 16 is just about to cut the web 18.
  • the printable objects comprise thumbnails 42 of the printed images 24, 24a, some related text notes 44, and a header 46.
  • a separation line 48 shall be printed in order to visually separate the larger image 24 from the smaller images 24a.
  • a separation line may specify the position of a cut line or a fold line for a later finishing process.
  • a separator line may optionally be printed (not shown) to visually separate the printed images 24, 24a from the printable objects 42, 44, 46.
  • Fig. 3 shows an example of a dialog 50 that may be displayed on the screen of the user interface 34 of the print controller and permits the user or operator to create or edit attributes of a cut command ("Configurable cut").
  • Some of the attributes are represented by check boxes 52 which, when checked, are translated by the attribute processor 36 into commands for printing pre-defined notes on the margin 40.
  • the notes comprise a timestamp, an image name, a media type, and a finishing type.
  • Another attribute is represented by a text field 54 permitting the user to enter free text that will then be printed on the margin 40.
  • the position where this text will be printed on the margin may also be specified.
  • Another attribute is represented by a check box 56 causing the attribute processor to activate the feed system 20 for forming the margin 40 between the images 24a and the cut line.
  • the desired width of the margin may be entered in a field 58. If no other attributes are checked, the margin 40 will be left blank. Otherwise it will carry the printable objects specified by the other attributes. Furthermore, the blank margin 40 may be an additional margin, being added in addition to the space needed for the printable objects.
  • Yet another set of attributes are represented by check boxes 60 causing the attribute processor 36 to print the thumbnails 42 and/or the header 46 on the margin 40 and/or to print the separation line 48 or a grid (of transverse and longitudinal separation lines) on the recording medium constituting the print product 26'.
  • a preview area in the bottom part of the dialogue 50 shows how the printable objects, as specified by the checked attributes, will appear on the margin 40.
  • these objects comprise a timestamp 62, a note 64, and the thumbnails 42.
  • a dialog 50 may be presented in advance and the results stored with the print job in order to be able to automatically perform cutting after a print job has completed. Alternatively or additionally, the dialog 50 is shown as soon as the printer operator issues an interrupt command to interrupt processing the current job, or when he issues a manual cut command.
  • the editing operation is completed by clicking on an "OK" button 68.

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  1. Steuergerät (30) für einen Drucker (10; 10'), der eine Zufuhrrolle (12) für eine Bahn (18) eines Aufzeichnungsmediums, ein Druckgerät (14), das dazu eingerichtet ist, eine Anzahl von Bildern (24, 24a) auf die Bahn (18) zu drucken, und ein Schneidgerät (16) zum Schneiden der Bahn aufweist, wobei das Steuergerät dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass es einen Schneidbefehl-Attributsprozessor (36) aufweist, der dazu ausgebildet ist, Attribute, die in einem Schneidbefehl enthalten sind, in Aktionen umzusetzen, die von dem Druckgerät (14) und der Schneidvorrichtung (16) auszuführen sind, wobei die von dem Druckgerät auszuführenden Aktionen das Drucken von druckbaren Objekten (44) einschließen, die auf einen Rand (40) des Aufzeichnungsmediums zu drucken sind, der mit Hilfe der Schneidvorrichtung (16) von der Bahn abgeschnitten werden wird, wobei die druckbaren Objekte sich außerhalb der Bilder (24, 24a) befinden und wenigstens eine vordefinierte Bemerkung (44) und/oder Freitext umfassen.
  2. Steuergerät nach Anspruch 1, bei dem der Schneidbefehl-Attributsprozessor (36) dazu eingerichtet ist, ein Transportsystem (20) anzusteuern, das dazu dient, die Bahn(18) in einer Vorwärtsrichtung oder vorzugsweise sowohl in einer Vorwärtsrichtung als auch in einer Rückwärtsrichtung relativ zu dem Druckgerät (14) und der Schneidvorrichtung (16) anzutreiben.
  3. Steuergerät nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, mit einer Benutzerschnittstelle (34), die dazu konfiguriert ist, Befehlsattribute zu erzeugen und/oder zu edieren, die repräsentiert werden durch Ankreuzkästchen (52), die, wenn sie angekreuzt sind, durch den Schneidbefehl-Attributsprozessor (36) in Befehle zum Drucken der vordefinierten Bemerkungen auf den Rand (40) umgesetzt werden, und/oder durch ein Textfeld (54), das es dem Benutzer erlaubt, Freitext einzugeben, der auf den Rand (40) gedruckt werden wird.
  4. Drucksystem mit einem Drucker (10; 10'), der eine Zufuhrrolle (12) für eine Bahn (18) eines Aufzeichnungsmediums, ein Druckgerät (14), das dazu eingerichtet ist, auf die Bahn (18) zu drucken, und eine Schneidvorrichtung (16) zum Schneiden der Bahn aufweist, gekennzeichnet durch ein Drucker-Steuergerät (30) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3.
  5. Verfahren zum Schneiden einer Bahn (18) eines Aufzeichnungsmediums, auf das mit Hilfe eines Druckers (10; 10'), der ein Transportsystem (20) für den Transport der Bahn (18), ein Druckgerät (14), und eine Schneidvorrichtung (16) aufweist, eine Anzahl von Bildern (24, 24a) gedruckt worden ist, welches Verfahren die folgenden Schritte umfasst:
    - bereitstellen eines Schneidbefehls, der Attribute hat, die einen Rand (40) zwischen einer nachlaufenden Kante der Bilder (24, 24a) und einer Schneidlinie, an welcher die Schneidvorrichtung (16) die Bahn schneidet, und/oder druckbare Objekte (44, 46) spezifizieren, die auf einen Rand (40) eines Aufzeichnungsmediums zu drucken sind, das mit Hilfe der Schneidvorrichtung (16) von der Bahn abgeschnitten wird, wobei die druckbaren Objekte sich außerhalb der Bilder (24, 24a) befinden und wenigstens eine vordefinierte Bemerkung (44) und/oder Freitext umfassen; und
    - umsetzen der Attribute des Schneidbefehls in Aktionen, die von dem Drucker (10; 10') auszuführen sind, und ansteuern des Druckers zur Ausführung dieser Aktionen.
  6. Verfahren nach Anspruch 5, bei dem die Attribute des Schneidbefehls ein Attribut umfassen, das eine Breite des Randes (40) zwischen der nachlaufenden Kante der Bilder (24, 24a) und der Schneidlinie spezifiziert.
  7. Softwareprodukt mit Programmcode auf einem computerlesbaren nichtflüchtigen Medium, wobei der Programmcode, wenn er in ein Drucker-Steuergerät (30) nach Anspruch 1 geladen ist, das Steuergerät veranlasst, das Verfahren nach einem der Ansprüche 5 bis 6 auszuführen.
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