EP3481638A1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zum mehrfarbigen tintenstrahldruck auf behälter - Google Patents
Verfahren und vorrichtung zum mehrfarbigen tintenstrahldruck auf behälterInfo
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a method and apparatus for multicolor inkjet printing on containers.
- DE 10 2014 109 948 A1 and DE 10 201 1 009 393 A1 disclose methods and devices in which the containers are moved along stationary printing heads during direct printing, and in which the transport speed of the containers with respect to the Printheads are temporarily reduced during printing to enable high average transport speeds and machine performance. Furthermore, it is known from DE 10 2012 213 080 A1 to distribute the incoming container flow in parallel to a plurality of printing units in order to increase overall machine performance. Alternatively, DE 10 2010 020 958 A1 proposes to move printing stations on a web parallel to the means of transport of the containers.
- DE 10 2014 116 201 A1 proposes to print test containers or the like in a first printing station with a test pattern, to inspect this and to set a subsequent printing station on the basis of the inspection result.
- this separate test containers must be provided and introduced into the machine.
- this is used for multi-color inkjet printing on containers and comprises the following steps: S1) common printing of a motif or a first motif layer and at least one especially arranged within the motif print mark in a first ink on the container; S2) automated optical inspection of the at least one print mark; S3) aligning the containers based on the step S2 and printing the motif or a second motif layer, and in particular the print mark, in a subsequent ink; and S4) overprinting the print mark.
- the print quality for each printing ink or motif layer can be optimized during the regular printing operation with respect to the already printed printing inks.
- the print mark in this case allows a simplified compared to the subject and / or characteristics of the container inspection of the print quality, for example, in terms of the location of the subject and the quality of individual inks.
- the print mark can be laminated by the overprinting in the final printed image and thus the appearance of the finished printed container can be optimized.
- Printing marks within the meaning of the present invention are, in particular, registration marks for checking the position / position of the motif printed with a specific printing ink or a specific motif layer and color marks for checking the uniformity of the printing quality of a particular printing ink or motif layer. Also conceivable are print marks, which have both the function of registration marks and color marks. The print marks could in principle also be arranged outside the motif, for example above and / or below the motif.
- the motif is a printed image, which is printed on the basis of a digital print template step by step in the form of multiple motifs directly on the container by means of inkjet.
- the motif layers have inks of a particular color model such as CMYK.
- An initial motif layer may have the background color of the subject, in particular White. The background may be part of the printed motif or the printed container.
- Steps S2 and S3 are preferably based on the assumption that there is a fixed local relationship between the inspection units and printheads used in the sense that the position of the print mark determined in step S2 corresponds to a specific rotational position of the containers and certain active nozzles of the printhead to be used can be assigned, in particular within a certain vertical working range of the print head.
- the steps S2 and S3 are repeated in pairs for at least two further subsequent printing inks.
- the print quality can also be optimized directly and in the sense of a separately closed inspection loop for each subsequent ink.
- step S3 active pressure nozzles are selected based on the inspection of step S2. It would also be conceivable to select the printing time for individual printing nozzles and / or for the printing head as a whole as a function of the inspection of step S2. Selecting active print nozzles allows you to specify a vertical print area for the subsequent motif layer within a vertical workspace that is available on the printhead.
- a vertical area of an associated printhead active in step S3 is vertically displaced by selective activation of printing nozzles to cover a vertical printing area required for the subject.
- the vertical working area of the printhead is then higher than the subject. This allows vertical adaptation of the motif layer to be applied with the respective subsequent printing ink. Conceivable, however, would also be a vertical adjustment of the print head.
- the horizontal position of the motif layer to be applied with the succeeding ink can be adjusted and / or corrected in consideration of a relative transportation movement between the container and the print head.
- the rotational position of the containers is adjusted in step S3 based on the inspection in step S2 for the printing of the motif in the respective subsequent printing ink.
- step S4 is finally executed after last execution of step S3.
- step S4 the direct printing with all the inks of the color model based the print mark for each motif layer are checked separately before the print mark is made unrecognizable by overprinting in step S4.
- Step S4 is preferably performed in a separate correction station for the multicolor printing.
- the print mark can be made unrecognizable in step S4, for example, by overprinting the print mark with a component of the motif in multiple colors. It is also conceivable to make the print mark unrecognizable by overprinting it outside the motif with a color and / or a pattern which is present on the container in the region around the print mark.
- the first printing ink is preferably white and is excited to fluoresce with UV light, in particular in step S2.
- White is suitable as a background color for a brilliant multipurpose printed motif. Fluorescence makes it possible to achieve an improved contrast for the inspection of the printed mark, in particular with respect to a light or white container wall.
- the print mark is then recessed by the pressure in step S3. It is possible to print the print mark only when printing with the background color white and align the direct print with all subsequent inks of the color model on the basis of printed with the background color print mark.
- the print mark would then be overprinted only in step S4, in particular with black printing ink, blue printing ink, red printing ink or a mixed ink.
- this variant is particularly suitable when the print mark lies in a dark area of the subject. The absence of the background color white in the area of the print mark is then not disturbing in the finished printed motif.
- the containers are excited to fluoresce with UV light in step S2.
- Transparent (opaque) white plastic containers or translucent (translucent) white plastic containers which fluoresce due to their production when irradiated with UV light, are particularly suitable for this purpose.
- the first printing ink in particular a white background ink, is then substantially non-fluorescent. This makes it possible to localize a particularly white print mark with respect to the unprinted container wall as a dark contrast in step S2.
- the print mark is then preferably opaque.
- the print mark is printed within the motif and overprinted in step S4 with a partial area of the motif, in particular multicolored.
- the print mark is printed outside the motif and overprinted in step S4 with the color and / or a pattern of the container wall surrounding the print mark. This allows the print mark irrespective of their position on the container with respect to the final appearance of the container.
- the print mark comprises a registration mark, with further rotation holders for the containers and / or print head nozzles being actuated for printing with the subsequent printing ink as a function of a determined position of the registration mark.
- This makes it possible to correct the rotational position of the container for the subsequent printing ink.
- it is possible to selectively activate a particular vertical area of the print head for printing with the subsequent printing ink in order to align the motif to be imprinted precisely with respect to the motifs previously printed with other printing colors.
- the print mark preferably comprises a color mark, wherein the printing of the same container with the subsequent printing ink is enabled or suppressed in dependence on a determined print quality of the color mark, and / or wherein the printing of subsequent containers with the same printing ink is corrected in dependence on a determined print quality of the color mark ,
- the color mark is, for example, a field with a uniform hue or a predetermined hue progression. Deviations from this can be detected as printing errors in step S2 in order to initiate targeted actions for the further treatment of the same container and / or to correct the pressure with the ink identified as defective for subsequent containers.
- a correction for subsequent containers is possible, for example, by replacing or compensating for pressure nozzles which are identified as defective by at least one adjacent pressure nozzle.
- the multi-color printing is carried out in normal operation at half the resolution of each printhead, so using each second pressure nozzle. If a certain pressure nozzle fails, it can be replaced, for example, by the immediately adjacent pressure nozzle or by an adjacent group of pressure nozzles.
- the containers are selectively rejected at the suppressed pressure.
- the recognized as defective containers are then preferably no longer printed with the following inks or the correction pressure for the print mark to save ink.
- the rejection of defective containers preferably takes place automatically downstream of the device used for the multicolor printing.
- the motif is composed of partially circumferential printing areas and printed at least one print mark per printing area.
- the individual partially circumferential pressure ranges can then be aligned and checked separately at their respective associated print mark. This can compensate for inaccuracies in the repositioning of the container for printing the individual pressure ranges.
- all print marks are then overprinted.
- this is for multi-color inkjet printing on container and comprises: a plurality of successive color stations each with at least one print head for printing the containers in an associated ink and with a subsequent inspection unit for optically inspecting the printed motif and / or at least one printed in the color stations print mark; a correction station following the color stations with at least one print head for selectively overprinting the print mark; a transport means with rotary supports for successively positioning the containers in the color stations and in the correction station; and a control unit for driving the rotational postures and the print heads depending on results of the inspection units.
- the inspection unit is preferably designed such that it spatially selectively inspects the print marks in contrast to a complete inspection of the entire motif.
- the inspection unit is then in particular capable of error detection, which is based on an imaging detection of contrast gradients and / or color gradients in the print marks, in particular by means of targeted evaluation of the previously applied ink.
- evaluation algorithms run, which are specially designed for determining the position of registration marks and for the evaluation of color gradients or brightness gradients in color marks.
- the print heads are preferably designed such that they each cover continuously at least the entire height of the motif to be printed on. In principle, it would also be conceivable to arrange several print heads overlapping in the vertical direction in order to cover the entire height of the motif.
- the printheads preferably have a resolution of at least 1200 dpi.
- the rotary supports include servomotors, and the maximum print height of the print heads is greater than the height of the subject. This will make an exact correction of the situation With a certain ink alsstruckendes motifs in both the vertical and in the horizontal direction allows.
- the inspection units comprise cameras for total full-scale imaging of the containers.
- several cameras can be present at least in the input-side inspection unit in order to completely inspect the containers with a plurality of partially circumferential camera images over the entire circumference.
- the entire area of the motif to be printed on and the imprinted printed mark can be imaged and the quality of the printing can be determined on the basis of the printed mark.
- This configuration could also be used in the subsequent inspection units.
- a coarse alignment of the rotational position would be possible, for example, on the basis of container contours, for example an embossing. Since the rotational position of the container due to such an initial inspection of the container is then basically known and / or can be corrected accordingly, in the subsequent inspection and correction of the rotational position of the print marks only a relatively minor correction of the rotational position is necessary to deviations in positioning and Transporting the container in the individual color stations or to balance therebetween.
- a possibly also not imaging optical sensor could be present immediately before each color station, which locates the registration mark comprising a registration mark and causes the immediately following color station and / or the turntable associated with the container by means of the control unit to correct the subsequent imprint.
- Figure 1 is a schematic representation of a print motif with print marks and an associated print head
- Figure 2 is a schematic plan view of a device with color stations and a correction station for the multi-color direct printing.
- 1 shows schematically an intermediate stage during the multicolor inkjet printing of a motif 1. This is seen in the printing direction DR preferably consists of several motifs 1A-1 D, each after Drehlagenauscardi a container to be printed with respect to a printhead successively with a specific ink to be printed. With the individual printing inks, the motif 1 is applied successively in the form of motif layers, as explained by way of example below.
- the motif parts 1A-1 D preferably have separately assigned internal print marks 2A-2D comprising registration marks and internal print marks 3A to 3D comprising color marks. Registration marks and color marks can also be summarized in print marks (not shown).
- FIG. 1 shows a state after printing a first motif layer MS1 in a first printing ink DF1, which in the illustrated example is a white background color, and a second motif layer MS2 in a second printing ink DF2, which is an arbitrary component of a color model used, such as CMYK.
- the printing marks 2A-2D and 3A-3D have the second printing ink DF2.
- FIG. 1 also schematically indicates an external print mark 2E comprising a registration mark and an external print mark 3E comprising a color mark outside the motif 1 in the region of a surrounding container wall 4 of a wall color WF.
- the external printing marks 2E, 3E can be printed on top of and / or below the motif 1, in addition or as an alternative to internal printing marks 2A-2D and 3A-3D, and in the example have the second printing ink DF2.
- the dimensions of the motif 1 are defined by a vertical motif area YM in the sense of a motif height and by a horizontal motif area XM, which is shown by way of example as an unwound length of the entire motif 1.
- the horizontal motif area XM results from gapless juxtaposition of the motif parts 1A-1 D.
- FIG. 1 also shows diagrammatically a print head 5 for monochrome printing with a subsequent printing ink DF3 of the color model used.
- the printhead 5 has two rows of nozzles 6 and 7 which together cover a vertical working area YMAX which is larger than the vertical area YM.
- the vertical orientation of the already printed motif layers MF1, MF2 of the subject 1 with respect to the print head 5 is determined. Depending on this, only those pressure nozzles 8 of the print head 5 for printing with the following The following printing color DF3 is activated, covering the currently determined vertical motif area YM.
- the vertical area YA of the print head 5, which is required for the subsequent printing and thus selectively active, can thus be moved up or down by targeted nozzle activation within the vertical work area YMAX.
- This allows a congruent printing of the following motif layer MS3 in the printing ink DF3 on the previously printed motif layers MF1 and MF2.
- the common reference for this is a digital color print template (not shown) for the motif 1.
- the print head 5 has two vertical rows of nozzles 6 and 7 offset from each other at a vertical distance YD.
- the rows of nozzles 6, 7 can be driven, for example, in a known manner with a time offset adapted to the horizontal distance XA between the rows of nozzles 6, 7, in order to align all the printing points of a specific column of the printing original vertically.
- the control of the print head 5 takes place as a function of the position of the print marks 2A-2D and / or 2E determined in particular by imaging. These have a known spatial reference to the motif 1 in each motif layer and serve as registration marks for determining the relative position, here by way of example the last printed motif layer MF2 with respect to the print head 5 for printing with the following printing ink DF3. However, it would also be conceivable to use a non-imaging scan of the print marks 2A-2D and / or 2E.
- the multicolor printing of the motif 1 takes place successively during a particularly continuous transport movement 10 of the container to be printed along a plurality of preferably stationary printheads 5.
- the (only drawn as an example) printing direction DR results from the superimposition of the transport movement 10 with a specific rotational position change of the associated container and its container wall 4 in front of the respective printhead 5.
- the print head 5 immediately prints both the motif 1 and new print marks 2A-2D, 3A-3D, 2E and / or 3E in the next printing ink DF3.
- the partially circumferential motif parts 1A-1 D are associated with separate nozzle rows or pairs of nozzle rows 6, 7, which may be part of a common print head 5 or separate print heads 5.
- position correction of the respective motif part 1A-1 D in the printing direction DR and targeted selection of active printing nozzles 8 are carried out separately on the basis of the respectively assigned printing mark 2A-2D.
- the number of partially circumferential motif parts 1A-1 D and the nozzle rows 6, 7 per printing ink depends, for example, on the length of the motif 1 and / or the machine output and can be adapted to the respective requirements. In the following, for the sake of simplicity, there is always talk of a single print head 5 per printing ink.
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic plan view of a device 11 for multicolor printing on containers 12 with a plurality of stationary color stations 13-17 and an adjoining correction station 18.
- the color stations 13-17 and the correction station 18 each include at least one print head 5 for the single-color printing and an inspection unit 19 with a light source for VIS and / or UV light and preferably a plurality of cameras 20, the imaging of all teilumfnature subject parts 1A-1 D serve.
- a pinning unit 21 is preferably interposed in each case in order to intermediately cure the ink imprinted immediately before by means of UV light.
- the color stations 13-17 are constructed identically in this regard and only differ in that they print different inks DF1 to DF5 of a color model, such as CMYK, onto the containers 12.
- the correction station 18 is preferably formed with a multi-color print head 22 for overprinting the print marks 2A-2E and / or 3A-3E.
- the containers 12 run during the multi-color printing on a particular continuously rotatable about itself container table 23, resulting in the transport movement 10 results.
- the container table 23 is indicated as a partial circle with rotary brackets 24, such as turntable, for the container 12 schematically in Figure 2.
- the transport movement 10 and a Clockwise rotation 25 of the rotary brackets 24 around themselves result in a cyclic feed of the container wall 4 with respect to the print head 5 in the printing direction DR.
- the device 1 1 further comprises per se known components, such as an inlet star 26, an outlet star 27, an input-side inspection unit 28 for Drehlageerkennung incoming container 12, an output-side inspection unit 29 for final inspection of the finished printed container 12 and a control unit 30.
- a mechanical aggregate block (not shown) would also be possible on the device 11 with at least one upstream unit for container pretreatment, for example for flaming, corona treatment and / or plasma treatment of the containers, and / or with at least one downstream unit for final container treatment, for example for final coating, painting and / or UV irradiation of the containers.
- at least one upstream unit for container pretreatment for example for flaming, corona treatment and / or plasma treatment of the containers
- at least one downstream unit for final container treatment for example for final coating, painting and / or UV irradiation of the containers.
- the device 11 can be used, for example, as follows:
- the incoming container 12 are checked in the inspection unit 28 to their respective present rotational position and the container 12 optionally placed on a desired rotational position in which they transported the container table 23 in a known manner in the rotary brackets 24 to the first color station 13.
- the first motif layer MS1 for example a white background of the motif 1, is printed on the containers 12 together with at least one printing mark 2A-2E and / or 3A-3E in the first printing ink DF1. Subsequently, the containers 12 in the inspection unit 19 of the first color station 13 are preferably optically scanned in order to check the position and / or the quality of the print marks 2A-2E and / or 3A-3E.
- the printing with the subsequent printing ink DF2 is controlled depending on the detected position and / or quality of the printing marks 2A-2E and / or 3A-3E of the printing ink DF1.
- This may include correcting the rotational position of the container 12 checked in the inspection unit 19 by actuating its associated rotary holder 24 for the subsequent printing ink DF2.
- This can also include that the timing of the print head 5 for printing with the subsequent printing ink DF2 is adapted to correct a printing position in the (horizontal) printing direction DR.
- the active printing area YA of the print head 5 for printing with the succeeding ink DF2 may be shifted.
- the motif layer MS2 to be applied with the subsequent printing ink DF2 can be printed congruently on the motif layer MS1 previously printed with the printing ink DF1.
- the print marks 3A-3D and / or 3E designed as color marks provide information about the print quality of the motif layer MS1 printed with the inspected printing ink DF1. If a proper print quality is determined in this case, then only the position of the motif layer MS1 just printed on the basis of the print marks 2A-2D and / or 2E must be checked and the relative positioning of motif 1 and print head 5 relative to each other for the subsequent printing ink optionally as described above correct.
- the print head 5 preferably has a higher vertical print resolution than the subject 1, in particular at least twice the print resolution than the subject 1.
- the subject 1 could be printed nominally with a print resolution of 600 dpi.
- the printing head 5 then preferably has a printing resolution of at least 1200 dpi.
- the preferably multicolored correction print KD is carried out at the correction station 18 in order to overprint all remaining print marks 2A-2D and / or 2E and 3A-3D and / or 3E and thereby unrecognizable on the subject 1 and / or on the surrounding container wall 4 make or at least conceal.
- Both the quality of the finished printed motif 1 and the quality of the correction print KD can be checked during the final inspection in the inspection unit 29.
- the correction station 18 is preferably configured such that in each case only the areas of the print marks 2A-2D and / or 2E and 3A-3D and / or 3E are spatially selectively overprinted and remaining areas of the subject 1 and the container wall 4 are omitted from the correction pressure KD.
- a high-quality multi-color printing for the final correction of the appearance under blurring of the respective print marks at a single correction station 18 with the required engine power is possible.
- the internal print marks 2A-2D and 3A-3D can be printed in areas of the subject 1, which can be overprinted in a particularly simple manner in the correction station 18, for example in areas with comparatively dark and / or good opaque colors and / or low contrast differences of finished motive 1. Particularly advantageous is a positioning of the internal print marks 2A-2D and 3A-3D in areas without special information content, such as in a monochrome background area or the like.
- the internal print marks 2A-2D and 3A-3D may also be printed at locations of the subject 1 where there are characteristic areas of the subject 1 suitable for alignment and / or color control, for example, with comparatively sharp contrast transitions and / or color transitions. These are then reproduced by the correction pressure KD.
- the printheads 5 preferably have a resolution of at least 1200 dpi and preferably comprise at least 10,000 nozzles for a vertical working range YMAX of at least 70 mm.
- the working range YMAX (in the sense of a maximum nominal pressure level) can be increased to at least 140 mm or at least 210 mm.
- a printhead having a nozzle array having an actual height of 217.8mm and 42240 printing nozzles is used.
- a horizontal orientation is to be understood as meaning in each case the direction of the printing advance or the opposite direction.
- a vertical orientation is orthogonal to and parallel to the printing plane.
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