JP2009126038A - Container decoration method and decorated container - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a container decoration method of outputting a hair line pattern image to at least two or more films having different printing colors with the use of luster-image editing software being a personal computer software, and printing the hair line pattern on the container surface. <P>SOLUTION: The container decoration method is characterized in that the hair line pattern image is pseudo-formed on a personal computer display with the use of the personal computer software, the pseudo-formed hair line pattern image is output to the films, thereafter, the film is developed and a printing plate is produced, the printing plate is attached to the plate cylinder of a printing machine, the image is transferred from the printing plate to a bracket, then the hair line pattern is printed on the container surface. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for decorating a container. More specifically, using a PC software, an image of a hairline pattern of at least two different printing colors is output, and the light and darkness of the hairline pattern by hairline processing on the container surface is actually output. The present invention relates to a container decoration method and a decoration container.

Conventionally, when a hairline pattern is applied to the surface of a container, the hairline processing is actually applied to the surface of the container using a hairline processing apparatus. As a method for manufacturing an aerosol can that embodies a hairline pattern, there is a conventional manufacturing method as shown in FIGS. In FIG.
50 is a hairline processing apparatus in the hairline processing step. On the turntable 51, mandrels 52 are provided at equal intervals, and a cylindrical aerosol can 53 having a bottom is inserted and held in the mandrel 52. The aerosol can 53 moves at a constant speed as the turntable 51 rotates, and comes into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotating body 54. On the outer periphery of the rotating body 54, a scratching tool 55 such as a scotch bright or a wire is provided on the entire periphery, and the rotating tool 54 and the scratching tool 55 rotate so that the scratching tool 55 contacts the aerosol can 53. Then, countless scratches of the hairline pattern 56 are applied to the surface of the aerosol can 53. The thickness of the aerosol can 53 in this case is as shown in FIG. 11 (X-X enlarged sectional view of FIG. 10), the thickness t is 0.3 to 0.5 mm, and the hairline pattern 56 is scratched. The surface roughness S is about 0.01 to 0.05 mm.

Conventionally, a photograph of a subject on which an actual hairline has been processed is photographed, a single-color film of a hairline pattern is produced, a printing plate is produced from this single-color film, and the hairline pattern of this printing plate is used as a blanket for a printing press. There is a method of decorating a container in which a hairline pattern is printed on the surface of the container by transferring the blanket into contact with the container (see Patent Document 1). Also, there was a method of decorating a container to be transferred to a blanket by creating a single color hairline pattern by using personal computer software, outputting it on a film and producing a printing plate.
JP-A-9-58109

However, the conventional container decoration method and decoration container have the following drawbacks.
(1) When a hairline pattern is actually formed on the surface of a container using a hairline processing apparatus, the thickness of the body surface is at least 0.3 to 0.3 mm like an aerosol can. 0.5mm or more is required and the thickness of the body of bottle cans and full-open DI cans produced by squeezing and ironing is 0.1 to 0.2mm, so the container deforms during the processing of the hairline pattern. There is a drawback of doing. In addition, there is a problem that buckling, mouth deformation, etc. occur in the necking process and screw processing process after processing the hairline pattern, and it is impossible in the manufacturing process to actually apply the hairline pattern using the hairline processing device Met.
(2) In addition, a photograph is taken of a subject on which the hairline has been actually processed, a film with a hairline pattern is created, a printing plate is produced from this film, and a printing method is applied to the container surface. A hairline pattern image is output using, and it is expressed on a film, a printing plate is produced, and the decorating method for printing on the container surface is a single printing plate attached to the plate cylinder. Therefore, the hairline pattern of the same color as the aluminum container cannot be expressed, and the surface of the aluminum container actually processed by using the hairline processing apparatus is a printing color far from the surface. This is because, as shown in the present invention, the hairline pattern by conventional printing has not been provided with light and darkness by a plurality of printing plates of at least two kinds.
The present invention has been made paying attention to such problems, output at least two or more types of hairline pattern images edited with raster image editing software of personal computer software, to produce a plurality of films, By producing multiple printing plates from these films and combining multiple printing plates, it is possible to express a hairline pattern that is close to the light and dark of the actual hairline pattern, and also to express the metallic texture of aluminum The object is to provide a decorative method and a decorative container.

  In order to solve this problem, the solving means of the invention described in claim 1 uses a personal computer software to artificially create an image of a hairline pattern on a personal computer display, and the image of the created hairline pattern is used as a film. Output, then develop the film to produce a printing plate, attach the printing plate to a plate cylinder of a printing press, transfer an image from the printing plate to a blanket, and print a hairline pattern on the container surface. This is a method for decorating a container.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a container decorating method wherein the personal computer software is raster image editing software.

  According to a third aspect of the invention, the hairline pattern image is output to at least two different printing color films, each film is developed to produce a printing plate of at least two printing colors, A method for decorating a container, comprising attaching a printing plate to a plate cylinder of a printing press, transferring an image of a hairline pattern from each printing plate on a blanket, and printing the hairline pattern on the surface of the container.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a decorating container characterized in that printing is performed on the container surface by the decorating method according to the present invention.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a decorative container characterized in that the container is one selected from a bottle can, a full open DI can, a tube container and an aerosol can.

According to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.
(1) A conventional printing press can be used as it is, and since the hairline processing apparatus is not actually used, the manufacturing cost of the container is low.
(2) A hairline pattern can also be decorated on the surface of a bottle can, a full open DI can, a tube container, or the like that is manufactured by drawing and squeezing with a thin barrel.
(3) A printing method that outputs an image of a hairline pattern edited with raster image editing software of personal computer software, produces a plurality of at least two types of films, produces a plurality of printing plates from these films, and combines them. Therefore, it is possible to print a hairline pattern on the surface of the container that can image light and darkness that is close to an actual hairline pattern and that can express the actual metallic texture of aluminum.
(4) The length and fineness of the line of the hairline pattern decorated on the container surface can be freely adjusted.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a drawing showing Example 1 of the present invention. Example 1 is a drawing showing a printing machine 4.
In FIG. 1, reference numeral 2 denotes a blanket cylinder of the printing machine 4, and a pair of blankets 3 are attached to the blanket cylinder 2. The order of transferring and transferring the ink image of the desired hairline pattern A to the surface of the container 1 is as follows. First, for example, the gray ink contained in the ink doctor 5 is transferred to the coloring roll 6, the calling roll, the kneading roll 7 and the like. Then, it is sequentially transferred to the plate cylinder 8. Further, for example, silver-colored ink stored in another ink doctor 9 is sequentially transferred to the plate cylinder 12 through the coloring roll 10, the calling roll, the kneading roll 11, and the like. That is, Example 1 is an example in which two color printing plates of gray and silver are manufactured. Ink for printing other characters and symbols is sequentially transferred from the ink doctor to the plate cylinder 13. Printing plates 14a, 15a, and 16a are attached to the outer circumferences of the plate cylinder 8, the plate cylinder 12, and the plate cylinder 13, respectively. The printing plates 14a, 15a and 16a are produced by developing the output films 14, 15 and 16 shown in FIG. The ink image of the hairline pattern A on the printing plates 14a, 15a and 16a is transferred to the surface 3a of the rotating blanket 3 and printed on the surface of the container 1 in contact with the blanket 3 and printed with the desired hairline pattern A and characters (or symbols). ) Etc. are printed. In addition, the container 1 is rotatably supported by a mandrel 17 provided at equal intervals on the circumference of the turntable 18, and comes into contact with the surface 3 a of the rotating blanket 3.

  The present invention outputs the ink image of the hairline pattern A shown in FIG. 4 used in the printing process for printing the hairline pattern A on a printing press to the films 14, 15 and 16, and the printing plates 14a, 15a and 16a. There is a feature in the manufacturing process up to manufacturing. That is, the inventors use personal computer software raster image editing software and output the hairline pattern A edited by this software to two types of films 14 and 15 for each print color, and develop these two types. The printing plates 14a and 15a are printed on the surface 3a of the blanket 3 so that the high-quality hairline pattern A close to the light and darkness of the actual hairline pattern can be expressed.

  FIG. 2A is a drawing showing one step of an editing step in which raster image editing software of personal computer software is used and an image of hairline pattern A is edited with this software. This is a screen in which an image is newly opened on the personal computer display B. The resolution is appropriately set between 600 and 1200 pixels / inch depending on the density of the hairline line. The resolution of the first embodiment is 800 pixels / inch, and this 800 pixels / inch will be described. The color mode is grayscale, and the width and height of the hairline image are arbitrary sizes. Then, the entire image is filled to 30%. FIG. 2A is an instruction drawing to which noise is added. The distribution method is grayscale noise that is evenly distributed. By generating a uniform distribution of 0-70% density with respect to an image in which the entire image is filled to 30%, it is possible to obtain an image reproduction in which noise is added.

  The personal computer display B in FIG. 2B shows an image with movement blur. It sets suitably with the length of the line of a desired hairline. For example, it is set to be 362 pixels (11.5 mm). That is, each dot in the image is duplicated in the image to which noise is added by an angle of 0 degrees and a distance of 362 pixels in the horizontal direction. As a result, noise is added, black spots and white spots are pulled, and a line-like blurred image is reproduced.

  The personal computer display B in FIG. 3A shows an image to be converted into two gradations. The threshold value is set appropriately between 0 and 255. For example, the threshold value is set to 148 (density 57.8%). With respect to each dot gray tone image in FIG. 2B, the light intensity is modulated to two gradations, with the lighter density all white and the darker density all black, with the threshold as a boundary. The density of each dot included in the target image is arranged with 256 gradations, and the frequency of occurrence is represented in a histogram. Then, a threshold value for dividing from the histogram-like instruction screen is appropriately designated. Thereby, innumerable black thin line-like images are obtained from the blurred image of FIG. 2B, and a hairline-like image is completed.

  The personal computer display B in FIG. 3B divides the image into two gradations based on monochrome two gradations, that is, a resolution output of 800 pixels / inch and a use of 50% as a standard. Since the image format is in a 256 gradation gray state and the data capacity is large and difficult to handle, the image format is converted into a monochrome two gradation image having versatility as an image for plate making. Using the image created by the above procedure, two images are pasted with the print original editing software. Then, the position and phase are adjusted so that the two images do not overlap the same position, and different print colors such as gray and silver are attached to each. The images of these hairline patterns A are output to the films 14 and 15 shown in FIG.

  Next, by developing the output films 14 and 15, in the first embodiment, two types of printing plates 14a and 15a are manufactured. The ink image of the hairline pattern A on the printing plates 14a and 15a is transferred onto the surface 3a of the blanket 3 with the printing plate 16a developed from the film 16 of characters and symbols. In this way, the mixed image of the hairline pattern A and the symbol transferred to the surface 3a of the blanket 3 is printed on the surface of the container 1 when the surface 3a of the blanket 3 and the container 1 come into contact with each other. And the bottle container 1a of the surface decoration which combined the hairline pattern A and symbol printing shown in FIG. 5 is completed. Thus, in a normal container surface printing process, a bottle can of hairline pattern A is manufactured by printing in which hairline pattern A and symbol printing are combined on the container surface.

  Examples of the container 1 decorated according to the present invention include, for example, a thin metal bottle can 1a shown in FIG. 5, a thin full metal DI can 1b shown in FIG. The tube container 1c shown in FIG. In addition, it cannot be overemphasized that the decorating method of this invention is applicable also to the aerosol can which conventionally formed the hairline pattern A using the hairline processing apparatus.

  FIG. 8 is a bottle manufacturing process showing a series of manufacturing processes including a process of outputting an image of the hairline pattern A output using the personal computer software according to the present invention to a film and manufacturing a printing plate from the film. It is drawing which shows. 8 (a) is a cupping process for producing a cup from an aluminum plate, FIG. 8 (b) is an ironing process for drawing and squeezing and stretching the cup body, and FIG. 8 (c) is for opening the opening. The trimming process for cutting, FIG. 8 (d) is the washing / drying process, FIG. 8 (e) is the printing process for printing the container surface, and FIG. 8 (f) is the printing of the hairline pattern A etc. FIG. 8G shows a printing process to be applied, FIG. 8G shows a necking process for narrowing the diameter of the mouth portion, and FIG. 8H shows a screw processing step for threading the mouth portion. In FIG. 8H, the metal bottle can 1a on which the hairline pattern A is printed is completed. The feature of the present invention is the manufacturing process until the printing plate for transferring the ink image of the hairline pattern A to the blanket in the printing process for printing the hairline pattern A in FIG.

  The present invention can be widely applied to bottle containers, full-open DI cans, tube containers, aerosol cans, etc., and can be widely used as decorative containers for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, foods, beverages and the like. .

Drawing which shows the printing machine used for the decorating method which concerns on this invention. The drawing which shows the process edited with the raster image editing software of personal computer software in the decorating method which concerns on this invention. The drawing which shows the process edited with the raster image editing software of personal computer software in the decorating method which concerns on this invention. In the decoration method which concerns on this invention, Drawing which shows the film showing the film of 2 types of different printing colors and the character and the symbol which output the image of the hairline pattern A edited with the raster image editing software of personal computer software. The front view which shows the bottle can manufactured by the decorating method which concerns on this invention. The front view which shows the full open DI can manufactured by the decorating method which concerns on this invention. The front view which shows the tube container manufactured by the decorating method which concerns on this invention. Drawing which shows the manufacturing process of a series of bottle cans using the decorating method which concerns on this invention. The front view which shows the conventional hairline processing apparatus. Drawing which shows the aerosol can manufactured using the conventional hairline processing apparatus. XX line enlarged end elevation of FIG.

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1 container 1
1a bottle can 1b full open DI can 1c tube container 3 blanket 4 printing machine 8, 12, 13 plate cylinder 14, 15, 16 film 14a, 15a, 16a printing plate A hairline pattern B PC display

Claims (5)

Using a personal computer software, on a personal computer display, a hairline pattern image is created in a pseudo manner, the created hairline pattern image is output to a film, and then the film is developed to produce a printing plate. A container decorating method comprising attaching a printing plate to a plate cylinder of a printing machine, transferring an image from the printing plate to a blanket, and printing a hairline pattern on the surface of the container. The container decorating method according to claim 1, wherein the personal computer software is raster image editing software. The image of the hairline pattern is output to at least two types of films of different printing colors, and each of the films is developed to produce printing plates of at least two types of printing colors. The method for decorating a container according to claim 1, wherein the hairline pattern image is transferred from each printing plate while being superimposed on a blanket, and the hairline pattern is printed on the surface of the container. A decorative container, wherein the container surface is printed by the decoration method according to claim 1. The decorative container according to claim 4, wherein the container is one selected from a bottle can, a full open DI can, a tube container, and an aerosol can.

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