US20100208280A1 - Method for Printing A Substrate - Google Patents

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US20100208280A1
US20100208280A1 US12/667,207 US66720708A US2010208280A1 US 20100208280 A1 US20100208280 A1 US 20100208280A1 US 66720708 A US66720708 A US 66720708A US 2010208280 A1 US2010208280 A1 US 2010208280A1
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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
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/54—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed with two or more sets of type or printing elements
    • B41J3/546—Combination of different types, e.g. using a thermal transfer head and an inkjet print head
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K15/00—Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data, e.g. computer output printers
    • G06K15/02—Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data, e.g. computer output printers using printers
    • G06K15/10—Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data, e.g. computer output printers using printers by matrix printers
    • G06K15/102—Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data, e.g. computer output printers using printers by matrix printers using ink jet print heads
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M3/00—Printing processes to produce particular kinds of printed work, e.g. patterns
    • B41M3/008—Sequential or multiple printing, e.g. on previously printed background; Mirror printing; Recto-verso printing; using a combination of different printing techniques; Printing of patterns visible in reflection and by transparency; by superposing printed artifacts

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  • the invention is directed to a method for printing on a substrate according to the preamble of claim 1 .
  • Inkjet printing units which do not use printing plates are increasingly used in printing plate-based printing presses, mainly printing presses working on the principle of offset printing, e.g., in web-fed rotary offset printing presses and sheet-fed printing presses. These plateless inkjet printing units are used particularly for individualizing printed products produced by offset printing, e.g., with barcodes, numbering or other markings. Inkjet printing units of this kind have at least one inkjet printing head which can be designed to work on the principles of a continuous inkjet, drop-on-demand inkjet, thermal inkjet, bubble inkjet, or any other inkjet principle.
  • inkjet printing units having a plurality of inkjet printing heads, namely, a plurality of inkjet printing heads transverse to the transporting direction of the substrate or transverse to the printing direction on the one hand and a plurality of inkjet printing heads in the transporting direction of the substrate or in the printing direction on the other hand, the plurality of inkjet printing heads being arranged next to one another in the shape of an array or matrix.
  • the printing speed of inkjet printing processes can be increased in this way, it has not been possible thus far in a web-fed rotary offset printing press designed, e.g., as a newspaper printing press operating at printing speeds for plate-based offset printing of up to 15 m/s to print on a substrate inline with a plateless inkjet printing process due to the fact that the maximum printing speed which it has been possible to realize thus far for inkjet printing processes is 5 m/s. Consequently, when printing on a substrate with a plate-based printing process and, inline with the latter, with a plateless inkjet printing process, the print image applied by means of the inkjet printing process is subject to distortion.
  • a printing resolution of the plateless printing process is determined depending on a printing speed of the plate-based printing process.
  • the printing resolution of the plateless printing process is determined depending on the printing speed of the plate-based printing process, particularly of the offset printing process. The higher the printing speed of the plate-based printing process compared to the maximum printing speed of the plateless printing process at which printing can be carried out at maximum printing resolution, the lower the printing resolution of the plateless printing process.
  • a printing resolution of the plateless printing process considered transverse to the transporting direction of the substrate is preferably independent of the printing speed of the plate-based printing process; however, a printing resolution of the plateless printing process considered in the transporting direction of the substrate is determined depending on the printing speed of the plate-based printing process.
  • FIG. 1 a first schematic view illustrating the method according to the invention for printing on a substrate
  • FIG. 2 a second schematic view illustrating the method according to the invention for printing on a substrate.
  • the present invention is directed to a method for printing on a substrate, wherein the substrate is printed on by a plate-based printing process and, inline with the plate-based printing process, by a plateless inkjet printing process.
  • the plate-based printing process is preferably an offset printing process.
  • the method according to the invention is preferably used in web-fed rotary offset printing presses such as, e.g., in newspaper printing presses, in order to print on a web-shaped substrate by means of the inkjet printing process inline with the offset printing within the web-fed rotary offset printing press.
  • a printing resolution of the inkjet printing process is determined depending on a printing speed of the plate-based printing process, particularly of the offset printing process.
  • the printing resolution is preferably determined in such a way that a printing resolution of the inkjet printing process transverse to the transporting direction of the substrate is independent of the printing speed of the plate-based printing process, but a printing resolution of the inkjet printing process in the transporting direction of the substrate is dependent on the printing speed of the plate-based printing process,
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic visualization of a resolution which can be achieved by means of a conventional inkjet printing process, wherein the resolution considered transverse to transporting direction of the substrate (arrow 10 ) and considered in the transporting direction of the substrate (arrow 11 ) is identical. Accordingly, considered transverse to the transporting direction of the substrate, the distance x between dots which can be printed by means of the inkjet printing process corresponds to the distance y between the same dots considered in the transporting direction of the substrate.
  • the resolution of an inkjet printing process is 240 ⁇ 240 dpi or 300 ⁇ 300 dpi.
  • printing resolution of this kind which is identical considered transverse to the transporting direction of the substrate and in the transporting direction of the substrate, printing can be carried out, for example, in the manner of character A according to FIG. 1 .
  • the printing speed of the plate-based printing process is less than or equal to a maximum printing speed of the inkjet printing process at which printing can be carried out at the maximum inkjet printing resolution
  • the printing resolution of the inkjet printing process in the transporting direction of the substrate and transverse to the transporting direction of the substrate corresponds to the maximum printing resolution of the inkjet printing process
  • the printing speed of the plate-based printing process is greater than the maximum printing speed of the plateless inkjet printing process at which printing can be carried out at maximum inkjet printing resolution
  • the selected printing resolution of the inkjet printing process considered in the transporting direction of the substrate is lower than the maximum printing resolution of the inkjet printing process.
  • the printing resolution of the inkjet printing process in the transporting direction of the substrate is determined according to the following formula:
  • DA inkjet DA inkjet max * v inkjet max v offset ,
  • DA inkjet is the printing resolution of the inkjet printing process in the transporting direction of the substrate
  • DA inkjet max is the maximum printing resolution of the inkjet printing process
  • v inkjet max is the maximum printing speed of the inkjet printing process at which printing can be carried out at maximum printing resolution DA inkjet max
  • v offset is the printing speed of the plate-based printing process.
  • the printing resolution of the inkjet printing process in the transporting direction of the substrate depends on the transporting speed of the plate-based printing process, particularly of the offset printing process, namely in such a way that the printing resolution of the inkjet printing process is reciprocally or inversely proportional to the printing speed of the plate-based printing process.
  • the maximum printing resolution of the inkjet printing process at a maximum printing speed of the inkjet printing process of 5 m/s is 300 ⁇ 300 dpi.
  • the printing resolution of the inkjet printing process is 300 dpi transverse to the transporting direction of the substrate and 100 dpi in the transporting direction of the substrate so that the total resolution is 300 ⁇ 100 dpi.
  • FIG. 2 shows a reduced printing resolution for the inkjet printing process.
  • the distance x between printing dots remains unchanged considered transverse to the transporting direction (arrow 10 ) of the substrate, but the distance y* between the printing dots is increased considered in the transporting direction (arrow 11 ) of the substrate.
  • the character A is accordingly printed with fewer dots considered in the transporting direction of the substrate.
  • the printing resolution of the inkjet printing process is determined once depending on the maximum printing speed of the plate-based printing process, particularly of the offset printing process, so that the printing resolution of the inkjet printing process is constant and is accordingly independent from the actual printing speed of the plate-based offset printing process.
  • the printing resolution of the inkjet printing process can also be determined depending on the actual printing speed of the plate-based offset printing process so that the printing resolution of the inkjet printing process can accordingly be varied; namely, it depends on the actual printing speed of the plate-based offset printing process at the current time.
  • the invention can also be employed when using another plateless printing process, e.g., laser printing, inline with the plate-based printing process.
  • another plateless printing process e.g., laser printing

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