Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
  • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
  • B41M5/00—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
  • B41M5/0041—Digital printing on surfaces other than ordinary paper
  • B41M5/0058—Digital printing on surfaces other than ordinary paper on metals and oxidised metal surfaces
• • 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
  • B41J3/407—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
  • B41J3/413—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material for metal
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
  • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
  • B41M5/00—Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
  • B41M5/0041—Digital printing on surfaces other than ordinary paper
  • B41M5/0047—Digital printing on surfaces other than ordinary paper by ink-jet printing

Definitions

• the invention is based on a method according to the preamble of claim 1.
• insert tools in particular of saw blades, known which comprise at least one printing operation, wherein at least one information is applied to the insert tool by means of the at least one printing operation.
• the printing process is carried out in particular with a screen or pad printing machine.
• the invention is based on a method for the individualization of insert tools, in particular of saw blades, which comprises at least one printing operation, wherein at least one piece of information is applied to the insert tool by means of the at least one printing operation.
• the at least one printing process be carried out at least partially with an inkjet printing unit.
• the ink jet printing unit is formed by a flatbed ink jet printing unit.
• “individualization” is to be understood as meaning, in particular, an unambiguous identification of the insertion tool.
• Information in this context should be understood to mean, in particular, a feature which, in particular, sets a user of the insertion tool to product-specific information. features of the insert tool. The information can be formed by a manufacturer-dependent or manufacturer-independent article designation, by instructions for use and hazard statements, by a manufacturer's logo and / or by further features that appear appropriate to a person skilled in the art.
• the at least one piece of information can be formed by a particular product-specific feature that is designed to be machine-readable.
• the at least one piece of information may comprise a machine-readable EAN code.
• a "printing process” is to be understood as meaning, in particular, a process which comprises at least one step in which the application tool is printed directly or indirectly with the at least one information item by means of a color in that the information is initially printed on the insertion tool as at least substantially liquid paint and a cohesive connection is formed between the color of the printed information and a material from which the insertion tool at least partially exists.
• an "ink jet printing unit” is to be understood in particular to mean a unit which is intended to produce a printed image by means of a targeted firing or targeted deflecting of small ink droplets.
• the information can preferably be printed in color and preferably precisely with an advantageously high print quality.
• the information can be configured machine-readable.
• the information can preferably be made small and filigree, so that a multiplicity of possibilities of information that can be applied to the insertion tool can be achieved.
• an advantageously short setup time can be achieved between 2 printing operations for printing different information.
• the set-up time can be reduced to at least substantially zero.
• the term "at least essentially zero" should be understood to mean, in particular, a reduction of the set-up time to less than 10 minutes, preferably less than 5 minutes and more preferably less than 2 minutes be reduced to less than a minute.
• the occupancy time of a device, the application tools printed by the method according to the invention, advantageously optimized and an output amount of individualized application tools can be increased advantageously.
• batches or batch sizes of the application tools to be printed can advantageously be reduced, as a result of which, in particular, an advantageously high
• Flexibility can be achieved and in particular delivery times of the insert tools can be advantageously reduced. In addition, this can be advantageously reduced storage costs and thus storage costs. Furthermore, investment and / or maintenance costs can advantageously be saved by the method according to the invention.
• the information be printed directly on the insert tool.
• directly is to be understood in this context in particular that the information is printed as initially at least substantially liquid paint on the insert tool and a cohesive connection between the color of the printed information and the material from which the insert tool is at least partially arises ,
• the method can advantageously be designed simply and with preferably few work steps, whereby preferably low costs can be achieved.
• an advantageously high adhesion and thus a preferably long readability of the information can be achieved on the insert tool.
• a layer is applied, which comprises a bonding agent.
• a “bonding agent” should in this context
• a material is understood which is intended to increase the cohesive cohesion between the ink with which the information is printed and the material of the insertion tool or to achieve an advantageously high cohesive cohesion between the paint and the insertion tool.
• a layer is applied, which comprises an at least substantially opaque color.
• An "at least substantially opaque color” should be understood in this context to mean, in particular, a color which makes it possible to mask color deviations of the material to be printed from the opaque color and thus to perceive these color deviations of the color to be printed
• the at least substantially opaque color is formed at least in part as a white color
• the layer comprising the at least substantially opaque color may alternatively or in addition to the Layer, which comprises the adhesion promoter, be provided
• Substantially opaque color includes, is in particular intended to be printed with a further layer which forms the at least one information.
• EAN code is also proposed that at least one EAN code be applied to the insert tool.
• EAN code should in this context In particular, an internationally distinctive product labeling for commercial articles are understood.
• the abbreviation "EAN” is intended to stand for the term "European Article Number”.
• an advantageously machine-readable information can be obtained, which forms the at least one piece of information that is applied to the inserting tool or, in addition to this, at least one piece of information is provided on the inserting tool.
• this refinement can have the advantage that the proposed EAN code for individualizing the insertion tool can be designed to be machine-readable, at least throughout Europe, preferably worldwide.
• all information that is usually provided on a label and / or on an outer packaging of the insert tool and that clearly identify the insert tool, in particular for sale, applied to the insert tool particularly preferably be printed directly.
• a system has at least two different application tools, wherein the at least two different application tools are printed by means of the inventive method, each with at least one piece of information, so that the at least two different application tools can be clearly identified on the basis of each at least one printed information.
• the information is at least partially printed with at least one UV-curing ink.
• a preferably fast drying of the ink, with which the information is printed can be achieved, whereby in particular an advantageously short processing time for the individualization of the insert tool can be achieved.
• the method has a further step, in which at least one design and / or functional element is applied to the insert tool.
• a design and / or functional element to understand in this context, in particular an element be that is intended to fulfill an optical, creative and / or fulfilling a technical task function.
• the design and / or functional element can be applied to the insert tool.
• the design and / or functional element is applied to the insert tool prior to the at least one printing operation performed with the inkjet printing unit.
• the design and / or functional element can be applied to the insert tool by means of a printing method, in particular by means of a pad printing, screen printing and / or another printing method which appears to be useful to a person skilled in the art.
• the design and / or functional element comprises a marking applied by means of a laser.
• the marking may form a production code and / or a pictogram and / or a logo.
• a device in particular a printing device, proposed, which is intended to print an insert tool, in particular a saw blade, by means of the described method with the at least one information.
• the device comprises at least one ink jet printing unit.
• the device has at least one arithmetic unit which is provided to provide the at least one information as a high-resolution graphic from a file.
• high-resolution is meant in this context in particular a resolution of at least 300 dpi, preferably of at least 600 dpi and more preferably of at least 1200 dpi.
• Graphics is to be understood in this context in particular as a visual and / or written, preferably digitized Representation are understood.
• an advantageously simple provision of the at least one information can be achieved.
• a preferably simple duplication of the at least one information or an advantageously simple, simultaneous distribution of the at least one information to a plurality of ink jet printing units and / or to a plurality of devices can be achieved.
• Fig. 1 shows a printing device according to the invention in a perspective
• Fig. 2 shows an inventive insert tool in a plan view
• Fig. 2a shows a section through the insert according to the invention along the line IIa - IIa
• Fig. 3 shows the insert tool according to the invention in a packaged state in a plan view and 4 shows a flow chart of a method according to the invention.
• FIG. 1 shows a device according to the invention.
• the device is designed as a printing device.
• the device is intended to print an insert tool 10 with information 14, 16, 18.
• the device has a housing 36.
• the device has a plurality of stand elements 38.
• the stand elements 38 are intended to support the device in an assembled state.
• the stand elements 38 are formed as feet.
• the apparatus comprises an ink jet printing unit 20.
• the ink jet printing unit 20 is formed as a flatbed ink jet printing unit.
• a storage unit 42 is arranged, viewed in a vertical direction 40 from a floor, not shown, on which the apparatus stands.
• the storage unit 42 comprises six compartments 44.
• the storage unit 42 is provided to receive cartridges 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56.
• the cartridges 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56 are inserted parallel to a main extension direction 58 of the ink jet printing unit 20 in the compartments 44.
• the inserted into the compartments 44 cartridges 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56 are operatively connected to a non-visible print head of the ink jet printing unit 20.
• a paint from one of the cartridges 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56 is passed via a hose unit, not shown, to the printhead of the ink jet printing unit 20.
• the printhead of the inkjet printing unit 20 is slidably mounted parallel to the main extension direction 58 of the inkjet printing unit 20.
• the printhead is designed as an on-demand printhead.
• the ink jet printing unit 20 is designed to produce a maximum image resolution of 1440 dpi * 1200 dpi in one printing operation.
• a respective cartridge 46, 48, 50, 52, 54 which contains the color white, yellow, magenta, cyan and black.
• the paint contained in the cartridges 46, 48, 50, 52, 54 is formed as a UV-curable ink.
• a cartridge 56 is provided which comprises a bonding agent 24.
• the bonding agent 24 is UV-curing.
• the apparatus comprises a feed unit 60.
• the feed unit 60 is provided to bring to be printed workpieces 62 in a position and / or to hold the workpieces 62 in this position in which the workpieces 62 can be printed by the inkjet printing unit 20.
• the workpieces 62 are formed by insert tools 10.
• the insert tools 10 are formed as saw blades 12.
• the insert tools 10 are formed as circular saw blades.
• the feed unit 60 has a holding element not shown in detail.
• the holding element is designed as a holding plate.
• the holding element comprises a vacuum system, not shown. The vacuum system generates a negative pressure which keeps the workpiece 62 positionally secure on the feed unit 60.
• the device has an operating unit 64.
• the operating unit 64 comprises an input field 66 and a screen 68.
• the screen 68 is provided to inform an operator of a state of a printing operation. Via the input field 66, an operator can control the device and the printing process and make adjustments.
• the input field 66 has a plurality of keys 70.
• the device has an emergency stop switch 72. The emergency stop switch 72 is arranged next to the input field 66.
• a computing unit 34 is provided.
• the arithmetic unit 34 is designed as an external arithmetic unit 34.
• the arithmetic unit 34 is connected to the device via a data cable 74.
• the arithmetic unit 34 is intended to provide information as a high-resolution graphic.
• the high-resolution graphic is provided as a pdf file.
• the pdf file is forwarded to the device via the data cable 74.
• FIG. 2 shows the insert tool 10 according to the invention after a printing operation.
• the insert tool 10 is configured as a saw blade 12.
• the saw blade 12 is here formed by a circular saw blade.
• the insert tool 10 has a main body 76 and a processing body 78.
• the processing body 78 comprises a plurality of cutting elements 80 formed by teeth.
• the base body 76 has an information area 82. In the information area 82 three different information 14, 16, 18 are arranged.
• a first information 14 is formed by a manufacturer logo 84.
• the second information 16 is formed by an EAN code 30.
• the third information 18 is formed by a product name 86.
• the EAN code 30 extends annularly and radially within the information area 82.
• the manufacturer logo 84 is disposed radially within the EAN code 30.
• Product designation 86 is arcuate and disposed radially outward of EAN code 30.
• the information 14, 16, 18 are applied to the insertion tool 10 by means of a method for individualizing insertion tools 10 with the device.
• the method includes a printing process.
• the printing operation is performed by the ink-jet printing unit 20.
• the information 14, 16, 18 are printed on the insert tool 10.
• the information 14, 16, 18 can thereby directly in a printing on the
• a first layer 22 is printed on the insert tool 10 (FIG. 2a).
• the first layer 22 comprises the adhesion promoter 24.
• the first layer 22 is completely formed by the adhesion promoter 24.
• the adhesion promoter 24 is intended to improve the adhesion of the following layers 26, 88 on the insertion tool 10 and to prevent detachment of the information 14, 16, 18 during use of the insertion tool 10.
• a second layer 26 is printed on the insert tool 10.
• the second layer 26 comprises a covering color 28.
• Layer 26 is formed from the white color of the cartridge 46.
• the second layer 26 is intended to form a primer for the information 14, 16, 18.
• the information 14, 16, 18 are printed in a third layer 88 onto the insertion tool 10.
• the information 14, 16, 18 are printed on the insert tool 10 with UV-curing inks 32.
• the information 14, 16, 18 are with the colors magenta, yellow, cyan and black from the cartridges 48, 50, 52, 54 printed.
• the individualized insert tool 10 can be removed from the device.
• FIG. 3 the insertion tool 10, which has been individualized by means of the method in the device, is shown in a packaged state.
• An outer package 90 is made of cardboard.
• the outer package 90 encloses more than one half of the insert tool 10.
• the outer package 90 is formed product independent.
• the outer packaging 90 leaves open a region of the insertion tool 10 on which the information 14, 16, 18 are applied, so that the insertion tool 10 can be clearly identified on the basis of the information 14, 16, 18 printed on the insertion tool 10 ,

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