EP1410910B1 - Procédé pour détecter une marque de registre, en particulier une marque incolore ou à faible couleur - Google Patents

Procédé pour détecter une marque de registre, en particulier une marque incolore ou à faible couleur Download PDF

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EP1410910B1
EP1410910B1 EP03012568A EP03012568A EP1410910B1 EP 1410910 B1 EP1410910 B1 EP 1410910B1 EP 03012568 A EP03012568 A EP 03012568A EP 03012568 A EP03012568 A EP 03012568A EP 1410910 B1 EP1410910 B1 EP 1410910B1
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Wolfgang Luxem
Rodney Bucks
Klaus Dr. Müller
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F33/00—Indicating, counting, warning, control or safety devices
    • B41F33/0081—Devices for scanning register marks
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
    • B41P2233/00—Arrangements for the operation of printing presses
    • B41P2233/50—Marks on printed material
    • B41P2233/52—Marks on printed material for registering

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  • the invention relates to a method for detecting a register mark on a substrate, preferably a colorless or colorable register mark, by the detection of reflected or remitted electromagnetic radiation, in particular of visible or invisible light, preferably a register mark of transparent or clear toner.
  • the register marks can be applied to a substrate or, for example, for the electrophotographic printing process for the registration accuracy on a transparent conveyor belt for the substrate, z. B. between printing material sheets applied.
  • the register marks can be detected by means of at least one suitable sensor by means of the reflected light, in the second case also be detected by means of transmitted light.
  • Substrate and conveyor belt or any other carrier should be referred to as a "substrate".
  • a color print is usually printed with four colors, cyan, magenta, yellow and black, whereby the four color separations of the print image to be printed are produced with four inking units each applying color to the printing substrate during the electrophotographic printing process.
  • a transparent substance in particular a colorless toner on a toner image.
  • This can serve to protect the image, but it can also enhance the gloss of the image as desired.
  • it is from the US-A-5 147 745 .
  • US-A-5 506671 and EP-B-0 081 887 it is known to additionally apply a colorless toner to a toner image. This can usually be done with a surplus inking unit.
  • it is also necessary to include the colorless toner in the registration. This could be done by means of a further register mark from the colorless toner.
  • a clear toner reflects the light very much like the substrate, especially in the visible, near infrared, and near ultraviolet regions of the light.
  • a remedy could be sought by adding special absorbers to the clear toner, especially for absorption in the infrared and / or ultraviolet range, so as not to impair the appearance of the toner in the visible range, but this too is problematic.
  • Such absorbers are expensive, especially for the infrared range. Some absorbers, especially in the ultraviolet range, nevertheless distort the color of the printed image.
  • additional special lighting would be necessary to make the absorbers effective. Suitable light sources, especially in the UV range, are expensive, have low power, and require additional optics.
  • a toner must have certain triboelectric and rheological properties for a reliable printing process. These properties are also adversely affected by the aforementioned absorber. For other inks, the same applies mutatis mutandis to toners.
  • Register marks are often printed in the spaces between successive sheets directly on the conveyor belt.
  • the register marks can be detected by transmitted light with a kind of light barrier. In this way, it may also be possible to detect transparent register marks on the transparent conveyor belt because it does not reflect properties, but refraction properties play a role that may be different in the conveyor belt and the transparent register mark, and / or polarizations of the light can be used become.
  • register marks between the sheets can be used to calibrate the printing machine color-to-color (registration accuracy), but for registering color-to-sheet (registration) applied the register mark on the sheet itself must become. Then again the transmitted light method is not applicable.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of disclosing a method with which a register mark, in particular a colorless or colorless register mark, can be detected more reliably.
  • the register mark is given a radiation in a different degree than the register mark itself and the substrate absorbing, contrasting to the register mark and the substrate environment.
  • This can be applied equally to recognized color or colorless register marks.
  • the register mark is preferably given an environment which absorbs the radiation more strongly than the register mark itself and the substrate, and contrasts with the register mark and the substrate.
  • the inventive solution is surprisingly simple and effective way the environment of the register mark to be recognized differently absorbent than the register mark and designed as the substrate, so that the register mark, quasi embedded in this environment, can be detected safely and positionally by essentially in a sensor, a plurality of transitions of the light reflection efficiency can be registered, namely, for example, large reflection by the substrate, then from an environment edge little reflection, then from the first edge of the register mark again large reflection, then after the second edge of the transparent register mark again low reflection in the environment and then again great reflection on the substrate after leaving the environment or in reverse or complementary sequence. Since the sequence of markings in the transport direction of the printing material and their expansions (edge distances) are known, the position of the register mark to be recognized can either be recognized directly or calculated.
  • the register mark to be recognized need not be limited at its two edges by a different absorbing environment, but it can be provided according to the invention as sufficient that the register mark is placed only adjacent to at least one contrast surface, especially if the Contrast surface of the register mark in the transport direction precedes and triggers a kind of start signal for register recognition.
  • the register mark to be recognized can also be placed on or above a contrasting surface which has a larger area than the register mark and / or projects beyond it at least in one direction.
  • the contrast surface itself is also designed in the manner of a register mark, preferably even at least one register mark provided anyway is used as the contrast surface.
  • the register mark to be recognized in particular an additional transparent register mark, is advantageously included in a group of register marks, wherein the register mark to be recognized could, for example, be printed on a larger register mark or placed exactly between two register marks.
  • the contrast surface can be formed by means of a colored toner, wherein a black toner is particularly advantageous and suitable because of its high absorption. This is particularly advantageous for recognizing a transparent register mark, which itself reflects more strongly.
  • a toner is used in contrast, which has a different color than the register mark to be recognized and / or as the substrate, the condition "and" at The same color of the register mark to be recognized and the printing material is particularly suitable.
  • the position of the register mark to be recognized is determined with the aid of the position of the contrasting register mark, preferably edge positions of the contrasting register mark are determined.
  • the Fig. 1 shows in plan view a group of register marks 1 to 6, as are customary in the prior art and can be applied in particular for registration on a printing material 7 indicated as a frame. It can be assumed that a transport direction of the printing material 7 in the direction of arrow 8.
  • the two leading in the transport direction 8, broader register marks 1 and 2 are black and the subsequent register marks 3 to 6, the colored register marks in the four inks cyan, magenta, yellow and black formed.
  • FIG. 2 is again a similar group of register marks as in Fig. 1 shown, wherein like elements with the same reference numerals as in Fig. 1 are designated.
  • transparent register mark 9 has been added to the group of register marks.
  • This transparent register mark 9 can be inserted according to the invention exactly between the retained register marks 1 and 2 with the same width as this. It is better according to the invention a widened, black contrast surface 1 (2) is provided which covers the surface of the register marks 1, 2 and 9 and on which the register mark 9, as centrally as possible (centric), is applied.
  • the position of a colored register mark can, in principle, for example, be determined so that the leading in the transport direction 8 edge of the colored register mark is detected with a sensor, because a transition from brightly reflected light output to dark reflected light output takes place, that with respect to the transport direction edge the colored register mark is detected by a transition from dark reflected light output to bright reflected light output, and that is determined from the distance between the two edges detected the centrally located intermediate central axis of the register mark as the position of the register mark.
  • the position of the transparent register mark 9 located on the colored register mark or contrast surface 1 (2) can in principle also be determined, but, conversely, as previously described for a colored register mark, at the leading edge of the transparent register mark 9, because of the preceding, darker register mark surface 1, first a dark-bright transition takes place and at the rear edge of the transparent register mark 9, because of the subsequent register mark surface 2, a light-dark transition takes place.
  • the transparent register mark 9 thus results in a sensor exactly one inverted signal waveform to the waveform through a colored register mark.
  • the determined register mark positions can be supplied as values to a machine control software, which thus controls the printing press accordingly.
  • register marks instead of on a substrate or on a conveyor belt, could be detected by the inventive method, for example, on the surface of a photoconductor drum, a photoconductor belt or on a transfer blanket ,
  • FIGS. 3A and 3B With the help of FIGS. 3A and 3B shall be explained more concretely, only by way of example, how the position of the transparent register mark 9 is calculated on the contrast surface 1, 2 forming the register marks 1 and 2, as indicated above is once, when the transparent register mark 9, as in Fig. 3A , is arranged precisely centered on the contrasting surface 1, 2, and in comparison, when the transparent register mark 9, as in Fig. 3B , slightly off-center with respect to the contrast surface 1, 2 is displaced by a distance x marked with a double-headed arrow.
  • the transparent register mark 9 is applied centrally on the contrast surface 1,2. This is to mean that the register marks 1, 2 and 9 each have a width in the transport direction 8 (FIG. Fig. 2 ) of the printing material 7 have an amount a . So calculates a path length opposite to the transport direction 8, as in Fig. 3A indicated, starting at the leading edge of the register mark 1 with the dimension 0, the rear edge of the register mark 1, which is also the leading edge of the transparent register mark 9, at the dimension a , the trailing edge of the register mark 9 and simultaneous leading edge the register mark 2 in the measure 2 a and the rear edge of the register mark 2 in the dimension 3a, which is additionally indicated by an arrow sequence.
  • the register mark 1 in this case has the dot-dashed center line b1 , which is taken as the position of the register mark 1, the transparent register mark 9 has the dash-dot center axis c1 , and the register mark 2 has the dot-dashed center axis b2.
  • the axes b1 and c1 and the axes c1 and b2 also each have the distance a from each other.
  • the method described above makes it possible to more reliably recognize a colored instead of transparent register mark 9 if, for example, it is of the same color as the carrier to which it is applied.
  • the contrasting surfaces 1, 2 are then to be selected differently in color than the register mark 9 to be recognized and as the carrier.

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Claims (11)

  1. Procédé de détection d'une marque de registre, de préférence d'une marque de registre incolore ou à faible teinte, sur un support d'impression par la détection d'un rayonnement électromagnétique réfléchissant ou rémittent, notamment d'une marque de registre en toner transparent ou clair,
    caractérisé en ce qu'
    un environnement absorbant le rayonnement dans une autre mesure que la marque de registre et le support d'impression, contrastant par rapport à la marque de registre et au support d'impression est associé à la marque de registre.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce qu'
    un environnement qui absorbe plus fortement le rayonnement que la marque de registre et le support d'impression et qui contraste par rapport à la marque de registre et au support d'impression est associé à la marque de registre.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la marque de registre est placée dans le voisinage d'au moins une surface de contraste.
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la marque de registre est placée sur une surface de contraste dont la superficie est supérieure à celle de la marque de registre et/ou dépassant cette dernière dans au moins une direction.
  5. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la surface de contraste est également réalisée selon le type d'une marque de registre.
  6. Procédé selon la revendication 5,
    caractérisé en ce
    qu'au moins une marque de registre prévue de toute façon est utilisée comme surface de contraste.
  7. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 3 à 6,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la surface de contraste est réalisée par un toner de couleur.
  8. Procédé selon la revendication 7,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le toner utilisé à cet effet est noir.
  9. Procédé selon la revendication 7,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le toner utilisé à cet effet présente une autre couleur que la marque de registre et/ou le support d'impression à détecter.
  10. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5 à 9,
    caractérisé en ce que
    la position de la marque de registre à détecter est déterminée à l'aide de la position de la marque de registre contrastant.
  11. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5 à 10,
    caractérisé en ce que
    des positions de bord de la marque de registre contrastant sont déterminées.
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