WO2011027012A1 - Dispositif d'impression faisant appel à une technologie d'injection d'encre - Google Patents

Dispositif d'impression faisant appel à une technologie d'injection d'encre Download PDF

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WO2011027012A1
WO2011027012A1 PCT/ES2010/070442 ES2010070442W WO2011027012A1 WO 2011027012 A1 WO2011027012 A1 WO 2011027012A1 ES 2010070442 W ES2010070442 W ES 2010070442W WO 2011027012 A1 WO2011027012 A1 WO 2011027012A1
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José Vicente TOMÁS CLARAMONTE
Antonio Manuel Querol Villalba
Rafael VICENT ABELLÁ
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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
    • B41J3/28—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for printing downwardly on flat surfaces, e.g. of books, drawings, boxes, envelopes, e.g. flat-bed ink-jet printers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F17/00—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for
    • B41F17/24—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for for printing on flat surfaces of polyhedral articles
    • 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
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • 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
    • B41J15/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in continuous form, e.g. webs
    • B41J15/04—Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles
    • B41J15/08—Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles characterised by being applied to printers having transversely- moving carriages
    • 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
    • B41J25/00—Actions or mechanisms not otherwise provided for
    • B41J25/001—Mechanisms for bodily moving print heads or carriages parallel to the paper surface
    • 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
    • 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
    • B41J2202/00—Embodiments of or processes related to ink-jet or thermal heads
    • B41J2202/01—Embodiments of or processes related to ink-jet heads
    • B41J2202/20—Modules

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  • the present invention refers to a printing device by means of "Inkjet” technology, whose essential purpose is to provide a printing device, especially applicable to the decoration of ceramic tiles without ruling out other applications, in which the failure of one or more of the printhead nozzles does not cause major defects in the corresponding decoration, for which the movements of heads and / or the band are combined Conveyor and objects to be printed in such a way that the movements required in the printheads are not of great amplitude and in such a way that the advantages of the high productivity benefits of the printing machines with stationary printheads are combined, with the high qualities facilitated by printers with mobile printheads of type "plotter", avoiding the respect tivas disadvantages of great defects in the decorations before failures of the injectors and of low productivity by necessity of manual feeding of the object to print; for which the invention combines the mobility of a conveyor belt with that of at least one printhead holder that acts as a multi-axis Cartesian robot, these movements being governed by
  • printers with "Inkjet” inkjet technology of various functionalities and fields of application are known in the market.
  • "plotter” printers are known, in which the object to be decorated or printed (paper, vinyl, etc.) is conducted through an area in the that print heads are moved, that by oscillating movements in the direction perpendicular to the advance of the object to be printed and with small sequential steps of said object, high quality images are produced, suitable for decorating posters, posters, tiles and others.
  • these types of printers have drawbacks related to low productivity, needing to be fed from the objects to be decorated, usually manually and expensively in terms of the time taken.
  • printers are known in which the printheads remain immobile, said heads being fixed and distributed so as to cover the width of the object to be decorated, moving in this case only said object, these printers being called “single-pass" ", an example of this type of printers is WO2000021760A1 / EP1038689B1 / ES2219068T3 as” DEVICE FOR DECORATION OF CERAMIC TILES ".
  • the invention consists of a printing device by means of inkjet technology "Inkjet” which has printheads. printing, each of them being provided with various injectors, and used in prints (called “single-pass”) where the print heads are motionless and the object to be printed moves under them.
  • the device thereof has a conveyor belt with movement capacity according to an X direction and additionally in one direction and perpendicular to it, the objects to be printed on said band; said device also presenting at least one head support on which several of said print heads are mounted; each support having its own means of movement, at least according to a direction parallel to said X direction and according to one or more directions other than said direction parallel to X direction; the movements of the band and each support being governed by a programmable controller, so that the printing that is carried out can combine movements of the objects to be printed and movements of the print heads in all those directions.
  • said print heads are distributed in the corresponding support so that they are oriented in perpendicular and oblique directions with respect to the main plane of the conveyor belt, thus allowing simultaneous printing of the entire width of the object to be to print .
  • the displacements of the support in that direction parallel to the X direction occur between a waiting position and an end-of-travel position established in a portion of the length of the conveyor belt.
  • the referred one or more directions other than the direction parallel to the X direction, in the displacements of the printhead holder may consist of at least one transverse direction U with respect to the said X direction that facilitates the interlacing of the printing of injectors of the same head, as well as the interlacing of the printing of injectors of different heads.
  • the print head support in addition to these parallel and transverse directions with respect to the X direction of the web, has a vertical travel direction that allows the height of the print and the access of the print to be adjusted. maintenance stations; so that said support can act as a three-axis Cartesian robot.
  • said programmable controller manages the movements of the movable band and support elements, so that said movements are executed simultaneously, sequentially or with a combination of both, for either of the two directions (forward / reverse) of each direction of travel existing in the sliding elements band and supports; enabling printing both in motion and in stopping one, several or all movable elements.
  • said programmable controller that governs the movements of the web and the printhead holders is additionally responsible for managing the printing execution by commanding the electronic signals of the injectors of the printheads
  • the number of printhead holders is sized according to the number of inks to be used in the corresponding print.
  • the device of the invention has relative advantages in that it gives movement to the supports of the print heads used in impressions with fixed heads, and / or the conveyor belt, being able to combine that movement of the supports with the movement of the object to be decorated, thereby combining the high-performance features of single-pass printers with the high-quality features of plotter-type printers ", although the requirement of the movements of the heads in the device of the invention in its case does not need to be as wide as in the" plotter "printers, since the width to be decorated of the object is covered by the special distribution of heads Print on each head support.
  • the device thereof is capable of working simultaneously with the band in operation (non-stop) and decorating the object by consecutive passes of the printheads with a certain interlacing, by movement oscillating of the head supports in directions parallel to those of the movement of the conveyor belt and perpendicular to it.
  • the device thereof is capable of working simultaneously with the band in operation (non-stop) and decorating the object by consecutive passes of the printheads with an interlaced success, by the oscillating movement of the transport band in directions perpendicular to those of the movement of the object to be decorated.
  • the device of the invention behaves as a "single-pass" machine in which the printhead supports, and therefore also said heads, have a total mobility in three axes, two of them parallel to the plane of placement of the object to be printed and another perpendicular to that plane to provide, in the case of said perpendicular axis the advantages of allowing adjustments of the printing height and facilitate functionalities of a maintenance station.
  • Figure 1. Represents a top and schematic plan view of a printing device by inkjet technology made according to the present invention.
  • Figure 2. Represents a view analogous to that of the previous figure 1, showing the ability of the device to decorate an object by moving a print head support on said object.
  • Figure 3. It is a view analogous to that of the previous figure 2 which in this case shows the ability of the device to decorate the said object when it is moved on a conveyor belt under said printhead support.
  • Figure 4. It is a profile and schematic view of the device of the previous three figures, in which various directions of movement in the conveyor belt and the printhead support of the device are represented.
  • Figure 5. It is a front view that in this case shows the ability of the badge to regulate the printing height of said print head support on the conveyor belt (position 5a to 5b) and the movement of the band in the X direction , perpendicular to the direction of advance of the object to be decorated (5c).
  • Figure 6. It is a perspective view, which in this case shows the capacity of the device for decoration by combined action of the movement of said head supports in an X direction, parallel to the advance of the object to be decorated, with a a certain displacement of the printing band in a direction Y perpendicular to it.
  • Figure 7. It is a perspective view, which in this case shows the capacity of the device for the introduction of material (7a), decoration by combined action of the movement of said head supports in an X direction, parallel to the advance of the object to be decorated (7b), and the output of the decorated object (7c).
  • the printing device by means of "Inkjet” technology of this example of the invention has a conveyor belt 2 in which the object to be printed 1 is located, as well as a support 4 in which various printheads are distributed. impression 3, as can be seen in all figures.
  • the heads 3 are placed on the support 4 so that they are distributed perpendicularly and obliquely with respect to the path 5 of the conveyor belt 2 to facilitate decorations throughout the width of the object to be decorated 1.
  • the support 4 has its own means of movement 6, as can be seen in Figure 4, which allows the support to be moved in a direction parallel to that of said path 5 from a waiting position 8 to a limit position 9, as shown in figure 2.
  • these means of movement 6 of the support 4 facilitate its horizontal movement but in a direction perpendicular to the referred trajectory 5 of the band 2, which allows the interlacing of printing of injectors of the same printhead or of different printheads. injection, especially between adjacent printheads.
  • the conveyor belt has means that facilitate its horizontal movement according to a perpendicular direction Y to the referred trajectory 5 of the objects to be decorated 1, which allows the interlacing of printing of injectors of the same printhead or of different heads of injection, especially between adjacent printheads.
  • the displacement means 6 of the support 4 are applied to a vertical axis perpendicular to the previous ones, thus allowing the adjustment of the printing height and access to maintenance stations, all these possible trajectories in the displacement having been referred to as 7 of the support 4 that determine a movement in said support 4 similar to that of a three-axis Cartesian robot.
  • the printheads 3 may act by decorating the object 1 both when the transport band 2 is in motion and fixes the position of the support 4, as both are in motion or the band 2 is stopped and the support 4 is in motion, in addition to those movements Band 2 and support 4 may be simultaneous or sequential. In addition, these movements may be in each direction in two directions, that is, forward and backward.
  • All those movements of the band 2 and the support 4 are managed by a programmable controller that also manages the execution of the print by commanding the electronic signals that are associated with the nozzles of each printhead 3.
  • a single support 4 is shown in the present example, in other embodiments a plurality of supports 4 are available whose number is defined as a function of the number of inks used in a given decoration; being synchronized all the movements of all the supports 4 and the transport band 2 by means of said programmable controller.

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La présente invention concerne un dispositif d'impression qui fait appel à une technologie d'injection d'encre. Le dispositif comprend une bande transporteuse (2) qui se déplace suivant une direction X, sur laquelle bande se situent les objets à imprimer (1), ledit dispositif comprenant en outre au moins un support (4) pour têtes d'impression (3). Chaque support (4) comporte ses propres moyens de déplacement (6) suivant diverses directions, les mouvements de la bande (2) et de chaque support (4) étant commandés au moyen d'une unité de commande programmable, de sorte que pendant l'impression, les mouvements desdits objets (1) et desdites têtes (3) peuvent être combinés.
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