EP1894728A1 - Surveillance du fonctionnement de têtes d'impression à jet d'encre dans des machines d'impression numériques - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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- B41J2/005—Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
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- Object of the present invention is to propose an optical test method, with the nozzle failures and other emerging Identify incorrect behavior of individual printhead nozzles or the entire printhead at an early stage.
- the invention relates to a method and a device for automatic quality monitoring of inkjet printheads in digital printing machines by the high-resolution detection and evaluation of defined printing patterns using an image processing system.
- the image processing system consists essentially of two high resolution cameras, one for the front and one for the back of the paper web, transversely to the direction of transport across the entire width by means of a mechanical shuttle for a few seconds the paper web are moved back and forth. In each case, they take up small sections of a test pattern strip with microscope-like resolution.
- a connected image evaluation unit evaluates the image data at high speed and checks whether all the inkjet nozzles used are working properly.
- the inkjet dots of a defined printed test strip are examined for their presence, their contrast, their size, their shape and their position. It also detects the intensity of satellite droplet formation and smearing.
- tendencies deviations from preset target values are recognized in good time and compared with empirical data of earlier malfunctions of the same printheads. This makes it possible to replace printheads in time, possibly even before it comes to a total failure or other gross malfunction of individual nozzles or the entire printhead. If adjustable limit values are exceeded, warning signals and error messages can be output and, if necessary, the machine is also stopped.
- the optical camera resolution is on the order of at least 1200 to 2400 ppi (pixels per inch). Because of the high transport speed of the substrate matrix cameras are used. In order to keep the motion blur very small during image acquisition at such high transport speeds of the objects to be detected, a combination of a short electronic shutter (shutter) of the camera and very short and bright strobe flashes are used. The required short exposure time is on the order of down to 2 ⁇ sec. The required sufficient field illumination is achieved by very bright flashes of light.
- the "defined print pattern” is either a special test strip, which is located in the sheet edge area to be cut off later anyway, or specially selected, known cutouts in the used print field. Especially suitable are horizontal lines and line sections, where the behavior of the nozzles can be observed, especially at the edges.
- "Defined Print Pattern” means the expected print pattern to be captured by the camera at a particular location. This is defined as a desired pressure pattern by a teach-in process or by the pressure-underlying record. Whether the defined print pattern is selected from the printed work area or is a test strip printed specifically for this purpose, in both cases the defined print pattern should meet some basic conditions. Each print dot position within the image window must be clearly assignable to a particular nozzle of the print head and printed at least once and printed at least once. The printed dots (Ink dots) should occur as isolated as possible in order to minimize the overlay by the influence of several adjacent pressure points on a specific point of the print pattern.
- test strip definition is an example of such a test strip definition:
- the test strip consists of 9 pressure point lines, of which only 5 are printed. Each nozzle prints 1 to 4 dark dots. Lines 1, 3, 5 and 9 are always empty (---------).
- line 2 is a test pattern, where only every second point is printed, in line 4, the inverted pattern.
- line 6 there is a position code.
- the position code consists of a sequence of data blocks with 21 dot positions each. Each data block consists of an always identical start code (-xxx-) and an incremental 8-bit binary counter: 00000001 b, 00000010b, 00000011b, 00000100b, 00000101b ...
- the paper may shift sideways, it may slightly buckle, warp, twist, stretch, or it may shrink slightly. Therefore, the exact position of the image section in the print pattern itself must be included, because even a very precise absolute position sensor on the camera positioning device can not measure exactly where the camera image field in the test strip and thus could not be determined which pressure point through which inkjet Nozzle has been printed. That is, without additional information in the image itself, it would not be possible to determine which pressure point is to be assigned exactly to which nozzle. It is less the exact absolute position of the pressure points on the paper important, but the relative position to the adjacent pressure points.
- test strip includes such - just a few millimeters wide - individual dot sequences with a position code (e.g., a counter incrementing over the printhead width).
- FIG. 1 shows an embodiment for double-sided inkjet monitoring in a web press.
- the paper web (1) passes through the front-side printing roll (2) with the front-side inkjet printing head (6) or with a number of such print heads.
- the back of the paper web is printed by means of one or a series of inkjet printheads (7).
- Each inkjet print head (6,7) has a large number of parallel inkjet nozzles.
- the inline inkjet inspection is done for the front of the paper web (4,8,9,10) and for the back (5,11,12,13), if it is double-sided printing.
- the inspection has in each case a camera movement unit (10, 13) transversely to the transport direction of the paper web.
- the movement units (10, 13) may be e.g. have a linear motor and the sensor units (8,9 and 11,12) over the entire width of the paper web.
- the sensor units consist here of high-resolution, fast, triggerable matrix cameras (9,12) including macro lenses, as well as LED flash units (8,11), which are preferably equipped with monochrome black printing with infrared LEDs.
- the image processing electronics (16) moves, positions and triggers the sensor units (8,9 and 11,12), generates the pulses for the flash lights (8,11) and has a communication interface to the printing press.
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| EP06018297A EP1894728A1 (fr) | 2006-09-01 | 2006-09-01 | Surveillance du fonctionnement de têtes d'impression à jet d'encre dans des machines d'impression numériques |
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| EP06018297A EP1894728A1 (fr) | 2006-09-01 | 2006-09-01 | Surveillance du fonctionnement de têtes d'impression à jet d'encre dans des machines d'impression numériques |
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| DE102008021447A1 (de) * | 2008-04-29 | 2009-11-05 | Manroland Ag | Verfahren zum Betreiben einer in eine Rollendruckmaschine integrierten Bearbeitungseinrichtung |
| DE102009023963A1 (de) | 2009-06-05 | 2010-12-09 | Robert Bosch Gmbh | Verfahren zum Bestimmen eines Qualitätsmaßes für ein von einer Bearbeitungsmaschine bearbeitetes Produkt |
| WO2015032127A1 (fr) * | 2013-09-03 | 2015-03-12 | 北大方正集团有限公司 | Procédé et dispositif pour vérifier une buse d'imprimante à jet d'encre |
| DE102014108342A1 (de) * | 2014-06-13 | 2015-12-17 | Océ Printing Systems GmbH & Co. KG | Optische Erfassung und Bewertung von Refreshlines |
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| US6094280A (en) * | 1996-11-08 | 2000-07-25 | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | Method and apparatus for correcting print density by printhead, printhead corrected by this apparatus, and printing apparatus using this printhead |
| US6106094A (en) * | 1996-01-30 | 2000-08-22 | Neopt Corporation | Printer apparatus and printed matter inspecting apparatus |
| WO2002077108A2 (fr) * | 2001-03-21 | 2002-10-03 | Macdermid Colorspan, Inc. | Sous-ensembles mecaniques cooperants pour imprimante numerique grand format a jet d'encre, a chariot balayeur |
| US20040021724A1 (en) * | 2002-07-30 | 2004-02-05 | Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. | Image recording apparatus |
| US20060092199A1 (en) * | 2004-11-04 | 2006-05-04 | White John M | Methods and apparatus for aligning print heads |
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| US6106094A (en) * | 1996-01-30 | 2000-08-22 | Neopt Corporation | Printer apparatus and printed matter inspecting apparatus |
| US6094280A (en) * | 1996-11-08 | 2000-07-25 | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | Method and apparatus for correcting print density by printhead, printhead corrected by this apparatus, and printing apparatus using this printhead |
| WO2002077108A2 (fr) * | 2001-03-21 | 2002-10-03 | Macdermid Colorspan, Inc. | Sous-ensembles mecaniques cooperants pour imprimante numerique grand format a jet d'encre, a chariot balayeur |
| US20040021724A1 (en) * | 2002-07-30 | 2004-02-05 | Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. | Image recording apparatus |
| US20060092199A1 (en) * | 2004-11-04 | 2006-05-04 | White John M | Methods and apparatus for aligning print heads |
Cited By (5)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE102008021447A1 (de) * | 2008-04-29 | 2009-11-05 | Manroland Ag | Verfahren zum Betreiben einer in eine Rollendruckmaschine integrierten Bearbeitungseinrichtung |
| DE102009023963A1 (de) | 2009-06-05 | 2010-12-09 | Robert Bosch Gmbh | Verfahren zum Bestimmen eines Qualitätsmaßes für ein von einer Bearbeitungsmaschine bearbeitetes Produkt |
| WO2015032127A1 (fr) * | 2013-09-03 | 2015-03-12 | 北大方正集团有限公司 | Procédé et dispositif pour vérifier une buse d'imprimante à jet d'encre |
| US9662889B2 (en) | 2013-09-03 | 2017-05-30 | Peking University Founder Group Co., Ltd. | Method and device for checking nozzle of inkjet printer |
| DE102014108342A1 (de) * | 2014-06-13 | 2015-12-17 | Océ Printing Systems GmbH & Co. KG | Optische Erfassung und Bewertung von Refreshlines |
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