The present invention provides a machining system, an information processing device, a cutting plotter, a machining condition generation method, and a program that can improve the quality of a machining surface of a thick medium. A machining system 10 comprises: a cutting plotter that machines a workpiece 22 by a machining tool according to a machining condition; and an information processing device 14 that generates the machining condition. The machining condition includes a condition for machining the workpiece 22 deeper in stages along a thickness direction thereof by a plurality of times of machining. The information processing device 14 is provided with a machining condition generation unit 88 that generates a machining condition for machining the workpiece 22 shallower in machining for the first time than in machining for the Nth (N is an integer of 2 or more) time.
B26D 5/00 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
B26D 7/26 - Means for mounting or adjusting the cutting memberMeans for adjusting the stroke of the cutting member
B26D 7/28 - Means for performing other operations combined with cutting for counting the number of cuts or measuring cut lengths
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PRINTING APPARATUS, LANDING POSITION CORRECTION METHOD, AND CONTROL DEVICE
A printing apparatus 10 includes a head unit 12, a primary scanning drive unit 18, an optical sensor 106 that is an optical detection mechanism, and a control unit 30. The head unit has a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array. Regarding an adjustment pattern including a first pattern corresponding to the first nozzle array and a second pattern corresponding to the second nozzle array, the control unit causes nozzles in the first nozzle array to discharge a first ink to discharge positions associated with the first pattern, and after the first ink is fixed to a medium 50, causes nozzles in the second nozzle array to discharge a second ink to discharge positions associated with the second pattern, and causes the optical sensor to detect reflected light after migration of the second ink that occurs due to the liquid state second ink contacting the first pattern.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
Provided is a photocurable ink composition which includes a decorative component and suppresses yellowness after curing. The ink composition includes a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator. The photopolymerization initiator has a predetermined light absorption spectrum in a wavelength region of 360 nm or more and less than 410 nm, and is contained in an amount of 1% by weight or more and less than 15% by weight relative to the total weight of the ink composition.
According to the present invention, the definition of an image after a foil is bonded is increased. This foil transfer method comprises: a base layer forming step for forming a base layer by discharging a first photocurable ink from a head to a foil transfer region on an ink layer of a medium having the ink layer formed on the surface thereof, and irradiating, with light, the first photocurable ink landed on the foil transfer region to cure the ink; an adhesive layer forming step for forming an adhesive layer by discharging a second photocurable ink, which has a surface free energy smaller than that of the ink layer, from a head onto the base layer, and irradiating, with light, the second photocurable ink landed on the base layer; and a transfer step for bonding a foil member to the adhesive layer by disposing the foil member on the adhesive layer and performing heating in a state in which the foil member is pressed against the adhesive layer, wherein an ink, which has a base layer surface free energy that is smaller than that of the ink layer and larger than that of the second photocurable ink, is used as the first photocurable ink.
B44C 1/165 - Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing decorative surface effects for applying transfer pictures or the like for decalcomaniasSheet materials therefor
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PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING METHOD, AND PRINTING SYSTEM
The present invention performs printing on a transfer medium in a more appropriate manner. This printing device 12, which performs printing by an inkjet method on a transfer medium 50 which is a medium for a transfer film, comprises: a head unit 102 which discharges ink to the transfer medium 50; a main scanning drive unit 108 which causes the head unit 102 to perform a main scanning operation; and a sub-scanning drive unit 110 which causes the head unit 102 to perform a sub-scanning operation. The head unit 102 includes a color head 202 which is a first inkjet head for discharging color ink, and a white ink head 204 which is a second inkjet head arranged with the position thereof in the sub-scanning direction shifted relative to the color head 202.
B41J 2/005 - 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
Provided is a printing device that more appropriately conveys a medium. A printing device 10 comprises a print head 12, a conveyance part 16, a rotation drive unit 202, a tension application part 204, a state detection unit 206, and a control unit 30, wherein: the tension application part 204 has a tension bar 212 and a bar holding part 214; the state detection unit 206 detects a position of the tension bar 212 in a movement path of the tension bar 212; and the control unit 30 detects, on the basis of the position of the tension bar 212 detected by the state detection unit 206, movement time required for the tension bar 212 to move from a first position to a second position that are set in advance, and changes, on the basis of the movement time, the winding core rotation speed at which the rotation drive unit 202 rotates a winding core 150.
B65H 26/04 - Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions, for web-advancing mechanisms responsive to presence of irregularities in running webs for variation in tension
B41J 15/16 - Means for tensioning or winding the web
B65H 23/16 - Registering, tensioning, smoothing, or guiding webs longitudinally by weighted or spring-pressed movable bars or rollers
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TRANSFER SYSTEM, TRANSFER METHOD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TRANSFER SHEET, TRANSFER SHEET, AND TRANSFER PRODUCT
This transfer system transfers images more appropriately from a transfer medium to a target transfer medium. The transfer system transfers an image printed on a transfer medium 50 to a target transfer medium. The transfer system includes a printing device 12 that serves as a printing unit and a transfer device 14 that serves as a transfer unit. The printing device 12 has a nozzle row for color ink and a nozzle row for light-reflective ink that ejects white ink that is a light-reflective ink. On the transfer medium 50, the printing device 12 forms a color layer on which an image is represented by using the color ink, and a white layer that is a light-reflective ink layer formed on the color layer by using the white ink. The transfer device 14 transfers the image printed on the transfer medium 50 to the target transfer medium by applying heat and pressure to the transfer medium 50 and the target transfer medium in a state in which the transfer medium 50 and the target transfer medium are stacked such that the white layer is in contact with the target transfer medium.
The present invention efficiently performs decolorization treatment. A decolorization device 1 comprises a treatment tank 2, a drum 30 and a rotation support mechanism 35 for the drum 30, and a tank part 5. The treatment tank 2 can receive a plurality of workpieces and stores a decolorization liquid Q. The drum 30 provided in the treatment tank 2 is rotated by the rotation support mechanism 35, and the decolorization liquid Q stored in the treatment tank 2 is thereby agitated. The tank part 5 stores the decolorization liquid Q and is connected to the treatment tank 2 via a flow passage 6. The tank part 5 has a first tank 51 and a second tank 52. The flow path 6 has a supply path 61 for the decolorization liquid Q that connects the first tank 51 and the second tank 52 to the treatment tank 2 directly or via another tank, and a discharge path 62 for the decolorization liquid Q that connects the treatment tank 2 to the first tank 51.
D06B 23/00 - Component parts, details, or accessories of apparatus or machines, specially adapted for the treating of textile materials, not restricted to a particular kind of apparatus, provided for in groups
D06B 9/00 - Solvent-treatment of textile materials
Ink on a nozzle surface is appropriately wiped out. A wiper unit includes a wiping portion that wipes a nozzle surface of an ejecting head having a nozzle surface on which a nozzle for ejecting ink is formed, and a driving unit that moves the wiping portion in a wiping direction along the nozzle surface. The wiping portion includes two wiping members arranged side by side in the wiping direction and having different hardnesses, and a holding portion that integrally holds the two wiping members.
A printing device 10 includes an inkjet head 102, a main scanning drive portion 18, a sub-scanning drive portion 20, and a control portion 30. In at least some of the main scanning operations, the main scanning drive portion 18 causes the inkjet head 102 to discharge ink to a region other than the image region on the media 50, and as the main scanning operations that cause the inkjet head 102 to discharge ink to a region other than the image region, at least: a first main scanning operation that causes the inkjet head 102 to draw a nozzle state confirmation pattern on a region other than the image region and a second main scanning operation that causes an amount of ink discharged to a region other than the image region different from the first main scanning operation are caused to be performed by the inkjet head 102.
A food item fabrication system and a method for fabricating a food item are provided to accurately fabricate a fabricated food item. The food item fabrication system includes a discharge head, a data generation unit and a discharge control unit. The discharge head intermittently discharges a fabrication material for fabricating a fabricated food item, the fabrication material having a fluidity at a time of discharge. The data generation unit generates a slice data for fabricating the fabricated food item. The discharge control unit controls a discharge of the fabrication material by the discharge head based on the slice data generated by the data generation unit.
The present invention realizes appropriate transfer printing. A transport roller 61 rotates in contact with a film layer of a transfer sheet 500 including a receiving layer that receives the transfer ink, a peeling layer that joins the receiving layer and a film layer in a peelable manner, and the film layer that supports the receiving layer via the peeling layer. A pinch roller 62 clamps the transfer sheet 500 together with the transport roller 61, and rotates in contact with the receiving layer of the transfer sheet 500. A portion of the pinch roller 62 that contacts the receiving layer is formed of a low-adhesion material that is less likely to adhere to the receiving layer than the peeling layer is.
B41J 2/005 - 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
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
The present invention provides an inkjet printer in which inkjet head replacement work can be performed easily. In this inkjet printer, a carriage 5, to which a head unit 4 having an inkjet head 3 is detachably attached, comprises a carriage body 11 on which the head unit 4 is mounted and an opening/closing unit 12 coupled to the carriage body 11. The opening/closing unit 12 comprises connecting parts 41, 42 which are joined to the ink tank and connectible to an ink inflow part 38 of the head unit 4. The opening/closing unit 12 is movable between a closed position at which the ink inflow part 38 and the connecting parts 41, 42 are connected to allow the inflow of ink from the connecting parts 41, 42 to the ink inflow part 38, and an open position 12B at which the ink inflow part 38 and the connecting parts 41, 42 are separated from each other to disallow the inflow of ink from the connecting parts 41, 42 to the ink inflow part 38.
There are provided an inkjet printer that can appropriately prevent a printing defect by reducing adhesion of minute ink to a nozzle surface, and a method for controlling a jetting head. The inkjet printer includes: a jetting head that performs ink jetting from a plurality of nozzle holes formed in a nozzle surface; a cap that is attachable on the nozzle surface of the jetting head; a head driving mechanism that moves the jetting head to a standby position where the cap is detachable and a printing position where printing is performed by acquiring print data; and a flushing control part that sequentially executes, for each group, a flushing operation of ink jetting to the cap from all of a plurality of the nozzle holes belonging to groups grouped in advance in a case where the jetting head moves to the standby position.
Provided is an inkjet printer with which replacement work of an inkjet head can be easily performed. In this inkjet printer, a carriage 5 to which a head unit 4 including inkjet heads 3 is detachably attached includes a carriage body 11 on which the head unit 4 is mounted, and an opening/closing unit 12 rotatably attached to the carriage body 11. The head unit 4 includes: a circuit board 34 to which all the inkjet heads 3 included in the head unit 4 are electrically connected; and a connector 35 mounted on the circuit board 34. The opening/closing unit 12 includes a connector 45 connected to the connector 35, and is rotatable with respect to the carriage body 11 between a closed position where the connector 35 and the connector 45 are connected to each other and an open position 12B where the connector 35 and the connector 45 are separated from each other.
An inkjet printer includes a head unit having an inkjet head that discharges ink; a carriage to which the head unit is detachably attached; a carriage drive mechanism that reciprocally moves the carriage in a main scanning direction orthogonal to an up-down direction; and an ink tank that contains ink supplied to the inkjet head. The head unit includes a plurality of ink inflow parts in which ink inlets are formed. The carriage includes a connection part that is connected to the ink tank and in which ink outlets are formed, and that is connectable to the plurality of ink inflow parts. A plurality of the outlets are formed in the connection part. The connection part includes a check valve that prevents ink leakage from each of the plurality of outlets in the case of the ink inflow parts and the connection part being separated from each other.
The present invention easily and appropriately performs adjustment to a printer including an inkjet head. A printer 10 comprises an inkjet head 14, a carriage 12, a station part 20, a carriage position adjustment mechanism 24, a station position adjustment mechanism 26, a parameter storage part 30, and a control part 32. The carriage position adjustment mechanism 24 aligns the position of the carriage 12 with any of a plurality of preset positions. The control part 32 of the station position adjustment mechanism 26 executes registration processing to store a parameter used for adjusting the position of the station part 20 in the parameter storage part 30, and, on the basis of the detected position of the station part 20 detected by a position detection means 116, stores the parameter corresponding to the detected position in the parameter storage part 30 during execution of the registration processing.
The present invention reduces the manufacturing cost of a printing device including a nozzle surface wiping member. This printing device comprises: an inkjet head; a wiper 248 which is a wiping member; an installation member 242; a shutter 206; a shutter drive unit 212; and a connection part 210. The shutter drive unit 212: moves the shutter 206 in a state where a wiper installation plate 242 and the shutter 206 are not connected by the connection part 210, thereby moving the shutter 206 without moving the wiper installation plate 242; and, at the time of wiping where the wiper 248 material is caused to wipe a nozzle surface, moves the shutter 206 in a state where the wiper installation plate 242 and the shutter 206 are connected by the connection part 210, to thereby moving the wiper 248 together with the shutter 206 and causing the wiper 248 to wipe the nozzle surface.
An inkjet printer includes a platen on which a medium is placed, a main body frame configured to support the platen from a lower side, and supporting legs to which the main body frame is fixed. The main body frame includes a fixed portion formed in a flat plate shape elongated in a Y direction, which is a width direction of the medium, and fixed on the supporting legs, and a main frame portion elongated in the Y direction and formed in a groove steel shape in which both sides and a lower side in the Y direction are opened. The width of the fixed portion in an X direction orthogonal to an up-down direction and the Y direction is wider than a width of the main frame portion in the X direction, and the main frame portion is fixed to an upper surface of the fixed portion.
An ink cartridge includes: an ink pack unit having a bag member and a rib member, the bag member housing ink and shrinking in volume housing the ink as a remaining amount of the ink decreases, the rib member having a flat plate shape and being fixed to the bag member so as to move along with shrinkage of the bag member; a head unit coupled to the ink pack unit and connected to a printing apparatus; and a case unit that houses the ink pack unit and the head unit such that a part of the head unit is exposed, in which the ink pack unit has a surface fixed to an inner surface of the case unit, the surface being opposite to a portion to which the rib member is fixed of the bag member, the case unit has a through hole, and the rib member has a projection.
A cutting device, a cutting method and a printing device are provided. The cutting device performs cutting on a post-printing medium after printing an image data, and includes: a medium transport mechanism configured to transport the post-printing medium in a longitudinal direction thereof; a detection mechanism, configured to detect a cutting position by a first mark and multiple second marks on the post-printing medium, the first mark is for specifying at least one cut position in a transport direction, the second marks are for specifying two cut ranges of the post-printing medium in a width direction, the width direction is orthogonal to the transport direction, and each cut range is shown by two positions corresponding from one end to the other end of the post-printing medium; and a cutting mechanism, configured to cut the post-printing medium in the width direction and in the transport direction of the post-printing medium.
The present invention appropriately decolorizes a fiber medium that has been colored with a dye. This decolorizing composition is used to decolorize a fiber medium that has been dyed using a dyeing material containing a dye having sublimation properties such as a sublimable dye or a disperse dye which has sublimation properties. The decolorizing composition contains, as an active ingredient, a chain compound containing one hydroxy group and a plurality of alkoxy groups or ether groups.
A medium comprising a fabric dyed with a dye is decolorized without requiring an absorbent such as cloth. This decolorizing composition is used for decolorizing a fibrous medium dyed with a dyeing material including a dye having sublimation properties. The decolorizing composition contains at least one of an ether bond or an ester bond in a molecular structure, and contains, as an active ingredient, a compound having a boiling point higher than the fiber opening temperature at which molecular chains of the fiber or the intermolecular forces of the fiber are relaxed.
The present invention reduces inadequate adhesion of an adhesive to a narrow part. A region determination unit 36 determines, in image data ID, a printing region including pixels P corresponding to an ejection position of ink in a printer 2. If the region determination unit 36 determines that the printing region has a narrow part NP in which the number of pixels in at least one of the X direction or the Y direction is less than or equal to a predetermined number, a pixel adjustment unit 37 sets pixels P around the narrow part NP in the image data as an expansion part EX for expanding the ejection position of the ink. On the basis of the image data, an image processing unit 38 creates, as print data PD, dot data indicating the ejection position of the ink.
The present invention prevents fixation of ink in an ink flow passage in a printing device which selectively switches a cartridge supplying ink among a plurality of cartridges. In the printing device 100, a discharge head 40 discharges ink. A damper 30 supplies ink to the discharge head 40. A supply path R1 supplies ink from a plurality of cartridges 11 to the damper 30. The control unit 81 selectively switches a cartridge 11 supplying the ink to the supply path R1 among the plurality of cartridges 11. The control unit 81 outputs a warning when a predetermined period has elapsed since any of the plurality of cartridges 11 has become unusable.
Provided is a printing device capable of performing an ink circulation operation in a stable state regardless of the state of an ink supply source, to appropriately prevent sedimentation and separation of ink in a supply flow channel. A printing device 100 comprises: a plurality of cartridges 12A, 12B; an ink discharge part 40; supply valves 20A, 20B; a supply flow path 30 that is provided so as to cause ink Q supplied from each of the plurality of cartridges 12A, 12B via the supply valves 20A, 20B to converge, and to supply the converged ink to the ink discharge part 40; a circulation mechanism 50 that performs a circulation operation for returning the ink Q supplied to the ink discharge part 40 to the upstream side of the supply flow path 30; and a control unit 60 that controls opening/closing of the supply valves 20A, 20B and the circulation operation of the circulation mechanism 50. The control unit 60 performs control so that the supply valve corresponding to at least one of the plurality of cartridges 12A, 12B is in an open state while the circulation operation of the circulation mechanism 50 is being performed.
The present invention executes maintenance for ensuring prevention of fixation of ink in a supply path at low cost in a printing device in which a cartridge for supplying ink is selectively switched among a plurality of cartridges. In a printing device 100, a discharge head 40 discharges ink. A damper 30 supplies ink to the discharge head 40. A supply path R1 supplies ink from a plurality of cartridges 11 to the damper 30. A control unit 81 selectively switches the cartridge 11 for supplying the ink to the supply path R1 among the plurality of cartridges 11. When there is an unused cartridge 11 which is capable of supplying ink but is left unused for at least a predetermined period among the plurality of cartridges 11, the control unit 80 supplies the ink from the unused cartridge 11 to the supply path R1 to execute fixation prevention maintenance for preventing fixation of the ink in the supply path R1.
Provided is an economical or efficient method for attaching an uninterrupted ink supply system (UISS). According to the present invention, a method for attaching an uninterrupted ink supply system (UISS) to a printing device comprises an external ink supply tube length adjustment step (S1) for adjusting the length of an external ink supply tube of the printing device, a branched tube filling step (S3) for connecting a branched tube to a plurality of ink outflow parts of the UISS via a plurality of branch tube parts of the branched tube and filling the branched tube with ink before, after, or in parallel with the external ink supply tube length adjustment step, a branched tube attachment step (S4) for connecting the branched tube as filled with ink at the branched tube filling step to the external ink supply tube as adjusted at the external ink supply tube length adjustment step via a trunk tube part of the branched tube, and an air bleeding step (S5) for bleeding air from inside the branched tube as connected to the external ink supply tube at the branched tube attachment step.
A control unit of an image processing apparatus performs a preview screen display process of causing a display unit to display an output setting screen, and a mark adding process of adding a crop mark to a printing area of image data in accordance with a user's operation input on the output setting screen. The output setting screen includes a preview area and a setting input unit into which an addition setting for a crop mark can be input. In a setting field, the setting input unit can set whether the crop mark is to be added to the entire printing area or to each object within the printing area. In the mark adding process, the control unit causes the crop mark in accordance with addition setting in the setting input unit to be displayed in the preview area.
H04N 1/00 - Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmissionDetails thereof
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SEALING MEMBER FOR SEALING BETWEEN VALVE BODY AND VALVE SEAT OF PRESSURE DAMPER FOR REDUCING PRESSURE OF LIQUID SUPPLIED FROM LIQUID STORAGE MEANS TO LIQUID INJECTION HEAD IN LIQUID INJECTION DEVICE, AND LIQUID INJECTION DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH PRESSURE DAMPER INCLUDING SAID SEALING MEMBER
Provided is a sealing member enabling suitable sealing of a valve in a pressure damper. A sealing member 124 seals between a valve body 121 and a valve seat 123 of a valve in a pressure damper which reduces the pressure of a liquid supplied from a liquid storage means to a liquid injection head in a liquid injection device. The sealing member 124 includes: an outer peripheral part 124a having, in a pre-deformation state, an outer diameter larger than the inner diameter of a side wall 111a of a first liquid chamber in which the valve body 121 is accommodated; an inner peripheral part 124b having a contact surface 124bb, which contacts the valve seat 123, provided on a bottom part 111b of the first liquid chamber; and a connection part 124c connecting the outer peripheral part 124a and the inner peripheral part 124b in a bendable manner. When the inner peripheral part 124b is bent with respect to the outer peripheral part 124a when the sealing member 124 is attached to the first liquid chamber, the contact area between the valve seat 123 and the contact surface 124bb of the inner peripheral part 124b is increased.
SEALING MEMBER FOR PROVIDING SEALING BETWEEN VALVING ELEMENT AND VALVE SEAT OF PRESSURE DAMPER FOR REDUCING PRESSURE OF LIQUID SUPPLIED FROM LIQUID STORAGE MEANS TO LIQUID INJECTION HEAD IN LIQUID INJECTION DEVICE, AND LIQUID INJECTION DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH PRESSURE DAMPER INCLUDING SAME
The present invention provides a sealing member capable of providing suitable sealing of a valve in a pressure damper. A sealing member 124 provides sealing between a valving element 121 and a valve seat 123 and between the valving element 121 and a side wall 111a of a first liquid chamber in a valve of a pressure damper for reducing the pressure of a liquid supplied from a liquid storage means to a liquid injection head in a liquid injection device. The sealing member 124 comprises: an outer peripheral part 124a that presses the side wall 111a of the first liquid chamber in which the valving element 121 is accommodated with a pressure equal to or higher than a prescribed pressure when the sealing member 124 is attached to the pressure damper; and an inner peripheral part 124b that is pressed by the valving element 121 and pressed against the valve seat 123 in a valve closing operation. The sealing member 124 is configured to bend when the inner peripheral part 124b is pressed by the valving element 121 in the valve closing operation, with a restoring force that does not make the pressure received by the inner peripheral part 124b from the valve seat 123 when the valving element 121 is at a closed position less than the prescribed pressure.
The present invention creates printing data that enables overprinting with reduced protrusion of white ink. An image processing unit 38 creates dot data that indicates an ink discharge position on a medium M, for each color of ink which is used in a printer 2 and on the basis of image data ID. A white plate creation unit 34 adjusts a white printing area WPA on the basis of the image data ID when white ink is overprinted on an image that has been printed in color ink. An area determination unit 35 of the white plate creation unit 34 determines a color printing area CPA in the image data ID. A contour extraction unit 36 extracts pixels P that constitute the contour of the color printing area CPA. A pixel adjustment unit 37 adjusts the color printing area CPA on the basis of the pixels P that constitute the contour, and determines the white printing area WPA.
The present invention reduces the effect of inertia associated with the movement of a carriage. A carriage 131 on which a discharge head 120 and an ink supply unit 170 are mounted reciprocates in a main scanning direction. The ink supply unit 170 includes: a first ink chamber in which the ink supplied from an ink tank 160 through an ink supply path is accommodated; a second ink chamber in which the ink to be supplied to the discharge head 120 is accommodated; a connection flow path that connects the first ink chamber and the second ink chamber; and a sealing valve for closing or opening the connection flow path from the first ink chamber side. The ink supply unit 170 is disposed so that a sealing direction, which is the direction in which the sealing valve moves when the sealing valve closes the connection flow path, does not coincide with the main scanning direction.
The present invention correctly forms a large number of ink layers overlaid on a medium. A printing device 12 performs printing by forming ink layers overlaid multiple times. The printing device 12 comprises: a head part 102 as an ink discharge part; a base part 104 as a medium holding part; a movement driving unit 106; an information storage unit 108; and a control unit 110. The movement driving unit 106 causes the head part 102 to perform a main scanning operation and movement in a lamination direction. The information storage unit 108 retains a plurality of pieces of layer thickness information corresponding respectively to different layer formation conditions. The control unit 110 causes the head part 102 to form a plurality of ink layers on the basis of the layer formation condition associated with any of the pieces of layer thickness information, and controls operation of the movement in the lamination direction on the basis of the layer thickness information corresponding to the layer formation condition.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
Provided are an information processing device, a machining device, a distortion correction method, and a distortion correction program capable of performing processing in accordance with processing data at a position equivalent to an original processing position even when distortion occurs in a medium to be processed. A control device 70 of a cutting plotter 12 specifies a first quadrangle 32 on the basis of a plurality of register marks 30 formed on a medium 22 placed on a table 20 of the cutting plotter 12 and calculates an intermediate position 38 between a position of one end 34A and a position of the other end 34B of a first side 34 in a direction of a reference line when the first side 34 of the first quadrangle 32 crosses the reference line other than orthogonally, and by correcting the positions of the one end 34A and the other end 34B of the first side 34 in the direction of the reference line to the intermediate position 38, generates a second quadrangle 50 which is a rectangle in which the first side 34 crosses the reference line orthogonally. Then, machining data 56 indicating machining contents to the medium 22 is disposed at the center of the second quadrangle 50.
B26D 5/34 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed having the cutting member controlled by scanning a record carrier scanning being effected by a photosensitive device
B26D 5/00 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
A tilt of a head is discerned. Regions of a test pattern include a base line formed in a Y direction with inks ejected from nozzle portions of heads, and blocks formed with inks ejected from nozzle portions provided at intervals from first nozzle portions of the heads in the Y direction. The block is formed on an X1 side of the base line in an X direction orthogonal to the Y direction, and the block is formed on an X2 side.
B41J 25/316 - Bodily-movable mechanisms for print heads or carriages movable towards or from paper surface with tilting motion mechanisms relative to paper surface
G06K 15/02 - Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data using printers
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IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
A control unit of an image processing apparatus executes a preview screen display process of causing a display unit to display a design editing screen (a preview screen for image data). The design editing screen includes a preview area, an object list, and a processing input unit. The preview area displays a preview of objects constituting the image data. The object list displays information on each of the objects in a list format. Input processing content can be input into the processing input unit for each of the objects.
A control unit of an image processing apparatus executes a home screen display process of displaying a home screen on a display unit. The home screen displays, in respective display fields, a design that can be used for image data, a form with which the design can be combined, and a design placement form obtained by combining the design and the form. The home screen displays the respective display fields for the design, the form, and the design placement form side by side in the vertical direction (first direction), and displays the design placement form display field between the design display field and the form display field in the vertical direction.
A printing system includes a controller that controls printing by a printing apparatus and textile printing processing by a heat treatment apparatus. The controller includes a print data generation unit, a print control unit that prints information on a medium based on the print data, and a textile printing parameter setting unit that sets at least a heating temperature and a heating time of the medium in the processing. Each of the inks included in an ink set contains a sublimable dye as a color development component, and the dye contained in a magenta ink is a disperse red. The textile printing parameter setting unit sets a heating temperature in the processing to a first temperature higher than a heating temperature and sets a heating time in the processing to a first time longer than a heating time when the dye contained in the magenta ink is a disperse red.
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
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SHAPED OBJECT PRODUCING METHOD AND SHAPED OBJECT PRODUCING APPARATUS
To reduce labor and cost in producing a shaped object. A method for producing a shaped object 7 to produce the three-dimensional shaped object 7 includes an ejecting step of ejecting ink from a head unit 2 to a liquid 6 stored in a liquid storage unit 5, and a curing step of curing the ink ejected to the liquid 6 by an ultraviolet curing unit 4.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
B29C 64/129 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using layers of liquid which are selectively solidified characterised by the energy source therefor, e.g. by global irradiation combined with a mask
Provided are a printing device and a printing method. A printing device 10 includes an ink ejection head 40 that ejects a photocurable ink onto a medium 22 while relatively moving with respect to the medium 22 in a main scanning direction Y, and an irradiation unit 32 that irradiates the medium 22 with light while relatively moving together with the ink ejection head 40. The irradiation unit 32 includes a plurality of LEDs 34 arranged in a sub-scanning direction X intersecting with the main scanning direction Y. The printing device 10 further includes an irradiation control unit 60 that controls the irradiation unit 32 such that turning-on and turning-off of irradiation with the plurality of LEDs 34 are repeatedly performed in a predetermined order during one cycle in which the ink ejection head 40 and the irradiation unit 32 relatively move in the main scanning direction Y.
A shaped-object manufacturing device 1 that shapes a three-dimensional shaped object 7 includes: a liquid storage 5 that retains a liquid 6; a head unit 2 that ejects an ink to the liquid 6; and a roller 301 that comes into contact with the ink retained by a liquid surface 60 of the liquid 6.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Cutting machines; drilling heads (parts of machines); paper feeders (printing); printing machines for use on sheet metal; stereotype machines; letterpress printing machines; printing machines equipped with cutting and trimming functions; blades for printing machines equipped with cutting and trimming functions; resin potting processing apparatus for plastic processing; resin dispenser for potting processing in plastic processing; metalworking machines and tools; lumbering, woodworking, or veneer or plywood making machines and apparatus; printing or bookbinding machines and apparatus; painting machines and apparatus; plastic processing machines; stone working machines and apparatus; 3D printers; printing machines; printers; rotary printing machines; printing transfer apparatus (machines); rollers for rotary printing machines; printing rollers for machines; industrial inkjet printing machines; inkjet printing apparatus; printing machines and apparatus with inkjet mechanism; silk screen printing machines; industrial laminators; powder application apparatus for printing processing; powder spreading machines and apparatus for printing processing; print media cutting apparatus; print media trimming apparatus; printing processing machines; apparatus for applying pre-treatment agent; parts and accessories of printing or bookbinding machines and apparatus Computer operating programs, recorded; computer programs, recorded; computer programs (including those sold via download through telecommunication lines); recording medium storing computer programs; computers; connectors (electricity); digital plotters; digital printers; cutting plotters; blades for cutting plotters being as output devices for personal computers; digital cutting machines; power distribution or control machines and apparatus; electronic machines and apparatus and their parts; downloadable image files; inkjet printers; inkjet plotters; printers for use with computers; plotters; computer peripheral devices; computer software for inkjet printers; paper feed units; printers; parts and accessories of printers; computer programs, downloadable
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Cutting machines; drilling heads (parts of machines); paper feeders (printing); printing machines for use on sheet metal; stereotype machines; letterpress printing machines; printing machines equipped with cutting and trimming functions; blades for printing machines equipped with cutting and trimming functions; resin potting processing apparatus for plastic processing; resin dispenser for potting processing in plastic processing; metalworking machines and tools; lumbering, woodworking, or veneer or plywood making machines and apparatus; printing or bookbinding machines and apparatus; painting machines and apparatus; plastic processing machines; stone working machines and apparatus; 3D printers; printing machines; rotary printing machines; printing transfer apparatus (machines); rollers for rotary printing machines; printing rollers for machines; industrial inkjet printing machines; inkjet printing apparatus; printing machines and apparatus with inkjet mechanism; silk screen printing machines; industrial laminators; powder application apparatus for printing processing; powder spreading machines and apparatus for printing processing; print media cutting apparatus; print media trimming apparatus; printing processing machines; apparatus for applying pre-treatment agent; parts and accessories of printing or bookbinding machines and apparatus; blades for cutting plotters being as output devices for personal computers. Computer operating programs, recorded; computer programs, recorded; computer programs (including those sold via download through telecommunication lines); recording medium storing computer programs; computers; connectors (electricity); digital plotters; digital printers; cutting plotters; digital cutting machines; power distribution or control machines and apparatus; electronic control systems for printers, including inkjet printers, digital printers, and printers for use with computers; electronic control systems for 3D printers; electronic control systems for printing machines and apparatus; downloadable image files; inkjet printers; inkjet plotters; printers for use with computers; plotters; computer peripheral devices; computer software for inkjet printers; paper feed units; printers; parts and accessories of printers; computer programs, downloadable.
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PRINTED MATTER, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR PRINTED MATTER, PROGRAM, AND PRINTING APPARATUS
Various designs are appropriately expressed by a printed matter. A printed matter 52 in which a plurality of ink layers overlap each other includes an image layer 202 and a transmission rate control layer 204, and as the transmission rate control layer 204 has a low-transmission region 302 and a high-transmission region 306, light is transmitted through the printed matter 52 such that a pattern corresponding to a shape of the high-transmission region 306 is visually recognized from an observation-surface side when irradiated with rear-surface light, and the pattern corresponding to the shape of the high-transmission region 306 becomes inconspicuous when not irradiated with the rear-surface light, for an observer observing the image layer 202 from the observation-surface side.
A new profile is appropriately created, for example, when a new medium is used. A profile creation method of creating device profiles used in a process of creating print data indicating an image printed by a printing apparatus, the profile creation method includes: a search step of performing search based on a search condition from known profiles that are known device profiles; and a profile creation step of creating a new device profile based on the known profiles selected based on a search result in the search step. The printing apparatus is an apparatus that performs color printing using inks of a plurality of colors. In the search step, a smeared ink amount indicating an amount of ink in which smearing of ink has occurred on the medium is used as the search condition.
There is provided a method for manufacturing printed matter having a print layer that can be removed from a base material but does not easily peel off from the base material. A method for manufacturing printed matter includes: a base layer forming step; a print layer forming step; a print quality checking step; and a post-processing step. In the base layer forming step, a base layer which is removable from a base material is formed on a front surface of the base material. In the print layer forming step, a print layer is formed on a surface of the base layer on a side opposite to the base material. In the print quality checking step, a quality of the print layer is checked. In the post-processing step, a coating layer that coats the print layer is formed or the print layer is removed together with the base layer from the base material depending on the quality of the print layer.
A program causes a controller to generate print data and to perform input processing, plate data generation processing, and print data generation processing. The data input processing includes inputting, as input data for performing inserting-component printing, non-variable data corresponding to a shared portion and variable data indicating a variable portion. The plate data generation processing includes plate data for color layer generation processing for generating a plate data for color layer associated with a color layer and plate data for single-color layer generation processing for generating a plate data for single-color layer associated with a single-color layer. The plate data for color layer generation processing includes generating a plate data for color layer by reflecting the variable portion in the variable data. The plate data for single-color layer generation processing includes generating a plate data for single-color layer by reflecting the variable portion in the variable data.
A printing apparatus includes a plurality of heads that eject ink, and a control unit that includes a storage unit that stores setting information related to settings of the plurality of heads, and causes the plurality of heads to perform an ejection operation that ejects the ink based on the setting information stored in the storage unit, in which the setting information includes void information related to a setting for setting at least one of the plurality of heads as a void head, and when the void head is present among the plurality of heads, the control unit performs control to cause the head that is not the void head among the plurality of heads to eject the ink and not to cause the void head to eject the ink in the ejection operation.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
An appropriate maintenance contract fee for maintenance work of a printing device is calculated. A printing device management device includes a maintenance information deriving unit that derives maintenance information related to an occurrence risk of a maintenance work of a printing device based on at least one of operation record information related to an operation record of the printing device, execution history information related to an execution history of a maintenance work of the printing device, ink information related to ink used in the printing device, media information related to a medium to be printed by the printing device, and installation environment information related to an installation environment of the printing device, an evaluation unit that derives an evaluation for a user of the printing device based on the maintenance information and at least one of a usage amount and a purchase amount of a consumable used in the printing device, and a fee calculation unit that calculates a maintenance contract fee for maintenance work of the printing device based on the derived evaluation of the user.
According to the present invention, printing conditions that can be executed by a printing device can be easily and appropriately designated. This program causes a control device 14, which is a computer, to designate printing conditions for printing to be performed by a printing device 12, and causes the control device 14 to perform model identification processing for identifying the model of the printing device 12, condition designation information generation processing for generating condition designation information designating at least part of the printing conditions, and printing condition designation processing for reading an image to be printed and designating the printing conditions to be used when printing the image, wherein: in the condition designation information generation processing, condition designation information for designating conditions that can be executed by an identified model, which is the model of the printer 12 identified in the model identification processing, are generated on the basis of the identified model; and in the printing condition designation processing, the printing conditions that can be executed by the printer 12 that is to execute the printing are designated on the basis of the condition designation information generated in the condition designation information generation processing.
Provided is an inkjet printer capable of reducing a work load of an operator even when the height of an inkjet head can be changed in the inkjet printer having a bidirectional printing function. In this inkjet printer, when ink is discharged from an inkjet head 3 disposed at an upper side position 3A, a control unit of the inkjet printer controls discharge timing of the ink from the inkjet head 3 so that a deviation between a landing position of the ink when a carriage moves to a Y1 direction side and a landing position of the ink when the carriage moves to a Y2 direction side is corrected, on the basis of a first deviation amount S1 and a second deviation amount S2 of the landing position of the ink that are measured and stored in the control unit.
Provided are a UV irradiation device and a printing apparatus for easily recognizing what kind of mechanical adjustment is needed. The UV irradiation device includes a rotation mechanism holding a print object and causing the print object to rotate about an axial center of the print object as a rotation center, a UV irradiator configured to irradiate an outer peripheral surface of the print object with ink adhering thereto with UV rays, an input unit used by an operator of the UV irradiation device to input information regarding an outer shape of the print object, and a display unit configured to display mechanical adjustment items of the UV irradiation device. Once the information regarding the outer shape of the print object is input to the input unit, the display unit is able to display the mechanical adjustment items of the UV irradiation device.
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
A printing execution unit (111) of a printing device (100) executes printing of the printing surface identified by printing surface identification information based on printing instruction data including resultant product identification information for identifying a resultant product of printing, a total printing surface number, which is a total number of the printing surface to be printed to obtain the resultant product, printing surface identification information for identifying a printing surface, and printing data of the printing surface identified by the printing surface identification information. A printing history output unit (112) outputs a printing history indicating a result of printing executed based on the printing instruction data including the same resultant product identification information in association with the resultant product identification information.
A printing device that performs printing through an inkjet method is provided. The printing device includes an inject head, a sub-tank, a liquid flow amount detection unit, and a notification means. The inject head ejects ink supplied from an ink container that stores ink. The sub-tank is a container that stores ink in a middle of an ink supply path from the ink container to the inkjet head. The liquid flow amount detection unit detects an ink flow amount which is an amount of ink flowing per unit time from the ink container to the sub-tank. The notification means notifies an alarm based on the ink flow amount detected by the liquid flow amount detection unit. The liquid flow amount detection unit further causes the notification means to notify a stepwise alarm according to the detected ink flow amount.
A manufacturing method for a printed matter creates a printed matter in which a functional powder-containing liquid containing a functional powder is applied to at least a part of a medium, the manufacturing method including: a post-application medium preparing step of preparing a post-application medium that is the medium on which an application film of the functional powder-containing liquid is at least partially formed; an on-application-film ink layer forming step of forming an image layer to be an on-application-film ink layer by ejecting ink onto the application film using a printing apparatus; and a translucent layer forming step of forming a translucent layer that is a layer with translucency covering the image layer. In the on-application-film ink layer forming step, the printing apparatus is caused to form the image layer under a print condition to cure the ink in a matte tone by the curing unit.
B41M 7/00 - After-treatment of printed works, e.g. heating, irradiating
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41J 15/04 - Supporting, feeding, or guiding devicesMountings for web rolls or spindles
B41J 25/00 - Actions or mechanisms not otherwise provided for
B41M 3/00 - Printing processes to produce particular kinds of printed work, e.g. patterns
C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing
Provided is a medium processing device that performs predetermined processing, such as printing on an elongate medium, and that is capable of determining the remaining amount of the unprocessed medium using a relatively simple configuration. The medium processing device comprises: a delivery roll holding unit for holding a delivery roll 11 which is an unprocessed medium 2 wound in a roll shape; a tension bar 25 for applying tension to the unprocessed medium 2 by coming into contact with the medium 2; a position detection mechanism for detecting the position of the tension bar 25; and a rotation mechanism for rotating the delivery roll 11. A control unit of the medium processing device executes a time measurement step for causing the delivery roll 11 to rotate in one direction at a constant rotational speed until the tension bar 25 disposed at a first reference position 25A has moved to a second reference position 25B, and measuring the movement time required for the tension bar 25 to move from the first reference position 25A to the second reference position 25B.
B65H 26/08 - Warning or safety devices, e.g. automatic fault detectors, stop-motions, for web-advancing mechanisms responsive to a predetermined diameter
B41J 2/165 - Prevention of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles
B41J 15/16 - Means for tensioning or winding the web
B65H 7/02 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors
58.
PROGRAM, SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT DEVICE
This invention more easily and appropriately manages jobs that cause a printing device 102 to perform printing. This program causes a server 12, which is a computer, to manage print jobs. The program causes the server 12 to perform: a prediction value acquisition process for acquiring, for a plurality of jobs, a time prediction value and an ink consumption amount prediction value for each job; a schedule display process for displaying information related to the plurality of jobs on a screen in a schedule format; and a job order change process for receiving from the user an instruction to change the order of the jobs for the plurality of jobs to be displayed in the schedule format, and rearranging the order of the jobs on the basis of the instruction from the user. In the schedule display process, the jobs are displayed on the screen arranged in time series on the basis of the time prediction value for each job, and at least information based on at least the ink consumption amount prediction value is displayed on the screen in association with the job.
Provided is a transfer method in which a functional powder is used while reducing manufacturing labor and manufacturing costs. This transfer method comprises a printing step, a powder application step, and a pressing step. In the printing step, an image IM is printed on a medium M with ink. In the powder application step, a hot-melt powder HP (adhesive material) into which functional powder FP is mixed is applied to the image IM on the medium M. In the pressing step, the image IM, on which an adhesive layer AL formed by the hot-melt powder HP is laminated, is transferred to a workpiece Wk by superposing and pressing the printing surface of the image IM on the medium M onto the workpiece Wk.
A cutting device includes a medium transporting mechanism, a cutting mechanism and a cutting platen. The cutting mechanism includes a cutter blade, a carriage holding the cutter blade, a carriage driving mechanism moving the carriage in a width direction of a medium, and a medium pressing member pressing the medium. The medium pressing member is attached to the carriage, and the medium pressing member is formed with an opposing surface facing the opposing portion. An advancing direction side of the carriage when the cutter blade cuts the medium is a first direction side, a first inclined surface is formed at an end portion on the first direction side of the opposing surface. The first inclined surface being inclined toward a side away from the opposing portion toward the first direction side, and the first inclined surface is disposed more toward the first direction side than the cutter blade.
B41J 11/70 - Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
B26D 1/18 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting memberApparatus or machines thereforCutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a circular cutting member, e.g. disc cutter rotating about a movable axis mounted on a movable carriage
B26D 7/00 - Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
B41J 15/16 - Means for tensioning or winding the web
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PRINTER MANAGEMENT METHOD, PRINTER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM
Provided are a printer management method, a printer management system, and a program that can provide a printer service to a user through simple management. This printer management method by a printer service system 10 comprises: a first step in which a server 18 links a printer 12 capable of enabling or disabling a print function, a dealer that is an owner of the printer 12, and a user who rents the printer 12; a second step in which the server 18 transmits enabling information for enabling a print function of the printer 12 if the user linked with the dealer satisfies a predetermined contract condition; and a third step in which the printer 12 enables the print function if the printer 12 receives the enabling information.
B29C 64/20 - Apparatus for additive manufacturingDetails thereof or accessories therefor
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
B29C 64/386 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
B29C 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
(First Invention) (Purpose) To improve the overall processing efficiency of a processing system by reducing the standby time of a droplet discharge device when a robot performs a medium supply operation and a medium recovery operation on a plurality of droplet discharge devices. (Configuration) A processing system (1) comprises: a plurality of printers (3A, 3B); and a robot (5). The printers (3A, 3B) perform a printing process on a medium (M). The robot (5) performs a supply operation and a recovery operation of a medium (M) on the printers (3A, 3B). While the robot (5) is performing the recovery operation on a first printer (3A) in which the printing process has been completed and the printing process on a subsequent medium (M) is to be carried out, if the printing process of a second printer (3B) is completed, the robot successively performs the recovery operation and the supply operation of the subsequent medium (M) on the first printer (3A). (Second Invention) (Purpose) To reduce the load of a robot and reduce the power consumption of a processing system by reducing the time during which a servo motor of the robot is in an on state. (Configuration) A processing system (101) comprises: a droplet discharge device (103) that performs a droplet discharge process on a medium (M); and a robot (105) that performs at least one of supply and recovery of the medium (M) on the droplet discharge device (103). The robot (105) has arms (152, 153) that grip and transport the medium (M), a servo motor (57) that drives the arms (152, 153), and a control unit (150) that switches between an on state in which the servo motor (57) can rotate and an off state in which the servo motor (57) cannot rotate. When the arms (152, 153) of the robot (105) are standing by at prescribed positions, the control unit (150) sets the servo motor (57) to the off state, and the control unit sets the servo motor to the on state at a timing when at least one of a supply command and a recovery command for the medium is input to the robot (105). After the robot (105) has performed at least one of the supply and the recovery of the medium (M), if a state in which the arms (152, 153) perform no operation at the prescribed positions continues for longer than a certain period of time, the control unit sets the servo motor (57) to the off state. When the arms (152, 153) of the robot (105) are standing by at the prescribed positions, the control unit sets the servo motor (57) to the off state at a timing when the droplet discharge device (103) performs a predetermined operation.
B05B 12/00 - Arrangements for controlling deliveryArrangements for controlling the spray area
B05B 12/02 - Arrangements for controlling deliveryArrangements for controlling the spray area for controlling time, or sequence, of delivery
B05B 13/04 - Means for supporting workArrangement or mounting of spray headsAdaptation or arrangement of means for feeding work the spray heads being moved during operation
B05C 11/00 - Component parts, details or accessories not specifically provided for in groups
B05C 11/10 - Storage, supply or control of liquid or other fluent materialRecovery of excess liquid or other fluent material
B05D 1/26 - Processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials performed by applying the liquid or other fluent material from an outlet device in contact with, or almost in contact with, the surface
B05D 3/00 - Pretreatment of surfaces to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be appliedAfter-treatment of applied coatings, e.g. intermediate treating of an applied coating preparatory to subsequent applications of liquids or other fluent materials
Discoloration of a three-dimensional object formed by three-dimensional forming using an electron beam curable ink is effectively decreased.
Discoloration of a three-dimensional object formed by three-dimensional forming using an electron beam curable ink is effectively decreased.
A method for producing a three-dimensional object includes a preparing step S1 of preparing a treated three-dimensional object formed by three-dimensional forming using an electron beam curable ink; and an aging step S2 of performing irradiation treatment S2-1 in which the treated three-dimensional object is irradiated with light including wavelengths of less than 430 nm and heat treatment S2-2 in which heat is applied to the treated three-dimensional object, to decrease color tone of a discolored portion in the treated three-dimensional object.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
Provided are a processing system, an information processing device, a cutting plotter, a processing method, and a program that make it possible to easily set a cutting plotter parameter. A processing system 10 comprises a cutting plotter 12 and an information processing device 14. The information processing device 14 acquires a parameter input value for making the cutting plotter 12, which includes a cutting tool, perform desired processing on a workpiece 20 and, on the basis of the acquired parameter input value, displays a workpiece cross-sectional diagram 42 that schematically represents a vertical cross-section of the workpiece 20 during or after processing at a display 30. The information processing device 14 transmits the parameter input value to the cutting plotter 12 as a setting value for the cutting plotter 12. The cutting plotter 12 performs processing on the workpiece 22 in accordance with the setting value set by the information processing device 14.
B26D 5/00 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
B23Q 15/00 - Automatic control or regulation of feed movement, cutting velocity or position of tool or work
65.
PRINTING METHOD, PRINTING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM
A printing method for performing printing using a printing device is provided. The method includes: setting a print condition; a checking the print condition; and a print execution stage. The printing device is able to execute a pass modulation operation in which a main scan is executed on the basis of the set number of passes set with an integer value and the number of times of the main scan performed on at least a part of a medium is made larger than the set number of passes. A pass modulation degree is set in the setting of the printing condition. Checking the print condition includes a defective nozzle check stage, checking whether or not nozzle recovery is possible, and searching for a new print condition in a case where the nozzle recovery is impossible.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
A method of shaping a solid object based on a digital model by forming and layering a plurality of separate layers of the solid object is provided. The method includes obtaining, from the digital model, data corresponding to a plurality of slice images indicating cross-sectional shapes and color arrangements of respective separate layers; dividing the slice image of each separate layer into a plurality of divided slice images by each color represented by each of inks of a plurality of colors; determining an ejection timing of each of the inks of the plurality of color and a clear ink, for forming each separate layer by using the data; and forming the separate layer by causing a color ink head and a clear ink head to eject each of the inks of the plurality of colors and the clear ink at the respective determined ejection timings.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
B29C 64/188 - Processes of additive manufacturing involving additional operations performed on the added layers, e.g. smoothing, grinding or thickness control
According to the present invention, a discharge position and a discharge amount of a functional powder-containing liquid with respect to a coating region are appropriately determined. The problem is solved by the coating method that includes: a coating region determination step for determining a coating region of a functional powder-containing liquid; a discharge amount determination step for determining a discharge amount and a discharge position; a discharge step; and a curing step for curing the discharged functional powder-containing liquid. In the discharge amount determination step, on the basis of the area and shape of the coating region, a discharge position at which the functional powder-containing liquid is first adhered within the coating region and a total discharge amount are determined. On the basis of the discharge position and the total discharge amount, the functional powder-containing liquid is discharged to the coating region by a discharge device that discharges the functional powder-containing liquid.
B05C 11/10 - Storage, supply or control of liquid or other fluent materialRecovery of excess liquid or other fluent material
B05C 5/00 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work
B05C 9/12 - Apparatus or plant for applying liquid or other fluent material to surfaces by means not covered by groups , or in which the means of applying the liquid or other fluent material is not important for applying liquid or other fluent material and performing an auxiliary operation the auxiliary operation being performed after the application
B05D 1/40 - Distributing applied liquids or other fluent materials by members moving relatively to surface
B05D 3/00 - Pretreatment of surfaces to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be appliedAfter-treatment of applied coatings, e.g. intermediate treating of an applied coating preparatory to subsequent applications of liquids or other fluent materials
B05D 7/24 - Processes, other than flocking, specially adapted for applying liquids or other fluent materials to particular surfaces or for applying particular liquids or other fluent materials for applying particular liquids or other fluent materials
A coating device includes a nozzle that sprays a coating agent toward a base material, a coating agent storing part that stores the coating agent to be supplied to the nozzle, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the coating agent to be supplied to the nozzle from the coating agent storing part, a pressure adjustment mechanism that adjusts a supplying pressure of the coating agent to be supplied to the nozzle from the coating agent storing part, and a controller that receives an output signal of the temperature sensor and controls the pressure adjustment mechanism.
B41J 3/44 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms having dual functions or combined with, or coupled to, apparatus performing other functions
B05B 12/10 - Arrangements for controlling deliveryArrangements for controlling the spray area responsive to condition of liquid or other fluent material discharged, of ambient medium or of target responsive to temperature or viscosity of liquid or other fluent material discharged
B05B 13/04 - Means for supporting workArrangement or mounting of spray headsAdaptation or arrangement of means for feeding work the spray heads being moved during operation
B05C 11/10 - Storage, supply or control of liquid or other fluent materialRecovery of excess liquid or other fluent material
[Problem] To reduce positional deviation of droplets discharged from a head. [Solution] In an adjustment pattern printing step S10 of this discharge position correction method, a processing unit 42 positions a head 20 at each of a plurality of target positions P that are at intervals of a prescribed distance d in an X direction from a reference position O of a mounting surface 10a, and discharges droplets while relatively moving the head 20 in a Y direction (main scanning direction), thereby printing a plurality of adjustment patterns R arranged in the X direction on a medium M. In a deviation amount detection step S20, the processing unit 42 detects the deviation amount in the X direction for each of the plurality of target positions P, on the basis of the positional relationship between adjustment patterns R that neighbor each other in the X direction. In a correction amount calculation step S30, for each of the plurality of target positions P, the processing unit 42 calculates a correction amount in the X direction for the discharge position, on the basis of the deviation amount detected in the deviation amount detection step S20.
A jig to be used is appropriately selected, and information necessary for printing is acquired. A printing system includes a print control device that outputs print data; a printing device that executes printing based on the print data; and a jig that is placed on a table of the printing device. Multiple jigs are prepared. A jig ID for identifying the jig is attached to each of the jigs. The print control device includes a jig information acquisition unit that acquires jig information of the jig placed on the table based on the jig ID of the jig placed on the table, and a print data generation unit that generates print data based on the image data and the jig information.
The present invention manages a status of a printer. A display method for causing of an electronic apparatus to display information in a printing system that includes a printer, a management server, and the electronic apparatus (a PC and an electronic device), the display method including: an information transmission step of transmitting printer information from the management server to the electronic apparatus; and a display step of causing the electronic apparatus to display information based on the printer information, the management server manages, as the printer information, operation information, ink usage information, and printed area information, and in the display step, aggregation of operation status, aggregation of an amount of ink used, and aggregation of the printed area are displayed on one screen based on the operation information, the ink usage information, and the printed area information.
The present invention more appropriately transfers an image from a transfer medium to a transfer-receiving medium. This image transfer method for transferring an image printed on a transfer medium (50) to a transfer-receiving medium (60) includes: a non-transfer-region-forming step for forming a non-transfer region (206), which is not to be transferred to the transfer-receiving medium (60), in a transfer target region which is a portion where, on a printed surface of the transfer medium (50), pressure is applied at a transfer time of executing transfer; and a transfer step for transferring at least a part of the image printed on the transfer medium (50) to the transfer-receiving medium (60), the transfer step including superposing the transfer medium (50) onto the transfer-receiving medium (60) and applying pressure thereto. The transfer medium (50) has a base layer serving as a base material of the transfer medium (50), and a transfer layer which is a layered portion superposed on at least a part of the surface of the base layer and at least partially moved to the transfer-receiving medium (60) at the transfer time.
To stabilize a shape of a cut portion regardless of characteristics of a medium. The medium cutting method includes a first thrusting process of thrusting a cutter blade into a medium 2 so as to penetrate the medium 2, and a first cutting process of relatively moving the cutter blade with respect to the medium 2 in a longitudinal direction of the medium 2 and a width direction of the medium 2 with a first thrusting spot SP2 as a starting point, which is a spot thrust by the cutter blade in the first thrusting process, to cut the medium 2 in a direction inclined with respect to the width direction of the medium 2.
B26D 1/04 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting memberApparatus or machines thereforCutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member
B26D 5/20 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed
B41J 11/70 - Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
B65H 23/26 - Registering, tensioning, smoothing, or guiding webs longitudinally by transverse stationary or adjustable bars or rollers
B65H 35/06 - Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machinesArticle or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers from or with transverse cutters or perforators from or with blade, e.g. shear-blade, cutters or perforators
74.
PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD, PRINT JOB MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND PRINT JOB MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
A printing system according to the present invention supports a variety of printing contents. A printing system 1 includes at least one printing device 2. The printing system 1 includes a user terminal 3, a job management device 4, and a print data creating device 5. The user terminal 3 creates an instruction document 331 for printing onto a medium M, in response to a user input. The job management device 4 determines the printing contents, which are each step in print processing for the medium M, on the basis of the instruction document 331, and creates a print job PJ comprising a plurality of jobs to which the respective print contents are assigned. The print data creating device 5 creates print data for executing each job by controlling the operation of the printing device 2, and outputs the print data to the printing device 2.
B41J 25/20 - Auxiliary type mechanisms for printing distinguishing marks, e.g. for accenting, using dead or half-dead key arrangements, for printing marks in telegraph printers to indicate that machine is receiving
B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
H04N 1/54 - Conversion of colour picture signals to a plurality of signals some of which represent particular mixed colours, e.g. for textile printing
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RECOVERY SYSTEM, RECYCLING SYSTEM, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND RECYCLING METHOD
The present invention improves used workpiece recovery efficiency. This recovery system is a system in which workpieces W which have been subjected to a dyeing process using a dyeing material that contains a dye are recovered, and are made reusable by performing a color removal treatment. The recovery system comprises a workpiece ID issuing unit 11 (identifier issuing unit), a printing device 40, which is an example of an identifier providing unit, and an information management unit 13. The workpiece ID issuing unit 11 issues workpiece IDs 171, which are an example of identifiers for the workpieces W. The printing device 40 provides the workpiece IDs 171 issued by the workpiece ID issuing unit 11 to the workpieces W. The information management unit 13 manages workpiece management information 172 that is associated with the workpiece IDs 171, and provides information for managing the workpieces W during the color removal process and the dyeing process.
According to the present invention, the device is made compact, ink can be consumed and replenished efficiently, and settling of ink components can be prevented. This printing device is provided with a placement surface on which a medium is placed, and a carriage equipped with a head that ejects ink toward the placement surface and an ink supply unit that is disposed above the head and that supplies ink to the head, the carriage being capable of moving in a main scanning direction along the placement surface, wherein the ink supply unit includes: one or more ink tanks that include a storage portion for storing ink, and an injection portion for injecting ink stored in an external container into the storage portion; and an ink circulation path that is provided for each ink tank and that includes an ink supply path for supplying the ink stored in the storage portion to the head, and an ink return flow passage for returning the ink supplied to the head to the storage portion of the ink tank.
Provided is a printing device for printing onto an outer peripheral surface of a printing medium having a columnar shape, a frustoconical shape or a conical shape, the printing device making it possible to shorten the printing time required to print onto the printing medium while ensuring the print quality of the printing medium. The printing device comprises: a rotation mechanism 21 which rotates a printing medium 2, with the axis of the printing medium 2 serving as the center of rotation; and an inkjet head which is disposed above the printing medium 2 and which ejects ink toward the outer peripheral surface of the printing medium 2. The rotation mechanism 21 includes a motor 25 as a drive source, and rotates the printing medium 2 during printing of the printing medium 2. Print data for printing onto the printing medium 2 are input into to a control unit that controls the printing device, and the control unit controls the rotational speed of the motor 25 on the basis of the print data during printing of the printing medium 2.
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
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PRINTING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE, ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR SETTING BODY TO BE PRINTED
Provided is a printing device for performing printing on the outer peripheral surface of a body to be printed having a truncated cone shape, wherein the print quality of a body to be printed can be ensured even when printing is performed on the outer peripheral surface of the body to be printed while the body to be printed is being rotated. When a nozzle row 103b constituted of nozzles actually discharging ink during printing of a body 102 to be printed is an ink discharge nozzle row 103e, a control unit of the printing device moves and stops a carriage on which an inkjet head 103 is mounted so that the ink discharge nozzle row 103e is disposed at a position where a distance l in a main scanning direction between the ink discharge nozzle row 103e and an axial center of the body 102 to be printed satisfies a predetermined relation during printing of the body 102 to be printed.
The present invention produces a highly precise additive manufacturing article by reducing the effect of distortion of a table caused by the weight of an additive manufacturing material. A discharge head 130 discharges an additive manufacturing material. A movement mechanism 140 changes the relative position between a table and the discharge head 130. A discharge control unit 111 controls discharge of the additive manufacturing material by the discharge head 130 on the basis of additive manufacturing data for producing the additive manufacturing article. A movement control unit 112 controls the movement mechanism 140 on the basis of the additive manufacturing data. A correction amount determination unit 113 determines, on the basis of the discharge amount of the additive manufacturing material discharged onto the table by the discharge head 130, a correction amount for the vertical-direction relative position between the table and the discharge head 130, said relative position corresponding to distortion of the table. The movement control unit 112 corrects the relative position on the basis of the correction amount determined by the correction amount determination unit 113.
Provided is a manufacturing device, a screw, and an operation method with which it is possible to suitably manufacture an article. The manufacturing device comprises: a barrel 82 to which a material for manufacturing is supplied; a heater 85 that heats the material supplied into the barrel 82; a rotary screw that is provided in the barrel 82 and transfers the material heated by the heater 85; a nozzle that discharges the material transferred by the screw; and a colorant injection mechanism 60 that injects a colorant fluid into the barrel 82 and/or the nozzle between a position where the material is supplied to the barrel 82 and a position where the material is discharged from the nozzle.
B29C 64/106 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material
B29C 64/118 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using filamentary material being melted, e.g. fused deposition modelling [FDM]
B29C 64/236 - Driving means for motion in a direction within the plane of a layer
B29C 64/255 - Enclosures for the building material, e.g. powder containers
The present invention efficiently performs decolorization treatment. A decolorizing device 1 comprises: a treatment tank 23 of a decolorization part 2 that stores a decolorizing liquid Q; a treatment tank 43 of a rinsing part 4 that stores the decolorization liquid; and a conveyance part 10 that conveys a workpiece W containing fibers dyed or colored by a disperse dye. The decolorizing device 1 decolorizes the workpiece W by continuously conveying the workpiece W to the treatment tank 23 and the treatment tank 43 by the conveyance part 10.
D06B 3/10 - Passing of textile materials through liquids, gases, or vapours to effect treatment, e.g. washing, dyeing, bleaching, sizing, impregnating of fabrics
D06B 3/30 - Passing of textile materials through liquids, gases, or vapours to effect treatment, e.g. washing, dyeing, bleaching, sizing, impregnating of articles, e.g. stockings
D06B 9/00 - Solvent-treatment of textile materials
D06B 23/00 - Component parts, details, or accessories of apparatus or machines, specially adapted for the treating of textile materials, not restricted to a particular kind of apparatus, provided for in groups
Provided is a printing device capable of printing an image that can be efficiently applied. The present invention comprises: a transport mechanism 80 that transports a transfer body 10 including a base layer, a transfer layer having a thermoplastic resin, and a peeling layer formed between the base layer and the transfer layer; a printing mechanism 40 that uses an aqueous pigment ink containing a binder to print an image on the transfer layer of the transfer body 10 transported by the transport mechanism 80; and a drying mechanism 50 that dries the transfer body 10 on which the image has been printed. The printing mechanism has a plurality of print heads that eject ink via the inkjet method, and the plurality of print heads are staggered.
B41J 2/165 - Prevention of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles
B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methodsSheet materials for use therein
B41M 5/50 - Recording sheets characterised by the coating used to improve ink, dye or pigment receptivity, e.g. for ink-jet or thermal dye transfer recording
The present invention transfers more appropriately an image onto a transfer target medium which is a fabric. This transfer condition determination method determines a transfer condition for transferring an image printed on a transfer medium 50 to a transfer target medium 60. The method includes: a transfer target medium information acquisition step of acquiring transfer target medium information indicating characteristics of the transfer target medium 60; and a transfer condition determination step of determining a transfer condition on the basis of the transfer target medium information. The transfer medium 50 includes a base layer 52 and a transfer layer 54. The transfer target medium 60 is a fabric medium. In the transfer target medium information acquisition step, at least fabric texture information that indicates the fabric texture, which is the way the threads that make up the fabric intersect, is acquired as the transfer medium information. In the transfer condition determination step, the transfer condition is determined on the basis of the fabric texture information.
To suppress distortion in an image formed on a tapered printing target object. A printing system includes: a printing device that rotates a tapered printing target object about an axial rotation direction of the central axis and ejects an ink to the side surface of the printing target object, and a control unit that forms an image on the printing target object based on supplied print data; and a print data generation device that acquires a rectangular original image, generates an image for printing deformed in the lateral direction in such a manner that the acquired original image is tapered from a second edge side corresponding to the small-diameter-side end portion of the printing target object to a first edge side corresponding to the large-diameter-side end portion of the printing target object, and supplies the image for printing generated to the printing device as print data.
G06K 15/02 - Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data using printers
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
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PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD
A printing device according to the present invention comprise: an ink supply source; a damper that supplies ink supplied from the ink supply source to a head which discharges ink; a supply flow path that connects the ink supply source and the damper; a supply valve that is provided in the supply flow path; a circulation flow path that is connected to the damper and to the downstream side of the supply valve in the supply flow path and that circulates the ink supplied to the damper by returning the ink to the downstream side of the supply valve in the supply flow path; a circulation valve that is provided midstream in the circulation flow path; a circulation pump that is provided on the downstream side of the circulation valve in the circulation flow path and that moves the ink from the damper side to the supply flow path side; and a control unit that controls opening and closing of the supply valve and the circulation valve and the start and the stop of an operation of the circulation pump. When starting a circulation operation, the control unit opens the supply valve and then opens the circulation valve and starts the circulation pump.
A method for manufacturing a sintered product from a three-dimensional object includes: A preparation step S11, a multilayer made of an ink containing inorganic particles and an organic material is formed to prepare a three-dimensional object. A degreasing step S12 includes: a first degreasing step of heating the three-dimensional object under an inert gas atmosphere at a first average degreasing temperature (T1) for a first heating time to degrease the organic material; and a second degreasing step of heating the three-dimensional object degreased in the first degreasing step, under an inert gas atmosphere at a second average degreasing temperature (T2) higher than T1 for a second heating time to degrease the organic material. A sintering step S13, the three-dimensional object degreased in the second degreasing step is sintered at an average sintering temperature higher than T2 to obtain a sintered product.
B22F 3/16 - Both compacting and sintering in successive or repeated steps
B29C 64/165 - Processes of additive manufacturing using a combination of solid and fluid materials, e.g. a powder selectively bound by a liquid binder, catalyst, inhibitor or energy absorber
B33Y 70/10 - Composites of different types of material, e.g. mixtures of ceramics and polymers or mixtures of metals and biomaterials
B33Y 80/00 - Products made by additive manufacturing
C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing
C09D 11/38 - Inkjet printing inks characterised by non-macromolecular additives other than solvents, pigments or dyes
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SHAPING DEVICE, SHAPING DEVICE MAINTENANCE METHOD, AND SHAPING METHOD
To appropriately realize a configuration suitable for a shaping device that shapes a colored shaped object. A shaping device that shapes a shaped object in which at least a part is colored, includes a plurality of head units and a carriage. Each head unit includes a plurality of nozzle rows each of which ejects ink supplied from an ink container through supply paths of ink different from each other. The carriage holds, as the plurality of head units, a head unit that is a first head unit head including a plurality of nozzle rows each of which ejects colored ink of different colors, and a head unit that is a second head unit including a plurality of nozzle rows each of which ejects ink different from the colored ink ejected by the head unit.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
b and the head 30; the printing device 100 inhibits generation of a stray light which irradiates the head, with electrostatic flocking parts 45 and 55.
Provided are an information processing device, a machining device, a machining data generation method, and a machining data generation program that enable machining speed to be increased and a machining target medium to be machined into a curved shape with a desired dimension. A control device 40 generates machining data for machining a medium 22 by moving a machining tool relative to the medium 22 which has been placed on a table 20. The control device 40: derives a direction change position 62 which is a position for changing the traveling direction of the machining tool 24 relative to the medium 22, such derivation being on the basis of a curve 60 included in graphic data indicating the machining shape of the medium 22; sets a position further outside of the curve 60 than the derived direction change position 62 as a control point 64, which is a passing point through which the processing tool 24 is actually moved relative to the medium 22; and generates processing data including the set control point 64.
G05B 19/4097 - Numerical control [NC], i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to execute positioning, movement or co-ordinated operations by means of programme data in numerical form characterised by using design data to control NC machines, e.g. CAD/CAM
B26D 5/00 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
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PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROCESSING METHOD, COMMAND DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND ROBOT OPERATION CONTROL PROGRAM
The present invention improves the efficiency of processing media when a process is automated in a processing system. A processing system 1 comprises a printer 4 that performs a process for discharging ink onto a medium M, and a robot 5 that supplies the medium M to the printer 4 and retrieves the medium M processed by the printer 4, the processing system 1 also comprising a job management unit 91 that, upon setting of an automation setting period, which is a time band in which the printer 4 and the robot 5 are automatically operated, determines a processing order for a plurality of pieces of processing data created for each job in the automation setting period. The job management unit 91 determines the processing order on the basis of the number of copies of the medium M set in each job, the number of stocks of the medium M, and the processing time required for the processing of the medium M estimated for each piece of processing data.
To cure a layer of curable material for building more uniformly and appropriately at the time of building an object. A building method that builds an object using a curable material that is cured by being irradiated with an ultraviolet ray, the building method including: providing an ejection head, configured to eject the curable material; providing a UV light source, configured to emit the ultraviolet ray to the curable material ejected from the ejection head; and providing a light source driver, configured to supply an electric power for driving the UV light source, wherein the UV light source is an ultraviolet LED, and the light source driver supplies the electric power that varies in a pulse-like form to the UV light source, so as to drive the UV light source using a pulse driving scheme.
B29C 64/40 - Structures for supporting 3D objects during manufacture and intended to be sacrificed after completion thereof
B29C 35/08 - Heating or curing, e.g. crosslinking or vulcanising by wave energy or particle radiation
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
16 - Paper, cardboard and goods made from these materials
24 - Textiles and textile goods
Goods & Services
Canada balsam; copal; sandarac; shellac; dammar; mordants;
anti-corrosive preparations; mastic; pine gum resins;
pigments; paints; printing ink; colors for painting
pictures; nonferrous metals in foil or powder form for
painters, decorators, printers and artists; precious metals
in foil or powder form for painters, decorators, printers
and artists; paints, varnishes, lacquers; preservatives
against rust and against deterioration of wood; colorants,
dyes; inks for printing, marking and engraving; raw natural
resins; metals in foil and powder form for use in painting,
decorating, printing and art; ink jet printer ink;
water-base printing ink; inks for colouring textiles; ink
cartridges, filled, for printers; filled ink jet cartridges;
toner cartridges, filled, for inkjet printers; pigments for
use in the preparation of inks. Metalworking machines and tools; chemical processing
machines and apparatus; textile machines and apparatus;
printing or bookbinding machines and apparatus; agricultural
machines and agricultural implements, other than
hand-operated; motors and engines, except for land vehicles;
machine coupling and transmission components, except for
land vehicles; agricultural implements, other than
hand-operated hand tools; incubators for eggs; automatic
vending machines; industrial inkjet printing machines;
inkjet printing apparatus; printing machines and apparatus
with inkjet mechanism; textile calendering machines;
industrial machine presses. Computer hardware; computer programs, downloadable;
application software; apparatus and instruments for
conducting, switching, transforming, accumulating,
regulating or controlling the distribution or use of
electricity; apparatus and instruments for recording,
transmitting, reproducing or processing sound, images or
data; recorded and downloadable media, computer software,
blank digital or analogue recording and storage media;
mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus; cash registers,
calculating devices; computers and computer peripheral
devices; diving suits, divers' masks, ear plugs for divers,
nose clips for divers and swimmers, gloves for divers,
breathing apparatus for underwater swimming;
fire-extinguishing apparatus; ink-jet printers; ink-jet
color printers. Paper and cardboard; printed matter; bookbinding material;
photographs; stationery and office requisites, except
furniture; adhesives for stationery or household purposes;
drawing materials and materials for artists; paintbrushes;
instructional and teaching materials; plastic sheets, films
and bags for wrapping and packaging; printers' type,
printing blocks; pictorial prints; graphic prints; transfer
paper; decalcomanias; heat transfer paper; iron-on transfers
of paper; transfer paper for crafts; decals; paper for
ink-jet printers. Knitted fabrics; felt and non-woven textile fabrics;
oilcloth; gummed waterproof cloth; vinyl coated cloth;
rubberized cloth; filtering materials of textile; woven
textile goods for personal use; mosquito nets; bedsheets;
futon quilts; quilt covers for futon; futon ticks (unstuffed
futon); pillowcases (pillow slips); blankets; table napkins
of textile; dish towels for drying; shower curtains; banners
and flags, not of paper; toilet seat covers of textile; seat
covers of textile; wall hangings of textile; table cloths,
not of paper; draperies (thick drop curtains); shrouds
(sheets for wrapping corpses); shrouds for dressing a corpse
for funeral (Kyokatabira kimono); red-and-white striped
curtains; black-and-white striped curtains; billiard cloth
(baize); sleeping bags; textiles and substitutes for
textiles; household linen; curtains of textile or plastic;
fabrics for textile use; textile fabrics for the manufacture
of clothing; fabrics made of synthetic materials; woven or
non-woven textile fabrics; sail cloth; plain weave cotton
cloth; textile material; printed woven fabrics textile
material; printed fabrics; knitted fabrics of chemical-fiber
yarn; knitted fabrics of cotton yarn; mixed fiber fabrics;
chemical fiber base mixed fabrics; polyester fabric; rayon
fabric; cotton fabric; cotton base mixed fabrics; nylon
fabric.
The present invention decolorizes an object to be decolorized without imposing a burden on the user. A solvent application unit 30 of a decolorizing device 100 applies, to an object 200 to be decolorized including fibers colorized by a dye, a solvent 400 capable of dissociating the dye from the fibers. A hot press unit 60 applies pressure while applying heat to the object 200 to be decolorized to which the solvent 400 has been applied, and to an absorbing body 300 that is overlaid on the object 200 to be decolorized to absorb, from the object 200 to be decolorized, the solvent 400 containing the dye. Object transport units 40AA, 40AB transport the object 200 to be decolorized to which the solvent 400 has not been applied to a solvent application position, and transport the object 200 to be decolorized to which the solvent 400 has been applied to a hot press position. An absorbing body transport unit 50 transports the absorbing body 300 to the hot press position in coordination with the transport of the object 200 to be decolorized.
D06B 1/02 - Applying liquids, gases or vapours on to textile materials to effect treatment, e.g. washing, dyeing, bleaching, sizing or impregnating by spraying or projecting
D06B 9/00 - Solvent-treatment of textile materials
D06L 1/02 - Dry-cleaning or washing fibres, filaments, threads, yarns, fabrics, feathers or made-up fibrous goods using organic solvents
D06P 5/00 - Other features in dyeing or printing textiles or dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form
The present invention reduces personnel costs related to carry-in and carry-out of a medium. A processing system 1 includes: a printer 3 that performs printing during which an ink is discharged onto a medium M which is placed on a table 31; a belt conveyor 5 that carries in a medium M which has not been printed on, and that carries out the medium M which has been processed; and a robot 7 that, from the belt conveyor 5, acquires the medium M which has not been printed on, places the medium M on the table 31, collects from the table 31 the medium M which has been processed, and places the medium M on the belt conveyor 5. The robot 7 is arranged between the printer 3 and the belt conveyor 5 in the X direction.
[Problem] To make it possible to appropriately decolorize a decoloration target object without imposing a burden on a user. [Solution] This decoloring method is for decoloring a dye of a staining material from a decoloration target object including fibers that have been colored or stained by the staining material. The dye is held in gaps of molecular chains of the fibers. The method comprises a decoloring step for washing the decoloration target object by using a first decoloring liquid at a decoloring temperature that is equal to or higher than a fiber-opening temperature at which the molecular chains are loosened to such a degree that the dye escapes from the gaps of the molecular chains of the fibers included in the decoloration target object.
D06L 1/02 - Dry-cleaning or washing fibres, filaments, threads, yarns, fabrics, feathers or made-up fibrous goods using organic solvents
D06B 1/02 - Applying liquids, gases or vapours on to textile materials to effect treatment, e.g. washing, dyeing, bleaching, sizing or impregnating by spraying or projecting
D06B 9/00 - Solvent-treatment of textile materials
D06P 5/00 - Other features in dyeing or printing textiles or dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form
Provided is an inkjet printer having a bidirectional printing function, the inkjet printer being capable of shortening a correction time when automatically correcting a deviation between a landing position of ink in an outgoing path in which a carriage moves to one side in the main scanning direction and a landing position of ink in a return path in which the carriage moves to the other side in the main scanning direction. In this inkjet printer, when an automatic correction operation is started to automatically carry out a reciprocating landing position correction, which is a correction of a deviation between the landing position of ink in the outgoing path and the landing position of ink in the return path, a cap-out operation is implemented, a first printing operation, a second printing operation, and a pattern detection are carried out, and after startup of the automatic correction operation, a cap-in operation is carried out after calculation of a correction amount necessary for completing the reciprocating landing position correction has been completed. In addition, after startup of the automatic correction operation, the cap-in operation is not carried out until calculation of the correction amount necessary for carrying out the reciprocating landing position correction has been completed.
A tube pump that sends a fluid includes a tube, a roller, and a roller holder. In the roller holder, a guide groove is formed that receives a shaft of the roller and defines a range in which the roller is movable with respect to the roller holder. The roller holder has an inner side surface and an outer side surface as surfaces defining the guide groove in the roller holder. The inner side surface has a protrusion protruding toward the outer side surface.
Provided are an image processing device and an image processing method capable of printing an image on a recording medium without overlapping image regions subjected to different processes. An information processing device is a device for performing printing based on image data on a recording medium using a printing device. In order to print an image of image data by a plurality of different processes, the information processing device divides the image data into a plurality of image regions for each of the different processes, assigns the image regions to a plurality of job layers for each of the different processes, and generates print data by combining the plurality of job layers. The information processing device can assign an image region to a job layer so as not to overlap with an image region of another job layer.
The present invention provides an inkjet printer in which the inkjet head replacement time can be shortened while also simplifying the configuration. This inkjet printer comprises a head holding member 10 that holds an inkjet head, a carriage 4 on which the head holding member 10 is mounted, and a tilt adjustment mechanism 11 for adjusting the tilt of the inkjet head relative to the carriage 4 in a rotation direction that takes the vertical direction as the rotation axis direction, wherein adjustment of the tilt of the head holding member 10 relative to the carriage 4 by the tilt adjustment mechanism 11 causes the tilt of the inkjet head relative to the carriage 4 to be adjusted. In the head holding member 10, there are formed protrusions 10e, 10f for positioning the inkjet head relative to the head holding member 10 in the horizontal direction, and in the inkjet head, there are formed recesses to be engaged by the protrusions 10e, 10f.
The present invention makes it possible to appropriately machine an object to be machined. A control unit 12 of a cutting plotter 1 forms a pattern PT1 through a step for drawing a linear first reference line Ls1 on a surface of an object T placed on a table 2, a step for using a tool 8 to form, on either side sandwiching the first reference line Ls1, a cut line CLa and a cut line CLb extending in a direction intersecting the first reference line Ls1 at a prescribed angle, and a step for forming a plurality of combinations of the cut lines CLa, CLb at a prescribed interval c in a direction along the first reference line Ls1.
B26D 5/00 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
B26D 5/30 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed having the cutting member controlled by scanning a record carrier
