Provided are a printing device and a printing method with which it is possible to reduce the peak value of a current or a voltage required for irradiation with light while minimizing any effect on the curing of ink that has landed on a recording medium. This printing device 10 has an ink ejection head 40 that ejects photocurable ink onto a medium 22 while moving relative to the medium 22 in a main scanning direction Y, and an irradiation unit 32 that irradiates the medium 22 with light while moving relatively together with the ink ejection head 40. The irradiation unit 32 has a plurality of LEDs 34 arranged in a sub-scanning direction X that intersects the main scanning direction Y, the irradiation unit 32 being provided with an irradiation control unit 60 that controls the irradiation unit 32 to repeatedly turn on and off the irradiation of the plurality of LEDs 34 in a prescribed sequence during one cycle of the ink ejection head 40 and the irradiation unit 32 moving relatively in the main scanning direction Y.
[Problem] To reduce the labor and cost required for producing a shaped object. [Solution] A method for producing a three-dimensional shaped object 7, comprising: an ejection step in which inks are ejected from a head part 2 into a liquid 6 retained in a liquid retention part 5; and a curing step in which the inks ejected into the liquid 6 are cured by ultraviolet curing parts 4.
B29C 64/40 - Structures for supporting 3D objects during manufacture and intended to be sacrificed after completion thereof
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
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
B33Y 70/00 - Materials specially adapted for additive manufacturing
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SHAPED-OBJECT MANUFACTURING DEVICE AND SHAPED-OBJECT MANUFACTURING METHOD
[Problem] To flatten ink constituting an overhang portion in each layer of a model material without using a support material. [Solution] A shaped-object manufacturing device 1 that shapes a three-dimensional shaped object 7 comprises: a liquid storage unit 5 that retains a liquid 6; a head unit 2 that ejects ink onto the liquid 6; and a roller 301 that comes in 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
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
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PROFILE CREATION METHOD, PROFILE SEARCH METHOD, PROGRAM, PROFILE CREATION DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CREATING SETTING INFORMATION
The present invention appropriately creates a new profile in cases such as when a new medium is used. Provided is a profile creation method for creating a device profile used in a process for generating print data that shows an image printed by a printing device 12. The profile creation method comprises a search step for performing a search based on a search condition from among existing profiles that are composed of existing device profiles, and a profile creation step for creating a new device profile on the basis of an existing profile that is selected on the basis of the research result in the search step. The printing device 12 performs color printing using inks of a plurality of colors, and uses, as a search condition in the search step, an oozing ink quantity that indicates an ink quantity with which oozing of inks occurs on a medium.
A manufacturing system manufactures a predetermined product by printing and applying a coating agent to a base material made of resin. In a coating device of the manufacturing system, as a nozzle spraying the coating agent moves once in a first direction, a linear coating agent being the coating agent in a line shape with the first direction as a longitudinal direction is applied to the base material. A host control device creates application data for applying the coating agent to the base material by the coating device based on image data as data of an image to be printed on the base material by printing devices, and the application data includes, for applying the linear coating agents to the base material, spray range data of the coating agent from the nozzle in the first direction, and application interval data of the linear coating agents in a second direction.
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 delivery; Arrangements 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 work; Arrangement or mounting of spray heads; Adaptation 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 material; Recovery of excess liquid or other fluent material
Provided are: an inkjet printer with which it is possible to suppress adhesion of minute amounts of ink to a nozzle surface, and to suitably prevent printing defects; and a method for controlling a jetting head. The present invention comprises: a jetting head 3 that jets an ink from a plurality of nozzle holes 33 formed in a nozzle surface 31; a cap 11 that can be mounted on the nozzle surface 31 of the jetting head 3; a head movement mechanism 5 that causes the jetting head 3 to move between a standby position P2 where the cap 11 can be attached/detached and a printing position P1 where printing is carried out by acquiring print data; and a flushing control unit 23 that, when the jetting head 3 has moved to the standby position P2, executes, sequentially for groups into which the plurality of nozzle holes 33 are grouped in advance, a flushing operation for jetting the ink into the cap 11 from each of the plurality of nozzle holes 33 belonging to the groups.
The present invention addresses a problem of fabricating a fabricated food item with high accuracy. A discharge head (40) discharges intermittently a fabrication material for fabricating a fabricated food item, the fabrication material being fluid at the time of discharge. A data generation unit (11) generates slice data for fabricating the fabricated food item. A discharge control unit (13) controls discharge of the fabrication material by the discharge head (40) on the basis of the slice data generated by the data generation unit (11).
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
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UV IRRADIATION DEVICE, PRINTING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING UV IRRADIATION DEVICE
Provided is a UV irradiation device to be used in a printing device for performing printing, using UV-curable ink, on a peripheral surface of a printing target that has a cylindrical shape, a truncated conical shape, or a conical shape, wherein it is possible for an operator of the UV irradiation device to easily ascertain what manner of mechanical adjustment of the UV irradiation device is required. This UV irradiation device comprises: a rotation mechanism that holds the printing target and rotates the printing target around an axis of the printing target; a UV irradiator that emits UV rays toward the peripheral surface of the printing target on which ink is deposited; an input unit 75 that is for enabling an operator of the UV irradiation device to input information about the outer shape of the printing target; and a display 76 for displaying mechanical adjustment items of the UV irradiation device. When the information about the outer shape of the printing target is input into the input unit 75, the display 76 becomes capable of displaying the mechanical adjustment items of the UV irradiation device.
Provided is an inkjet printer capable of suppressing variations in landing positions of inks ejected from a plurality of inkjet heads mounted on a carriage for each inkjet head. In this inkjet printer, a plurality of inkjet heads 3 are mounted on a carriage. This inkjet printer includes at least one of a first inclination adjustment mechanism (13) for adjusting the inclination of each of the inkjet heads (3) with respect to the carriage in a pivoting direction having a sub scanning direction as an axial direction of pivoting, and a second inclination adjustment mechanism (14) for adjusting the inclination of each of the inkjet heads (3) with respect to the carriage in a pivoting direction having a main scanning direction as an axial direction of pivoting.
Provided are a printing device, printing method, printing system, manufacturing line, and manufacturing method which can suitably acquire and analyze a printing history pertaining to a resultant product even when a plurality of layers are printed. A printing execution unit 111 of a printing device 100 executes printing on printing surfaces, which are identified by printing surface identification information, on the basis of printing instruction data including: result product identification information for identifying a printed result product; a total printing surface number that is the total number of printing surfaces on which printing is performed for obtaining the resultant product; printing surface identification information for identifying the printing surfaces; and printed data on the printing surfaces that are identified by the printing surface identification information. A printing history output unit 112 outputs, in correspondence with the resultant product identification information, the printing history that indicates the result of printing executed on the basis of printing instruction data including the same resultant product identification information.
B41J 29/00 - TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
[Problem] To adequately wipe out ink attached to a nozzle surface. [Solution] A wiper unit 100 is for wiping out ink 230 attached to a nozzle surface 201 of an injection head 200, the wiper unit comprising: a wiping body 11 that is impregnated with a liquid for dissolving the ink 230; and a casing-side roller 21 that is disposed so as to oppose the nozzle surface 201 and that supports the wiping body 11 so as to be able to wipe out the ink 230 attached to the nozzle surface 201.
A method for generating ejection position data indicating an ejection position where ink is ejected includes performing an edge detection process, an edge correction process, and an ejection position data generation process based on processing target data indicating an image to be printed. In the processing target data, a non-ejection value indicating that ink is not ejected to a corresponding ejection position or an ejection value other than the non-ejection value is set as a pixel value of a pixel. In the edge detection process, a position where a pixel to which the non-ejection value is set and a pixel for which the ejection value is set are adjacent is detected to detect an edge. In the edge correction process, the pixel value of the corresponding pixel is changed to a non-ejection value for at least a part of the ejection position where ink is ejected to draw the edge.
The present invention appropriately reduces the influence of a defective nozzle. Provided is a printing method for performing printing using a printing device 10, the method comprising: a condition setting step for setting a printing condition; a condition confirmation step for making a confirmation with respect to the printing condition; and a printing performing step. The printing device 10 is capable of performing a pass-modulated operation in which a main scan operation is performed on the basis of a set pass number that is set with an integer value of one or more, wherein the number of the main scan operations that are performed with respect to at least a part of the medium is made greater than the set pass number. In the condition setting step, a pass modulation level is set. The condition confirmation step comprises: a defective nozzle confirmation step; a recovery confirmation step for confirming whether nozzle recovery is possible; and a condition search step for searching for a new printing condition when nozzle recovery is impossible, wherein the pass modulation level is varied to search for a printing condition that enables nozzle recovery.
Provided is a foil transfer device capable of effectively suppressing variations in transferability of a foil onto a medium in a foil transfer device for transferring a foil onto an elongate medium. A foil transfer device 1 is provided with: an adhesive application mechanism 5 that applies an adhesive to an elongate medium 2; a medium transfer mechanism 6 that transfers the medium 2 in a longitudinal direction of the medium 2; and a transfer roller pair 7 for transferring a foil onto the medium 2 by pressing a foil transfer sheet 3, in which a foil to be transferred onto the medium 2 is formed on a base material, onto the medium 2 to which the adhesive has been applied. The transfer roller pair 7 is composed of a first foil transfer roller 29 that contacts the medium 2, and a second foil transfer roller 30 that contacts the foil transfer sheet 3. A heater is built inside at least one of the first foil transfer roller 29 and the second foil transfer roller 30.
B65C 9/00 - LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES - Details of labelling machines or apparatus
B41J 2/325 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of heat to a heat sensitive printing or impression-transfer material using thermal heads by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
B65H 23/188 - Registering, tensioning, smoothing, or guiding webs longitudinally by controlling or regulating the web-advancing mechanism, e.g. mechanism acting on the running web in connection with running-web
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DISPLAY METHOD, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
The present invention manages the state of a printer more appropriately. Provided is a display method for causing an electronic apparatus in a printing system to display information, the printing system comprising a printer 114, a management server 12, and the electronic apparatus (PC 112 and electronic device 116), the display method comprising an information transmission stage of causing printer information to be transmitted from the management server 12 to the electronic apparatus, and a display stage of causing the electronic apparatus to display information based on the printer information. The management server 12 manages operation information, ink usage information, and printing area information as the printer information, and, in the display stage, causes a tally of operation states, a tally of ink usage, and a tally of printing area to be displayed in one screen on the basis of the operation information, the ink usage information, and the printing area information.
[Problem] To effectively reduce the discoloration of a 3-dimensional object formed using an electron beam-curable ink. [Solution] This method for manufacturing a 3-dimensional object includes: a preparation step S1 for preparing a to-be-treated 3-dimensional object formed using an electron beam-curable ink; and an aging step S2 for reducing the coloration of a discolored portion of the to-be-treated 3-dimensional object, by performing an irradiation treatment S2-1 for irradiating the to-be-treated 3-dimensional object with light having a wavelength of less than 430 nm, and a heat treatment S2-2 for applying heat to the to-be-treated 3-dimensional object.
C08F 20/00 - Homopolymers or copolymers of compounds having one or more unsaturated aliphatic radicals, each having only one carbon-to-carbon double bond, and only one being terminated by only one carboxyl radical or a salt, anhydride, ester, amide, imide, or nit
C08F 2/50 - Polymerisation initiated by wave energy or particle radiation by ultraviolet or visible light with sensitising agents
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 64/379 - Handling of additively manufactured objects, e.g. using robots
B33Y 70/00 - Materials specially adapted for additive manufacturing
The present invention suppresses the distortion of an image formed on a tapered object to be printed. A printing system according to the present invention comprises: a printing device that has a rotation support part which rotates a tapered object to be printed in a direction around the center axis, a head which is arranged along a side surface of the object to be printed, has a plurality of nozzles aligned along a generating line direction of the object to be printed, and discharges ink from the nozzles onto the side surface of the object to be printed, and a control unit which forms an image on the object to be printed on the basis of supplied printing data; and a printing data generation device that acquires a rectangular original image, generates, for the acquired original image, a printing image which is horizontally deformed so as to be tapered from the second edge side corresponding to the small diameter side end part of the object to be printed to the first edge side corresponding to the large diameter side end part of the object to be printed, and that supplies the generated printing image to the printing device as printing data.
A jig to be used is appropriately selected, and information necessary for printing is acquired. A printing system 1 has a printing control device 4 that outputs printing data, a printing device 2 that executes printing on the basis of the printing data, and a jig 3 placed on a table 25 of the printing device 2. A plurality of jigs 3 are prepared. Each of the jigs 3 is assigned a jig ID for identifying the jig 3. The printing control device 4 has a jig information acquisition unit 411 that acquires jig information of the jigs 3 placed on the table 25 on the basis of the jig IDs of the jigs 3 placed on the table 25, and a printing data generation unit 412 that generates printing data on the basis of image data 420 and the jig information.
Provided are an image processing device and an image processing method that enable images to be printed on a recording medium without image regions subjected to different processing overlapping. An information processing device 16 is a device for performing printing on a recording medium 60 on the basis of image data, using a printing device 12. In order to perform printing of an image made up of image data by a plurality of different processing, this information processing device 16 divides the image data into a plurality of image regions for each different processing, allocates the image regions to a plurality of job layers for each different processing, and composites the plurality of job layers to generate printing data. The information processing device 16 can allocate the image regions to the job layers such that overlapping with image regions of other job layers does not occur.
A repairing method for a shaped object includes: preparing a defective portion part to be attached to a defective portion in a repair target shaped object; creating a repair patch which is an attachment member to be attached to at least one part of the repair target shaped object; and attaching the repair patch to cover at least one part of a boundary portion of the repair target shaped object and the defective portion part; where at least one part of the repair target shaped object is colored. The repair patch including a colored layer and an adhesive layer is created using a shaping device capable of shaping a shaped object colored by a layered shaping method, and the colored layer is colored and formed in accordance with a color of a portion covered by the repair patch in a shaped 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
B29C 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
B29C 64/135 - 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 the energy source being concentrated, e.g. scanning lasers or focused light sources
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TEST PATTERN, TEST PATTERN PRINTING METHOD, AND PRINTING DEVICE
In the present invention, the inclination of a head is recognized. Regions 51A, 52A of a test pattern 50 include: a base line 530 which is formed, along the Y-direction, by ink injected from nozzles 231, B1 of heads 23, 24; and a block 540 and a block 550 which are formed by ink injected from nozzles 235, 245 that are disposed so as to be spaced away in the Y-direction from first nozzles 231, 241 of the heads 23, 24. The block 540 is formed on an X1 side of the base line 530 in the X-direction that is orthogonal to the Y-direction, whereas the block 550 is formed on an X2 side.
Provided are an image processing device and an image processing method that can more reliably transfer foil onto a recording medium without impairing design. This image processing device is provided with: a generation means for generating foil transfer data in which an ejecting region of adhesive ink with respect to image data showing an image printed on a recording medium is expressed in a prescribed color; and a combining means for combining the foil transfer data with the image data to generate combined image data. In performing printing on a recording medium, the problem is solved by the image processing device that ejects adhesive ink onto a region of a prescribed color in combined image data and the image processing method having a first step for generating the foil transfer data, a second step for generating the combined image data, and a third step for ejecting adhesive ink onto a region of a prescribed color in the combined image data and transferring foil onto a recording medium.
[Problem] To provide a printing device that: is for printing on a long medium to be cut after printing; and is capable of printing marks for appropriately cutting the medium in the medium width direction even when feeding again a printed medium wound in a roll shape and cutting the medium in the medium width direction and the medium conveyance direction, and even when cutting a part of the medium in the medium width direction. [Solution] In this printing device, a printing mechanism: prints cutting position marks M1 for specifying medium cutting positions that are cutting positions in the medium conveyance direction of a medium 2 at positions away by a fixed distance, on the upstream side of the conveyance direction, from the plurality of medium cutting positions; and prints first cutting range marks M11 disposed at positions corresponding to one ends in a medium cutting range, which is a cutting range in the medium width direction, of the medium 2 at the medium cutting positions, and prints second cutting range marks M12 disposed at positions corresponding to the other ends in the medium cutting range.
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an ink ejection mechanism, a printing apparatus, and a method for fixing an ink jet head that facilitate mounting of an ink jet head on a carriage. An ink ejection mechanism 5 includes a carriage 7 that moves along a printing surface of a recording medium 4, a head assembly 20 that is removably placed on the carriage 7 and ejects ink to the recording medium 4, and a fixing unit 30 that presses the head assembly 20 from above to fix the head assembly 20 to the carriage 7.
Provided is a foil transfer device which transfers foil to a long medium and is capable of suppressing variations in tension of the medium when the foil is transferred. In the foil transfer device 1, foil transfer rollers 29 and 30, constituting a transfer roller pair 7 for pressing a foil transfer sheet 3 against a medium 2 to which an adhesive has been applied to transfer the foil to the medium 2, are driven rollers that rotate following the medium 2 conveyed by a medium conveying mechanism 6. The motor of a medium winding mechanism 34, which winds the medium 2 to which the foil has been transferred, is driven regardless of whether the medium conveying mechanism 6 is conveying the medium when the foil is transferred to the medium 2. In the medium winding mechanism 34, a torque limiter disposed in the power transmission path from the motor to a roll-shaped medium 33 causes the motor to idle with respect to the roll-shaped medium 33 when the torque transmitted from the motor to the roll-shaped medium 33 exceeds a predetermined value.
B65H 18/10 - Mechanisms in which power is applied to web-roll spindle
B65H 23/195 - Registering, tensioning, smoothing, or guiding webs longitudinally by controlling or regulating the web-advancing mechanism, e.g. mechanism acting on the running web in winding mechanisms or in connection with winding operations
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ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION DEVICE AND PRINTING DEVICE
[Problem] To allow ink that has landed on a body to be printed to be quickly irradiated with ultraviolet radiation. [Solution] An ultraviolet irradiation device 4 is provided with: a rotation mechanism 16 that holds a body 2 to be printed and rotates the body 2 to be printed about an axis of the body 2 to be printed; and an ultraviolet irradiator 17 that irradiates ultraviolet radiation toward an outer peripheral surface of the body 2 to be printed to which ultraviolet-curable ink has been attached. Ink ejected from above the body 2 to be printed lands on the outer peripheral surface of the body 2 to be printed. The ultraviolet irradiator 17 is disposed to the side of the body 2 to be printed, and irradiates ultraviolet radiation toward the outer peripheral surface of the body 2 to be printed from the side of the printed body 2.
This printing method draws an image on a transfer-receiving medium by transferring an image printed on a transfer medium (50) onto the transfer-receiving medium, the printing method comprising: a printing stage for printing an image on the transfer medium (50) using a printing unit (14), which is a printing device; a hot melt resin adhering stage for adhering hot melt resin powder to the transfer medium (50); and a transfer stage for transferring the image from the transfer medium (50) to a transfer-receiving medium. The printing unit (14) includes a colored ink head that discharges colored ink, and a clear ink head that discharges clear ink. In the printing stage, clear ink is further discharged from the clear ink head onto at least a portion of a region on the transfer medium (50) where colored ink is discharged from the colored ink head.
[Problem] To easily and appropriately adjust an inkjet printer. [Solution] A method for adjusting a printing device 12 that is an inkjet printer is provided with: an analysis step for performing, in an image analysis device 16, an analysis with respect to a pattern image generated by reading a test pattern with a scanner 14; and a setting-value updating step for updating a control setting value stored in a database 20. The printing device 12 is caused to print a test pattern including a pattern with which ink is ejected from a plurality of nozzle rows to the same position in a main scanning direction. In the analysis step, a dot-position deviation amount generated in each nozzle row is detected by image processing based on the pattern image, and a dot-position correction value corresponding to the dot-position deviation amount is calculated by computation. In the setting-value updating step, the dot-position correction value is stored in the database 20 as at least a part of the control setting value.
An ink supplying device includes: an attachment unit to which a cartridge for storing ink to be supplied to an inkjet head of a printing apparatus is attached and in which an internal flow path is formed for the ink stored in the cartridge to flow; an external tube that is connected to the internal flow path of the attachment unit and circulates the ink; and a base portion that supports the attachment unit and a part of the external tube. The attachment unit is supported by the base portion so as to be rotatable in a direction around a predetermined central axis. The external tube is disposed in a curved state from a connecting portion connected to the internal flow path to a supported portion supported by the base portion and is provided such that the curved state changes in accordance with the rotation of the attachment unit.
[Problem] To stabilize a shape of a cut portion regardless of characteristics of a medium. [Solution] This medium cutting method comprises: a first thrusting step of thrusting a cutter blade into a medium 2 to penetrate the medium 2; and a first cutting step of relatively moving the cutter blade from a first thrusted position SP2, where the cutter blade has been thrusted in the first thrusting step, in a longitudinal direction and a width direction of the medium 2, to cut the medium 2 in a direction inclined with respect to the width direction of the medium 2.
B26D 3/00 - Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
B26D 1/04 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member
B26D 3/10 - Making cuts of other than simple rectilinear form
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 5/08 - Means for actuating the cutting member to effect the cut
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
B65H 35/06 - Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machines; Article 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
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METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SINTERED PRODUCT FROM THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT, AND 3D SHAPING INKJET INK
A method for manufacturing a sintered product from a three-dimensional object as a solution includes: a preparation step S11, a degreasing step S12, and a sintering step S13. In S11, a multilayer made of an ink containing inorganic particles and an organic material is formed to prepare a three-dimensional object. 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 Ti for a second heating time to degrease the organic material. In 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
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
A printing device 100 comprises: heads 30 that discharge ink cured by light irradiation onto a placement surface 11a on which a medium M is placed; a light irradiation device 50 that is disposed in parallel with the heads 30 and that irradiates the placement surface 11a with ink-curing light from a light-emitting area 51b disposed on an irradiation surface 51a facing the placement surface 11a; and electrodeposition flocking parts 45, 55 disposed in at least part of a facing portion facing the placement surface 11a between the light-emitting area 51b and the heads 30. The generation of stray light radiated onto the heads is minimized by the electrodeposition flocking parts 45, 55.
An inkjet printer that includes an inkjet head in which a plurality of ink flow paths are formed is provided. In this inkjet printer, a plurality of nozzles from which ink is ejected and a plurality of ink flow paths to which the plurality of nozzles 0 are connected are formed in an inkjet head. The inkjet head includes a plurality of ejection energy generation elements that make the plurality of respective nozzles eject ink. Based on an ink flow rate which is a flow rate of ink flowing into each of the plurality of ink flow paths and internal temperature or external temperature of the inkjet head, a controller of the inkjet printer estimates the ink temperature in each of the plurality of ink flow paths, and controls drive voltage applied to the plurality of ejection energy generation elements based on the result of the estimation.
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 printing device comprising a printing mechanism for performing printing on a long medium, and a cutting mechanism for cutting the medium after printing, along a width direction of the medium orthogonal to a transport direction of the medium. The printing device can perform printing on the medium by the printing mechanism even during cutting of the medium by the cutting mechanism, and can transport the medium toward the cutting mechanism. A printing device 1 comprises a tension applying mechanism 10 having a tension bar 9 that contacts a medium 2 after printing, and applies a tensile force to the medium 2. The tension bar 9 is disposed between a printing mechanism 3 and a cutting mechanism 7 in a transport direction of the medium 2.
B26D 1/04 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member
B26D 1/18 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting 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 7/18 - Means for removing cut-out material or waste
B26D 11/00 - Combinations of several similar cutting apparatus
B65H 20/34 - Arrangements for accumulating surplus web by making loops with rollers
Provided is a wiper unit with a simpler mechanism. The wiper unit comprises: a wiping body that extends in a band shape; a housing that has the wiping body mounted therein and is provided as movable in a prescribed direction; a conveyance mechanism that moves the housing in the prescribed direction; and a transmission mechanism that transmits a movement force of the housing in the prescribed direction and converts the same into a movement force for moving the wiping body.
A printing system 10 configured to generate a product of printing includes: a coater 14 that is a pretreatment machine configured to execute a pretreatment process of performing a predetermined pretreatment on a medium that is a target of the printing; a printer 16 that is a printing device configured to execute a print process of performing the printing by ejecting ink onto the medium after the pretreatment performed by the coater 14; and a controller 12 that is a process management device configured to propose a condition for the pretreatment process based on a condition for the product to be generated.
B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
B05D 3/00 - Pretreatment of surfaces to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be applied; After-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
The present invention addresses the issue of achieving a configuration appropriate for a molding device that molds colored molded objects. The molding device 10 molds a molded object 50 that is at least partially colored and comprises a plurality of head units and a carriage 202. Each head unit has a plurality of nozzle rows that each jet ink that is supplied from an ink container via mutually different ink supply paths. The carriage 202 holds, as a plurality of head units: a first head unit 204a that has a plurality of nozzle rows that each jet different colored ink; and a second head unit 204b that has a plurality of nozzle rows that each jet different colored ink to the colored ink jetted from the head unit 204a.
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
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
The present invention appropriately shapes a shaped article with high precision. Provided is a shaping device 10 for shaping a shaped article 50, the shaping device 10 comprising head units 204a, b which are delivery heads, a carriage 202 for holding the head units 204a, b, a main scanning drive unit 18, and a flattening roller unit 104 which is a flattening means having a flattening roller, the main scanning drive unit 18 having a guide member for guiding movement of the carriage 202 in a main scanning direction, and a drive mechanism for causing the carriage 202 to move along the guide member, and the flattening roller unit 104 being held by the guide member so as to be able to move in the main scanning direction outside the carriage 202, and being connected with the carriage 202 so as to move together with the carriage 202 in a main scanning operation.
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
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
An inkjet printing apparatus includes an inkjet head that moves in a main scanning direction at the time of printing; a filter chamber provided on a path for supplying ink to a nozzle hole (nozzle) in the inkjet head; and a spherical body placed on a head filter in the filter chamber. The spherical body has a diameter φ larger than the mesh of the head filter. The spherical body is disposed on the head filter so as to be rollable by the movement of the inkjet head.
A printing apparatus that performs printing through an inkjet method includes an inkjet head and an ink supply system, where the ink supply system includes a pressure damper that is a pressure adjustment mechanism, a flow path that is a container-side flow path, and a connecting member in which a flow path that is a head-side flow path for flowing ink from the pressure damper to the inkjet head is formed, the pressure damper supplies ink adjusted to a pressure in a predetermined range lower than atmospheric pressure from an output port that is a pressure adjustment mechanism outlet to the flow path, and a flow path cross-sectional area of at least one part of the flow path in the connecting member is larger than a flow path cross-sectional area of the output port.
The disclosure optimizes suction force. An inkjet printing apparatus (1) includes a suction table (2) having a placement surface (21a) for the medium (M); a blower (52) that generates a suction force on the placement surface (21a); and a control device (55) that controls a suction force generated by the blower (52). The control device (55) includes a switcher (553) that switches the suction force to generate, where when the medium (M) is placed on the placement surface (21a), the switcher (553) drives the blower (52) at a first output level to generate a first suction force, and suctions the medium (M) placed on the placement surface (21a). Thereafter, the blower (52) is driven at the second output level lower than the first output level to generate the second suction force weaker than the first suction force, thereby suctioning the medium M placed on the placement surface (21a).
An inkjet printing apparatus 1 includes an ink-jet head 23 that ejects UV curable ink to a medium M, an irradiation lamp 25 that irradiates the UV curable ink ejected to the medium M with ultraviolet rays, and a heater 37 that heats the UV curable ink after the ultraviolet ray irradiation by the irradiation lamp 25 and thereby stabilizes color fixation of the UV curable ink. The UV curable ink after the ultraviolet ray irradiation is heated at least at 35° C.
A printer (1) comprises a printing unit (10) that prints on media, and a media exchanger (20) that can hold rolls (R) of a plurality of media (M) and can move a specific roll (R) among the rolls up to a media supply position where the media M can be supplied to the printing unit (10) from the roll (R). The media exchanger (20) includes a plurality of media holding parts (21) and a rotating part (22). Each media holding part (21) includes one set of clamping parts (220, 230) that rotatably clamp a single roll (R), and a guide part (210) that slidably supports one or both of the clamping parts. The rotating part (22) holds the plurality of media holding parts (21) at an arrangement such as where, when rotated about the axis of rotation, the rolls (R) held by the respective media holding parts (21) are at the media supply position one time in the process of the rotation.
A controller 10 activates a heater 21 when a temperature detected by a temperature sensor 13 for detecting a temperature of ink becomes lower than a first reference temperature Ta lower than the appropriate ink ejection temperature Ta at the time of printing pause in which printing is paused. After the heater 21 is activated, when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor 13 exceeds a predetermined second reference temperature T2 that is higher than the first reference temperature T1 and lower than the appropriate ink ejection temperature Ta, the controller 10 moves the inkjet head to the maintenance region and forcibly discharges ink from the inkjet head in the maintenance region.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
[Problem] To reduce the size of a foil transfer device. [Solution] A foil transfer device 1 comprises: an adhesive application mechanism 5 that applies an adhesive to a medium 2; and a pair of transfer rollers 8 that transfer foil to the medium 2 by pressing a foil transfer sheet 3 onto the medium 2 to which the adhesive has been applied. The adhesive application mechanism 5 includes a head 23 which discharges the adhesive to the medium 2, and a platen 27 which is disposed below the head 23 and on which the medium 2 is mounted. In the foil transfer device 1, the pair of transfer rollers 8 is disposed below the platen 27.
B65C 9/00 - LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES - Details of labelling machines or apparatus
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
B05C 11/10 - Storage, supply or control of liquid or other fluent material; Recovery of excess liquid or other fluent material
B41J 15/04 - Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles
B41J 15/16 - Means for tensioning or winding the web
B65H 23/04 - Registering, tensioning, smoothing, or guiding webs longitudinally
B65H 23/16 - Registering, tensioning, smoothing, or guiding webs longitudinally by weighted or spring-pressed movable bars or rollers
B65H 23/188 - Registering, tensioning, smoothing, or guiding webs longitudinally by controlling or regulating the web-advancing mechanism, e.g. mechanism acting on the running web in connection with running-web
46.
INKJET PRINTER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INKJET PRINTER
[Object] To appropriately warm ink.
[Object] To appropriately warm ink.
[Solving Means] An inkjet printer 1 includes an inkjet head 3 and an ink warming mechanism 12. The ink warming mechanism 12 includes a warming part main body 21; an ink flow path 21a formed inside the warming part main body 21; a heater 22 that is attached to the warming part main body 21 and heats the warming part main body 21; a warming part temperature sensor 23 that is attached to the warming part main body 21 and detects a temperature of the warming part main body 21; and a heater controller 4 that controls the heater 22. The heater controller 24 controls the heater 22 based on the detection result of the warming part temperature sensor 23 so that the temperature of the warming part main body 21 becomes a predetermined reference temperature.
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 shaping device shaping an object by forming and layering each layer based on slice images indicating cross-sectional shapes and color arrangements of the object include: a color ink ejection position determining means determining presence/absence of ejection of each ink of colors for coloring to each ejection position constituting the layer based on the slice image corresponding to the layer; a clear ink ejection position determining means determining necessity of ejection of a clear ink to each ejection position based on presence/absence of ejection of ink of each color for coloring to each ejection position determined in the color ink ejection position determining means; and a layer forming means causing a color ink head and the clear ink head to eject ink of each color and the clear ink to each ejection position as determined by the color ink ejection position and clear ink ejection position determining means.
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
A molding device includes a color inkjet head that ejects a color ink, and a clear inkjet head that ejects a clear ink. The color ink is ejected from the color inkjet head and layered to color and form a molded object, and the clear ink is ejected from the clear inkjet head to compensate the layering amount of the color ink. The molding device includes an input part that inputs the compensation amount of the clear ink such that the impact frequency of the clear ink becomes low at a place where the impact frequency of the color ink in coloring and forming the molded object is high, and the impact frequency of the clear ink becomes high at a place where the impact frequency of the color ink is low for each layer forming the molded 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 is a head unit with which it is possible to increase the versatility of a base member to which multiple inkjet heads are attached even when the inkjet heads are arranged inline or staggered, and it is possible to easily switch from inline to staggered and from staggered to inline. In a head unit 15, an opening 14a for exposing a nozzle surface of an inkjet head 3 and an opening 14b for exposing a nozzle surface of an inkjet head 4 are formed in a base member 14, and the width of the opening 14a in a sub-scanning direction is set such that the inkjet head 3 can be arranged at a first position 3A where the inkjet head 3 and the inkjet head 4 are arranged at the same position in the sub-scanning direction, and a second position where the inkjet head 3 and the inkjet head 4 are arranged at positions shifted in the sub-scanning direction.
The present invention more appropriately manages maintenance for an inkjet head. Provided is a printing device that performs printing by an inkjet method, the printing device comprising: an inkjet head; a sub-tank 202; an ink amount detection unit; and a maintenance determination unit (maintenance control unit). When an ink amount inside the sub-tank 202 is a first threshold or more, the maintenance determination unit permits a purge that is an example of normal maintenance as maintenance for the inkjet head to which ink is supplied from the sub-tank 202. When the ink amount inside the sub-tank 202 is smaller than the first threshold, the maintenance determination unit prohibits a purge and permits flushing that is an example of low-consumption maintenance as maintenance for the inkjet head to which the ink is supplied from the sub-tank 202.
The disclosure more appropriately creates a product of printing closer to the target state. A printing system (10) that creates a product of printing includes a printer (16) that is a printing apparatus that executes a printing step, a steaming machine (18) that is a device for a predetermined step that is a device that executes a predetermined step, and a control device (12); where the control device (12) acquires printed matter information that is information indicating a state of a printed matter obtained by performing the printing step by the printer (16), and adjusts a condition of a step to be executed in the steaming machine (18) based on information indicating a state of the target product and the printed matter information such that a product in a state closer to a state indicated by target product information is obtained.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
52.
PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND PRINTING METHOD
The disclosure more appropriately determines a condition of a step executed at the time of creating a product of printing. A printing system (10) that creates a product of printing by performing at least printing includes a printer (16) which is a printing apparatus that executes a printing step of performing printing by ejecting ink; a washing machine (20) which is a post-processing machine that executes a post-processing step on a printed matter obtained by performing the printing step in the printer (16); and a control device (12) that determines a condition of a post-processing step based on a condition of the printing step.
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
A shaping apparatus includes an inkjet head forming one shaped layer by performing multiple main scans of ejecting an ink droplet of a curable ink that cures according to light of a predetermined wavelength toward a shaping table while reciprocating in a main scanning direction; a light source provided at least at one position on a front side in a forward or return direction in the main scan with respect to the inkjet head and irradiating an ink dot formed by the ink droplet with light; and a flattening unit flattening an upper surface of the ink dot. A shaped object is formed by layering the shaped layer. In the shaping apparatus, the ink dot is flatted by the flattening roller in the return movement without completely curing the ink dot by controlling the on/off state or illuminance of the light source during at least one of the main scans.
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
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
Since ink is not heated at a protrusion connecting an ink supplying device and a print head chip or the like, the viscosity of the ink increases, and the fluidity may not be maintained in some cases. An inkjet printer 1 for solving the above problem includes an inkjet head 300 that ejects ink; a protrusion 310 provided to protrude from the inkjet head 300 and configured to circulate the ink to the inkjet head 300; and an ink flow path portion 6 that supplies the ink to the protrusion 310; where the ink flow path portion 6 includes an ink warming block 200 that heats the ink, and a conducting portion 210 that is formed in the ink warming block 200 itself or separately from the ink warming block 200 and through which heat from the ink warming block 200 is conducted is adjacently disposed outside the protrusion 310.
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.
A raised shape is appropriately formed on a medium. A printing device 10 includes inkjet heads 102y to 102k that are a plurality of color ink heads, an inkjet head 102w that is a light reflective ink head, and a controller 30. The controller 30 causes the inkjet heads 102y to 102k and the inkjet head 102w to form a layered ink region and an image region on the medium 50. The layered ink region is a region including a plurality of colored regions (four-color regions) that are colored regions formed by causing at least two inkjet heads among the plurality of inkjet heads 102y to 102k to eject ink, and a plurality of white layers that are light reflecting regions formed on the colored region. The colored regions in the layered ink region are superimposed with at least the white layer interposed therebetween.
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 an inkjet printer that performs bi-directional printing on a printing medium in a multi-path system, wherein the printing quality of the inkjet printer is securable. In the inkjet printer, a plurality of nozzle arrays formed in an inkjet head is composed of ink ejection path rows that eject ink during printing of a printing medium and ink non-ejection path rows that do not eject ink. The ink ejection path rows arranged closest to one side in a sub-scanning direction are arranged at positions deviated from each other in the sub-scanning direction. Alternatively, specific path rows that eject a larger amount of ink than other ink ejection path rows are arranged at positions deviated from each other in the sub-scanning direction.
Provided is a manufacturing system for manufacturing a predetermined product by printing and applying a coating agent to a base material made of resin, etc., wherein it is possible to simplify the work a user performs to create data for manufacturing the product. In a coating device 3 of a manufacturing system 1, when a nozzle that sprays a coating agent moves once in a first direction, a linear coating agent, which is a linear coating agent having the first direction as a longitudinal direction, is applied to a base material. On the basis of image data, which is data of an image to be printed on the base material by a printing device 4, a superordinate control device 7 creates coating data for coating the base material with the coating agent by means of the coating device 3, and the coating data includes data of the range in which the coating agent is sprayed from the nozzle in the first direction, and data of the intervals in which the linear coating agent is applied in a second direction, for coating the base material with the coating agent.
B05B 13/04 - Means for supporting work; Arrangement or mounting of spray heads; Adaptation 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 material; Recovery of excess liquid or other fluent material
B05D 1/02 - Processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials performed by spraying
B05D 3/00 - Pretreatment of surfaces to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be applied; After-treatment of applied coatings, e.g. intermediate treating of an applied coating preparatory to subsequent applications of liquids or other fluent materials
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
B05B 12/00 - Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements for controlling the spray area
B05B 12/10 - Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements 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 1/00 - Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
B05B 7/02 - Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge
B05B 7/24 - Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas with means, e.g. a container, for supplying liquid or other fluent material to a discharge device
59.
PRINTING METHOD, PRINTING DEVICE, AND PRINTED MATTER
[Problem] To reduce a difference in a degree of wet-spreading of a coating material. [Solution] A printing method including: a buffer layer forming step of forming, when there is a difference between surface free energy of a printed body to be printed and surface free energy of a coating material coated on a surface of the printed body, a buffer layer on the surface of the printed body using a buffer material having surface free energy different from that of the printed body or the coating material; and a printing step of coating the coating material on the buffer layer to perform printing.
A photographing apparatus for photogrammetry continuously photographs a target object performing a series of motions by synchronizing a plurality of photographing devices provided at a plurality of different viewpoints. The plurality of photographing devices include the plurality of image-capturing units that photograph the target object. Each of the plurality of photographing devices includes the plurality of primary storages each storing each image data of the target object photographed in synchronization by the plurality of image-capturing units, and the plurality of signal output units each outputting a completion signal for each of the image data when storage of each of the image data in a preceding motion of the target object into the plurality of primary storages is completed. The plurality of photographing devices perform photographing in the subsequent motion of the target object based on the completion signal of the signal output unit.
Misalignment between landing positions is appropriately corrected. A printing device 10 that performs printing by an inkjet method includes an inkjet head 102, a carriage 100, a main scan driving part 18 (carriage drive mechanism), a detection mechanism 106, and a controller 30. The controller 30 detects a position where a concentration is the highest among concentrations of a correction pattern changing depending on positions in a main scanning direction, calculates magnitude of misalignment between a landing position of ink ejected from the inkjet head 102 when the carriage 100 moves to a first direction side and a landing position of the ink ejected from the inkjet head 102 when the carriage 100 moves to a second direction side based on a detection result of the position where the concentration is the highest, and corrects the misalignment between the landing positions based on a calculation result.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
62.
Inkjet printer suppressing stray light from light irradiation device
An inkjet printer including a platen that supports a recording medium; an inkjet head having a nozzle surface that ejects ink, which cures by being irradiated with light, toward the recording medium; a light irradiation device that irradiates the ink attached to the recording medium with light; and a carriage that is mounted on the inkjet head and the light irradiation device, and is scanned with respect to the platen; where an uneven portion for suppressing stray light from the light irradiation device from reaching the nozzle surface is provided in a portion closer to the nozzle surface than the light irradiation device in a scanning direction; and the uneven portion is provided at a position facing a space on a path of the stray light from the light irradiation device to the nozzle surface in a space between the portion and the platen.
[Problem] To provide an aqueous ink composition giving printed images having excellent abrasion resistance. [Solution] An aqueous ink composition comprising resin particles containing an encapsulated pigment, a diol-based organic solvent, a fluorochemical surfactant, and an amine-based organic solvent, characterized in that the resin of the resin particles containing an encapsulated pigment is a hydrophobic resin.
Provided are an inkjet printing method and an ink set, in which forward and reverse warp inks are printed in an arrangement that reduces warp. The forward warp ink is the ink in which a warp when cured and shrunk by irradiation of light is a forward warp in which a portion on a side where light is irradiated by a light irradiation device is large in the degree of curing and shrinkage as compared with a portion on an opposite side. The reverse warp ink is the ink in which a warp when cured and shrunk by irradiation of light is a reverse warp in which a portion on a side opposite to a side where light is irradiated by the light irradiation device is large in the degree of curing and shrinkage as compared with a portion on the side where light is irradiated.
The photocurable inkjet ink contains: a radical polymerizable compound; a photoinitiator; and a thixotropic agent, and has a first viscosity of 1,000 mPa·s or less as measured at a shear rate of 10,000 s−1, and a second viscosity of 10,000 mPa·s or more as measured at a shear rate set to 10−1 s−1 after a shear force is continuously applied at the shear rate of 10,000 s−1 for 30 seconds.
C09D 133/08 - Homopolymers or copolymers of acrylic acid esters
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
An inkjet printer includes an inkjet head having multiple nozzles that eject an ultraviolet-curable ink, an ultraviolet irradiator that cures the ink, a carriage on which the inkjet head and the ultraviolet irradiator are mounted, a carriage drive mechanism that moves the carriage in a main scanning direction, and a controller that controls the ultraviolet irradiator. A part of the ultraviolet irradiator disposed at the same position as the inkjet head in a sub scanning direction is a head position ultraviolet irradiation portion. The controller makes a peak illuminance of ultraviolet with which the head position ultraviolet irradiation portion irradiates the ink when the carriage moves at a moving speed V2 lower than a peak illuminance of ultraviolet with which the head position ultraviolet irradiation portion irradiates the ink when the carriage moves at a moving speed V1, where the moving speed V2 is lower than the moving speed V1.
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
67.
RADIATION-CURABLE INK, DEPOSITED MATTER, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RADIATION-CURABLE INK
Provided is a radiation-curable ink that has low odor, excellent curability, and can provide a printed matter that has excellent hardness and toughness. The radiation-curable ink includes the monofunctional polymerizable compound (β) having a heterocyclic structure in which a hetero atom is an oxygen atom, and a multifunctional polymerizable compound (γ) having an alicyclic structure. It is preferable that the radiation-curable ink further include a multifunctional polymerizable compound (Z) not having a bicyclo structure or a higher cyclic structure. It is preferable that the monofunctional polymerizable compound be a monofunctional (meth)acrylate and the multifunctional polymerizable compound be a multifunctional (meth)acrylate.
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
68.
CUTTING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CALCULATING OFFSET AMOUNT OF CUTTER BLADE, AND PROGRAM
[Problem] To calculate an offset amount between a cutting edge and a pivot center of a cutter blade. [Solution] In a cutting system 1, a cutting edge 8a of a cutter blade 8 is offset from a pivot center CL of the cutter blade 8. A PC 5 forms a test figure F by cutting a medium 2, along predetermined test figure data, with the cutter blade 8, acquires an image of the test figure F from a scanner 4, and calculates, on the basis of the test figure data and the image of the test figure F, an offset amount between the pivot center CL and the cutting edge of the cutter blade 8.
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 5/34 - 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 7/26 - Means for mounting or adjusting the cutting member; Means for adjusting the stroke of the cutting member
B43L 13/00 - Drawing instruments, or writing or drawing appliances or accessories, not otherwise provided for
Provided is an inkjet printer in which it is possible to suppress variation, for each of a plurality of inkjet heads mounted on a carriage, in the striking position of ink discharged from each of the plurality of inkjet heads. In this inkjet printer, the plurality of inkjet heads 3 are mounted on the carriage. The inkjet printer comprises: a first inclination adjustment mechanism 13 for adjusting the inclination of each of the inkjet heads 3 in relation to the carriage in a turning direction having an auxiliary scanning direction as the turning axial direction; and/or a second inclination adjustment mechanism 14 for adjusting the inclination of each of the inkjet heads 3 in relation to the carriage in a turning direction having the primary scanning direction as the turning axial direction.
An ink composition for inkjet and a method for inkjet recording are provided. The ink composition for inkjet includes: a pigment, a water, an alkanediol having a carbon number of 6 or more and 10 or less; and a resin emulsion. A minimum value of a mass ratio of the alkanediol to the ink composition for inkjet is 10%. And, the method includes: performing a typing by attaching an ink composition for inkjet to an ink-unabsorbable or ink-low-absorbable medium. The ink composition for inkjet is prepared by dispersing solutes including a pigment and a resin emulsion in a water including an alkanediol having a carbon number of 6 or more and 10 or less; and the typing is performed by ejecting the ink composition for inkjet on the ink-unabsorbable or ink-low-absorbable medium heated at 50° C. or more and 60° C. or less.
C09D 11/033 - Printing inks characterised by features other than the chemical nature of the binder characterised by the solvent
C09D 11/037 - Printing inks characterised by features other than the chemical nature of the binder characterised by the pigment
C09D 11/107 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds from unsaturated acids or derivatives thereof
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
71.
Resin composition for modeling material, light curing molding ink set, and method for manufacturing optically shaped article
C08F 2/46 - Polymerisation initiated by wave energy or particle radiation
C08F 2/50 - Polymerisation initiated by wave energy or particle radiation by ultraviolet or visible light with sensitising agents
C08G 61/04 - Macromolecular compounds containing only carbon atoms in the main chain of the macromolecule, e.g. polyxylylenes only aliphatic carbon atoms
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
B33Y 70/00 - Materials specially adapted for additive manufacturing
C08F 283/06 - Macromolecular compounds obtained by polymerising monomers on to polymers provided for in subclass on to polyethers, polyoxymethylenes or polyacetals
C08F 220/30 - Esters containing oxygen in addition to the carboxy oxygen containing aromatic rings in the alcohol moiety
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
C09D 11/107 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds from unsaturated acids or derivatives thereof
In this print method, assuming that the number of stacking of ink layers in a thickest portion in a thickly-piled portion is N, in a histogram preparation step ST2, a histogram of luminance values of grayscale image data prepared in an image data preparation step ST1 is prepared, and in luminance value range setting steps ST3 to ST10, a luminance value of predetermined gradations of the histogram is divided into N and N luminance value ranges are set. In the luminance value range setting steps ST3 to ST10, a division position of the luminance value of the predetermined gradations is adjusted while the histogram displayed on a predetermined display is checked.
The present invention appropriately enhances the quality of printing. Provided is a method for generating ejection position data indicative of an eject position at which ink is ejected, wherein an edge detection process (S202), an edge correction process (S204), and an ejection position data generation process (S110) are carried out on the basis of data to be processed that indicates an image to be printed. In the data to be processed, pixel values are each set as either a non-ejection value which indicates that ink is not ejected at the corresponding eject position, or an ejection value which is a value other than the non-ejection value. In the edge detection process, an edge is detected by detecting positions at which pixels with non-ejection values are adjacent to pixels with ejection values. In the edge correction process, for at least some of the eject positions at which ink is to be ejected for drawing the edge, pixel values of the corresponding pixels are changed to non-ejection values.
A printer control system for controlling an inkjet printer that prints an image having a predetermined thickness on a print medium includes: an image data creating/editing portion, configured for creating and editing an image data; and a printer control portion, configured for converting the image data sent from the image data creating/editing portion into a printing data and sending the printing data to the inkjet printer. When a portion for allowing the image to have a thickness in the image printed on the print medium is defined as a thick portion, the image data sent from the image data creating/editing portion to the printer control portion includes at least one of: a thickness information regarding a thickness of the thick portion, and a shape information regarding a shape of an end portion of the thick portion.
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details 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 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
A radiation-curable ink is provided and includes: a first liquid phase, including a radiation-curable hydrophobic polymerizable compound; and a second liquid phase, including at least one compound selected from a group consisting of water, an aqueous polymerizable compound, an aqueous polymer, and an aqueous non-polymerizable compound. The second liquid phase is emulsified and dispersed in the first liquid phase. And, a three-dimensional object is formed by curing the radiation-curable ink, in which a third liquid phase derived from the second liquid phase and including at least one compound selected from the group consisting of water, the aqueous polymerizable compound, the aqueous polymer, and the aqueous non-polymerizable compound is dispersed as a sea-island structure in a continuous phase of a hydrophobic cured product formed by curing the first liquid phase. A water content of the third liquid phase is 1% by weight or more.
C09D 11/38 - Inkjet printing inks characterised by non-macromolecular additives other than solvents, pigments or dyes
B33Y 70/00 - Materials specially adapted for 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
Provided are a foamed product with a high level of design, and the like. The problem is solved by a foamed product including: a foam medium with a first part protruded by foaming and a second part that is lower than the first part; and a decorative part with a plurality of decorative particles, formed only in the second part of the first part and the second part, and a manufacturing method for a foamed product, including: a first step of foaming a foam medium to form, in the foam medium, a first part protruded by the foaming and a second part that is lower than the first part; and a second step of fixing a plurality of decorative particles only to the second part of the first part and the second part.
To efficiently and appropriately shape a 3D object. There is provided a shaping device that shapes a three-dimensional (3D) object through a layering shaping method, the shaping device including an inkjet head, which is a discharging head, that discharges a material liquid droplet, a liquid droplet of a material for the 3D object; and a circling driving section that relatively circles at least a region to be discharged, which is a region to which the material liquid droplet is discharged in the 3D object being shaped, along a circling path set in advance with respect to the inkjet head; where the circling driving section causes the region to be discharged to circle the circling path plural times; and inkjet head discharges the material liquid droplet onto the region to be discharged circling on the circling path.
B29C 64/20 - Additive manufacturing, i.e. manufacturing of three-dimensional [3D] objects by additive deposition, additive agglomeration or additive layering, e.g. by 3D printing, stereolithography or selective laser sintering - Details thereof or accessories therefor
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
Disclosed is a shaping system for shaping a three-dimensional object, which includes a slice data generation step that generates slice data and a shaping execution step that shapes the three-dimensional object by a shaping apparatus based on the slice data. The shaping apparatus shapes the three-dimensional object using inkjet heads. The slice data generation step has a color cross-section data generation step that generates color cross-section data showing at least a cross-sectional shape of the three-dimensional object and a color at each position, a plate division data generation step that generates plate division cross-section data in which the color cross-section data is color-separated for each color of the material, and a plate division cross-section data change step that changes at least some plate division cross-section data. The slice data is generated based on the plate division cross-section data changed in the plate division cross-section data change step.
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
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
G05B 19/4099 - Surface or curve machining, making 3D objects, e.g. desktop manufacturing
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
[Object] To appropriately produce a product generated by printing on a medium.
[Solving Means] A production management system that manages production of a product generated by executing printing on a medium determines (S104, S114) a recommended condition of processing by an electronic device scheduled to be used for generation of a product, based on processing condition information indicating, for each step of generating the product, a relationship among quality of the product, a type and an installing place of the electronic device that performs at least one step of generating the product, and a recommended condition of processing by the electronic device, the target quality of the product, and the type and the installing place of the electronic device scheduled to be used for generating the product.
G05B 19/418 - Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control (DNC), flexible manufacturing systems (FMS), integrated manufacturing systems (IMS), computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)
A printed matter exhibiting metallic gloss is provided and includes: a substrate; and a metallic glossy layer, being formed on the substrate, and the metallic glossy layer containing scaly particles having a metal. In the metallic glossy layer, the scaly particles are oriented to be substantially parallel to a surface of the metallic glossy layer; and the surface of the metallic glossy layer has a DOI value of greater than or equal to 20% and a Sa value of less than or equal to 2 μm.
B41M 7/00 - After-treatment of printed works, e.g. heating, irradiating
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
B41M 3/00 - Printing processes to produce particular kinds of printed work, e.g. patterns
Provided are a maintenance liquid and a maintenance method that can solve an ejection problem of a UV curable inkjet printer. The maintenance liquid includes: a first ingredient in which a water-soluble compound is soluble and a cured matter of a UV curable ink is insoluble. The maintenance method includes: a first cleaning process at which a water-soluble compound that adheres to an inkjet head included in the UV curable inkjet printer is dissolved by a first maintenance liquid including the first ingredient in which the water-soluble compound is soluble and a cured matter of a UV curable ink is insoluble, and a second cleaning process at which the inkjet head is cleaned by a second maintenance liquid including a second ingredient in which the water-soluble compound is insoluble and the cured matter of the UV curable ink is soluble.
C09D 11/38 - Inkjet printing inks characterised by non-macromolecular additives other than solvents, pigments or dyes
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 11/107 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds from unsaturated acids or derivatives thereof
B08B 3/08 - Cleaning involving contact with liquid the liquid having chemical or dissolving effect
82.
Manufacturing method for printed matter, manufacturing method for foam, foaming inhibition ink, forming method for three-dimensional formed object, and forming system for three-dimensional formed object
Provided are a manufacturing method for a foamable printed matter, a manufacturing method for a foam and a foaming inhibition ink. The manufacturing method for a printed matter is a manufacturing method for a foamable printed matter that foams to form an irregular pattern on its surface, the method including a printing step of inkjet-printing a foaming inhibition ink on a printing medium having a layer of a foamable resin composition containing a chemical foaming agent, under a temperature condition lower than a softening temperature of the foamable resin composition, the foaming inhibition ink containing: a foaming inhibitor that deteriorates a heat decomposing ability of the foamable resin composition; and a solvent that dissolves the foaming inhibitor when the foaming inhibitor is solid, is compatible with the foaming inhibitor when the foaming inhibitor is liquid, and is able to move the foaming inhibitor into the foamable resin composition.
A shaping apparatus, a shaping method, and a shaping program with which a shaped object can be formed to have the interior with excellent color expression are provided. A 3D printer forms a three-dimensional shaped object having an interior colored, with layer bodies of a light reflective material and a coloring material ejected from an ejection head based on color image data layered. The 3D printer determines arrangement positions of a light reflective material and a coloring material so that the light reflective material is arranged at a predetermined position in each unit volume in a region to be colored inside a shaped object and the coloring material is arranged around the light reflective material based on the color image data. A set position of the unit volume is set to make one surface of one unit volume come into contact with a plurality of other unit volumes.
B29C 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
B29C 64/386 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
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
B33Y 50/00 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
84.
Printing apparatus, printing method, powdering apparatus, and powdering method
Powdering on a front surface of a printed matter or the like is appropriately performed. A printing apparatus configured to perform printing on a medium includes: an ink ejection portion configured to eject an ink to the medium; and a powdering portion configured to perform powdering that applies powder to the medium. The powdering portion includes: a liquid applying device configured to apply, to the medium, a powder containing liquid that is a liquid including the powder and a solvent and an energy ray emitting portion configured to irradiate the powder containing liquid applied to the medium with energy rays. The powder containing liquid is a liquid that generates heat when irradiated with energy rays. The energy ray emitting portion irradiates the powder containing liquid applied to the medium with energy rays to evaporate the solvent of the powder containing liquid, so that the powder adheres to the medium.
A shaped article is provided. The shaped article includes a light reflective layer, a decorative layer, and a first transparent layer. The light reflective layer is being provided from an ink having light reflectiveness. The first transparent layer is being provided from a transparent ink. The decorative layer is disposed on an outer side of the light reflective layer. The first transparent layer is disposed on an outer side of the decorative layer.
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
B32B 1/00 - Layered products essentially having a general shape other than plane
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
B29C 64/40 - Structures for supporting 3D objects during manufacture and intended to be sacrificed after completion thereof
B33Y 80/00 - Products made by additive manufacturing
86.
Multilayered printed matter and multilayer printing method
A multilayered printed matter includes a group of print layers formed on a medium. The group of layers include a front layer and a back layer on which patterns are printed, a white layer, and a black layer. The white layer is interposed between the front layer and the back layer to conceal the back layer to be invisible from the side of the front layer. The white layer reflects incident light from the side of the front layer to allow the front layer to be visible from the side of the front layer. The black layer is interposed between the white layer and the back layer to conceal the back layer to be invisible from the side of the front layer. In comparison between the black layer and the white layer that are equal in thickness, the black layer exerts a higher light blocking effect than the white layer.
The problem is to manufacture a sintered product from a three-dimensional additively-manufactured article appropriately. As a solution, a method for manufacturing a sintered product from a three-dimensional additively-manufactured article comprises a preparation step S11, a defatting step S12, and a sintering step S13. In the preparation step S11, an ink comprising inorganic particles and an organic material is built up to prepare a three-dimensional additively-manufactured article. The defatting step S12 includes: a first defatting step for heating the three-dimensional additively-manufactured article in an inert gas atmosphere at a first average defatting temperature for a first heating time to defat the organic material; and a second defatting step for heating the three-dimensional additively-manufactured article which has been defatted in the first defatting step in an inert gas atmosphere at a second average defatting temperature that is higher than the first average defatting temperature for a second heating time to defat the organic material. In the sintering step S13, the three-dimensional additively-manufactured article that has been defatted in the second defatting step is sintered at an average sintering temperature that is higher than the second average defatting temperature to produce 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
REGION CONFIGURATION PREDICTION METHOD, REGION CONFIGURATION PREDICTION DEVICE, METHOD FOR GENERATING SHAPING DATA, SHAPING METHOD, SHAPING DATA GENERATION DEVICE, SHAPING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR GENERATING PRINTING DATA, PRINTING METHOD, PRINTING DATA GENERATION DEVICE, AND PRINTING SYSTEM
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY (Japan)
Inventor
Arai, Wataru
Hakkaku, Kunio
Tsumura, Norimichi
Hirai, Keita
Fukumoto, Kensuke
Nagasawa, Kazuki
Abstract
The present invention appropriately predicts a region configuration for obtaining a desired texture. A method for predicting a region configuration, for predicting a region configuration formed using a plurality of colors of coloring materials, said method comprising: a texture prediction stage (S204) for predicting, by a computer simulation, a relationship between a predetermined texture and a layering configuration in which a plurality of colored lamellar regions overlap; a learning stage (S206) for generating, by machine learning, a learned model which is a learning model in which the relationship between the layering configuration and the texture is learned; and a region configuration prediction stage for predicting a layering configuration that corresponds to a texture using the learned model generated in the learning stage, and predicting a region configuration that corresponds to a desired texture on the basis of the layering configuration.
A printing device that performs printing on a medium includes an inkjet head, a main scan driving unit, a sub scan driving unit, and a control unit, where the control unit sets a sub-scanning movement amount based on a basic movement amount, which is a basic movement amount set according to print conditions, and a value indicating a distance for increasing or decreasing the sub-scanning movement amount in the print conditions set at the time of inputting an input correction value. Furthermore, a storage is further provided, which stores a first correction coefficient used when the basic movement amount is within a first range, and a second correction coefficient used when the basic movement amount is within a second range smaller than the first range, and the control unit sets the sub-scanning movement amount based on the basic movement amount and the calculated correction value.
B41J 2/47 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using the combination of scanning and modulation of light
A printing apparatus operating as a liquid ejecting device is provided and includes: an inkjet head including a plurality of nozzles, a scanning driver that causes the inkjet head to perform a main scan, and a controller. When an abnormal nozzle is present, the controller causes another nozzle in the vicinity of the abnormal nozzle to eject the liquid of a larger amount than that in a normal time to a part of an ejecting position where the liquid can be ejected by the other nozzle based on a mask prepared in advance, so that an amount of liquid to be ejected at the time of the main scanning direction by the other nozzle becomes larger than that in the normal time. The mask is data specifying the ejecting position to increase an ejection amount of the liquid and an ejection amount to be increased at the ejecting position.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
91.
INKJET PRINTER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INKJET PRINTER
Provided is an inkjet printer including an inkjet head in which a plurality of ink flow paths are formed, and in which deterioration of print quality can be suppressed regardless of printing conditions. In this inkjet printer, a plurality of nozzles 3a that eject ink and a plurality of ink flow paths 3c to 3f to which the plurality of nozzles 3a are connected are formed in an inkjet head 3, and the inkjet head 3 is equipped with a plurality of ejection energy generating elements that eject ink from each of the plurality of nozzles 3a. A control unit of the inkjet printer estimates the temperature of ink in each of the plurality of ink flow paths 3c to 3f on the basis of the flow rate of ink flowing into each of the plurality of ink flow paths 3c to 3f and an internal temperature or an external temperature of the inkjet head 3, and controls the drive voltage applied to the plurality of ejection energy generating elements on the basis of the estimation result.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
[Problem] To perform appropriate printing on a medium. [Solution] A printing device 10 that performs printing includes: an ink jet head 102 that is a discharge head; a UV light emitting part 112 that is an energy beam emitting part; and a control unit 30. Ink discharged by the ink jet head 102 is ink that generates heat as a result of absorbing UV light emitted by the UV light emitting part 112, the ink including an aqueous solvent and a curable substance. The controller 30 causes the UV light emitting part 112 to perform a first condition emission in which the UV light is emitted under a first condition to cause the ink to generate heat, thereby causing at least a portion of the solvent included in the ink to evaporate and, after the first condition emission, a second condition emission in which the UV light is emitted under a second condition that differs from the first condition, thereby causing the curable substance included in the ink to cure.
A printing system 10 for creating a print deliverable, the system comprising: a coating machine 14 that is a preprocessing machine for performing a preprocessing step, in which predetermined preprocessing is performed on a medium to be printed; a printer 16 that is a printing device for performing a printing step, in which printing is performed by discharging an ink onto the medium preprocessed by the coating machine 14; and a control device 12 that is a process management device for proposing conditions for the preprocessing step according to the conditions of the deliverable to be created.
B05D 3/00 - Pretreatment of surfaces to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be applied; After-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
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
G05B 19/418 - Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control (DNC), flexible manufacturing systems (FMS), integrated manufacturing systems (IMS), computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)
94.
TRANSFER PRINTING METHOD FOR FABRIC AND TRANSFER PRINTING DEVICE FOR FABRIC
[Problem] To suitably execute transfer printing from a transfer paper. [Solution] This transfer printing method has a transfer step for transferring, onto a fabric 7, a graphic pattern printed on a transfer paper 2 through pressure-bonding between the fabric 7 and the transfer paper 2 on which the graphic pattern is printed with an ink including a reaction dye. The transfer printing method further has, after the transfer step, a fixing step for fixing the graphic pattern transferred to the fabric 7 by heat treating the fabric 7 onto which the graphic pattern is transferred.
D06P 7/00 - Dyeing or printing processes combined with mechanical treatment
D06P 1/38 - General processes of dyeing or printing textiles or general processes of dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments or auxiliary substances employed using reactive dyes
A manufacturing method of a head leading member, which is provided in a printing machine including a head for discharging an ink toward a working surface, in order to lead the head in a main travelling direction, and the manufacturing method of a head leading member including: a base member fixing step in which a base member, being like a plate, is fixed to a frame extending in the main travelling direction; a guiding reference surface shaping step in which a surface of the base member, in a state of being fixed to the frame, is so manufactured as to be a plane, being along the main travelling direction, in such a way as to shape a guiding reference surface; and a guide member supporting step in which a guide member for leading the head is set in such a way that the guiding reference surface supports the guide member.
An inkjet printer includes: an inkjet head configured to eject an ink of an ultraviolet-curable type to a medium; an ultraviolet irradiator arranged to adjoin the inkjet head in a main scanning direction where the inkjet head relatively moves with respect to the medium, the ultraviolet irradiator configured to irradiate the ink with an ultraviolet ray; and a controller configured to control the ultraviolet irradiator. In the inkjet printer, the ultraviolet irradiator includes an inner illumination region arranged near the inkjet head in the main scanning direction, and an outer illumination region arranged opposite the inkjet head across the inner illumination region in the main scanning direction, and the controller includes a first irradiation mode where the inner illumination region is unlit and the outer illumination region is lit, and a second irradiation mode where the inner illumination region is lit and the outer illumination region is lit.
The printing and object-shaping system includes inkjet heads that discharge ink droplets of ultraviolet curing-type inks, a curing unit, a platen which is a table-shaped member disposed so as to face the inkjet heads, and a controller configured to control the operations of at least the inkjet heads and the curing unit. This system is operable to carry out operations in a printing mode and a three-dimensional object shaping mode. The printing mode is a mode for performing printing on a medium supported on the platen. The three-dimensional object shaping mode is a mode for depositing an ink in layers on the platen to form a three-dimensional object. The controller receives an instruction to select one of the printing mode and the three-dimensional object shaping mode and controls the operations of at least the inkjet head and the curing unit in accordance with the mode selected.
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
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
B29C 64/277 - Arrangements for irradiation using multiple radiation means, e.g. micromirrors or multiple light-emitting diodes [LED]
A method for forming a three-dimensional object by a fused deposition modeling method. The method uses a plurality of material resin supply units, each configured to supply a coloring material resin of a different color, and the coloring material resins are resins to be used as a modeling material. A mixed resin ejection unit is configured to eject a mixed resin obtained by mixing the coloring material resins supplied from the plurality of material resin supply units. The plurality of material resin supply units being configured to supply the coloring material resins of different colors to the mixed resin ejection unit. The method includes controlling the amounts of the coloring material resins to be supplied from each of the plurality of material resin supply units to the mixed resin ejection unit, thereby adjusting a color of the mixed resin that is to be ejected by the mixed resin ejection unit.
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
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]
99.
Manufacturing method for colored products and ink ejection device
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY (Japan)
Inventor
Arai, Wataru
Hakkaku, Kunio
Tsumura, Norimichi
Hirai, Keita
Yoshii, Junki
Abstract
A manufacturing method for manufacturing a colored product, where using inkjet heads which are a plurality of color ink heads, and an inkjet head, which is a colorless ink head, a plurality of coloring regions are formed in an overlapping manner in a normal direction, a surface side colored region, which is a region located closest to the surface of the colored product is formed using at least the color ink ejected from any of the inkjet heads, and an inner colored region, which is a region located farther from the surface of the colored product than the surface side colored region is formed using at least the color ink ejected from any of the inkjet heads and the colorless ink ejected from the inkjet head.
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 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
A forming apparatus configured to form a three-dimensional object includes a head configured to extrude build materials and a controller configured to control extrusion of the materials by the head. The three-dimensional object includes a colored region that is colored using a coloring material among the materials. The head includes a head for coloring that is an extrusion head configured to extrude the coloring material in multi-step variable amounts of droplets. The controller is configured to control the amount of droplets of the coloring material extruded by the head for coloring.
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
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
