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.
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 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.
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.
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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
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B29C 64/379 - Handling of additively manufactured objects, e.g. using robots
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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.
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
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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.
[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.
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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
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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.
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
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
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.
[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
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B41J 15/04 - Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles
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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
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.
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
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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.
[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.
[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.
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.
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.
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)
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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
Provided is a molding apparatus that can save the amount of clear ink used when each layer is formed and suppress a degradation in the quality of the surface of a molded object at the time of flattening. The molding apparatus, which molds the molded object by forming and stacking each layer on the basis of a plurality of slice images indicating a cross-sectional shape and a color scheme of each layer of the molded object, comprises: a color ink ejection position determination means for determining whether to eject each of a plurality of color inks for coloring and having a plurality of colors at each ejection position constituting the layer on the basis of the slice image corresponding to the layer; a clear ink ejection position determination means for determining the necessity of ejecting clear ink to each ejection position on the basis of whether to eject each of the color inks for coloring and having the colors at each ejection position, which is determined in the color ink ejection position determination means; and a layer formation means for ejecting each color ink and clear ink to a color ink head and a clear ink head at each ejection position according to the determination by the color ink ejection position determination means and the clear ink ejection position determination means.
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 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
An inkjet printing device 1 has: an inkjet head 23 for discharging an ultraviolet ray curable ink toward a medium M; an irradiation lamp 25 for irradiating the ultraviolet ray curable ink discharged to the medium M with ultraviolet rays; and a heater 37 for heating the ultraviolet ray curable ink after ultraviolet ray irradiation by the irradiation lamp 25 so as to stabilize color development of the ultraviolet ray curable ink. The ultraviolet ray curable ink after ultraviolet ray irradiation is heated at at least 35ºC.
[Problem] To optimize suction force. [Solution] An inkjet printing device 1 includes: a suction table 2 having a placement surface 21a for a medium M; a blower 52 which generates a suction force on the placement surface 21a; and a control device 55 which controls the suction force generated by the blower 52. The control device 55 has a switching unit 553 which switches the generated suction force, and when the medium M is placed on the placement surface 21a, the switching unit 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 a second output level which is lower than the first output level to generate a second suction force weaker than the first suction force, and suctions the medium M placed on the placement surface 21a.
According to the present invention, for example, a liquid ejected in a liquid ejection apparatus is uniformly and appropriately irradiated with energy rays. A printing apparatus 10 ejects ink, which is an example of the liquid. The printing apparatus comprises an inkjet head 102, which is an example of an ejection head, and a UV ray radiation unit 104, which is an example of an energy ray radiation unit. The UV ray radiation unit 104 has an LED array in which a plurality of LED elements that generate UV rays, which are an example of energy rays, are lined up, and the LED array is an array in which a plurality of LED elements are lined up in a first direction and a plurality of LED elements are lined up in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The gap length between the inkjet head 102 and the position where the ink ejected by the inkjet head 102 lands is 4 mm or less, and in the LED array, the LED elements are arranged so that the pitch between the elements in the first direction is smaller than the gap length.
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
[Problem] To appropriately heat ink. [Solution] An ink jet printer 1 is provided with: an ink jet head 3; and an ink heating mechanism 12. The ink heating mechanism 12 is provided with a heating unit body 21, an ink flow path 21a formed inside the heating unit body 21, a heater 22 that is attached to the heating unit body 21 to as to heat the heating unit body 21, a heating unit temperature sensor 23 that is attached to the heating unit body 21 so as to detect the temperature of the heating unit body 21, and a heater control unit 4 that controls the heater 22. The heater control unit 24 controls the heater 22 on the basis of the detection result of the heating unit temperature sensor 23 so that the temperature of the heating unit body 21 becomes a prescribed reference temperature.
Provided are a molding device and a clear ink compensation amount input method which make it possible to set, to a suitable amount, a compensation amount of clear ink used for forming a molded object. This molding device 1 includes: a color ink jet head 25 for discharging color ink; and a clear ink jet head 26 for discharging clear ink, wherein color ink is discharged from the color ink jet head 25 and layered to color and form a molded object 30, and clear ink is discharged from the clear ink jet head 26 so as to compensate for the layered amount of color ink. The molding device 1 comprises an input device 40B for inputting the compensation amount of clear ink for the respective layers forming the molded object 30 so that the impact frequency of clear ink is lower in locations with a high impact frequency of color ink for coloring and forming the molded object 30, and so that the impact frequency of clear ink is higher in locations with a low impact frequency of color ink.
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 50/00 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
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
[Problem] To prevent ink from leaking from a nozzle when the ink is warmed. [Solution] A control unit 10 starts to operate a heater 21 when a temperature detected by a temperature sensor 13 that detects the temperature of ink becomes lower than a first reference temperature Ta lower than a proper ink ejection temperature Ta, during a printing paused time during which printing is paused. After starting to operate the heater 21, 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 proper ink ejection temperature Ta, the control unit 10 moves an inkjet head to a maintenance region, and forcibly ejects the ink from the inkjet head in the maintenance region.
Provided are a shaping apparatus and a shaping method capable of easily suppressing the amount of ink shavings generated when the upper surface of ink dots is flattened. A shaping apparatus 1 comprises an inkjet head 20 that forms one shaping layer by performing a plurality of times a main scanning operation in which ink droplets that will be cured according to light of a predetermined wavelength are ejected toward a shaping table 16 while reciprocating in a main scanning direction; a light source 22 that is provided in at least one position on the front side in the forward path direction or return path direction of the main scanning operation with respect to the inkjet head 20 and that radiates light onto the ink dots formed by the ink droplets; and a flattening unit 23 that flattens the upper surface of the ink dots, wherein a shaped object 30 is formed by layering the shaping layers. In the shaping apparatus 1, during at least one main scanning operation from among a plurality of main scanning operations, the ON/OFF state of the light source or illuminance thereof is controlled, so that a flattening roller 23 flattens the ink dots in the return movement while the ink dots are not yet completely cured.
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 64/194 - Processes of additive manufacturing involving additional operations performed on the added layers, e.g. smoothing, grinding or thickness control during lay-up
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
[Problem] To more appropriately determine the conditions of a process executed when a printed product is made. [Solution] A printing system 10, which makes a printed product by performing at least printing, comprises: a printer 16 that is a printing device for executing a printing process of performing printing by ejecting ink; a washing machine 20 that is a post-processing machine for executing a post-processing process on printed matter obtained by performing the printing process by the printer 16; and a control device 12 that determines conditions of the post-processing process on the basis of conditions of the printing process.
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 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
B41J 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
D06B 11/00 - Treatment of selected parts of textile materials, e.g. partial dyeing
D06L 1/12 - Dry-cleaning or washing fibres, filaments, threads, yarns, fabrics, feathers or made-up fibrous goods using aqueous solvents
D06P 7/00 - Dyeing or printing processes combined with mechanical treatment
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PIGMENT-ENCAPSULATING RESIN PARTICLES, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PIGMENT-ENCAPSULATING RESIN PARTICLES, AND INK INCLUDING PIGMENT-ENCAPSULATING RESIN PARTICLES
[Problem] To provide a synthesis method that is for producing pigment-encapsulating resin particles having a nanometer-order particle diameter and that is simple and suitable for commercialization. [Solution] A method for producing pigment-encapsulating resin particles, wherein the pigment-encapsulating resin particles are synthesized in batches from an emulsion that includes: a pigment; an aqueous medium; a monomer; a low CMC surfactant; and a polymerization initiator, and wherein the pigment-encapsulating resin particles have an average particle diameter of 30-200 nm inclusive.
The present invention properly creates a printed deliverable that is closer to a target condition. A printing system 10 that creates a printed deliverable, and comprises: a printer 16 that is a printing device, which performs a printing step; a steamer 18 that is a prescribed step device, which is a device that performs a prescribed step; and a control device 12, wherein the control device 12 acquires printed item information, which is information indicating the condition of a printed item obtained by performing the printing step with the printer 16, and on the basis of the printed item information and information indicating a target deliverable condition, adjusts a parameter of the step performed with the steamer 18, so as to be able to obtain a deliverable in a condition that is closer to the condition indicated by target deliverable 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
B41J 29/393 - Devices for controlling or analysing the entire machine
D06P 7/00 - Dyeing or printing processes combined with mechanical treatment
[Problem] To provide a water-based ink which gives printed images satisfactory in terms of abrasion resistance and density and which can be synthesized by a synthesis method that is simple and suitable for industrial production. [Solution] A water-based ink comprising a first aqueous medium and, dispersed therein, a first pigment, pigment-containing resin particles, which contain a second pigment inside, and pigment-free resin particles, which contain no pigment inside.
Because ink is not heated in a protruding part that connects an ink supply device and a print head chip or the like to each other, there is a case that the viscosity of the ink increases and the fluidity of the ink cannot be maintained. An inkjet printer 1 for solving the above problem is provided with: an inkjet head 300 that ejects ink; a protruding part 310 that is provided protruding from the inkjet head 300 and used to circulate the ink through the inkjet head 300; and an ink flow path part 6 that supplies the ink to the protruding part 310. The ink flow path part 6 is provided with an ink heating block 200 that heats the ink. On the outside of the protruding part 310, the ink heating block 200 itself or a transmission part 210 that is formed separately from the ink heating block 200 and to which heat from the ink heating block 200 is transmitted is disposed adjacently.
Provided is an inkjet printer in which stray light from a light radiation device can be prevented by an irregular section from reaching a nozzle surface more effectively than in the prior art. This problem is solved with an inkjet printer comprising a platen that supports a recording medium, an inkjet head having a nozzle surface that ejects ink cured by light irradiation toward the recording medium, a light radiation device that radiates light at ink adhering to the recording medium, and a carriage on which the inkjet head and the light radiation device are mounted and which is scanned in relation to the platen, an irregular section for preventing stray light from the light radiation device from reaching the nozzle surface being provided to a portion closer to the nozzle surface than the light radiation device in the scanning direction, and the irregular section being provided to a position that, within a space between said portion and the platen, faces a space in the path of stray light from the light radiation device to the nozzle surface.
In the present invention, misalignment of impact position is appropriately corrected. A printing device 10 for printing by the inkjet method, the device comprising an inkjet head 102, a carriage 100, a main scan drive unit 18 (carriage drive mechanism), a sensing mechanism 106, and a control unit 30. The control unit 30: senses, from the concentration of a correction pattern that changes in accordance with position in a main scanning direction, the position where the concentration is highest; calculates, on the basis of the results of sensing the position where the concentration is highest, misalignment between an impact position of ink discharged from the inkjet head 102 when the carriage 100 moves in a first direction and an impact position of ink discharged from the inkjet head 102 when the carriage 100 moves in a second direction; and corrects the impact-position misalignment on the basis of the results of the calculation.
[Problem] To properly form a protruding shape on a medium. [Solution] A printing device 10 is provided with: inkjet heads 102y to 102k that are heads for a plurality of color ink; an inkjet head 102w that is a head for light reflecting ink; and a control unit 30. The control unit 30 causes the inkjet heads 102y to 102k and the inkjet head 102w to form a laminated ink region and an image region on a medium 50. The laminated ink region is a region including a plurality of colored regions (quartic color regions) formed when at least two of the inkjet heads 102y to 102k are caused to eject ink and a plurality of white layers that are light reflecting regions formed on the colored regions. The colored regions in the laminated ink region overlap each other with at least the white layer held therebetween.
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
Provided are an inkjet printing method and an ink set with which it is possible to suppress warping of a printed article using a method differing from the prior art. This inkjet printing method is characterized in that a forward-warping ink, which warps in the forward direction upon being cured and shrunk under irradiation with light such that a portion 80a on a side irradiated with light by a light irradiation device experiences greater curing shrinkage than a portion 80b on the opposite side from the side irradiated with light by the light irradiation device. and a reverse-warping ink, which warps in the reverse direction upon being cured and shrunk under irradiation with light such that the portion 80b on the opposite side from the side irradiated with light by the light irradiation device experiences greater curing shrinkage than the portion 80a on the side irradiated with light by the light irradiation device, are used in printing in such an arrangement that the warping of each of the inks is lessened.
B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
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
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PHOTOCURABLE INKJET INK AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT
This photocurable inkjet ink contains a radical polymerizable compound, a photoinitiator, and a thixotropic agent, has a first viscosity of 1000 mPa∙s or less when measured at a shear rate of 10000 s-1, and has a second viscosity of 10000 mPa∙s or more when measured at a shear rate of 10-1s-1after continuously applying a shear force at a shear rate of 10000 s-1 for 30 seconds.
C09D 11/38 - Inkjet printing inks characterised by non-macromolecular additives other than solvents, pigments or dyes
B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
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 70/00 - Materials specially adapted for additive manufacturing
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PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY, SHAPING APPARATUS, SHAPED ARTICLE SET, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, AND SHAPING SYSTEM
[Problem] To create three-dimensional data by appropriately reading an object. [Solution] A photographing apparatus 1 for photogrammetry synchronizes a plurality of photographing devices 10 provided at a plurality of different points of view to continuously photograph an object that is performing a series of actions. The plurality of photographing devices 10 respectively have a plurality of imaging units 101 for photographing the object. The plurality of photographing devices 10 respectively comprise a plurality of primary storage units 102 that respectively store image data D obtained by synchronously photographing the object by the plurality of imaging units 101, and a plurality of signal output units 103 that each output a completion signal for each image data when the storage of the image data D in the preceding action of the object in the plurality of primary storage units 102 is completed. The plurality of photographing devices 10 each perform photographing in the succeeding action of the object on the basis of the completion signal from the signal output unit 103.
H04N 5/232 - Devices for controlling television cameras, e.g. remote control
B29C 64/00 - 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
B29C 64/386 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
The present invention performs printing with an aqueous ink-jet ink composition on non-ink-absorbing or lowly-ink-absorbing media having poor wettability. The aqueous ink-jet ink composition comprises a pigment, water, an alkanediol having 6-10 carbon atoms, and a resin emulsion, wherein the proportion by mass of the alkanediol to the ink-jet ink composition has a minimum value of 10%. The ink-jet recording method comprises adhering an aqueous ink-jet ink composition to a non-ink-absorbing or lowly-ink-absorbing medium to conduct printing, wherein the ink-jet ink composition is one obtained by dispersing a solute comprising a pigment and a resin emulsion in water containing an alkanediol having 6-10 carbon atoms, the ink-jet ink composition being delivered for printing to the non-ink-absorbing or lowly-ink-absorbing medium heated to 50-60°C.
[Problem] Provided is an inkjet printer capable of performing appropriate printing. [Solution] An inkjet printer 1 is provided with: inkjet heads 3 each having formed therein a plurality of nozzles for discharging ultraviolet curable ink; ultraviolet irradiators 7 for curing ink; a carriage 8 having mounted therein the inkjet heads 3 and the ultraviolet irradiators 7; a carriage drive mechanism 9 for moving the carriage 8 in the main scanning direction; and a control unit 11 for controlling the ultraviolet irradiators 7. When portions, of the ultraviolet irradiators 7, disposed at the same position as the inkjet heads 3 in the sub scanning direction is defined as head-position ultraviolet irradiating parts 7a, and a predetermined moving speed V1 in the main scanning direction and a moving speed V2 lower than the moving speed V1 are defined for the carriage 8, the control unit 11 performs control such that the peak illumination of ultraviolet with which the head-position ultraviolet irradiating part 7a irradiates ink at the moving speed V2 becomes lower than the peak illumination of ultraviolet with which the head-position ultraviolet irradiating part 7a irradiates ink at the moving speed V1.
The objective of the present invention is to provide an inkjet printer capable of reducing the variation in size of ink dots attached to a medium after the dots have been completely cured. The inkjet printer attaining the above objective comprises an inkjet head that ejects a photocurable ink, and light irradiation devices that are disposed on both sides of the inkjet head in the main scanning direction thereof and that move with the inkjet head, wherein the light irradiation device arranged at a position farther from the inkjet, among these light irradiation devices, is characterized by radiating light of higher intensity than the other light irradiation device.
The present invention suitably reads the shape and color of a three-dimensional object with high precision. The present invention provides a three-dimensional-body data generation device 14 that generates three-dimensional-body shape data pertaining to a three-dimensional object 50 on the basis of a plurality of images obtained by imaging the object 50 from mutually different viewpoints, wherein the three-dimensional-body data generation device 14 performs: a color model search process for using a plurality of images in which a color target that is a color model is imaged while placed in the surroundings of the object 50, and searching for the color target reflected in at least one image from among the plurality of images; a color correction process for correcting the color in the plurality of images on the basis of the color shown by the color target in the images, the color target having been found in the color model search process; a shape data generation process for generating three-dimensional-body shape data on the basis of the plurality of images; and a color data generation process for generating color data on the basis of the color in the plurality of images after the correction in the color correction process has been performed.
G01B 11/24 - Measuring arrangements characterised by the use of optical techniques for measuring contours or curvatures
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 50/00 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
B29C 64/386 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
G06T 7/593 - Depth or shape recovery from multiple images from stereo images
71.
PRINTER, PRINTING METHOD, FOR-PRINTING MEDIA, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FOAMED PRINTED ARTICLE, AND INKJET PRINTING DEVICE
Provided is a printer, etc., with which after foaming, there is less difference between colors of an image printed in a foaming first area and a second area that does not foam more than the first area, regardless of the colors originally being the same. The problem described above is resolved by a printer and a printing method with which an image is printed with colored ink on a foaming media before foaming on the basis of image data representing the image, a first section that foams and a second section that does not foam more than the first section are set on the foaming media, and the amount of colored ink discharged during printing of a first image printed on the first section of the image and the amount of colored ink discharged during printing of a second image printed on the second section are caused to be different so that the first image and the second image are closer to the same color after the foaming of the foaming media than before the foaming.
B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
B41M 5/36 - Thermography using a polymeric layer, which may be particulate and which is deformed or structurally changed with modification of its properties, e.g. of its optical, hydrophobic-hydrophilic, solubility or permeability properties
Provided are a foamed product, etc., having high design character. The problem addressed by the present invention is solved by a foamed product and a method for manufacturing a foamed product, the foamed product being provided with a foam media having a first portion caused to rise by foaming and a second portion lower than the first portion, and a decorative part which has a plurality of decorative particles and which is formed only in the second portion from among the first portion and the second portion, and the method for manufacturing a foamed product having: a first step for foaming the foam media and thereby forming, in the foam media, the first portion caused to rise by foaming, and the second portion lower than the first portion; and a second step for fixing the plurality of decorative particles only in the second portion from among the first portion and the second portion.
B29K 105/04 - Condition, form or state of moulded material cellular or porous
B32B 5/18 - Layered products characterised by the non-homogeneity or physical structure of a layer characterised by features of a layer containing foamed or specifically porous material
B41F 23/04 - Devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs or other articles in connection with printing by heat drying, by cooling, by applying powders
B41M 7/00 - After-treatment of printed works, e.g. heating, irradiating
C08J 9/04 - Working-up of macromolecular substances to porous or cellular articles or materials; After-treatment thereof using blowing gases generated by a previously added blowing agent
B32B 33/00 - Layered products characterised by particular properties or particular surface features, e.g. particular surface coatings; Layered products designed for particular purposes not covered by another single class
73.
PRINTER CONTROL SYSTEM, PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING DATA CREATION METHOD
This printer control system 5, for controlling an inkjet printer 4 that prints an image of a prescribed thickness on a printing medium, is provided with an image data creating/editing unit 11 for creating and editing image data, and a printer control unit 12 for converting the image data sent from the image data creating/editing unit 11 to printing data and sending this to the inkjet printer 4. Defining as a thick portion 3d that portion in the image printed on the printing medium where thickness is to be imparted to the image, the image data sent from the image data creating/editing unit 11 to the printer control unit 12 includes thickness information relating to the thickness t of the thick portion 3d and/or shape information relating to the shape of the edge of the thick portion 3d.
In a printing device that performs printing under an inkjet system, an operation or the like such as maintenance is more properly performed. The printing device that performs printing under an inkjet system is provided with: an inkjet head; and a control unit that controls, by specifying an ejection position at which ink is to be ejected by the inkjet head, an operation of the inkjet head on the basis of ejection position specification data indicating a printing image that is an image to be printed. The control unit performs correction to add an ejection position on the ejection position specification data so that a previously-set pattern is further printed in addition to the printing image, and causes the inkjet head to eject the ink on the basis of the ejection position specification data after the correction.
[Problem] To properly perform high-quality printing on various media. [Solution] A printing device 10 that performs printing on a medium 50 is provided with: an inkjet head 102 that is an ejection head; an ultraviolet-ray light source 104 that is an energy-ray irradiation unit; and an infrared-ray heater 26 that is a post-heating means. Ink is ink that generates heat when absorbing ultraviolet rays irradiated from the ultraviolet-ray light source 104, and includes a color material, a heat fixing resin, and a solvent. The ultraviolet-ray light source 104 vaporizes at least part of the solvent included in the ink by irradiating the ink attached to the medium 50 with ultraviolet rays. The infrared-ray heater 26 fixes the heat fixing resin to the medium together with the color material by heating the ink.
[Problem] To appropriately produce product generated by printing to a medium. [Solution] A production management system manages the production of product generated by executing printing to a medium and is characterized by determining a recommended condition for processing by an electronic device expected to be used in the generation of the product, the determination being made on the basis of: processing condition information indicating, for each product generation step, the relationship among the quality of the product, the type and the installation location of an electronic device which implements at least one step for generating the product, and a recommended condition for processing by the electronic device; the target quality of the product; and the type and the installation location of the electronic device expected to be used in the generation of 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)
In the present invention, printing is suitably performed on a medium using water-containing ink. This ink jet printer is provided with: a print head which applies water-containing ink for ink jet to an application target; and an infrared irradiation unit which emits infrared rays having a wavelength in the range of 2.5-3.2 µm to the water-containing ink applied to the application target.
PRINTED WORK MANUFACTURING METHOD, FOAM MANUFACTURING METHOD, FOAM-SUPPRESSING INK, METHOD FOR FORMING STEREOSCOPIC FORMATION, AND SYSTEM FOR FORMING STEREOSCOPIC FORMATION
Provided are a method for manufacturing a foamed printed work suitable for simple and small-lot production of a foam having an uneven design in the surface, and a foam manufacturing method and foam-suppressing ink suitable for said printed work manufacturing method. The printed work manufacturing method is a method for manufacturing a foamed printed work in which an uneven design is formed in the surface by foaming, wherein the method includes a printing step of inkjet-printing foam-suppressing ink onto a printing media having a layer of a foamed resin composition containing a chemical foaming agent at a temperature less than the softening temperature of the foamed resin composition, the foam-suppressing ink containing a foam suppressant that reduces the thermolytic ability of the foamed resin composition, and a solvent that dissolves the foam suppressant when the foam suppressant is a solid and is compatible with the foam suppressant when the foam suppressant is a liquid, and that can move the foam suppressant to the foamed resin composition.
C08J 9/04 - Working-up of macromolecular substances to porous or cellular articles or materials; After-treatment thereof using blowing gases generated by a previously added blowing agent
C08J 9/06 - Working-up of macromolecular substances to porous or cellular articles or materials; After-treatment thereof using blowing gases generated by a previously added blowing agent by a chemical blowing agent
The present invention appropriate performs powdering of a surface or the like of a printed object. This printing device performs printing on a medium (50) and is provided with: an ink discharge part (42) which discharges ink to the medium (50); and a powdering part (44) which performs powdering to cause a powder to adhere to the medium (50). The powdering part (44) includes: a liquid adhesion means (112) which causes a powder-containing liquid, which is a liquid containing the powder and a solvent, to adhere to the medium (50); and an energy ray irradiation part (114) which emits energy rays to the powder-containing liquid adhering to the medium (50). The powder-containing liquid generates heat when irradiated with the energy rays. The energy ray irradiation part (114) emits the energy rays to the powder-containing liquid adhering to the medium (50) to cause the solvent in the powder-containing liquid to vaporize, causing the powder to adhere to the medium (50).
In this printing device that causes an inkjet head to perform a primary scanning operation and a secondary scanning operation, a secondary scanning movement amount is more appropriately corrected. A printing device 10, which prints on a medium 50, comprises an inkjet head 102, a primary scanning drive unit 18, a secondary scanning drive unit 20, and a control unit 30, wherein the control unit 30 sets the secondary scanning movement amount on the basis of: a basic movement amount that is a basic amount of movement set in accordance with the printing conditions; and a value that indicates the distance the secondary scanning movement amount is increased or decreased under printing conditions set when an input correction value is input. Alternatively, the printing device 10 further comprises a storage unit 22, wherein the storage unit 22 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 that is smaller than the first range, and the control unit 30 sets the secondary scanning movement amount on the basis of the basic movement amount and a calculated correction value.
MODEL MATERIAL INK SET, SUPPORT MATERIAL COMPOSITION, INK SET, THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPED OBJECT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPED OBJECT
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an ink set capable of sufficiently increasing the strength of a shaped object which is a photo-cured product of color ink and clear ink, and preventing color change in the shaped object. The present invention pertains to a model material ink set used in an inkjet-type optical fabrication method, the model material ink set including color ink and clear ink as model material inks, wherein the color ink and the clear ink each contain an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, the color ink containing, as the ethylenically unsaturated monomer, 30-75 mass% of (meth)acrylate and 10-50 mass% of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer which contains nitrogen atoms and is not (meth)acrylate on the basis of the total amount of the color ink, the clear ink containing, as the ethylenically unsaturated monomer, 30-80 mass% of (meth)acrylate on the basis of the total amount of the clear ink, and the content in the clear ink of the ethylenically unsaturated monomer which contains nitrogen atoms and is not (meth)acrylate being less than 10 mass% on the basis of the total amount of the clear ink.
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 64/40 - Structures for supporting 3D objects during manufacture and intended to be sacrificed after completion thereof
The present invention suitably molds a molded object to which various decorations are applied. A molding system 10 that molds a stereoscopically molded object 50, wherein said system 10 comprises a control PC 14 and a molding device 12, which is a molding execution unit. The control PC 14 includes: a three-dimensional data input unit that receives three-dimensional data as an input, the data indicating at least the stereoscopic shape of the molded object 50; and a surface data processing unit that, on the basis of decoration data, which is data indicating decoration to be applied to at least a portion of the surface of the molded object 50, generates decorated molded object data, which is data indicating the molded object 50 to which the decoration indicated by the decoration data has been applied. The molding device 12 molds the molded object 50 to which the decoration indicated by the decoration data has been applied by executing an operation of molding the molded object 50 on the basis of the decorated molded object data.
B29C 64/106 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material
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
B33Y 50/00 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
B33Y 80/00 - Products made by additive manufacturing
83.
PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING METHOD, AND DECORATIVE MEMBER SUPPORT
A printing device (100) is provided with: an image forming unit (20) which forms an image on a cloth (C) by spraying image forming ink (Q) onto the cloth (C); and a control unit (60) which, on the basis of first image data of an original image to be formed on the cloth (C), generates second image data of a mark arranged image in which, in the original image, a mark is arranged overlapping a mounting position of a decorative member to be mounted on the cloth (C), and which, on the basis of the generated second image data, controls the image forming unit (20) so that the mark arranged image is formed on the cloth (C).
B41J 25/20 - Auxiliary type mechanisms for printing distinguishing marks, e.g. for accenting, using dead or half-dead key arrangements, for printing marks in telegraph printers to indicate that machine is receiving
B05C 5/02 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work from an outlet device in contact, or almost in contact, with the work
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 29/38 - Drives, motors, controls, or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
B41J 29/42 - Scales and indicators, e.g. for determining side margins
The present invention provides a resin composition for a model material intended for obtaining a flexible optically shaped article that will not break even when bent, and a method for manufacturing an optically shaped article that is molded using the resin composition for a model material. The present invention pertains to a resin composition for a model material, said composition comprising, relative to 100 parts by weight of the entire resin composition, 20-90 parts by weight of a (meth)acrylate monomer represented by general formula (1) and/or general formula (2) as a monofunctional monomer (A); and 5 parts by weight or more of a polyfunctional oligomer as an oligomer (B). Said composition optionally does not include a polyfunctional monomer (C), or includes 15 parts by weight or less of the polyfunctional monomer (C) relative to 100 parts by weight of the entire resin composition. In the formulae, R1, R2, and R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, or a linear or branched C1-3 alkyl group.
The present invention provides a shaping device having a configuration that is more suitable for shaping a shaped article. The shaping device shapes a three-dimensional shaped article by discharging ink and comprises: an ink container retention part 202 which serves as a first container retention part that retains an ink container 302 which serves as a first ink container; an ink container retention part 204 which serves as a second ink container retention part that retains an ink container 304 which serves as a second ink container; a first discharge head that discharges ink supplied from the ink container 302; and a second discharge head that discharges ink supplied from the ink container 304. The volume of the ink container 302 is smaller than the volume of the ink container 304.
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 64/20 - 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
B29C 64/255 - Enclosures for the building material, e.g. powder containers
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
86.
SHAPING DEVICE, SHAPING METHOD, AND SHAPED ARTICLE
Provided is a shaping device (10) for shaping a three-dimensional shaped article, the shaping device comprising: a head (12) which serves as a material discharge unit that discharges a material to be used in shaping a shaped article (50); and a control unit (20) that controls the operation of the head (12). In the case where the head (12) discharges at least a coloring material so as to shape a colored shaped article (50), the head (12) forms at least a colored region which is a layered region that follows the surface shape of the shaped article (50) to be shaped and that is colored by the coloring material. The control unit (20) causes the head (12) to form the colored region so that the colored region in a normal direction of the shaped article (50), which is the direction perpendicular to the surface of the shaped article (50), has a preset fixed thickness.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
B29C 64/386 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
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 50/00 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
B33Y 80/00 - Products made by additive manufacturing
A molding device wherein a molding operation is more efficiently and appropriately performed. A molding device 10 for molding a three-dimensional molded article 50 by a lamination molding method, wherein, after molding of at least one molded article 50 is started, molding of another molded article 50 is started before molding of the at least one molded article 50 is completed. The molding device 10 is provided with a discharge head and a molded article support part 14, for example, the molded article support part 14 having a plurality of molding stands 202, for example, at least an opposing surface of each of the molding stands 202 being capable of moving independently, the discharge head discharging a material toward the opposing surface of at least any of the molding stands 202 and thereby molding a molded article 50 on the stand 202, and at least the opposing surface of the molding stand 202 on which the molded article 50 is molded being moved in a perpendicular direction, whereby the molded article 50 is moved in the perpendicular direction.
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
88.
COMPOSITION FOR MODEL MATERIALS, OPTICALLY SHAPED ARTICLE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING OPTICALLY SHAPED ARTICLES
This composition (4a) for model materials, which is used to form optically shaped articles using an inkjet optical shaping method, contains a monofunctional monomer (A) and an oligomer (B) as photocurable components, and does not contain a multifunctional monomer (C) as a photocurable component or further contains 3.0 parts by weight or less of the multifunctional monomer (C) as a photocurable component with respect to a total of 100 parts by weight of the composition for model materials, wherein the oligomer (B) has a hydroxyl group or an amino group, the total molar fraction of the hydroxyl group and the amino group is less than 5.0% with respect to the total amount of the photocurable components. The composition (4a) for model materials can be used to obtain optically shaped articles which have flexibility and do not break even when they are bent.
Provided are a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional molded object, whereby it is possible to manufacture a three-dimensional molded object in which bending or breakage at narrow portions can be suppressed, a three-dimensional molded object, and a molding device. A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional molded object comprising manufacturing a three-dimensional molded object by discharging a liquid molding material and then solidifying the discharged molding material, the method characterized by being provided with an inside forming step for forming an inside portion of a three-dimensional molded object through use of the molding material, and a periphery forming step for forming a peripheral portion on the periphery of the inside portion by accumulating a plurality of layers through use of the molding material, the molding material for forming the inside portion by the inside forming step having greater rigidity in a solid state in comparison with the molding material for forming the peripheral portion by the periphery forming step, the periphery forming step being a step for forming grooves 22b constituting part of the peripheral portion, and the inside forming step being a step for forming the inside portion by placing the liquid molding material in the grooves 22b prior to formation of a portion of the peripheral portion of the three-dimensional molded object by the periphery forming step.
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 80/00 - Products made by additive manufacturing
The purpose of the present invention is to perform high quality printing more appropriately, while inhibiting ink bleeding more appropriately. This printing device 10 which uses an inkjet method to print on a medium 50 is provided with: an inkjet head 102 which uses the inkjet method to discharge ink droplets; and ultraviolet light sources 104 for performing ultraviolet irradiation. The inkjet head 102 discharges droplets of an ink including an ultraviolet absorber which absorbs ultraviolet, and a solvent for dissolving or dispersing the ultraviolet absorber, to cause the ink to adhere to the medium 50. The ink is fixed to the medium by evaporating the solvent. The ultraviolet light sources 104 irradiate, with ultraviolet, the ink adhered to the medium 50, to volatilize and remove at least a portion of the solvent included in the ink.
Ink blurring is more appropriately suppressed, and high-quality printing is more appropriately performed. Provided is a printing device 10 for performing inkjet-style printing on a medium 50, wherein the printing device 10 is provided with an inkjet head 102 for discharging ink droplets in the inkjet style, and a UV light source 104 for radiating UV rays; the inkjet head 102 deposits ink on the medium 50 by discharging ink droplets of ink containing a UV absorbent for absorbing UV rays and a solvent which causes the UV absorbent to dissolve or disperse; the ink is fixed to the medium by evaporating the solvent; and the UV light source 104 volatizes and removes at least some of the solvent contained in the ink by irradiating the ink deposited on the medium 50 with UV rays.
The present invention prevents the prominent appearance of a pattern corresponding to a mask pattern and enables more proper printing. A printing device 10 for inkjet printing, wherein: the printing device 10 is provided with an inkjet head 102 and a control unit 20 for controlling the operation of a main scanning drive unit 16 and a secondary scanning drive unit 18 and thereby causing a main scanning operation to be performed a plurality of times relative to respective positions on a medium 50; in the main scanning operation, the control unit 20 causes the inkjet head 102 to discharge ink drops onto at least some discharge locations subject to the discharge of ink drops in the main scanning operation, in accordance with a mask for selecting some of the at least some discharge locations; in one iteration of the main scanning operation, the control unit 20 causes the inkjet head 102 to discharge the ink drops in accordance with a preset first mask; and in another iteration of the main scanning operation different from the one iteration, the control unit 20 causes the inkjet head 102 to discharge the ink drops in accordance with a second mask for selecting the discharge locations with a pattern that is different from the first mask.
B41J 2/52 - Arrangement for printing a discrete number of tones, not covered by group , e.g. applicable to two or more kinds of printing or marking process
B41J 2/525 - Arrangement for multi-colour printing, not covered by group , e.g. applicable to two or more kinds of printing or marking process
93.
THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT PRODUCTION METHOD AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT PRODUCTION DEVICE
To favorably form the unit layers of a three-dimensional object even when droplet discharge failures or the like have occurred. This three-dimensional object production method includes: a step wherein different regions of a nozzle line (22) are allocated to each of a prescribed number n (n being an integer equal to or greater than 2) of pixel groups (25A, 25B) into which the pixel rows that constitute a unit layer (25) have been divided; and a step wherein the pixel rows are formed as a result of nozzles (21) in each region forming one pixel group (25A, 25B).
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
The present invention improves the printing quality of a multipass printing apparatus. Scanning to form dots by irradiating light after photocurable ink droplets have landed on a print medium 101 and curing the ink droplets is performed multiple times with respect to a specified unit region, alternating between the outgoing path direction and the returning path direction. The time from the landing of the ink droplets on the print medium 101 until curing differs between the outgoing path direction and the returning path direction. Among the multiple scans, in the scan in which the surface layer of a unit region is formed, a discharge control section 10 controls the discharge of ink droplets so that the ink droplets do not combine with each other in the surface layer discharged on the print medium 101.
To perform nozzle checks that are suitable for the production of three-dimensional molded objects. A three-dimensional molded object M production method wherein unit layers (L1, L2, … ) are layered. A nozzle check step is performed before a certain unit layer is formed. In the nozzle check step, at least one portion of nozzles (6) that discharge ink for forming said unit layer are inspected after the beginning of production if said unit layer is a lowermost layer (L1) or after the formation of the unit layer directly below said unit layer if said unit layer is not the lowermost layer (L1).
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
Provided are a product manufacturing system, method and program that can efficiently execute a manufacturing process regardless of the form of an object to be processed or the conformity of manufacturing process conditions when executing a plurality of manufacturing jobs as a group. A step managing device (16, 20A, 20B), which forms part of a product manufacturing system (10, 10A, 10B), carries out the following: creates a plurality of electronic documents (72) that contain information related to manufacturing jobs that represent manufacturing units of a product (D1, D2); transmits to a manufacturing process device process information (Ir) that can specify manufacturing process conditions and an object to be processed associated with a selected manufacturing job among the plurality of electronic documents (72) or a plurality of output objects (26); and causes the manufacturing process device (22, 28, 29) to execute a manufacturing process that is executed in work steps corresponding to the electronic documents (72).
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)
Through the present invention, shaping at a desired shaping quality is more appropriately performed, and a colored three-dimensional object is appropriately shaped by a simple method. A shaping system 10 for shaping a three-dimensional object on the basis of shaping data, provided with a shaping execution part 12 for executing shaping of a three-dimensional object, and a shaping control part 14 for controlling operation of the shaping execution part 12, the shaping control part 14 being capable of executing first shaping control for causing the shaping execution part 12 to shape a first three-dimensional object using shaping data indicating the first three-dimensional object, and second shaping control for causing the shaping execution part 12 to shape a second three-dimensional object using at least a portion of the shaping data indicating the first three-dimensional object, the second three-dimensional object being a three-dimensional object for confirming the shaping quality of the first three-dimensional object, and the second three-dimensional object being shapeable in a shorter time than the first three-dimensional object.
B29C 67/00 - Shaping techniques not covered by groups , or
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 50/00 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
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THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS
[Problem] To manufacture a three-dimensional object having an internal cavity more appropriately. [Solution] A three-dimensional object manufacturing method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object 50 having an internal cavity 56 by laminating multiple material layers that are layers formed with a material to be used in manufacturing the three-dimensional object 50, wherein the method is provided with: a cavity material layer-forming step for forming cavity material layers, which are material layers configuring at least a portion of the surroundings of the cavity by discharging material droplets from a discharging head by an inkjet mode; an interposed member-setting step for setting a cover member 60, which is an interposed member at least a portion of which is interposed between multiple cavity material layers, on the cavity material layers; and an above-interposed member material layer-forming step for further forming material layers on the cover member 60 by discharging droplets of the cavity material from a discharging head by an inkjet mode on at least a portion of the cover member 60.
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
The present invention appropriately reduces the amount of ink ejected to individual positions on a medium. A printing device 10 performs printing using an ink jet method and is provided with: a plurality of, e.g., six or more, ink jet heads; a carriage 14 that is a head holding unit that holds the plurality of ink jet heads; a main scanning driving unit 22; and a sub scanning driving unit 24. The carriage 14 holds the plurality of ink jet heads so as to be divided between a plurality of rows including at least a first row in which a plurality of ink jet heads are arrayed in a main scanning direction and a second row in which a plurality of ink jet heads are arrayed in the main scanning direction while being offset from the first row in a sub scanning direction. The printing device 10 ejects ink droplets from only two or less ink jet heads in the first row and ejects ink droplets from only two or less ink jet heads in the second row with respect to each pixel position in a single main scanning operation.
An optical shaping ink set 20 used in an inkjet optical shaping method and obtained by combining a model material resin composition 4a used for shaping a model material 4 and a support material resin composition 5a used for shaping a support material 5, wherein the surface tension Mt (mN/m) of the model material resin composition 4a is greater than the surface tension St (mN/m) of the support material resin composition 5a, and the surface tension Mt and the surface tension St satisfy the expression [0 < Mt – St < 5]. Through use of this optical shaping ink set 20, an optically shaped article having good dimensional precision can be obtained.
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