EP1106370A1 - Procédé et imprimante avec contrôle d'avance du substrat - Google Patents
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- the invention lies in the field of inkjet printers in which drops ink are formed and electrically charged then deflected to strike a printing substrate. It relates to a method for correcting faults of lineage resulting from deviations from the actual advance of the substrate with respect to its nominal advance and the printer applying such a process.
- the role of the drop generator 16 is to form from the pressurized ink contained in the distribution channel 13 a set of drops individual. These individual drops are electrically charged by means of an electrode load 20 supplied by a voltage generator 21. Charged drops pass through a space between two deflection electrodes 23, 24 and according to their load are more or less deviated. The the least or not deviated drops are directed towards a 22 ink recuperator while the deflected drops are directed towards a substrate 27. The drops successive bursts reaching substrate 27 can thus be deflected to an extreme position low, an extreme high position and positions successive intermediaries, all of the drops of the salvo forming a vertical line of height ⁇ X substantially perpendicular to a direction of advance relative of the print head and the substrate.
- the print head is formed by the generator drops 16, the charging electrode 20, the electrodes of deflection 23, 24 and the recuperator 22. This head is generally enclosed in a casing not shown.
- the deflection movement imprinted on the drops charged by the deflection electrodes 23, 24 is completed by a movement along a Y axis perpendicular to the X axis, between the print head and the substrate. Time between the first and the last drop of a salvo is very short. As a result, despite a continuous movement between the print head and the substrate, we can consider that the substrate does not have moved relative to the print head during time for a salvo. The bursts are fired at intervals regular space.
- the impression is carried out strip by strip the substrate having a movement intermittent advance in direction X after each scanning.
- the relative movement of the print head and the substrate is called the sweeping motion.
- the sweep movement thus consists of a movement back and forth between a first edge of the substrate and a second edge of the substrate.
- the movement between a edge and the other edge of the substrate allows to print to the stolen a strip of height L or quite often a part of the height band ⁇ X, ⁇ X being the most often a sub-multiple of L.
- the set of bands successively printed thus constitutes the motif to print on the substrate.
- the substrate After each impression of a strip or part of the strip, the substrate is advanced the space between two strips or part of a strip for printing the strip or part of the strip next. Printing can be done on the way simply or back and forth from the movement of the print head relative to the substrate.
- each inkjet prints a limited part of the substrate.
- Drops can be produced, continuously, as described above in conjunction with Figure 1. They may also be produced "on demand", that is to say only when necessary for them printing needs. In this case, a recovery of unused ink is not necessary.
- Known means for controlling the different jets will now be described with reference to FIG. 2.
- the pattern to print is defined by a file digital.
- This file can be formed using a scanner, a graphic palette for assisted creation by computer (CAD), transmitted over a network data exchange computing, or, all simply read from a playback device of digital data storage medium (disc optical, CD-ROM).
- the digital file representing the colored pattern to print is first split into several binary patterns (or bitmap) for each of inks.
- binary or bitmap
- the pattern binary is a nonlimiting example; in certain printers, the pattern to be printed is of the "contone" type, that is, each position can be printed by a number of drops varying from 1 to M. Part of the binary pattern is extracted from the file for each of jets corresponding to the width of the strip that goes be printed.
- a memory for storing the cut digital pattern in band this storage memory containing the indications relating to a color.
- an intermediate memory 2 receives the data required to print the tape by said color.
- the descriptive data of the band to print are then entered into a calculator 3 charge voltages of the various drops which go form the strip relative to this color.
- These data are entered into the calculator in the form a succession of descriptions of the frames which together will constitute the band.
- the voltage calculator 3 load of drops is often in the form a dedicated integrated circuit. This calculator 3 calculates in real time the sequence of voltages to be applied to charge electrodes 20 for printing a given frame defined by its frame description, as loaded at from intermediate memory 2.
- a circuit downstream electronics 4, called charge sequencer drops, ensures the synchronization of the voltages of load with on the one hand, the instants of formation of drops and, on the other hand, the relative advance of the head print and substrate.
- the advance of the substrate by report to the head is materialized by a clock of frame 5 whose signal is derived from the signal from an encoder incremental position of the printing unit relative to the substrate.
- the load sequencer 4 drops also receives a signal from a clock of drops 6. This drop clock is synchronous with the control signal of the drop generator 16. It allows to define the instants of transitions of different charge voltages applied to the drops to differentiate their trajectories.
- the data digital from the load sequencer 4 drops are converted to analog value by a digital to analog converter 8.
- the data to be printed could not be in the form of binary files, but as files containing words from several bits, to translate the fact that each position of the substrate can receive several drops ink of the same color.
- the main printing faults which are generated by all printing systems known, are the defects relating to lineages in the direction of relative movement of the print head by relation to the substrate. This defect results in the appearance of light or dark lines when printing by successive scans.
- faults can be in the space between two bands which should in principle be equal to the interval between adjacent drops of a frame, or inside of the same band, in the space delimiting the zones printed by different jets, or even inside the pattern printed by a jet at the level of the space between two adjacent drops of the frame.
- These faults of lineage can come either from defects specific to some jets from the print head, these are then mechanical or electrical faults, either substrate positioning errors, or positioning error between printheads, or still between jets from the same printhead.
- Various solutions have been proposed to limit or eliminate lineage issues, but all are translate either by a limitation of the rate sometimes very high ratio vis-à-vis the nominal printing rate, either by redundancy of print heads and therefore a cost important.
- Another type of common solution is to use a very high overlap rate between neighboring drops, so as to avoid lineages whites. These white lines correspond to the absence substrate cover. Dark lineages are less visible and we prefer to have a lineage defect dark lines rather than a white line defect.
- the solution of increasing the rate of overlap between neighboring drops is effective for compensate for faults within the same band and to some extent the lineage defects between bands but it has the disadvantage of requiring a very high amount of ink per unit area of the substrate and generates difficulties in drying or deformation of the substrate.
- a third type of solution to erase line faults on printers operating in scanning consists in partially printing the substrate during each scan. By multiplying the number of substrate scans we get full coverage of the substrate. This impression in several passages uses various interleaving strategies positions of the drops from the different jets. A example of interleaving of even and odd lines is given in patent no. US-A-4,604,631 issued to the RICOH company.
- An advantage of this solution often related to a high overlap rate is that it allows a drying time for the substrate, but it results in a reduced print rate of one factor ranging from 2 to 16.
- the invention relates to the correction of a lineage defect called dynamic translation ⁇ due to too large or too small an advance of the substrate between two scans. It concerns printers in which the substrate is advanced step by step after printing of each strip.
- a mark will be printed during the printing of a current strip.
- This mark may consist of a single line printed by means of one or more drops of consecutive row or not.
- the difference ⁇ x between the nominal position and the actual position of the mark which corresponds to a difference in the advance of the substrate, will be determined.
- This difference in the advance of the substrate will be compensated by a modification of the charge of the drops printed during this strip. This modification will create a trajectory for each drop different from the nominal trajectory. If the change in the charging voltage is properly calculated, this trajectory will cut the surface of the substrate in a position offset from the nominal position in reverse to the offset of the advance of the substrate.
- two fields of nine drops numbered from 1 to 9 are represented in accordance with their nominal position by dots.
- These two frames are part of two consecutive bands, a current band, the one at the top, and a next band, the one at the bottom, and are therefore represented aligned along the X axis.
- the bands extend in the Y direction. Normally the consecutive bands are spaced from each other by a distance equal to the distance between two consecutive drops of a burst.
- Part B shows two frames, one belonging to the current band and the other to the previous band.
- the frame of the next strip has been split into a first frame a representing a real-position frame and a second frame b representing the nominal position along the x axis of the next strip.
- the frames a and b are offset from one another in the direction Y. It should however be understood that these frames are normally aligned along the same axis in the direction X. It is assumed that as a result of d 'a defect in advance of the substrate with respect to the printhead during the passage from the current strip to the next strip the substrate has advanced too far and is removed from its nominal position by a quantity ⁇ x . It follows that all the frames of the next band will be offset by ⁇ x from their nominal position and consequently a white line defect will appear materialized in Figure 3 by two lines d separated from one another by the distance ⁇ x . There would be a black line defect if the movement of the substrate between the two bands had not been significant enough.
- the correction will consist in modifying the charge voltage of each drop of the next strip so as to modify its trajectory through the deflection electrodes.
- the modification of the trajectory is such that with the correction the actual position of each frame of the current band will be displaced by ⁇ x so as to compensate for the defect in the advance of the substrate.
- the dynamic translation correction ⁇ to be applied to each drop is a function of the rank of the drop in the frame.
- the mark A After advance of the substrate, the mark A is moved and occupies the position represented in B in FIG. 4.
- the position in C of a mark In order to materialize the error of deviation ⁇ x in advance of the substrate, the position in C of a mark has also been represented. fictitious representing the nominal position that the mark A should have had in the absence of difference between the nominal position and the actual position. Mark C is not actually present on the substrate. The difference between the fictitious mark C and the mark in position B makes it possible to determine the difference ⁇ x between the nominal position marked in C and the real position marked in B. This difference in the advance of the substrate will be compensated according to the invention by a modification of the charge of the drops printed during the following strip.
- the next tape will print like printing the current tape, printing of a mark of the following strip printed while holding account of the actual advance of the substrate. It follows that the marks and bands will all be spaced between them from their nominal spacing.
- the difference ⁇ x between the mark B and the nominal position C of the strip which is going to be printed will be detected by means of a sensor 12, for example a CCD sensor making it possible to measure this distance, for example by counting l 'number difference between a sensor element 12a which receives the mark when it is in the nominal position and a sensor element 12b which actually receives it.
- This sensor will preferably be placed in front of the substrate and arranged so that its measurement field makes it possible to detect the mark with fairly wide tolerances.
- This sensor will preferably be a sensor of a determined light wavelength and will be supplemented by an emitter in the direction of the substrate of this determined wavelength.
- FIGS 5 and 6 are block diagrams inkjet printers showing some necessary features to the incorporation of the invention.
- the system shown in Figures 5 and 6 corresponds to an architecture for printing wide formats chosen only as examples not limiting. Printing is done by scanning successive in direction Y.
- the system implements in a known manner a substrate 27 from a coil 28 which takes place upstream of a unit printing 29 by a pair 36 of cylinders 37, 38 contact training.
- a first cylinder 37 is motorized, a second cylinder 38 provides back pressure to the point-of-contact.
- the two cylinders 37, 38 pinch the substrate and drive it without sliding.
- the advance of substrate 27 is controlled by an encoder, not shown because in itself known, angular positions mounted on the axis of one of the cylinders. After each advance intermittent substrate, the print area of it is kept flat on a printing table 30, located under the unit scan path printing 29. This holding flat is provided by a second drive system 39 located downstream of the printing unit.
- This second drive system 39 maintains a constant tension of the substrate 27.
- a setting intermittent printing table depression is sometimes performed to improve the flatness of the substrate 27 in the printing area.
- the inkjet printing unit 29 is composed of several 25 printheads like those shown for example in Figure 1, each head being fed by one of the color inks primary, from tanks 11 thanks to an umbilicus or distribution channel 13.
- the different print heads 25 print simultaneously the substrate while it is stationary. Printing of a strip is ensured by scanning in the Y direction of the printing unit. The scanning movement of the printing unit by relation to the substrate is ensured by a belt 40 integral with the printing unit and driven by a motorized pulley 41. Guiding the printing unit is provided in a known manner by a mechanical axis not represented.
- Each print head prints a strip of constant width L.
- the print heads can be shifted in the X direction of advance of the substrate so that a head does not necessarily print the same strip at the same time as another head ink color different.
- the substrate is advanced by a spatial increment ⁇ X at most equal to the bandwidth L but which is more generally a submultiple of L for multiple printing passes.
- the distance between the printheads according to the direction Y and possibly along direction X on the one hand sufficient drying time between deposition of different ink colors and allows on the other hand, to ensure an overlay order same colors same when printing is performed during the return and return of the head printing.
- the invention has the particularity of being equipped with a detector 12 for detecting the actual advance of the substrate.
- the position of this detector 12 relative to the substrate and to the print heads is discussed below in connection with Figures 8 to 10.
- Figure 8 includes parts A, B and C each corresponding to a phase of the kinematics printing a set of bands.
- the detector 12 is fixed, and fixed for example to an axis holding device for translating the printheads 16.
- an axis holding device for translating the printheads 16 On the Figures 8 to 10 four heads have been represented 25, one for each color, cyan marked C, magenta marked M, yellow marked Y and black marked K.
- the device for holding the axis of translation has not been represented because its geometry is specific to each printer. In addition, it is of an example. The skilled person will find or create a support for fixing the detector knowing that detector must fulfill the functions which are described below.
- the detector must be able to detect a mark 51, printed by one of the printheads 25 between the left edge 52 or right edge 53 of the substrate 27 and the start or end of the printed pattern respectively.
- FIG. 8 there is shown a first strip marked 1 printed while the printheads 25 move between a first edge 52, in the figure the left edge, and a second edge 53, in the figure the right edge of the substrate, as indicated by an arrow parallel to the Y direction of scanning and perpendicular to the direction X in advance of substrate 27.
- the detector 12 is placed on the edge of the substrate 27, in the vicinity of the print head 25 located in second position in all the heads.
- the second position is understood by counting the heads in the direction Y in advance of the substrate 27.
- the first head is the one that is most upstream by relative to the direction of travel of the substrate.
- detector 12 In a direction Z perpendicular to the plane of the substrate, detector 12 is at a height from to the substrate lower than the height of the lower parts of the print head so that they have the passage. The proximity of the substrate allows better reading accuracy.
- the mark 51-1 is printed by the cyan head 25.
- This same cyan head then prints band 1 in the scanning direction indicated by an arrow in the direction Y.
- the heads 25 are are in the position represented by dotted lines in left part of figure 8 part A.
- the heads 25 are in the position shown in solid lines to the right of the substrate 27.
- the substrate 27 is stepped forward.
- the 51-1 mark is found in the detector field 12.
- Detector 12 detects a deviation possible advance of the substrate relative to the advance nominal, and the calculation means 34, 35 calculate corrections to be made to the charge voltages of cyan head and magenta head drops, so that the modification of the trajectory of the drops compensates the advance difference of the substrate.
- the head 25 magenta prints the second color on strip 1 and the cyan head 25 prints the second strip then the mark 51-2.
- the heads 16 are find on the side of the first edge as shown in part B.
- the substrate is again advanced so that the mark 51-2 arrives in the field of the detector 12, as shown in part C figure 8.
- the detector detects a possible deviation of the mark 51-2 from its nominal position.
- the mark 51-3 and the third strip are printed by the upstream cyan head.
- the magenta head 25 prints the second strip with corrections of charge voltage of the drops to take account of the value of the last difference ⁇ x , the yellow head Y prints the first strip.
- the heads 25 are find on the side of the second edge 53.
- the substrate is advanced.
- Detector detects deviation possible of the mark 51-3 in relation to its position nominal.
- a correction taking into account this difference is applied to load the black head drops which will overlay the first strip, on the yellow head Y which will print the second strip and magenta and cyan heads which will print respectively the third strip and the mark 51-4 followed by the fourth strip.
- the cycle thus continues modulo the number of print heads side by side, for example four in the case shown in connection with FIG. 8.
- the kinematics which has just been described concerns an impression in which the heads print in the sweep movement go and in the back sweep movement.
- the kinematics would be the same in case print only by forward scan, advance of substrate taking place at the same time as the movement of heads return to the first edge 52.
- motor advance control of substrate may include a servo which holds account for deviations in advance of the substrate.
- This enslavement known to those skilled in the art could be "proportional integral and derivative" type, that is to say that it takes into account the actual differences, their cumulation and of their variation over time in order to avoid drifts.
- Reading brands, determining substrate advance deviation and correction of frames allows at all times to ensure good overlapping bands.
- Detector 12 will therefore reuse the brand used for printing the tape current with the same corrections, so that if no blocking or near blocking of the substrate the next strip will print in overlap on the previous strip.
- the printed pattern of even rank marks is different from that of marks of odd rank.
- Another case where the recognition of the current brand in relation to the next mark is interesting is where these two marks would appear simultaneously on the detector 12, for example one on an extreme part upstream of the detector and the other on an extreme part downstream with respect to the direction of movement of the substrate. This situation can arise in the event of accumulation difference in advance reaching a positive value or negative of a nominal half advance. In this case, the program will choose the benchmark brand for printing the next strip.
- the program in case of blocking detection or quasi blocking may include a trigger of another substrate advance then the triggering of a alert if a blockage is detected again, or at otherwise the immediate triggering of an alarm.
- the pattern of even rank band marks and odd will be a function of the detector.
- the detector has only one array of detector elements, even patterns and will be distinguished from each other by the number of lines of one compared to the number of lines of the other, the distance between lines being such that each line is detected by a different sensor element. It could also be the same number of lines but with different spacings between lines corresponding to different numbers of the elements sensors detecting these lines. If the sensor 12 has sensor elements arranged so matrix, or if sensor 12 is, as it will be described below, mobile in the X direction of the scan, even or odd patterns may occur distinguish, moreover, by variations in the direction scanning for example points for one and traits for each other or different deviations of the same pattern.
- Figure 8 was used to describe in the detail the principle of measurement and control of advance of the substrate.
- the substrate mark should be placed downstream of the head printing that prints the marks but in a place compatible with its size. So the positioning of the sensor in an area swept by printheads as in Figure 8 would require a very fine mechanical adjustment so that the print head can pass over the sensor during sweeps without risk of hitting it. Through elsewhere, this positioning can create difficulties at the level of the repeatability of the conditions of brand lighting at the sensor, depending on the head is located at the right edge or left edge of the substrate when detecting / measuring the brand.
- the printer has under the substrate in the area scanned by the heads printing a printing table that ensures good maintenance of the substrate. The sensor can therefore be fixedly positioned, downstream of the last head but in a place where the substrate is securely held by the printing table. This allows proper operation without constraint demanding on the size of the sensor and its lighting.
- the detector 12 is mechanically coupled to the table 30 immediately downstream of the heads 25.
- the mark is printed, in the example shown, by the downstream head K black.
- Each sensor respectively marked “left” and “right” will detect the mark printed on the edge left (respectively right) of the substrate, when printing the even index scan mark which runs from the right edge to the left edge (respectively odd for scanning the left edge towards the right edge).
- the detector 12 is carried by the mobile mechanical assembly with the print heads which will be called trolley thereafter.
- the carriage has two detectors, a 12-1 detector which is located upstream printheads during a go scan and a detector 12-2 which is located upstream of the heads when scanning back. To this end the detectors 12-1, 12-2 are located on both sides print heads 25.
- the 51-1 mark is always printed at the end of scanning.
- the odd rank marks are all on the side of the second edge 53 and that the even rank marks are all on the first side edge 52.
- the mark 51-1 printed at the end of the first scan on the second edge 53 of the substrate 27 is detected by the detector 12-2 which is upstream from the print heads 16 during the reverse scan. Corrections of the drops' charges are made and the strip number 2 is printed, then the mark 51-2 near the first edge. After advance of the substrate 27, this mark 51-2 is detected by the detector 12-1. The difference observed is used for the correction of the printing of the strip 3 and of the mark 51-3 printed at the end of scanning.
- This solution has the advantage of easier positioning of the detectors, of a position distinction of the even and odd marks.
- the disadvantage is that an additional detector 12 is required. Switching to switch the input of the means 34, 35 on the detector 12-1 or 12-2 is necessary, and can be carried out at the software level by changing the address for reading the substrate deviation information. ⁇ x .
- FIG. 7 represents control means 31 according to the invention.
- the device according to the invention comprises the detector 12 of the difference between the actual advance of the substrate and its nominal advance.
- the printing control means 31 therefore further comprise a calculator 34 of the position difference of the substrate.
- the elements, detectors 12, calculator 34 of position difference are connected in series to each other and to a calculator 35 of dynamic translation correction voltage ⁇ of advance of the substrate.
- the dynamic translation corrections ⁇ determined by the computer 35 as a function of the value of the error of deviation ⁇ x from the real position of the substrate with respect to its nominal position and as a function of the rank j of the drop, are applied to the 3 'calculator of the drop charge voltages.
- the calculation of additional charge voltage to be applied to each drop of the burst as a function of its rank can use stored values of additional voltage to be applied to correct deviations ⁇ x appearing in a table of deviations. These values will be interpolated according to the real difference.
- the calculation can also use an algorithm involving, in addition to the difference ⁇ x , data known to the printer manufacturer such as the unit mass of the drops, the value of the electric field created by the voltage of the deflection electrodes, the laws of variation of the position of the drops as a function of the voltage applied to the charging electrodes 20.
- the operation is as follows.
- the detector 12 detects the difference between a mark relative to the current strip which will be printed and the nominal position of this strip.
- This difference is introduced into the calculator 34 for calculating the difference.
- this calculator calculates as a function of the signal transmitted by the sensor 12, the value ⁇ x of the advance difference of the substrate 27.
- This difference is introduced into the dynamic translation calculator 35 which will calculate corrections to be applied to the calculator 3 'of the charge voltages of the drops to correct this dynamic translation.
- the calculator 3 'of the charge voltage of the drops will calculate the algebraic sum of the voltages to be applied to the charge electrode of the drops by adding the nominal voltage resulting from the description of the frame coming from the memory 2, and the correction value resulting from the deviation correction carried out by the dynamic translation correction calculator 35.
- Another function of the computer 34 is relating to brand recognition and processing of information transmitted by the sensor 12 to deduce a deviation of the mark from its nominal position. It was quickly reported more top that a simple treatment to determine the value of the substrate advance difference was to count the number of sensor elements between the element of sensor corresponding to the numbered nominal position 0 and the sensor element receiving the mark. This way of doing it implicitly assumes that the thickness of the brand is of the same order of magnitude as the sensor resolution. Under these conditions, the difference is determined by the number of the sensor element detecting the brand, if this element is unique.
- the difference is calculated as a function the number of the nearest sensor element which perceives the mark, increased by an increment making intervene the distance between two sensor elements and the proportions for example of current coming from each of the two sensor elements concerned.
- the brand is made up of several traits, three in the example commented, traced by different drops of a salvo for example the drops corresponding to positions 2, 4 and 6 with a burst of nine drops.
- the deviation from the nominal position will be calculated by the calculator 34, from the calculation of the projection position of the barycenter of the mark 51 on an X axis parallel to advance of the substrate.
- This barycenter is determined based on sensor elements that see the mark. If like represented in figure 11 part A, the drops are normally positioned, the measurement will be exact. Yes as shown in part B, the row 6 drops are moved from their nominal position, the error will be lessened.
- each of the detectors 12.1, 12.2 can be placed on either side of the printing table 30, the detector located on one side of the table 30 detecting the marks 51 arranged on the first edge 52 of the substrate and the detector located on the other side of the table 30 detecting the marks 51 arranged on the second edge 53 of the substrate 27.
- This arrangement of two detectors have the advantage of being able distinguish even rank marks from rank marks odd by their position, their shapes can be identical.
- the choice to put the detectors on the printhead carriage on either side from table 30 will depend on criteria specific to mechanical characteristics of the printer and / or control software.
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- on imprime une bande courante et une première marque sur le substrat,
- on avance le substrat pour l'impression de la bande suivante,
- après avance du substrat et avant l'impression de la bande suivante,
- on détermine un écart algébrique entre une position théorique nominale de la marque et la position de la marque réelle,
- on détermine pour chaque goutte d'une salve, une correction d'avance substrat comme étant une tension de correction de translation dynamique ϕ de la valeur de la tension de charge à appliquer à chacune des gouttes issues de la tête pour corriger la déviation des gouttes et compenser l'écart algébrique de la position du substrat par rapport à sa position nominale,
- on applique à chacune des gouttes de la salve dirigées vers le substrat, en addition à la tension nominale, la tension de correction de translation dynamique ϕ de position substrat calculée.
- une tête d'impression, cette tête comportant des moyens de fractionnement en gouttes d'au moins un jet d'encre et une électrode associée de charge des gouttes, des moyens de déviation (23,24) d'une partie des gouttes vers le substrat d'impression,
- des moyens de contrôle de l'impression disposant d'un moyen de fixation de la charge des gouttes à diriger vers le substrat en fonction de leurs rangs dans la salve couplés à l'électrode de charge des gouttes,
- la figure 1 déjà décrite est une représentation schématique des moyens nécessaires à la création de gouttes d'encre et à leur déviation vers un substrat ;
- la figure 2 déjà décrite comme la figure 1 dans le cadre de la description de l'art antérieur représente l'ensemble des moyens de calcul nécessaire au fonctionnement des moyens représentés sur la figure 1 ;
- la figure 3 est un schéma destiné à expliquer le défaut de lignage dû à un défaut d'avance substrat et le mode de correction selon l'invention ;
- la figure 4 est un schéma destiné à expliquer le mode de correction des écarts de déplacement du substrat ;
- les figures 5 et 6 sont des schémas illustrant les éléments matériels d'une imprimante ;
- la figure 7 est un schéma représentant les moyens de calcul d'une imprimante fonctionnant selon le procédé de l'invention.
- la figure 8 comporte les parties A, B et C, chaque partie correspondant à une phase de la cinématique d'impression de bandes successives ;
- la figure 9 illustre un cas où un capteur de marque est mécaniquement solidaire d'une table d'impression soutenant le substrat face aux têtes d'impression ;
- la figure 10 illustre le cas où deux capteurs sont montés de part et d'autre d'un chariot portant les têtes d'impression, l'un dans une direction amont du mouvement et l'autre dans une direction aval ;
- la figure 11 est une illustration du mode de détermination d'une position exacte de la marque de repérage de l'avance du substrat à partir du calcul du barycentre de l'image de la marque sur le détecteur.
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- Procédé de compensation d'un éventuel défaut de l'avance pas à pas d'un substrat d'impression par modification de la position d'arrivée sur le substrat (27) de gouttes d'encre électriquement chargées de façon réglable et séquentielle, les gouttes provenant d'une tête (25) d'impression étant chargées par des électrodes (20) de charge connectées à un générateur de tension, les trajectoires des gouttes étant soumises à l'action d'électrodes (23, 24) de déviation déviant les gouttes selon la valeur de leur charge électrique entre N positions définies par leur rang j (1≤j≤N), une première position X1, une dernière position XN et N-2 positions intermédiaires, les N positions définissant une trame obtenue par une salve de gouttes sous forme d'un segment de droite parallèle à une direction X d'avance du substrat, procédé caractérisé en ce que :on imprime une bande courante et une première marque sur le substrat,on avance le substrat pour l'impression de la bande suivante,on détermine un écart algébrique entre une position théorique nominale de la marque et la position réelle,on détermine pour chaque goutte d'une salve, une correction d'avance substrat comme étant une tension de correction de translation dynamique ϕ de la valeur de la tension de charge à appliquer à chacune des gouttes issues de la tête (25) pour corriger la déviation des gouttes et compenser l'écart algébrique de la position du substrat par rapport à sa position nominale,on applique à chacune des gouttes formant la bande suivante, en addition à la tension nominale applicable à la goutte en fonction de son rang dans une trame, la corrections de translation dynamique ϕ d'avance du substrat calculée pour la goutte dudit rang.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les marques (51) des bandes de rang pair et des bandes de rang impair présentent au moins une caractéristique permettant de les distinguer les unes des autres.
- Procédé selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce qu'une caractéristique permettant la distinction des marques paires et impaires est une caractéristique de forme de la marque.
- Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 ou 3, caractérisé en ce qu'une caractéristique permettant de distinguer les marques paires et impaires est une caractéristique de position.
- Procédé selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que les marques de rang pair sont sur un premier bord du substrat et les marques de rang impair sur un second bord opposé au premier.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'une marque est imprimée au début d'une bande courante et en ce que sa position est détectée avant impression de la bande suivante.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'une marque est imprimée en fin d'une bande courante et en ce que sa position est détectée avant impression de la bande suivante.
- Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'une marque est imprimée sur un second bord du substrat en fin d'une bande courante de rang impair, en ce que sa position est détectée en début de la bande suivante et en ce qu'une marque est imprimée sur un premier bord du substrat opposé au second bord en fin d'une bande courante de rang pair.
- Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce que la position de la marque est calculée comme étant la projection dans la direction d'avance du substrat de la position d'un barycentre de la marque.
- Imprimante à jet continu dévié projetant en salve des gouttes de rang 1 à N dans la salve, les gouttes d'une salve étant dirigées ou non vers un substrat (27) d'impression en fonction de données définissant un motif à imprimer, l'imprimante ayant au moins :une tête (25) d'impression, cette tête comportant des moyens de fractionnement en gouttes d'au moins un jet d'encre et une électrode (20) associée de charge des gouttes, des moyens de déviation (23,24) d'une partie des gouttes vers le substrat d'impression,des moyens de contrôle de l'impression disposant d'un moyen de fixation de la charge des gouttes à diriger vers le substrat en fonction de leurs rangs dans la salve couplés à l'électrode de charge des gouttes,
- Imprimante selon la revendication 10, caractérisée en ce qu'un premier détecteur (12) est couplé mécaniquement à la table d'impression (30), de façon à détecter des marques (51) imprimées sur un premier bord (52) du substrat.
- Imprimante selon la revendication 11, caractérisée en ce qu'un détecteur est couplé mécaniquement à la table d'impression (30) de façon à détecter des marques (51) imprimées sur un second bord (53) du substrat opposé au premier bord (52).
- Imprimante selon la revendication 10, caractérisée en ce qu'elle comporte deux détecteurs (12.1,12.2) mécaniquement couplés aux têtes d'impression (25).
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