1188 results about "Digital printing" patented technology

Methods and systems for decorating at least one bevel surface or other surface of a laminated flooring are described. The bevel surface can be decorated by non-transfer printing such as digital printing. The digital printer can be an ink jet printer such as a piezoelectric drop-on-demand (DOD) printer that allows a color and pattern to be placed on the bevel surface that matches the print design (décor pattern or face design) of the laminated flooring. Other devices are provided such as a device that takes a picture of or scans an image of the print design, and modifies the taken picture or the scanned image so that the edge pattern thereof matches with an edge pattern of the print design.

The invention concerns a print robot for large format three-dimensional printing on a fixed surface ( 11 ) having five motorized axes, comprising an inkjet printing block ( 13 ), means for displacing and orientating this printing assembly along several axes, at least one control unit controlling these means and a drying device to dry the ink sprayed onto said surface ( 11 ), wherein these means comprise: a carrier ( 15 ) with three degrees of freedom in translation, ensuring the positioning of the printing assembly allowing its horizontal, vertical and depth translation, a wrist ( 16 ) with two degrees of freedom which supports and orientates the printing assembly ( 13 ) allowing its rotations along two perpendicular axes. The invention also concerns a process implementing this robot.

Novel processes for printing high quality, high resolution, multi-color images on darkly colored fibrous or porous materials or other ink absorbing materials, is disclosed. The processes are effected by digitally printing a layer of an opaque, lightly colored ink composition, followed by digitally printing the colored image thereon, and optionally further involve applying a wetting composition prior to and/or subsequent to these printings. Processes utilizing wetting compositions and/or liquid ink compositions which can interact therebetween so as to effect a chemical and/or physical change in one or more of these compositions are further disclosed.

A method and apparatus for color printing on a dark textile piece, the method including the steps of digitally applying a white ink layer directly onto a textile piece, optionally curing the white ink layer, and digitally printing a colored image on said ink layer.

A printing system comprising a stencil printing apparatus and a digital printing apparatus for high speed printing of images having details of high resolution, rich colors, or variability, optionally also comprising a wetting apparatus operative to wet at least a part of the printed object prior to the digital printing.

Apparatus and methods are provided for providing publishers and authors with the organizational and creative tools to professionally create books inclusive of writing, graphics and multi-media. The apparatus and methods further enable users to design and format their publication with minimal effort. A text editor is used to manipulate the input in a “What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get” (W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G.) environment. The user is able to professionally design a publication. The publication is previewed with images of the “print-ready” publication. Publishing resource tools are provided that allow the publisher, author and other collaborators to create and edit content. The publisher and authors can select from provided design styles and images or upload their own images to create professional looking publications. The publication is converted to a “print-ready file” and or an e-book and stored in a database. A bookstore associated with the apparatus and methods allow books to be viewed and purchased.

Disclosed herein is a flooring comprising a surface layer made of a synthetic resin, and a wood-based board as a base. Preferably, the surface layer includes a printed layer formed by general gravure, transfer, heat-sublimation, silk screen or digital printing using a printer, a protective made of a synthetic resin, and a UV-curable or heat-curable surface treatment layer. The wood-based board is selected from plywood, medium-density fiberboard (MDF), high-density fiberboard (HDF), particle board, and resin-wood flour composite board. The flooring may further comprise a bottom layer laminated under the wood-based board for protecting the flooring against moisture from the bottom. The flooring is cut into pieces having an appropriate size, and the pieces are processed into a finished product in a tongue and groove (T & G) shape.

A duct tape and a method of making a duct tape having a customized, printed design on a surface of the duct tape. The method comprises providing a design for printing on the duct tape, digitally printing the design on the surface of the duct tape, and curing the ink printed on the duct tape with ultraviolet light in dual stages. The method further comprises applying on the digitally printed duct tape a material or composition having overcoat properties, release properties, or a combination thereof.

The invention relates to a device for printing by transfer onto a print support (10) comprising at least one blanket (30) driven in a sequential relative movement past a magazine (50) conveying the print supports (10), in which device the blanket (30) has a surface area greater than that of the print support (10), the device further comprising digital printing means (20) which print by spraying ink onto this blanket (30) over a variable area equal to that of the print support (10).

Methods and apparatus provide a means to rapidly develop and modify prototype surface coverings for customer review and approval, and fill the commercial pipeline while more conventional production equipment is obtained, installed and tested. The present apparatus to rapid prototype and fill the commercial pipeline includes a digital printing system to print a film and a press for laminating and embossing the printed film to a substrate. The press uses an embossing plate or roll, which is made from ebonite or by three-dimensional printing equipment. These plates and rolls can be produced within two or three days or less.

This invention pertains to inkjet printing on non-porous or low porous media and to a pretreatment solution for the non-porous or low porous media that allows high quality printing thereon. The preferred digitally printed inks are disperse dye or pigmented inks.

A reversible molding is disclosed having multiple decorative face which differ from one another by at least one property. Such properties can include texture, color, pattern or design or shape. The molding can suitably be used at the joint between a wall and floor or between a wall and ceiling. In one embodiment, the moldings are manufactured from wood, MDF or HDF, with a decorative surface selected from foil, laminate, veneer, paint, stain or digital printing.

A process for manufacturing three-dimensionally shaped polymeric sheets and laminates with color-matched digitally printed full color ink jet images. A flexible thermoformable polymeric baseweb is placed in an ink jet printer and a solvent-based (non-aqueous) digital printing ink is applied directly to the baseweb, in the absence of an ink receptive layer on the baseweb, to form a decorative pattern in multiple colors in a single pass through the printer. The finished product can be thermoformed or injection molded to a three-dimensional shape. A protective topcoat can be laminated to the digitally printed sheet prior to the thermoforming and/or injection molding step. A process for making color-matched products comprises producing a software-driven image of a pattern on a screen representing a standard color print pattern; evaluating and adjusting the standard displayed on the screen using software-driven image related adjustments for hue, contrast, lightness/darkness, etc.; producing a test print by applying a decorative pattern to the baseweb by a digital ink jet printer and making an optional software-driven image-related adjustment in the standard to color match the standard to the test print image; and when the adjusted standard image displayed on the screen is acceptable, passing an image-related output to the digital ink jet printer for printing a decorative print color-matched to the accepted onscreen standard.

A method of producing a floor panel (1), including providing a carrier (3) including a thermoplastic material, applying a primer comprising at least one salt, preferably a metal salt, on a first surface of the carrier (3), printing by means of digital printing a first print (10) on said first surface of the carrier (3) with an aqueous pigment ink composition, and applying a protective layer (4) on said first surface of the carrier (3) and applying the carrier (3) on a core (2) and pressing by applying heat and pressure the protective layer (4), the carrier (3) and the core (2) together to form a floor panel (1). Also, a method for forming a decorative substrate.

Surface covering having a wood pattern of expensive and/or limited available wood species can be formed by adhering a wood grain of the expensive and/or limited available wood species on a wood substrate of a less expensive, more common wood species substrate. The surface covering can be either solid, engineered wood or a laminate. If the wood grain of the substrate is dark or the wrong color, a pad coat or stain can be interposed between the substrate and the printed wood pattern. The printed wood pattern and/or pad coat can be applied to the substrate, whether wood or other material, in the form of a free-standing film.

The invention relates to an anti-counterfeiting printing method by using invisible two-dimensional codes. The anti-counterfeiting printing method is characterized in that at least four printing layers for printing are adopted, and comprises the following steps of: firstly, providing a digital serial number and splitting the serial number into three fields of which information is assigned to three groups of two-dimensional codes; secondly, printing one group of two-dimensional codes on a first layer by using aqueous ink black materials; thirdly, overprinting a grey isolating layer on the first two-dimensional code layer by using infrared non-absorbent materials to form a second layer; fourthly, overprinting a second group of two-dimensional codes on the second layer of the grey isolating layer by using the infrared non-absorbent materials to form a third layer; and finally, overprinting a third group of two-dimensional codes on the third two-dimensional code layer by using ultraviolet absorption materials to form a fourth layer. The method has the advantages of eliminating the possibility of imitation by scanning the two-dimensional codes and achieving relatively higher use value because the overprinting is performed in the same area in an offset printing and digital jet printing way and the upper printing layer covers the lower layer naturally.

The present invention relates to a method for printing fabric or leather product, and printed matter printed by using the same, the method comprising the steps of: a) forming a digital print layer by performing digital printing on a release transfer paper by using an inkjet printer; b) forming adhesive layer by coating the digital print layer with an adhesive, and drying for a predetermined time; and c) bonding fabric or leather product to the adhesive layer. Thus, the present invention can precisely print fabric or leather product with high resolution and can enable customized printing so as to allow small quantity batch production.

Direct remote digital/analog printing devices and mediums have been developed, which are capable of directly digitally printing on non-uniform or uniform substrate/mediums. Examples of devices are also capable of recognizing wireless digital or analog signals for processing and printing or directly scanning substrates using information (analog or digitally) encoded. The read/write devices can be remote and operate separately or can be attached to existing communications devices and products.

The present invention includes a curable ink composition for digitally printing onto plastic substrates and three dimensional objects comprising an ink composition comprising a pigment, an oligomeric component, a diluent, additives and a mono-functional monomer having a molecular weight of 10 g/mole to 600 g/mole. The curable ink composition adheres to the plastic substrate to thereby allow elongation of 100% to 900% of the printed ink image during thermal processing of the plastic substrate.

Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, and systems for an efficient user interface implemented on a touch screen for a digital reprographic machine. In particular, the touch screen may display various objects, such as icons or command buttons. In response to a user selecting one of these objects, a pop-up window is then provided on the touch screen. The pop-up window may comprise a list box or menu and its contents may be determined by the functions corresponding to the selected object. The pop-up window may remain open until the user selects one of the items, or touches an area of the touch screen that is outside of the pop-up window, or after a certain amount of time has elapsed, such as 10-15 seconds. When the user touches an item in the pop-up window, the pop-up window may close and a corresponding operation may be performed by the digital printing machine.

This invention pertains to a method of inkjet printing on fabric, comprising the steps of pretreatment, printing with a white underprint of substantially the same shape as the colored image and printing an image on the fabric. The preferred digitally printed inks are pigmented inks.

The invention discloses a clothes making method based on three-dimensional to two-dimensional clothes pattern seamless mapping. The clothes making method based on the three-dimensional to two-dimensional clothes pattern seamless mapping comprises the following steps: constructing a three-dimensional clothes model, and establishing a mapping relationship between the three-dimensional clothes model and a two-dimensional sample plate mesh model; designing a clothes pattern on the surface of the three-dimensional clothes model; calculating a pattern on the seam allowance of a two-dimensional sample plate; and carrying out digital printing, cutting and sewing of the two-dimensional sample plate to make real clothes. According to the clothes making method based on the three-dimensional to two-dimensional clothes pattern seamless mapping, the problems that registration and grid matching are complex, and seamless splitting can not be realized since the pattern continuity of the clothes is damaged in a conventional clothes making process at present are solved, the pattern of the clothes is more beautiful and intact when people wear the clothes, cloth is saved, and time and cost for registration and grid matching in the clothes making process are respectively shortened and reduced. The clothes making method based on the three-dimensional to two-dimensional clothes pattern seamless mapping has the advantages of specific algorithm, friendly interface and robust result.

What is disclosed is a system and method for encoding and decoding data in a color barcode pattern using dot orientation and color separability. The spectral (wavelength) characteristics of the CMY colorants, commonly used in digital printing, and those of RGB sensors are exploited to achieve high capacity data embedding rates in color barcodes. The present method embeds independent data in two different printer colorant channels using dot orientation modulation. In the print end, dots of two colorants occupy the same spatial region. At the detector end, by using the complementary sensor channels to estimate the colorant channels, data is recovered in each colorant channel. The method approximately doubles the capacity of encoding methods based upon a single colorant channel and enables embedding rates which match or exceed that of other hardcopy barcodes known in the arts. The method is robust against inter-separation misregistration with a small symbol error rate.

The invention discloses a natural silk and artificial silk digital printing technique, which belongs to the printing technical field. The technique comprises the following steps: read-write design of patterns, preparation of ink, pretreatment of textile fabrics, digital jet printing and so on. By addition of an environment-friendly self-crosslinking adhesive into the ink and adoption of the special heat-setting technique, the upper part and the lower part of a blank after sizing are tightly pressed and heated by two electric blankets; and the pressure is between 2 and 3kgf/cm<2>, and the heating temperature is between 200 and 280 DEG C. Products prepared by adoption of the technique still can not be faded after water scrubbing for a plurality of times and even under more severe experimental environments and maintain the prior color and the prior brightness.

A digital printing device is manually moved across a medium, and automatically prints an image on the medium by selectively engaging one or more print elements at positions corresponding to the image. Preferably, the printing device comprises a multi-element print head a pair of optical sensors which provide position and orientation data. A controller causes the print head to print the image responsive to the location and orientation determined by the optical sensors. The printing device may be hand-held and integrated into a personal digital assistant device.

An imaging member for ink-based digital printing having an outermost layer including a structured organic film (SOF) having a plurality of segments and a plurality of linkers arranged as a covalent organic framework, wherein the structured organic film may be multi-segment thick.

A digital printing machine includes a rigid frame, a first linear motion X axis stage mounted on the frame, a printing table assembly movable on each linear X axis stage, a linear motion Y axis stage mounted on the frame perpendicular to the linear X axis stages, above the printing table assemblies, and an array of inkjet nozzles mounted on the linear Y axis stage for linear motion perpendicular to the X axis stage, also a second linear motion X axis stage mounted on the frame parallel to the first axis stage and arranged for operation independently of the first axis stage, and/or a curing unit located above the printing table assembly and/or a pre-printing wetting assembly, for printing over garments, by applying wetting composition on the printed material, prior to printing.

An oil-free process for forming a fused toner image on a receiver includes forming on a receiver, an image including toner particles that contain a non-crosslinked linear polymeric binder, a wax, and a colorant; and contacting the receiver bearing the toner particle image with a fuser member containing a support, a cushion layer overlying the support, and a release layer overlying the cushion layer. The release layer includes a cured fluorocarbon thermoplastic random copolymer, a cured aminosiloxane copolymer, and a zinc oxide particulate filler. The cured fluorocarbon thermoplastics random copolymer contains —(CH₂CF₂)_x—, —(CF₂CF(CF₃)_y—, and —(CF₂CF₂)_z— subunits, wherein x is from 1 to 40 or 60 to 80 mole percent, y is from 10 to 90 mole percent, z is from 10 to 90 mole percent, and x+y+z equals 100 mole percent. The receiver in contact with the fuser member is subjected to conditions effective in the absence of a release oil for fixing the toner particle image to the receiver.

The invention discloses digital printing active dye jet ink, comprising the following ingredients in percentage by weight: 1.0-20% of active dye, 10-40% of viscosity regulator, 0.2-2% of surface tension regulator, 0.1-3.0% of pH value control agent, 0.3-1.5% of sterilizer and the balance of de-ionized water. The digital printing active dye jet ink provided by the invention is suitable for printing and dyeing textiles, such as real silk, pure cotton, numb, viscose and mixed fiber thereof, and especially has the advantages of better chromaticity, color fastness and color repeatability on wool textiles.

The invention relates to a thermal sublimation digital printing ink-jet ink and a preparation method thereof; the weight percentages of ink components are: (1) disperse dye: 1 to 10 percent; (2) dispersant: 1 to 10 percent; (3) organic solvent: 60 to 90 percent; (4) surfactant: 1 to 5 percent; (5) wetting agent: 1 to 5 percent; (6) defoamer: 1 to 5 percent. The preparation method comprises: (1) the disperse dye, the dispersant, the organic solvent, the wetting agent and the deformer are mixed at normal temperature, and a mixed solution can be obtained by stirring the mixture for 0.5 to 1 hour; (2) the mixed solution is homogenized for 0.5 to 5 hours under a high pressure homogenizer, and the stable-dispersed ink, the average particle size of the dispersed dye of which is 100 to 300 nanometers can be obtained; (3) the ink of magenta (M), cyan (C), yellow (Y), black (K), light cyan (Lc) or light magenta (Lm) can be obtained after the ink is filtered by a 2 microns filtering film and a 0.45 micron filtering film. The particle size of the thermal sublimation digital printing ink-jet ink of the invention is even in distribution and good in disperse stability and can be applied on the large scale piezoelectric type digital printing machines of the nozzles of XAAR and SPECTRA, etc and printed on polyester fabrics; ink jetting is smooth without blocking the nozzles; the thermal sublimation digital printing ink-jet ink can be stored for a long time; the patterns printed by the ink of the invention is colorful in color and the thermal sublimation digital printing ink-jet ink is good in color fixation rate, washing fastness and solarization fastness, is simple in the operation of the production method and is environment-friendly.