Multilayer Label Visualization for Overlay Error Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for creating composite labels by overlaying printed tapes often result in errors due to incorrect ordering, leading to a different appearance than desired.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes a computer-readable storage medium with program instructions for a printing device to acquire and display print data, allowing users to visualize the correct layering of images on a display, ensuring accurate overlay of print labels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If images are printed on multiple individual tapes and overlaid manually, then composite labels can be created with layered appearance, but errors occur due to incorrect ordering leading to wrong final appearance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a visual copy or representation of the layered label structure on a display device. This visual copy shows each tape layer and its position in the stack, allowing users to verify the correct ordering before physical assembly. The display generates an image that replicates the intended final appearance, enabling error detection without physical trial-and-error assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The display device acts as an intermediary between the digital print data and the physical tape assembly. It provides a visual mediation that translates abstract layer ordering information into concrete visual representation, helping users understand and verify the correct sequence of tape overlay before actual assembly occurs.
2Shape
If multiple tapes are overlaid to create composite labels, then layered appearance with gap in thickness direction is achieved, but user cannot understand correct bonding order without visual aid
Solution Approach 1:
The system generates a visual copy of the layered structure on display, showing each tape layer's position and the gap between layers in the thickness direction. This visual representation preserves and communicates the spatial arrangement information that would otherwise be lost when separating tapes for individual printing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent visualizes the three-dimensional layered structure with gap in thickness direction by projecting it into a two-dimensional display representation. The display shows the vertical stacking arrangement and relative positions, translating the third-dimensional spatial relationship into comprehensible visual format on a flat screen.
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AI summary
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores a set of program instructions executed by a computer included in an information processing device. The set of program instructions includes: acquiring first print data representing a first image; acquiring second print data representing a second image; outputting a first print instruction to print the first image on a first print medium; outputting a second print instruction to print the second image on a second print medium; and outputting, to a display, a display signal to display a multilayer illustrating image illustrating that the first image and the second image are arranged in layers after the outputting the first print instruction and the outputting the second print instruction are performed.