Method for producing a printed can lid
AssigneeArdagh Metal Beverage Europe GmbH
InventorsWerner Noll, Olaf Joeressen
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Abstract
A method for manufacturing a printed can lid (1) of a can with a digital printing method; comprising at least the following steps: a) making available a shell (2) with an outer face (3) and an inner face (4); b) making available a control unit (9) and a printed image (8), wherein the printed image (8) can be processed in the control unit (9); c) making available at least a first digital printing unit (10) with at least one printing head (11); wherein the printed image (8) which is made available by the control unit (9) can be printed onto the outer face (3) with the printing head (11); and d) printing the printed image (8) which is made available by the control unit (9) onto the outer face (3) with the printing head (11).
Claims12
Method for manufacturing a printed can lid of a can with a digital printing method;
- comprising at least the following steps:
- (a) making available a shell with an outer face and an inner face, wherein the shell has, at least on the outer face, at least one structure which predefines a first orientation of the shell, and therefore a first position of a printed image which is to be applied to the outer face;
- (b) making available a control unit and a printed image, wherein the printed image can be processed in the control unit, and wherein in the control unit there are a multiplicity of printed images which are each rotated by a predefined angular value;
- (c) making available at least a first digital printing unit with at least one printing head;
- wherein the printed image which is made available by the control unit can be printed onto the outer face with the printing head;
- (d) detecting the first orientation of the shell by the control unit;
- (e) determining a first position of the printed image which is to be applied, as a function of the detected first orientation;
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- (f) making available a printed image which is generated computationally as a function of the first position in the control unit, for the at least one first digital printing unit, wherein a printed image which is oriented in a way matching the first orientation by the control unit is selected and is made available for the first digital printing unit;
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- (g) printing the printed image which is made available by the control unit onto the outer face with the printing head, wherein the printed image which is made available by the control unit is printed onto the outer face in the first position with the printing head.
Method for manufacturing a printed can lid of a can with a digital printing method;
- comprising at least the following steps:
- (a) making available a shell with an outer face and an inner face, wherein the shell has, at least on the outer face, at least one structure which predefines a first orientation of the shell, and therefore a first position of a printed image which is to be applied to the outer face;
- (b) making available a control unit and a printed image, wherein the printed image can be processed in the control unit;
- (c) making available at least a first digital printing unit with at least one printing head;
- wherein the printed image which is made available by the control unit can be printed onto the outer face with the printing head;
- (d) detecting the first orientation of the shell by the control unit;
- (e) determining a first position of the printed image which is to be applied, as a function of the detected first orientation;
- and
- (f) making available a printed image which is generated computationally as a function of the first position in the control unit, for the at least one first digital printing unit;
- and
- (g) printing the printed image which is made available by the control unit onto the outer face with the printing head, wherein the printed image which is made available by the control unit is printed onto the outer face in the first position with the printing head;
- wherein between the steps (d) and (g) the shell is fed to the first digital printing unit in a feed direction, wherein only before step (d) the shell is moved in a lateral direction, perpendicularly with respect to the feed direction, and is aligned therewith.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.