Producing articles with multiple color inks
AssigneeThe Coca-Cola Company
InventorAllen Lineberry
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Abstract
Functionality is disclosed herein for producing articles with multiple color inks. A method of decorating, printing, or otherwise producing articles with multiple color inks includes continuously refilling an ink reservoir with multiple color inks in a sequential manner, and continuously applying the multiple color inks from the ink reservoir onto articles of manufacture to create decorated articles of manufacture.
Claims19
A printing process, comprising:
- continuously refilling an ink reservoir with multiple color inks in a sequential manner in response to the ink reservoir attaining a low threshold ink level, wherein the multiple color inks are miscible and are permitted to mix inside the ink reservoir;
- and
- continuously applying the multiple color inks from the ink reservoir onto articles of manufacture to create decorated articles of manufacture.
A method of producing articles of manufacture with multiple color inks, comprising:
- placing a first article of manufacture onto a first mandrel of a transfer drum, the transfer drum being configured to rotate the first mandrel in a first direction towards a printing drum;
- transferring a first color ink from a first ink reservoir onto the first article of manufacture;
- placing a second article of manufacture onto a second mandrel of the transfer drum, the transfer drum being configured to rotate the second mandrel in the first direction;
- and
- transferring a second color ink from the first ink reservoir onto the second article of manufacture;
- wherein the first color ink and the second color ink are miscible and are permitted to mix inside the first ink reservoir, and are selected from a first defined region of a color space to reduce or minimize mixing-shift.
A method of producing articles of manufacture with multiple color inks, comprising:
- transferring a first color ink from a first ink reservoir onto a first article of manufacture;
- and
- transferring a second color ink from the first ink reservoir onto a second article of manufacture, wherein the first color ink and the second color ink are miscible and are permitted to mix inside the first ink reservoir, and are selected from a first defined region of a color space.
A dry offset lithography process for decorating articles of manufacture with multiple color inks, characterized in that a first ink reservoir is continuously refilled with the multiple color inks in a sequential manner, further characterized in that the first ink reservoir is not fully emptied of the multiple color inks during printing, the process comprising:
- placing a first article of manufacture onto a mandrel;
- rotating the mandrel to transfer a first color ink from the first ink reservoir onto the first article of manufacture;
- placing a second article of manufacture onto the mandrel;
- and
- rotating the mandrel to transfer a second color ink from the first ink reservoir onto the second article of manufacture,
- wherein the first color ink and the second color ink are miscible and are permitted to mix inside the first ink reservoir.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.