# US 11,442,676 B2 · Corrugator control information on a box liner

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- Number: US 11,442,676 B2
- Document ID: US11442676B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/760,319
- Filed: 2016-01-28
- Published: 2018-09-06
- Granted: 2022-09-13
- Earliest claimed: 2016-01-28
- Assignees: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
- Applicants: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
- Inventors: Jason Hower; Frank Perdicaro; Mun Yew Lee; Bryan Crampton
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11442676B2

## CPC

- G06F 3/125: {Page layout or assigning input pages onto output media, e.g. imposition}
- B41J 2/01: Ink jet
- B41J 3/01: for special character, e.g. for Chinese characters or barcodes
- B41J 3/28: for printing downwardly on flat surfaces, e.g. of books, drawings, boxes {, envelopes, e.g. flat-bed ink-jet printers}
- B41J 15/04: Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles
- G06F 3/1208: {resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview}
- G06F 3/1287: {via internet}
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- B41J: TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS

## Abstract

In one example, a printing system includes a print engine and a print engine controller operatively connected to the print engine to print, on a single substrate web, graphics for multiple different layouts of corrugated boxes to be lined with the web and machine readable images representing corrugator control information for making the multiple different layouts.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A printing system to print corrugated box liners for multiple different corrugated box layouts on a continuous web of a liner material in a single roll for laminating to a flute in a corrugator, the printing system comprising:
a print engine; and
a print engine controller operatively connected to the print engine and programmed to print on the continuous web of the liner material in the single roll:
a graphic for the multiple different corrugated box layouts; and
machine readable images representing corrugator control information for making the multiple different corrugated box layouts.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The printing system of claim 1, where each machine readable image representing corrugator control information includes at least one of:
an identification that uniquely identifies a single box or single group of boxes to a corrugator;
an identification that associates a single box or single group of boxes with a corrugator plan;
an indication of a location of a single box or single group of boxes on a printed web of the liner material; and
an instruction to cut and/or crease a single box or single group of boxes on a printed web of the liner material.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The printing system of claim 1, where the multiple different layouts of boxes include multiple different size and/or shape boxes.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The printing system of claim 1, where the print engine controller is programmed to:
receive graphic image data for the box layouts;
convert the graphic image data to graphic print data; and
transmit the graphic print data to the print engine to print the graphic on the continuous web of the liner material, based on the graphic print data, together with the machine readable images.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The printing system of claim 4, where the print engine controller is programmed to:
receive corrugator control image data for the machine readable images with corrugator control information for making the different layouts of boxes;
convert the corrugator control image data to control print data; and
transmit the control print data to the print engine to print the machine readable images on the single web of box liner material, based on the control print data, together with the graphic.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The printing system of claim 5, where the print engine controller is programmed to:
receive the corrugator control image data and the graphic image data together as integrated image data;
convert the integrated image data to integrated print data; and
transmit the integrated print data to the print engine to print the graphic and the machine readable images on the continuous web of the liner material based on the integrated image data.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The printing system of claim 1, where:
the graphic includes multiple different graphics each for a single box or a single group of boxes different from any other box or group of boxes on the web; and
the corrugator control information includes multiple single sets of corrugator control information each corresponding to one of the multiple different graphics.

### Claim 8 (depends on 2)

The printing system of claim 2, where each machine readable image representing corrugator control information includes an identification that associates a single box or single group of boxes with a corrugator plan.

### Claim 9 (depends on 2)

The printing system of claim 2, where each machine readable image representing corrugator control information includes an indication of a location of a single box or single group of boxes on a printed web of the liner material.

### Claim 10 (depends on 2)

The printing system of claim 2, where each machine readable image representing corrugator control information includes an instruction to cut and/or crease a single box or single group of boxes on a printed web of the liner material.