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US 11,447,648 B2Granted
Process and system for printing images on absorptive surfaces
AssigneeKornit Digital Ltd.
InventorOfer Ben-Zur
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Abstract
A novel process for printing high quality, high resolution, multi-color images on fibrous or porous materials or other ink absorbing materials, or on materials having high surface tension with a liquid ink, and especially over garments, is disclosed. The process is effected by applying a wetting composition, prior to, concomitant with and/or subsequent to applying an ink composition and formation of the images. Pre-printing and printing systems for executing the above process are further disclosed.
Claims7
A process of inkjet printing an image on a garment, comprising:
- (a) loading a garment on a garment handling assembly of a printing machine;
- (b) prior to any printing step, causing an ironing unit of the printing machine to iron the garment while loaded on the garment handling assembly;
- (c) causing an inkjet printing assembly of the printing machine to print the image on the ironed garment on the garment handling assembly;
- and
- (d) unloading the printed garment from the garment handling assembly,
- wherein the motion of the garment handling assembly to move the garment handling assembly with loaded garment to the ironing unit and the printing assembly, within the printing machine, is controlled by a computer.
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A printer for printing an image on a garment, comprising:
- a garment handling assembly onto which a garment can be loaded for printing;
- an ironing unit that effects ironing of a garment loaded on said garment handling assembly;
- an inkjet printing assembly that prints an image onto the ironed garment loaded on said garment handling assembly;
- and
- a computer that controls the motion of the garment handling assembly with respect to said ironing unit and said inkjet printing assembly such that said garment handling assembly is moved to said ironing unit prior to being moved to any inkjet printing assembly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.