Printing system and process management device
AssigneeMimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.
InventorsTomohiko Takizawa, Shunsuke Akuta, Tsukasa Takeda
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A printing system 10 configured to generate a product of printing includes: a coater 14 that is a pretreatment machine configured to execute a pretreatment process of performing a predetermined pretreatment on a medium that is a target of the printing; a printer 16 that is a printing device configured to execute a print process of performing the printing by ejecting ink onto the medium after the pretreatment performed by the coater 14; and a controller 12 that is a process management device configured to propose a condition for the pretreatment process based on a condition for the product to be generated.
Claims14
A printing system configured to generate a product of printing, the printing system comprising:
- a pretreatment machine that is a device configured to execute a pretreatment process of performing a predetermined pretreatment on a medium that is a target of the printing;
- a printing device configured to execute a print process of performing the printing by ejecting ink onto the medium after the pretreatment performed by the pretreatment machine;
- and
- a process management device configured to propose a condition for the pretreatment process based on a condition for the product to be generated,
- wherein
- the medium is a fabric medium, and
- the pretreatment process is a coating process of coating the medium with a pretreatment agent;
- the process management device is configured to set the condition for the coating process based on a result of estimating a time required for executing the coating process.
A process management device used in a printing system configured to generate a product of printing, wherein the process management device proposes a condition for a pretreatment process of performing, with a pretreatment machine, a predetermined pretreatment on a medium that is a target of the printing, based on a condition for the product,
- wherein
- the medium is a fabric medium, and
- the pretreatment process is a coating process of coating the medium with a pretreatment agent;
- the process management device is configured to set the condition for the coating process based on a result of estimating a time required for executing the coating process.
A printing system configured to generate a product of printing, the printing system comprising:
- a pretreatment machine that is a device configured to execute a pretreatment process of performing a pretreatment of coating a fabric medium that is a target of the printing with a pretreatment agent including a plurality of types of substances;
- a printing device configured to execute a print process of performing the printing by ejecting ink on the medium after the pretreatment has been executed by the pretreatment machine;
- and
- a process management device configured to manage a condition for the pretreatment process, wherein
- the process management device manages the condition for the pretreatment process based on a substance weight ratio indicating an amount of each of the plurality of types of substances included in the pretreatment agent to be provided to the medium with respect to a unit weight of the medium,
- wherein
- the medium is a fabric medium, and
- the pretreatment process is a coating process of coating the medium with a pretreatment agent;
- the process management device is configured to set the condition for the coating process based on a result of estimating a time required for executing the coating process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.