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US 12,565,050 B2Granted
Hybrid silk screen and direct-to-garment printing machine and process
AssigneeM&R Printing Equipment, Inc.
InventorsRichard C. Hoffman, Jr., Geoff Baxter
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Abstract
A hybrid printing machine is described having both silk screening stations and a direct-to-garment digital printing station with a raster image processor to control a portion of a printing process.
Claims19
A hybrid digital and screen printing system comprising:
- at least one digital-to-garment (DTG) printing station positioned proximate a conveyor and having a print head moveable into a printing zone, the print head has a plurality of print heads positioned in an array of rows and columns;
- a direct to screen (DTS) printing machine for preparing a silk screen for use in the DTG printing station;
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- a raster image processor (RIP) electronically coupled to the DTG printing station and the DTS printing machine, the RIP having a processor, and a memory storing computer-readable instructions.
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A method of printing an indicia on a substrate with a hybrid digital and screen printing press from a digital art file containing an electronic representation of the colors and their locations to be printed on a substrate to produce the indicia, the method comprising:
- providing a digital-to-garment (DTG) printing station having a print head for printing in a printing zone;
- providing a direct to screen (DTS) printing machine for preparing a silk screen for use in the DTG printing station;
- sending a first signal to the DTS printing machine representative of a base coat of the indicia;
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- sending a second signal to the DTG printing station representative of the non-base coat colors.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.