Printer loading and feeding
AssigneeKornit Digital Ltd.
InventorZvi Ben Ichay
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Abstract
A loading and printing system for textile printing, carrying textile from a loading station to a printing area, has a loading path including at least one loading station, and a printing path with at least one printing functional unit for carrying out a printing function on the textile. The loading path and printing path are separate and mutually disconnected and the loading path may provide pallets loaded with the textile to the printing pallet path as needed and receive the loaded pallets in return after printing.
Claims24
A loading and printing system for textile printing, using pallets to carry textile from a loading station to a printing area, the system comprising:
- a. at least one loading station;
- b. at least one loading path associated with said at least one loading station;
- c. at least one printing functional unit for carrying out a printing function on the textile;
- d. at least one printing path associated with said at least one printing functional unit the at least one loading path thereby to provide loaded pallets to the printing path as needed;
- e. a controller;
- wherein said controller comprises instructions for sending a respective pallet to a designated sequence of printing paths for maximum utilization of the printing paths.
A loading and printing method for textile printing, using pallets to carry textile from a loading station to a printing area, the method comprising:
- loading pallets of textile onto at least one loading path;
- transferring said pallets from said at least one loading paths to a specific printing path;
- carrying out at least one printing function on the textile on said printing path at said printing area;
- Wherein said method further comprises:
- a. determining a maximum utilization of the system;
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- b. said transferring said pallets from said at least one loading path to a specific printing path is done according to a best utilization algorithm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.