UV curing for ink jet printer
AssigneeCon-Trol-Cure, Inc.
InventorStephen B. Siegel
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for printing a product, article or other object at a printing station and for enhancing the application of UV light at a curing station to UV photo initiators in a UV curable ink applied to a product, article or other object at the printing station, comprising the steps of, or mechanisms for: printing a UV-curable ink with a printing head on a product, article or other object at a printing station; providing sets of or including sets of UV-LED arrays of UV-LED chips at a curing station, and causing relative movement between the sets of UV-LED arrays and the printed product, article or other object.
Claims24
A method for printing a product, article or other object at a printing station and for enhancing the application of UV light at a curing station to UV photo initiators in a UV curable ink applied to the product, article or other object at the printing station, comprising the steps of:
- printing a UV-curable ink with a printing head on a product, article or other object at a printing station;
- providing sets of UV-LED arrays of UV-LED chips at a curing station, and
- causing relative movement between the sets of UV-LED arrays and the printed product, article or other object.
A UV-curing apparatus for use in conjunction with an ink jet printer or other printer for enhancing the application of UV light at a curing station to UV photo initiators in a UV curable ink applied to a product, article or other object at the printing station, comprising:
- sets of UV-LED arrays of UV-LED chips at the curing station adjacent a printing head at the printing station;
- and,
- a mechanism for causing relative movement between the sets of UV-LED arrays and the printed product, article or other object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.