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AssigneeOce-Technologies B.V.
InventorsJeroen Coenen, Barry Goeree
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The invention relates to a method of printing a substrate using an inkjet printer which includes a holder to rotatably receive a roll on which the substrate is wound, a downstream print zone and an inkjet printhead for printing the substrate at the print zone, a transport means for engaging and transporting the substrate to the print zone during which transport the substrate is unwound from the roll, and a guide element which is situated downstream of the roll in front of the transport means to guide the substrate from the roll to the transport means, the method including the steps of transporting the substrate over a predetermined distance with control of the transport means, during which transport the guide element is moved from a first position which the guide element occupies prior to the transport, to a second position such that the distance over which the substrate extends between the roll and the transport means is smaller as a result of the movement and after the substrate has been transported over the predetermined distance, printing a strip of the substrate with control of the inkjet printhead, and after printing of the strip, the re-transport of the substrate over a predetermined distance during which the guide element is moved, which transport is followed by printing a following strip of the substrate, wherein the guide element is brought into the first position prior to the re-transport of the substrate.
A method of printing a substrate using an inkjet printer which includes a holder for rotatably receiving a roll on which the substrate is wound, a downstream print zone and an inkjet printhead for printing the substrate in the print zone, a transport means for engaging and transporting the substrate to the print zone during which transport the substrate is unwound from the roll, and a guide element which is situated downstream of the roll, in front of the transport means, to guide the substrate from the roll to the transport means, said method comprising:
An inkjet printer for printing a substrate, provided with a holder which contains a roll rotatably mounted thereon and on which the substrate is wound, a downstream print zone and an inkjet printhead for printing the substrate in the print zone, a transport means for engaging and transporting the substrate to the print zone, and a guide element which is situated downstream of the roll in front of the transport means to guide the substrate from the roll to the transport means, wherein the guide element is movably disposed in the printer in such manner that it can be moved between a first position in which the distance over which the substrate extends between the roll and the transport means has a first value, and a second position in which said distance has a second value which is less than the first value, said printer being provided with a control unit which ensures that the guide element occupies the first position directly prior to the transport of the substrate over a predetermined distance, having as its objective to make a strip of the substrate available for printing.
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