Method and system for sectioning artwork from medium
AssigneeMatan Digital Printing LTD
InventorsYaron BAR-TAL, Avi ZAHAVI, Erez ZIMERMAN, Hanan YOSEFI, Ori AVIVI
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Abstract
A digital printing machine for printing onto a medium, the digital printing machine comprising a chassis, a digital print means, an advancing mechanism for advancing the medium; the machine further comprising a widthwise cutter coupled to the chassis, wherein the digital print means and the widthwise cutter are controlled by a common computer controller, thereby ensuring that the cutting of the cutter is in registration with printing by said digital print means.
Claims16
A digital printing machine for printing onto a medium, the digital printing machine comprising a chassis, a digital print means, an advancing mechanism for advancing the medium;
- the digital printing machine further comprising a widthwise cutter coupled to the chassis downstream of the digital printing means, characterized by the digital print means and the widthwise cutter following parallel tracks and being controlled by a common computer controller, thereby ensuring that the cutting of the cutter is in registration with the printing by said digital print means.
A method of producing individual separate printed items, comprising:
- (a) planning an array of said individual items on a medium in a wide format printing machine;
- (b) printing artwork of said individual items in the array across the media with the digital printing means;
- and,
- (c) cutting said media to separate said individual items with cutters, wherein said cutters are in alignment with said digital printing means downstream of said digital printing means and both the cutters and the digital printing means are controlled by the same computer controller so edges of said printed items are correctly aligned with the artwork, such that the artwork can be sectioned after it is printed without passing the artwork back past the digital printing means.
A method of producing individual separate printed items comprising:
- (i) providing a printing machine 100 comprising a digital printing means 117, cutters 130, 170 and a computer controller 150, wherein said cutters 130, 170 follow a known path with respect to the digital printing means 117, and providing the computer controller 150 with:
- (a) a first set of instructions for planning an array of said individual items on a medium 112 in a wide format printing machine 100;
- (b) a second set of instructions for printing artwork of said individual items in the array across the media 112 with the digital printing means 117;
- and,
- (c) cutting said media 112 to separate said individual items with cutters 130, 170, such that edges of said printed items are correctly positioned with respect to the artwork.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.