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AssigneeOce-Technologies B.V.
InventorsChristophe Antoine LEYNADIER, Maria V. ORTIZ SEGOVIA, Jérôme O.R. GUERMONT, Arlette DEL AGUILA, Martinus G.M. LANGE, Catherine M.H.A. LE MAITRE
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A flatbed printer and a method for printing with a flatbed printer are disclosed. The flatbed printer includes a flatbed surface for placing media to be printed upon, a controller configured to control the printing of digital images on the media, a camera-projector system connected to the controller and situated above the flatbed surface, and a print head for ejecting recording material on the media. The method includes detecting an arbitrary position, an arbitrary shape, an arbitrary size and/or an arbitrary thickness of a media on the flatbed surface with a camera of the camera-projector system, projecting a digital image on the media with a projector of the camera-projector system, and printing the digital image on the media according to the projection by moving the print head over the flatbed surface.
A method for printing with a flatbed printer, the flatbed printer comprising a flatbed surface for placing a piece of media to be printed upon, a controller configured to control the printing of a digital image on the piece of media, a print head for ejecting recording material on the piece of media, and a camera system connected to the controller, the camera system having a reach of at least the entire flatbed surface, the method comprising the steps of:
A flatbed printer comprising:
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