Shaping device, shaping method, and shaping system
AssigneeMimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaru OHNISHI, Kazuhiro OCHI
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Abstract
A shaping device, that shapes a three-dimensional object, includes an ink jet head that discharges an ink to become a material of shaping; and an ink supplying unit that supplies a pre-toned ink, which is the ink toned in advance in accordance with a color to be colored on the 3D object, to the ink jet head, where the ink jet head forms at least one part of the 3D object while coloring the one part with the color of the pre-toned ink by discharging the pre-toned ink.
Claims19
A shaping device that shapes a three-dimensional object, the shaping device comprising:
- an ink jet head that discharges an ink to become a material of shaping;
- and
- an ink supplying unit that supplies a pre-toned ink, which is the ink toned in advance in accordance with a color to be colored on the three-dimensional object, to the ink jet head, wherein
- the ink jet head forms at least one part of the three-dimensional object while coloring the at least one part with the color of the pre-toned ink by discharging the pre-toned ink.
A shaping method for shaping a three-dimensional three-dimensional object, the method comprising the steps of:
- supplying a pre-toned ink, which is the ink toned in advance in accordance with a color to be colored on the three-dimensional object, to an ink jet head that discharges an ink to become a material of shaping;
- and
- forming at least one part of the three-dimensional object while coloring the at least one part with a color of the pre-toned ink by discharging the pre-toned ink from the ink jet head.
A shaping system that shapes a three-dimensional object, the shaping system comprising:
- a shaping device that shapes the three-dimensional object;
- and
- an ink toning unit that carries out toning of an ink, wherein
- the shaping device includes:
- an ink jet head that discharges an ink to become a material of shaping;
- and
- an ink supplying unit that supplies a pre-toned ink, which is the ink toned in advance in accordance with a color to be colored on the three-dimensional object, to the ink jet head,
- the ink toning unit carries out the toning of the pre-toned ink using at least an ink of a color of a plurality of chromatic colors, and
- the ink jet head forms at least one part of the three-dimensional object while coloring the at least one part with a color of the pre-toned ink by discharging the pre-toned ink.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.