Fabric printing on nested patterns, and associated print systems and products thereof
OwnerAsaf LANDAU, Ron GRINFELD +2inventors
InventorsAsaf LANDAU, Ron GRINFELD, Ghilad DZIESIETNIK, Guy ALROY
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Abstract
Disclosed are methods that couple effective nesting of fabric, as part of a textile cutting process, in which designs and/or graphic elements are directly printed on the nested elements, instead of on the entire textile sheet. Embodiments of the invention can address issues of waste and redundant printing, such as by starting with a blank textile roll, and printing only in the geometry areas of the patterns. Embodiments of the invention can increase fabric yield, because there are no constraints between the pattern geometries and the textile sheet print.
Claims17
A process for printing fabrics, comprising:
- defining one or more cut patterns, each corresponding to parts for a product;
- creating a graphic design of the product;
- nesting the graphic design and the cut patterns to define positions with respect to a fabric, to output a nested graphic design for printing on the fabric;
- printing the nested graphic design on the fabric to produce a printed fabric having one or more nested patterns;
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- outputting the printed fabric having a nested patterns.
A system, comprising:
- a design module configured for:
- defining one or more cut patterns, each corresponding to parts for a product;
- and
- creating a graphic design of the product;
- a mechanism configured for nesting the graphic design and the cut patterns to define positions with respect to a fabric, to output a nested graphic design for printing on the fabric;
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- a printer for printing the nested graphic design on the fabric to produce a printed fabric having one or more nested patterns;
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- wherein the output printed fabric includes the nested patterns.
A fabric product produced by a process, the process comprising:
- defining one or more cut patterns, each corresponding to parts for the fabric product;
- creating a graphic design of the product;
- nesting the graphic design and the cut patterns to define positions with respect to a fabric, to output a nested graphic design for printing on the fabric;
- printing the nested graphic design on the fabric to produce a printed fabric having one or more nested patterns;
- outputting the printed fabric having a nested patterns;
- cutting the output printed fabric having the nested patterns, based on the cut patterns, to create the parts of the product;
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- sewing the parts together to produce the product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.