Cloth printing method and cloth printing device
AssigneeToshin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
InventorsKoichi Ichinose, Katsumi Dohi
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Abstract
Print unevenness is less likely to occur in the printing of a cylindrical fabric. A fabric printing method for performing color printing on a surface of a cylindrical fabric by using an inkjet mechanism, wherein either a shaft 20 or a plurality of printheads 31a to 31f constituting the inkjet mechanism, or both, are moved in the length direction X of the shaft 20 while rotating the shaft 20 to thereby perform helical printing on an outer surface of the fabric C to be printed placed on the shaft.
Claims4
A fabric printing method for performing color printing on a surface of a cylindrical fabric by using an inkjet mechanism,
- wherein either a shaft or a plurality of printheads constituting the inkjet mechanism, or both, are moved in the length direction of the shaft while rotating the shaft to thereby perform helical printing on an surface of the fabric to be printed placed on the shaft.
A fabric printing apparatus for performing color printing on a surface of a cylindrical fabric by using an inkjet mechanism, the apparatus comprising:
- a shaft that is inserted inside the fabric to be printed through an opening at one end to integrally support the fabric,
- an inkjet mechanism having a plurality of printheads aligned in the length direction of the shaft,
- a rotation mechanism for axially rotating the shaft,
- a moving mechanism for moving either the shaft or the inkjet mechanism, or both, in the length direction of the shaft, and
- a control unit for controlling the moving speed of the moving mechanism;
- wherein the control unit controls operation of the moving mechanism so that the shaft moves a distance corresponding to a printing pitch of each printhead along the length direction of the shaft at each rotation of the shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.