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US 4,366,542 AGranted
Controlling the operation of a printing equipment
AssigneeStork Brabant B.V.
InventorLodewijk Anselrode
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AssigneeStork Brabant B.V.
InventorLodewijk Anselrode
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Method and apparatus for establishing and maintaining control of the operation of a printing equipment such as for example the type of equipment which is used for printing fabric webs. The equipment includes a series of printing elements such as rotary screens each of which is required to apply a single color to the moving web and all of the colors required to be in registration. The type of equipment with which the invention is especially concerned has a plurality of printing elements and most often these comprise more than the number used in printing on paper and the like webs although the invention is applicable thereto. The invention is concerned with the operating parameters for the equipment and for the several printing elements, these being recorded on a suitable carrier for a given printing project and used for adjustment of the elements and related components of the printing equipment for repetitions of the same project, the information being recorded digitally. Various automatic adjustments provide substantial economy in setting up and operating the printing equipment.
A method for controlling the operation of a printing apparatus in which a substrate is passed through the apparatus and is operated on by a series of consecutive printing elements, each of which is capable of adjustment in accordance with a plurality of parameters, a given printing run requiring that all parameters of the respective printing elements have certain values which result in proper composition and registration of the images produced by the printing elements upon the substrate as it passes through, said method comprising:
In a printing apparatus in which a substrate is passed through the apparatus and is printed upon by a series of consecutive printing elements, each of which is adjustable in accordance with a plurality of parameters, there being an individual control device arranged to adjust each respective parameter, the invention herein which comprises:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.