Printing device
AssigneeKoenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsRainer Eck, Michael Koblinger, Karl Erich Albert Schaschek
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Abstract
A printing device includes a plurality of print heads, each of which has a printing zone. An extension of this printing zone in a direction of printing defines a line height and an extention of this printing zone perpendicular to the direction of printing defines a column width. The printing heads are arranged in several parallel rows which are located at a distance from one another. The print heads in different rows are offset in relation to each other direction perpendicular to the direction of printing. A separation distance between the print heads in each row corresponds to the column width multiplied by the number of rows. The distance between the rows corresponds to the line height multiplied by the number of rows plus one.
Claims7
A printing device comprising:
- a plurality of print heads, each said print head defining a printing area;
- a number of parallel rows of said print heads, said rows being spaced apart from each other in a print direction at a row spacing distance, ones of said print heads in each said row being spaced apart at a print head spacing distance and being offset from the ones of said print heads in other ones of said number of rows in a direction transverse to the print direction;
- a line height fixed by an extension of said printing area in the print direction;
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- a column width fixed by an extension of said printing area in a direction transverse to the print direction, said print head spacing distance corresponding to said column width times said number of rows, said row spacing distance corresponding to said line height times said number of rows increased by one.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.