System and method for printing on lenticular sheets
OwnerWilliam Karszes, Jerry Nimsinventors
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Abstract
A system for printing on lenticular sheets, including a printer having a lenticular sheet feed tray for holding at least one lenticular sheet having a plurality of lenticules; a laterally reciprocating lenticular sheet sensor flushly disposed on the lenticular sheet feed tray for sensing parameters of the plurality of lenticules; a computing system in communication with the printer and the laterally reciprocating lenticular sheet sensor and configured to execute software modules for adapting an interphased graphical image to the parameters and printing the adapted interphased graphical image on the at least one lenticular sheet. Methods for printing on lenticular sheet and electronic systems for printing on lenticular sheet are also included.
Claims23
A system for printing on lenticular sheets, comprising:
- a printer having a lenticular sheet feed tray for holding at least one lenticular sheet having a plurality of lenticules;
- a laterally reciprocating lenticular sheet sensor flushly disposed on the lenticular sheet feed tray for sensing parameters of the plurality of lenticules;
- a computing system in communication with the printer and the laterally reciprocating lenticular sheet sensor and configured to execute software modules for adapting an interphased graphical image to the parameters and printing the adapted interphased graphical image on the at least one lenticular sheet.
A method for printing on lenticular sheets, comprising:
- disposing at least one lenticular sheet having a plurality of lenticules onto a lenticular sheet feed tray of a printer having a print head, the lenticular sheet feed tray having a reciprocating lenticular sheet sensor;
- scanning the lenticular sheet with the reciprocating lenticular sheet sensor to determine parameters of the plurality of lenticules;
- selecting a graphical image;
- interphasing the graphical image;
- adapting the interphased graphical image to substantially match the parameters;
- and
- printing the adapted interphased graphical image to the lenticular sheet.
An electronic system for printing on a lenticular sheet having a plurality of lenticules comprising:
- an electronic input device for producing input signals;
- a display;
- a printer having a lenticular sheet feed tray for holding the lenticular sheet, the lenticular sheet feed tray having a reciprocating lenticular sheet sensor, the printer having a print head for printing ink dots on the lenticular sheet;
- an electronic memory storing a list of graphical images;
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- an electronic processor communicating with the memory and the display and responsive to the input signals to:
- determine parameters of the plurality of lenticules by the reciprocating lenticular sheet sensor;
- accept a selection of one of the graphical images by the electronic input device;
- interphase the selected graphical image based on the scanned parameters of the plurality of lenticules;
- adapt the interphased graphical image to the graphical image based on the scanned parameters of the plurality of lenticules;
- and
- instruct the printer to print on the lenticular sheet the adapted interphased graphical image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.