摘要:
Maintenance routines that can be used to maintain the operability of one or more DOD print heads in a card processing system. The maintenance routines can include, but are not limited to: a cover routine where a cover or cap is selectively and automatically located over the print head(s) to protect the print head(s); a shake pulse routine that energizes the nozzles of the print head(s) without causing an ejection of ink; a spit routine where the nozzles of the print head(s) are energized to eject one or more drops of ink; and a purge routine where the nozzles are not electrically energized but the pressure holding the ink in the nozzles of the print head(s) is reversed to push ink out of the nozzles.
摘要:
An image to be printed on a surface of a substrate that forms, or will be used in, a personalized security document is generated. The image to be printed is then sliced, divided, separated, etc. into a plurality of separate image portions. Each of the separate image portions is then printed onto the substrate. Together, the separate printed image portions form the desired image on the substrate. Each image portion contains only a portion of any confidential or personal information. Each separate image portion is printed using separate sections of a single print ribbon. Since each image portion is printed using a different section of the print ribbon, each ribbon section contains only a portion of any confidential or personal information. This makes it difficult for someone to obtain the confidential or personal information from just a brief or casual glance at the used print ribbon.
摘要:
The present invention provides a printing apparatus and a printing method which, even if print media of different sizes are printed, can print images in well-balanced, optimum layouts according to the size of each of the print media. Thus, the printing apparatus according to the present invention has leading end detector which detects a leading end of a print medium and trailing end detector which detects a trailing end of the print medium. The printing apparatus further has print control unit which prints images based on a first print data for which a print start position is determined on the basis of the leading end detected by the leading end detector and second print data for which a print start position is determined on the basis of the trailing end detected by the trailing end detector.
摘要:
The invention relates to a laser individualization apparatus (1) for documents (23) comprising: a control device (6); a laser beam generating device (5) for generating laser radiation (20) and a controllable beam guiding device (21) for directing the laser radiation (20) onto at least one document (23) in a manner controlled by the control device (6), in order to store individualization information in the at least one document (23) by means of laser interaction, wherein the laser individualization apparatus (1) is embodied in modular fashion by virtue of the laser beam generating device (5) being arranged in a beam generating module housing (4) and the controllable beam guiding device (21) being arranged in a functional module housing (2) formed separately from the beam generating module housing (4), which are connected or can be connected to one another in a releasable manner.
摘要:
The invention relates to a treatment machine for treating a series of cards, the treatment machine comprising a frame (102) with the following elements mounted thereon in series: a loading system; a first treatment module (114) for performing a first treatment on one of the surfaces of the cards; a second treatment module for performing a second treatment on one of the surfaces of the cards, at least one treatment module (114) being mobile between a first treatment position in which said mobile treatment module (114) treats the same surface as that on which the second treatment is performed and a second treatment position in which said mobile treatment module (114) treats the surface opposite that on which the other treatment is performed; a storage system; and a manually operated locking and unlocking means for locking said mobile treatment module (114) to the frame (102) and for unlocking said mobile treatment module (114) from the frame (102).