Printing calibration process and method, and printing systems configured to print therewith

    公开(公告)号:US11575806B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-07

    申请号:US16972296

    申请日:2019-06-05

    发明人: Peter Morisse

    IPC分类号: H04N1/60 H04N1/405 H04N1/407

    摘要: A method for calibrating a printing process by applying a selected adjustment curve to an image input file to produce an output file. The adjustment curve is derived to match a target tonal response curve having a function value for 0 that is non-zero or has a discontinuity between 0 and 10%. The adjustment curve has a basic part selected from limited options and an intersecting highlight part derived using a 1-dimensional function having input parameters selected from limited options. The adjustment curve has a starting point (X1, Y1), a highlight curve part having a first slope at the starting point and a first intersection with the basic curve part at (X2, Y2). The first slope and first intersection are among the input parameters selected from limited options. The basic curve part has a second slope at a midrange point (X3>X2, Y3>Y2).

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBJECT-ANNOTATED TRAPPING

    公开(公告)号:US20220188047A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-16

    申请号:US17054238

    申请日:2020-06-22

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12 G06K15/02

    摘要: Computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and computer systems for preparing a digital artwork document for printing. An input digital artwork document is modified to enhance or avoid a physically printed result by generating an output digital artwork document containing digital objects that align to the one or more features of one or more portions of the artwork, such as for use in trapping, reverse trapping, or pullback of objects, providing rich black, white underprint, or spot varnish. The digital objects are generated in accordance with a combination of first and second sets of instructions, such as a first set generated by a computerized expert system, and the second set created as an exception to the first set. The output document is annotated by storing at least one association between each instruction in the second set and each corresponding selected portion of the document governed by the instruction.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DERIVING A DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF AN UNFOLDED BLANK AND FOR COST ESTIMATION BASED UPON THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20210350037A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-11

    申请号:US17095803

    申请日:2020-11-12

    IPC分类号: G06F30/12 G06K19/06

    摘要: A computer-implemented method for creating a computer-aided design (CAD) corresponding to a 2-dimensional rendering of an unfolded blank configured for manipulation into a 3-dimensional shape. The method includes obtaining a first digital, non-CAD design file containing information relating to the unfolded blank geometry but lacking metadata that defines cut or crease lines separately from surrounding content, and deriving, with a computer processor, a digital representation of the unfolded blank geometry based upon the first digital non-CAD design file. The digital representation includes defined data corresponding to a shape having one or more defined cut and/or crease lines. A system for performing the method includes a computer processor and machine-readable media accessible by the computer processor comprising non-transitory, instructions readable by the computer processor for performing the method steps of defining the digital non-CAD design file and deriving the digital representation therefrom.

    Process for layout and printing of images in multiple lanes with different repeat lengths

    公开(公告)号:US10324666B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-18

    申请号:US16078118

    申请日:2017-02-22

    发明人: Johan Himpe

    摘要: A printing system including a printing mechanism, a substrate feeder, a print controller, and digital information stored on computer readable media. The digital information includes one or more rows of a first image having a first repeat length side by side with one or more rows of a second image having a second repeat length different from the first repeat length, the first image side by side with the second image comprising a series of composite image groupings. The print controller is configured to access the stored digital information and control the print mechanism to cause the first and second images to be printed on a continuous web of substrate without excess white space between adjacent images or discontinuities caused by the different first and second repeat lengths, by periodically physically shifting the substrate in a reverse direction or by digitally shifting the image groupings before printing them.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING A DESTINATION VARIABLE DOCUMENT FROM A SOURCE VARIABLE DOCUMENT HAVING RECURRING AND VARIABLE CONTENT
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    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING A DESTINATION VARIABLE DOCUMENT FROM A SOURCE VARIABLE DOCUMENT HAVING RECURRING AND VARIABLE CONTENT 有权
    从具有可回收和可变内容的可变文档中优化目标可变文档的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20140104628A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-04-17

    申请号:US13650924

    申请日:2012-10-12

    IPC分类号: G06F17/00 G06K15/00

    CPC分类号: G06T11/60

    摘要: Methods, and computer systems and computer program products for performing them, for storing a destination document from a source document. Recurring content in the source document is flattened and stored in a first memory location, and then for each page in the source document, the page is flattened using the variable and (stored) recurring content, and portions influenced by the variable content are extracted and stored in a second memory location The content in the first and second memory locations may be optionally color converted from a source color space to a device color space and stored in third and fourth memory locations, respectively. For each page n, a new page is added to the destination document comprising the flattened, recurring content stored in the first (or third, if color-converted) memory location and the flattened, variable content stored in the second (or fourth, if color-converted) memory location.

    摘要翻译: 方法,以及用于执行它们的计算机系统和计算机程序产品,用于从源文档存储目的地文档。 源文档中的重复内容被平坦化并存储在第一存储器位置中,然后对于源文档中的每个页面,使用变量和(存储的)循环内容来平坦化页面,并且提取受变量内容影响的部分, 存储在第二存储器位置中。第一和第二存储器位置中的内容可以可选地可选地从源色彩空间颜色转换到设备颜色空间并且分别存储在第三和第四存储器位置中。 对于每个页面n,将新页面添加到目的地文档,其中包括存储在第一(或第三,如果颜色转换)存储器位置中的展平的重复存储的内容,以及存储在第二(或第四,如果 颜色转换)内存位置。

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING GRAPHIC FILES FOR PRINTING

    公开(公告)号:US20210294551A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-23

    申请号:US17112318

    申请日:2020-12-04

    发明人: Johan Himpe

    IPC分类号: G06F3/12

    摘要: A workflow method for creating a printed sheet from a graphics file and an associated job description. The graphics file and an associated job definition are received in a digital front end (DFE), and a raster imaging processor (RIP) in the DFE converts the graphics file from a native format to RIPped data and stores the RIPped data in digital storage. A print controller retrieves the RIPped data from the digital storage and streams the RIPped data as an output. A communication interface, connected to a screening engine processor, receives the streamed RIPped data and the job definition from the DFE and converts the streamed RIPped data to converted RIPped data having a format readable by the screening engine processor, and to pass information from the screening engine processor to the DFE.

    Method for producing center scan image output using an over scan RIP technique to generate an output bitmap image pixel values

    公开(公告)号:US10789516B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-29

    申请号:US16315310

    申请日:2017-07-06

    IPC分类号: G06K15/02 H04N1/387 G06K9/36

    摘要: A raster image processing system including a computer readable media storing digital information that includes information corresponding to an image, and instructions for performing raster image processing (RIP) using an over scan RIP technique on the image to generate a bitmap. Also included is a processor configured to RIP the image using the over scan RIP technique at a multiple of the desired output pixel resolution to produce a plurality of sub-pixels per output pixel. The processor is further configured to determine each image output pixel value based on the values set for the plurality of sub-pixels of each image pixel, by firstly comparing the values of the plurality of sub-pixels to each other and, and then secondly comparing the values of the plurality of sub-pixels to a set background value if needed. The processor then sets the output pixel value based upon that second comparison, and generates a bitmap.

    METHOD FOR SMOOTHER TONAL RESPONSE IN FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING

    公开(公告)号:US20190315141A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-17

    申请号:US16303038

    申请日:2017-05-26

    摘要: A process for creating a flexographic plate or a mask for producing a flexographic plate, including providing a screen having a resolution defined by a base pattern of equally sized screen spots, each screen spot comprising a smallest exposed discrete element represented on the screen. In at least a non-solid tonal portion of the plate or mask, the size of physical spots are selectively modulated such that each set of four neighboring physical spots in the base pattern has an unexposed area centered therebetween. Each screen spot in the base pattern may be an exposed pixel surrounded by 8 unexposed pixels, each physical spot corresponding to the resolution of a laser beam for exposing the spots on the mask, in which the imaging step includes boosting power of the laser beam for isolated pixels relative to non isolated pixels. Mask and plates, and imaging systems for creating them, are also disclosed.