CN214188952U

CN214188952U - Ink-jet printing device

Info

Publication number: CN214188952U
Application number: CN202022731144.8U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张原�; 张征宇
Original assignee: Beijing Meikeyi Digital Technology Development Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Meikeyi Digital Technology Development Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-24
Filing date: 2020-11-24
Publication date: 2021-09-14
Anticipated expiration: 2030-11-24

Abstract

The utility model discloses an inkjet printing device, printing device include the printing unit, walk material unit, solidification unit and the control unit. The printing unit comprises a printing trolley; the feeding unit is arranged below the printing unit and used for mounting an object to be printed and driving the object to be printed to rotate; the curing range of the curing unit covers the image-text area sprayed by other ink nozzles except the transparent ink nozzle in the ink jet process, but the curing unit can not irradiate the transparent ink area sprayed by the transparent ink nozzle, the curing unit moves synchronously with the printing trolley, and the control unit controls the reciprocating motion of the printing trolley along the first direction, the ink drop spraying when each nozzle reaches the upper part of the area to be printed, the rotating motion of the object to be printed and the curing operation of the curing unit. The utility model discloses printing the dolly and passing through once and accomplish whole picture and text after waiting to print the object and print promptly and print, colored ink droplet solidifies in real time, and transparent ink droplet solidifies after the levelling, ensures transparent effect, and shortens the print time, improves work efficiency.

Description

Ink-jet printing device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an use inkjet printing device that UV ink printed, the regional inkjet printing device that covers the picture and text region that other ink shower nozzles spray except transparent ink shower nozzle of solidification of a UV ink solidification equipment that specifically says so.

Background

The ink jet printing device is generally applied to various industries, and mainly forms a printing of a required image or characters by ejecting ink drops from a nozzle and landing the ink drops on a corresponding position of a medium to be printed. Among three types of ink commonly used, solvent-based ink, water-based ink, and UV ink, UV ink is widely used with the advantages of fast curing speed, wide applicable media, environmental protection, and the like. After printing with UV ink, a curing device is needed to be matched with the UV ink to cure the ejected pictures and texts, the structural design of the printing device is different, the mounting mode and the mounting position of the curing device are also different, one mounting mode is shown in figure 1, namely, the

curing devices

8a and 8b in the scanning type ink-jet printing device are generally arranged at two sides of a printing nozzle 9, the printing nozzle 9 is arranged along the length direction of the nozzle (printing paper feeding direction, namely Y direction), all the nozzles are arranged side by side in parallel at a certain interval, the printing nozzle 9 can be provided with colorful UV ink (cyan C, magenta M, yellow Y and black K), the setting directions of the

curing devices

8a and 8b are parallel to the length direction of the nozzle (printing paper feeding direction, namely Y direction), and the curing range of lamp beads along the Y direction covers the spraying range of one nozzle, the curing device can also select to install only one

curing device

8a or 8b at one side of the printing nozzle 9, in the printing process, the printing medium is fixed below the spray head, the printing trolley 10 drives the printing spray head 9 and the

curing devices

8a and 8b on the printing trolley to move back and forth along the X direction, the printing spray head 9 sprays ink drops on the medium to be printed in the back and forth movement process, and the ink drops sprayed on the medium to be printed are cured through the

curing devices

8a and 8 b.

In addition, another installation mode is that the curing device is separately arranged from the printing nozzle, for example, as shown in fig. 2, the printing nozzle (not shown in the figure) is installed below the printing trolley 2, the printing trolley 2 can reciprocate along the cross beam 1, the object to be printed 7 (a cylindrical rotatable object) is installed below the cross beam 1, the curing device 6 is installed below the object to be printed 7, and is respectively arranged as two independent modules with the printing trolley 2 for independent control, the curing device 6 is fixed during the printing process, and the curing range of the curing device 6 is greater than or equal to the width of the image-text to be printed on the object to be printed 7. In the printing process, the object 7 to be printed rotates around the central axis of the object, the printing trolley 2 moves continuously along the cross beam 1, the printing nozzle sprays ink drops to the rotating object 7 to be printed to form images and texts in the moving process, and meanwhile, the UV lamp in the curing device 6 cures ink on the object 7 to be printed in real time. The above introduction is a situation that only color ink is printed without printing transparent ink, if printing of transparent ink needs to be superimposed after color image-text printing is completed, because leveling needs to be performed for some time after the transparent ink is ejected to a medium to be printed, real-time curing cannot be directly performed by using a UV lamp, otherwise an uneven transparent surface appears, color ink printing needs to be completed and color ink curing is performed synchronously, then a UV lamp of the curing device 6 is turned off, the printing trolley 2 moves back to an initial position along the cross beam 1 and then the transparent ink is ejected independently, after printing of transparent ink droplets is completed and leveled, the UV lamp of the curing device 6 is turned on again to cure the transparent ink, so that the printing trolley 2 needs to go back and forth at least twice along the cross beam 1 to complete the printing process of color and transparent ink of an object to be printed, and the printing time is increased, resulting in a reduction in printing efficiency. Therefore, it is necessary to design a new curing method, which can eject the transparent ink along with the color ink and complete all printing operations in the process of passing over the object to be printed once, without affecting the leveling and curing of the transparent ink, thereby improving the printing efficiency.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

To solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an inkjet printing apparatus in which transparent ink can be simultaneously discharged with color ink in a single pass through the process of the object to be printed.

In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides an inkjet printing device, including printing unit, walking material unit, solidification unit and the control unit, the printing unit includes the printing dolly, and the printing dolly can carry out reciprocating motion along the first direction, installs the shower nozzle on the printing dolly, and the shower nozzle includes colored ink shower nozzle and transparent ink shower nozzle; the feeding unit is arranged below the printing unit and used for mounting an object to be printed and driving the object to be printed to rotate around a central shaft of the object to be printed; the printing trolley is characterized in that the curing unit moves synchronously with the printing trolley, the control unit controls the reciprocating motion of the printing trolley, the ink drop ejection when each spray head reaches the upper part of the area to be printed, the rotating motion of the object to be printed and the curing operation of the curing unit, and the printing trolley finishes all image-text printing after passing through the object to be printed in one pass.

In the above inkjet printing apparatus, the bead arrangement direction of the curing unit is parallel to the nozzle arrangement direction on the length of the nozzle.

In the above inkjet printing apparatus, the curing range of the curing unit in the ink discharging process is a range that covers the image-text area ejected by the other ink heads except the transparent ink head, but cannot irradiate the transparent ink area ejected by the transparent ink head.

In the above inkjet printing apparatus, the bead curing range L of the curing unit is: d is less than or equal to L less than or equal to (D + D), wherein D represents the total width of ink drops jetted by other ink nozzles except the transparent ink nozzle, and D represents the distance between the transparent ink nozzle and the adjacent ink nozzle beside.

In the ink jet printing device, the nozzles on the printing trolley are sequentially arranged in series at equal intervals along the first direction from head to tail in the length direction of the nozzles, and the nozzle connecting lines in the length direction of each nozzle are coaxial and parallel to the first direction.

In the above ink jet printing apparatus, the printing carriage is provided with three nozzles in sequence: the ink jet head comprises a first nozzle, a second nozzle and a third nozzle, wherein the first nozzle is provided with four rows of nozzles which are all used for connecting white ink; the second nozzle is provided with four rows of nozzles which are respectively connected with black ink, cyan ink, magenta ink and yellow ink; the third nozzle has four rows of nozzles all for connecting transparent ink.

In the ink jet printing device, the printing trolley is sequentially provided with four nozzles: the ink jet head comprises a fourth nozzle, a first nozzle, a second nozzle and a third nozzle, wherein the fourth nozzle is connected with the pretreated ink, the first nozzle is connected with the white ink, the second nozzle is connected with the colored ink, and the third nozzle is connected with the transparent ink.

In the above inkjet printing apparatus, the object to be printed is a cylinder, the region to be printed is a cylindrical object or a cone, and the region to be printed is a conical object.

In the above inkjet printing apparatus, the curing unit may be located above, below, or at a side position of the object to be printed.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model, the beneficial effect who gains lies in: to current printing device who prints cylinder or cone, at the printing process of printing dolly continuous motion, transparent ink shower nozzle can follow the colored ink shower nozzle in the place ahead and carry out the china ink simultaneously, specifically speaking, at the in-process that the printing dolly passes through the object top of waiting to print once, other ink shower nozzles and transparent ink shower nozzle all spray the ink droplet and form complete printing picture and text, this process solidification equipment only carries out real-time solidification to the ink droplet that other ink shower nozzles jetted, and do not solidify transparent ink droplet in real time, thereby make transparent ink droplet have the levelling time and carry out the solidification of lagging again, ensure the printing effect of transparent ink, and shorten the print time to every object of waiting to print, improve work efficiency.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the position of a curing device and a print head on an inkjet printing cart in the prior art;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an inkjet printing apparatus for printing curved objects such as cylinders or cones in the prior art;

FIG. 3 is a front view of an ink jet printing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic top view of the position of the nozzle, the curing device and the object to be printed before printing according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic position diagram of each nozzle, an object to be printed, and a curing device when the white ink nozzle enters the printing area after printing starts according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic position diagram of each nozzle, an object to be printed, and a curing device when the white ink nozzle and the color ink nozzle enter the printing area after the printing starts according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic position diagram of each nozzle, an object to be printed, and a curing device when the white ink nozzle, the color ink nozzle, and the transparent ink nozzle all enter the printing area during the printing process according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic position diagram of each nozzle, an object to be printed, and a curing device when the white ink nozzle and the color ink nozzle leave the printing area during printing according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic bottom view of the curing device and the spray heads in accordance with still another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating the positions of the nozzles, the object to be printed, and the curing device during the printing process according to still another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a schematic position diagram of the nozzles, the object to be printed, and the curing device in fig. 10 after the nozzles and the curing device move a certain distance in the direction of the axis a;

FIG. 12 is a schematic left side view of the position of the nozzle, the object to be printed and the curing device in yet another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 13 is a schematic view showing the positions of the nozzles, the object to be printed, and the curing device in an embodiment in which the object to be printed is a cone;

fig. 14 is a printing flowchart according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The numbers in the figure are respectively expressed as: a beam 1, a printing trolley 2, an object to be printed mounting mechanism 3, a scraping maintenance device 4, a nozzle 5, a curing device 6A, a curing device 6B, a curing device 6C, a curing device 6D, a curing device 6E, a curing device 6F, a lamp bead 61, an object to be printed 7, a cone object to be printed 8, curing devices 8a and 8B, a printing nozzle 9, a printing trolley 10, a first nozzle 5a, a second nozzle 5B, a third nozzle 5C and a fourth nozzle 5D, a reciprocating direction X, a printing paper feeding direction Y, a first direction (A axis direction), a second direction (B direction), a C direction, a D direction, an A' direction, a white background layer M, a color image layer N, a transparent ink layer P, a region R which is a region sprayed by other ink nozzles except the transparent ink nozzle, a region S which is a transparent ink region, the curing range L and D of the lamp beads represent the total width of ink drops sprayed by other ink nozzles except the transparent ink nozzle, D represents the distance between the transparent ink nozzle and the adjacent ink nozzle beside the transparent ink nozzle, the boundary line u of the irradiation area at the tail end of the curing device, the boundary line v of the front end of the transparent ink drops sprayed by the transparent ink nozzle, and the included angle alpha between the curing device 6F and the horizontal direction.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention will be further described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the invention.

Fig. 3 shows the inkjet printing apparatus in an embodiment of the present invention, the inkjet printing apparatus includes a printing unit, a curing unit, a feeding unit and a control unit, the printing unit includes a printing cart 2, a nozzle 5 is installed on the printing cart 2, the UV ink is sprayed onto the object to be printed through the nozzle 5 to form a predetermined image or text, and the printing cart 2 can move back and forth along the cross beam 1 in a first direction (a axis direction). The curing unit comprises a curing device (blocked by a nozzle 5 in the figure), the curing device is arranged on the printing trolley 2, the irradiation range of lamp beads in the curing device only covers the spraying areas of the white ink nozzle and the color ink nozzle and cannot irradiate the transparent ink droplet area sprayed by the transparent ink nozzle, and the curing device moves along with the printing trolley 2, namely moves synchronously with the nozzle 5. The feeding unit comprises a to-be-printed object mounting mechanism 3, the to-be-printed object 7 is arranged on the to-be-printed object mounting mechanism 3 and is positioned below the cross beam 1, and the to-be-printed object 7 can perform rotary motion with a second direction (B direction), namely a self rotation center line, as a central axis under the driving of a driving motor (not shown in the figure). The control unit is used for controlling the reciprocating motion of the printing trolley 2 along a first direction (A axis direction), the ink drop ejection of the ejection heads 5, the rotating motion of the object 7 to be printed in a second direction (B direction) by taking a central axis of the object as a rotating center, and the curing operation of the curing device on ink, in the printing process, the control unit controls the printing trolley 2 to continuously move along the forward direction (A arrow direction) of the first direction, the object 7 to be printed is driven by the object mounting mechanism 3 to be printed to rotate at a constant speed in the second direction (B direction), all the ejection heads 5 on the printing trolley 2 are controlled to eject ink drops to an image-text area to be printed when passing through the object 7 to be printed in a pass, and meanwhile, other ink drops, except transparent ink drops, ejected by the curing device 5 are controlled. The utility model discloses a treat that printing object 7 can be for cylindric object or treat that the printing part is cylindric object, also can be for coniform object or treat that the printing part is coniform object. Further, a wiping maintenance device 4 may be provided on one side (right side when facing the printing device) of the cross member 1 below the initial position of the printing carriage 2, and the wiping maintenance device 4 may be used to wipe ink from the head 5 or perform maintenance processing.

The following is further described according to a schematic top view of the positions of the nozzles, the curing device and the object to be printed shown in fig. 4 before printing, and the printing cart in this embodiment is provided with three printing nozzles: the printing device comprises a first spray head 5a, a second spray head 5b and a third spray head 5c, wherein three printing spray heads are sequentially arranged in series at equal intervals from head to tail along the A axis direction according to the spray head length direction, and the nozzle connecting lines in the spray head length direction are coaxial and parallel to the A axis direction. Wherein the first head 5a has four rows of nozzles, all for connecting the white ink (W); the second head 5b has four rows of nozzles connected to black ink (K), cyan ink (C), magenta ink (M), and yellow ink (Y), respectively; the third head 5c has four rows of nozzles each for connecting transparent ink (V) and may not need to be connected when some kind of ink is not needed to eject the image. In practical situations, the number of print heads may be increased or decreased as needed, or two rows of nozzles may be used, and the selection and connection manner of different inks may also be changed as needed, and is not limited to the description in the above embodiments. A curing device 6A is further arranged on the printing trolley and on one side of the nozzle area in the drawing, all lamp beads on the curing device 6A are arranged along the axis A direction, namely the arrangement direction of the lamp beads on the curing device 6A is parallel to the arrangement direction of the nozzles on the length of the nozzle, the curing device 6A moves along with the printing trolley, and the illumination area of the lamp beads 61 of the curing device 6A covers the image-text area of the ink sprayed by the first nozzle 5a (white ink nozzle) and the second nozzle 5b (color ink nozzle), but cannot illuminate the area of the ink sprayed by the third nozzle 5c (transparent ink nozzle).

The following is a detailed description of the control process of the nozzle, the object to be printed and the curing device according to the position schematic shown in fig. 5-8, before the inkjet printing, the object 7 to be printed is placed on the object to be printed mounting mechanism, the placed object 7 to be printed moves vertically upward along with the lifting mechanism below the object to be printed mounting mechanism, and the distance from the plane where the nozzle orifice of the lower end of the printing cart 2 is located is the most suitable distance (generally between 1mm and 3 mm). Before printing begins, the printing trolley 2 is located at an initial position on one side in the first axis direction (the A axis direction), each spray head does not enter a printing area yet and does not spray ink drops, and the lamp beads of the curing device 6A are not lightened. After the start button is clicked, the control system controls the printing trolley 2 to continuously move along the forward direction (arrow direction A) of the first direction, the to-be-printed object mounting mechanism drives the to-be-printed object 7 to continuously rotate in the second direction (arrow direction B) around the central axis of the to-be-printed object, the spray head on the printing trolley 2 is controlled to spray ink drops, and meanwhile, the lamp beads on the curing device 6A are controlled to irradiate the ink drops. As shown in fig. 5, after the ink-jet printing is started, the first nozzle 5a (white ink nozzle) enters the area to be printed first along with the movement of the printing cart 2, the control system controls the nozzle of the first nozzle 5a (white ink nozzle) to eject white ink droplets onto the object to be printed 7 which continuously rotates to form a white background layer M, at this time, the curing device 6A which moves along with the printing cart 2 is in a lighted working state, and the second nozzle 5b (color ink nozzle) and the third nozzle 5c (transparent ink nozzle) which do not enter the area to be printed do not eject ink temporarily. With the continuous movement of the printing nozzle in the forward direction (arrow direction a) in the first direction, the second nozzle 5b (color ink nozzle) enters the area to be printed, the control system controls the nozzles of the first nozzle 5a (white ink nozzle) and the second nozzle 5b (color ink nozzle) to jointly spray ink droplets on the continuously rotating object to be printed 7, the color ink sprayed by the second nozzle 5b (color ink nozzle) covers the white background layer M sprayed by the first nozzle 5a (white ink nozzle) to form a color image layer N as shown in fig. 6, the curing device 6A moving together with the printing carriage 2 is always in a lighted working state, and the third nozzle 5c (transparent ink nozzle) which does not enter the area to be printed does not spray ink temporarily. With the continuous movement of the printing head in the forward direction (arrow direction a) in the first direction, the third head 5c (transparent ink head) also enters the area to be printed, the control system controls the nozzles of the first head 5a (white ink head), the second head 5b (color ink head) and the third head 5c (transparent ink head) to jointly eject ink droplets onto the continuously rotating object to be printed 7, the transparent ink ejected by the third head 5c (transparent ink head) covers the white background layer M ejected by the first head 5a (white ink head) and the color image layer N ejected by the second head 5b (color ink head) to form a transparent image layer P as shown in fig. 7, and the curing device 6A moving together with the printing cart 2 is always in a lighted working state. With the continuous movement of the print head in the forward direction (arrow a direction) in the first direction, after the print head passes over the region to be printed, the print head stops ejecting ink, as shown in fig. 8, the first print head 5a (white ink print head) and the second print head 5b (color ink print head) leave the print region, the first print head 5a (white ink print head) and the second print head 5b (color ink print head) do not eject ink droplets, and the third print head 5c (transparent ink print head) is still positioned over the region to be printed to eject transparent ink droplets, so as to form a transparent image layer P. Finally, after the third nozzle 5c (transparent ink nozzle) leaves the area to be printed, printing images are completely finished, the printing trolley 2 is located at the end position in the first axis direction (A axis direction), then the printing trolley 2 returns to the initial position along the reverse direction of the first direction (A arrow reverse direction), the curing device 6A is in a lighted working state to cure the transparent ink drops in the process of returning the printing trolley 2, and the process enables the transparent ink to achieve leveling (the leveling time needs about 1 second), so that the curing quality of the transparent image layer P can be ensured. After the curing is completed, the operator takes down the object to be printed 7 that has been printed, and places the next object to be printed, to perform the printing work of the next object to be printed.

Fig. 9 is a schematic view of the bottom view position of the curing device and the nozzles in another embodiment of the present invention, in which four printing nozzles are arranged on the printing cart 2 in this embodiment, from left to right (the nozzle entering the region to be printed is the left first): the four printing nozzles are sequentially arranged in series in the A-axis direction at equal intervals in the head-to-tail direction according to the nozzle length direction, and the nozzle connecting lines in the nozzle length direction share the same axis and are parallel to the A-axis direction. Wherein the fourth head 5d has four rows of nozzles for connecting the pre-treatment ink (P); the first head 5a has four rows of nozzles each for connecting white ink (W); the second head 5b has four rows of nozzles connected to black ink (K), cyan ink (C), magenta ink (M), and yellow ink (Y), respectively; the third head 5c has four rows of nozzles for connecting the transparent ink (V). A curing device 6B is further arranged on the printing trolley and on one side of the nozzle area in the drawing, all lamp beads on the curing device 6B are arranged along the axis A, namely the arrangement direction of the lamp beads on the curing device 6B is parallel to the arrangement direction of the nozzles on the length of the nozzle, the curing device 6B moves along with the printing trolley, and the illumination area of the lamp beads 61 of the curing device 6B covers the image-text area of the ink sprayed by the fourth nozzle 5d (pretreatment ink nozzle), the first nozzle 5a (white ink nozzle) and the second nozzle 5B (color ink nozzle), but cannot irradiate the transparent ink area sprayed by the third nozzle 5c (transparent ink nozzle). The printing principle in the working state is the same as that of the printing method: in the continuous moving process that the printing trolley 2 moves from the initial position to the final position along the forward direction (arrow direction A) of the first direction, all the nozzles jet ink drops when passing through an image-text area to be printed, the curing device 6B keeps a normally-bright state to cure the pre-processed ink drops, the white ink drops and the color ink drops jetted to the surface of an object to be printed, but the curing range cannot be irradiated to the transparent ink drop area, so that the leveling time of the transparent ink drops is given, and in the process that the printing trolley 2 returns to the initial position from the final position along the reverse direction (arrow direction A) of the first direction after printing is finished, the curing device 6B continues to be in a bright working state to cure the leveled transparent ink drops. After the printing trolley 2 returns to the initial position, the printing and curing operations of the pretreatment coating, the white background layer, the color pattern layer and the transparent ink layer are finished on the object to be printed, and the operation is continuously repeated after the next object to be printed is replaced.

Besides the above example of the curing device being mounted on the printing cart, the curing device may also be disposed below the object 7 to be printed, as shown in fig. 10-11, at the position of the curing device 6C, and the light bead of the curing device 6C is irradiated upward. The fourth head 5d, the first head 5a, the second head 5b and the third head 5C of the carriage 2 are the same as those described above with reference to the embodiment shown in fig. 9, the curing range of the curing device 6C covers the image-text printing area R of the fourth head 5d (pretreatment ink head), the first head 5a (white ink head) and the second head 5b (color ink head), the area R can be defined as an image-text area ejected by other ink heads except the transparent ink head, but cannot irradiate the transparent ink area S ejected by the third head 5C (transparent ink head), the curing device 6C moves back and forth with the heads of the carriage 2 in a direction along the first direction (arrow a direction) during continuous movement of the carriage 2 from the initial position to the final position, the moving direction of the curing device 6C is along the direction C shown in the figure, the direction C is parallel to the direction a, the curing range of the curing device 6C in the process of moving from the initial position to the end position along the direction C is always the region R, and the principle of the printing process is the same as that described above with reference to fig. 5 to 8. The bead curing range L of the curing device in the printing and inking process can be defined as follows: d is less than or equal to L less than or equal to (D + D), wherein D represents the total width of the ink drops jetted by the ink jet heads except the transparent ink jet head, and D represents the distance between the transparent ink jet head and the adjacent ink jet head, so that the boundary line u of the irradiation area at the extreme end of the curing device is positioned in front of the boundary line v of the front end of the transparent ink drops jetted by the transparent ink jet head (the arrow direction of C is defined as front). After printing is finished, in the return process of the printing trolley, the curing device 6C is still in a lighting state, and curing is continuously carried out on the transparent ink drops with the upper leveling in the process of synchronously moving along with all the spray heads on the printing trolley 2. And after the printing trolley returns to the initial position, the transparent ink is cured, the operator takes down the object to be printed 7 which is already printed and cured, and places the next object to be printed to perform the operation of the next object to be printed.

The curing device may be provided on the horizontal side of the object to be printed 7, as shown in fig. 12, at the position of the

curing device

6D or 6E, in addition to the above-described mounting position. When the curing device is arranged at the position, the curing range of the curing device also covers the image and text area sprayed by other ink nozzles except the transparent ink nozzle, but the curing device cannot irradiate the transparent ink area sprayed by the transparent ink nozzle, the curing device also synchronously moves back and forth along with all the nozzles on the printing trolley 2 in the continuous moving process of the printing trolley 2 moving from the initial position to the final position along the forward direction (the arrow A direction) of the first direction, and the printing process and the principle are the same as those of the embodiment of the figures 10-11.

The object of waiting to print of above embodiment is the cylinder, when waiting to print the object for the cone, the utility model discloses a mode is equally suitable, as shown in fig. 13, print the shower nozzle arrangement on the dolly 2 and in the embodiment of fig. 4 the arrangement mode is the same, sets up three shower nozzle of printing altogether: the printing device comprises a first spray head 5a, a second spray head 5b and a third spray head 5c, wherein the spray heads of the three printing spray heads are sequentially arranged in series at equal intervals from head to tail in the A-axis direction, and the nozzle connecting lines in the length directions of the spray heads are coaxial and parallel to the A-axis direction. Wherein the first head 5a has four rows of nozzles, all for connecting the white ink (W); the second head 5b has four rows of nozzles connected to black ink (K), cyan ink (C), magenta ink (M), and yellow ink (Y), respectively; the third head 5c has four rows of nozzles, all for connecting the transparent ink (V). After the cone to-be-printed object 8 arranged below the printing trolley 2 is adjusted through the leveling mechanism in the installation mechanism, the upper surface of the cone to-be-printed object 8 is parallel to the axis A, and the distances between each point of the upper surface and the plane where the nozzle orifice at the lower end of the printing trolley 2 is located are the optimal distances (generally between 1mm and 3 mm). A curing device 6F is arranged below the conical object to be printed 8, the upper surface of a lamp bead of the curing device 6F is adjusted to be parallel to the lower surface of the conical object to be printed 8, namely to be parallel to the direction A 'in the figure, and has an included angle alpha with the horizontal direction, the lamp bead of the curing device 6F upwards irradiates, the curing range of the curing device 6F covers the printing image and text area of a first spray head 5a (white ink spray head) and a second spray head 5b (color ink spray head), but cannot irradiate the transparent ink area sprayed by a third spray head 5c (transparent ink spray head), in the continuous moving process that the printing trolley 2 moves from the initial position to the final position along the forward direction (the direction of an arrow A) of the first direction, the curing device 6F synchronously moves back and forth along with all spray heads on the printing trolley 2, the moving direction of the curing device 6F is along the direction A' shown in the figure, the included angle between the direction a 'and the direction a is α, the curing range of the curing device 6F in the process of moving from the initial position to the end position along the direction a' during ink discharging is always the image-text printing area of the first nozzle 5a (white ink nozzle) and the second nozzle 5b (color ink nozzle), the cone to-be-printed object 8 performs the rotation motion along the direction D along the rotation central axis of the cone in the continuous moving process of the printing trolley 2 from the initial position to the end position along the forward direction (arrow direction a) of the first direction, and the principle of the printing ink-jet process is the same as that described in the above fig. 5-8. After printing is finished, the curing device 6F is still in a lighting state in the return process of the printing trolley, and the transparent ink drops with leveled upper parts are continuously cured in the process of synchronously moving along with all the spray heads on the printing trolley 2. After the curing is completed, the operator takes off the cone to-be-printed object 8 which has been printed, and places the next object to be printed to perform the operation of the next object to be printed.

The printing flow in one embodiment of the present invention is specifically described below with reference to fig. 14. The printing steps are as follows: first step S1: firstly, mounting an object to be printed on a feeding unit, such as a cylinder or an object with a cylindrical printing area, and adjusting the distance between the upper surface and the plane where the nozzle orifices are located to be the optimal printing distance; step S2, the printing trolley continuously moves from an initial position to a final position along the forward direction of the first direction, an object to be printed below the printing trolley continuously rotates around a central shaft of the printing trolley, each nozzle on the printing trolley sprays ink drops to form images and texts when passing over a region to be printed, the curing device synchronously moves along with the nozzles while jetting ink and cures ink drops of all layers except transparent ink drops, and after one pass, the printing of color images and texts and transparent ink drops is finished, wherein the curing range of the curing device covers image and text regions sprayed by other ink nozzles except the transparent ink nozzles, but cannot irradiate the transparent ink regions sprayed by the transparent ink nozzles; step S3, the printing trolley moves reversely along the first direction from the end position to the initial position, each nozzle does not jet ink any more, and the curing device moves synchronously with the nozzles and cures transparent ink drops; a fourth step S4 of determining whether or not the object to be printed needs to be printed; if so, the fifth step S5 is performed to remove the printed printing object, mount the next object to be printed, and then repeat steps S2-S4, and if not, the sixth step S6 is performed to remove the printed printing object, and the printing ends.

In the embodiments described above, the printing cart is moved and the object to be printed is rotated at the original position, except for the relative movement, the printing cart may be set to be stationary and the object to be printed is rotated while moving relative to the printing cart, the curing device is still disposed at one side of the head of the printing cart and covers the image-text area jetted by other ink heads except the transparent ink head, as in the embodiments shown in fig. 5 to 8, the printing cart 2 is changed to be stationary, the object to be printed 7 is moved continuously relative to the printing cart 2 in the reverse direction of the first direction (the direction opposite to the arrow a), and the ink discharging and curing principles are the same as those described above; when the printing trolley is set to be stationary, and the object to be printed is rotated and moved relative to the printing trolley, the curing device can also be set to be separated from the printing trolley, the curing device still only covers the image-text areas sprayed by other ink nozzles except the transparent ink nozzle in the ink discharging process, under the condition, the object to be printed and the curing device need to move synchronously, the curing device only cures the image-text areas sprayed by other ink nozzles except the transparent ink nozzle in the ink discharging process, the curing device independently cures the transparent ink after the ink discharging is completed, and the printing principle and the control mode are the same as the above modes.

It should be noted that any modifications made to the embodiments of the present invention do not depart from the spirit of the invention and the scope of the claims.

Claims

1. An ink-jet printing device comprises a printing unit, a feeding unit, a curing unit and a control unit, wherein the printing unit comprises a printing trolley, the printing trolley can move back and forth along a first direction, a nozzle is arranged on the printing trolley, and the nozzle comprises a color ink nozzle and a transparent ink nozzle; the feeding unit is arranged below the printing unit and used for mounting an object to be printed and driving the object to be printed to rotate around a central shaft of the object to be printed; the printing trolley is characterized in that the curing unit moves synchronously with the printing trolley, the control unit controls the reciprocating motion of the printing trolley, the ink drop ejection when each spray head reaches the upper part of the area to be printed, the rotating motion of the object to be printed and the curing operation of the curing unit, and the printing trolley finishes all image-text printing after passing through the object to be printed in one pass.

2. The inkjet printing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bead alignment direction of the curing unit is parallel to the nozzle alignment direction along the length of the nozzle.

3. The inkjet printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the curing range of the curing unit in the ink discharging process is a range that covers an image area ejected by the other ink heads except the transparent ink head but cannot irradiate a transparent ink area ejected by the transparent ink head.

4. The inkjet printing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bead curing range L of the curing unit is: d is less than or equal to L less than or equal to (D + D), wherein D represents the total width of ink drops jetted by other ink nozzles except the transparent ink nozzle, and D represents the distance between the transparent ink nozzle and the adjacent ink nozzle beside.

5. The inkjet printing apparatus of claim 1 wherein the jets on the carriage are arranged in series at equal intervals end to end in a first direction in a sequence along the length of the carriage, the nozzle lines along the length of each jet being coaxial and parallel to the first direction.

6. Inkjet printing apparatus according to claim 5 wherein the print carriage is provided with three nozzles in sequence: the ink jet head comprises a first nozzle, a second nozzle and a third nozzle, wherein the first nozzle is provided with four rows of nozzles which are all used for connecting white ink; the second nozzle is provided with four rows of nozzles which are respectively connected with black ink, cyan ink, magenta ink and yellow ink; the third nozzle has four rows of nozzles all for connecting transparent ink.

7. Inkjet printing apparatus according to claim 5 wherein the print carriage is provided with four nozzles in sequence: the ink jet head comprises a fourth nozzle, a first nozzle, a second nozzle and a third nozzle, wherein the fourth nozzle is connected with the pretreated ink, the first nozzle is connected with the white ink, the second nozzle is connected with the colored ink, and the third nozzle is connected with the transparent ink.

8. The inkjet printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the object to be printed is a cylinder, the area to be printed is a cylindrical object or a cone, and the area to be printed is a conical object.

9. Inkjet printing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the curing unit is positionable above, below or to the side of the object to be printed.