EP1661726B1 - Sheet handling device with print surface and feed plate - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
- B41J13/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
- B41J13/10—Sheet holders, retainers, movable guides, or stationary guides
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
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- cockling phenomenon is related to the fact that paper and similar materials tend to absorb humidity from ambient air and to expand and contract in accordance with their humidity content. Typically, the expansion and contraction is not isotropic and is particularly pronounced in a direction in which the fibers of the paper are predominantly oriented. When there exists a gradient in humidity within the paper, then the more humid portion of the paper will expand more than the drier portion, which inevitably leads to the production of cockles or wrinkles.
- the paper is intermittently advanced over a flat sheet support plate, while a carriage moves back and forth across the paper, and ink jet printheads mounted on the carriage are energized to eject droplets of ink onto the paper so as to form a printed image. Since the carriage moves with relatively high velocity, the ink droplets ejected onto the paper undergo a certain aberration and are deposited on the paper in a somewhat dislocated position. The amount of dislocation is proportional to the flight distance of the ink droplets.
- the printheads When the ink jet print printheads are positioned very close to the surface of the paper to minimize the dislocation, the printheads might even touch large cockles or bumps of the paper, so that the quality of the printed image is also deteriorated.
- EP 1 123 809 A2 discloses an apparatus for keeping receiving material flat against a plate during the application of an ink image to the receiving material.
- the plate has parallel ribs between which shallow channels are formed. Suction holes are arranged at the ribs. A negative pressure is also formed in the channels, and the receiving material is to some extent pulled into the channels.
- a distance between neighboring notches varies in a regular pattern.
- the notches are grouped into pairs, each pair being arranged between the lateral positions of the transport rollers. Additionally or alternatively, the size and/or shape of the notches may vary in a regular pattern.
- the transport rollers 16 intersect the feed plate 18 and form a transport nip with the platen 10, so that the sheet 12, which is supplied from a reel (not shown) via a guide plate 20, is transported along a sheet transport slot that is formed by the feed plate 18 and the print surface 15 of the sheet support plate 14. Then, the sheet 12 is paid out through a gap formed between an edge 21 of the feed plate 18 and the surface of the sheet support plate 14. At the edge 21, the feed plate 18 forms an angle of, for example, less than 10° with the print surface 15.
- a carriage 22 which includes a number of hot melt ink jet printheads (not shown) is mounted above the sheet support plate 14 so as to reciprocate in the direction of arrows B across the sheet 12.
- a number of pixel lines of an image are printed in each pass of the carriage 22.
- the sheet 12 is advanced by a step of appropriate length in the direction indicated by the arrow A, so that the next pixel lines can be printed.
- the sheet 12 On its way from the guide plate 20, past the platen 10 and past the feed plate 18 to the print surface 15, the sheet 12 will inevitably be exposed to ambient air and, as a result, will absorb humidity, especially when the relative humidity RH of the ambient air is high.
- the sheet 12 when the sheet 12 comes into contact with the print surface 15, the sheet might be exposed to a different temperature or a different relative humidity of the ambient air at the sheet support plate 14. Thereby, new cockles may develop, or those cockles which have already been present in the sheet may expand further.
- the feed plate 18 comprises notches 40.
- the notches 40 are arranged in a regular pattern. However, as is shown in Fig. 3 , a smaller distance and a larger distance between neighboring notches alternate. Thereby, the notches 40 are grouped into pairs. Regarding the lateral positions of the slots 19 that accommodate the sheet transport rollers 16 ( Fig. 1 ), the slots 19 are arranged in coincidence with the larger distance between the notches 40. Thus, each pair of notches 40 is arranged between the lateral positions of neighboring transport rollers 16.
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- The invention relates to a sheet handling device for a printer or copier according to the preamble of claim 1.
- In printers in which paper sheets or similar image receiving sheets are used as recording media, a tendency of the paper to cockle may sometimes constitute a serious problem. The cockling phenomenon is related to the fact that paper and similar materials tend to absorb humidity from ambient air and to expand and contract in accordance with their humidity content. Typically, the expansion and contraction is not isotropic and is particularly pronounced in a direction in which the fibers of the paper are predominantly oriented. When there exists a gradient in humidity within the paper, then the more humid portion of the paper will expand more than the drier portion, which inevitably leads to the production of cockles or wrinkles.
- Once cockles have developed in the paper during the transport of the paper towards the sheet support plate, a further expansion or contraction of the paper may lead to an expansion of the cockles, so that the height of the cockles also grows.
- In a typical setup of an ink jet printer, especially a large format printer, the paper is intermittently advanced over a flat sheet support plate, while a carriage moves back and forth across the paper, and ink jet printheads mounted on the carriage are energized to eject droplets of ink onto the paper so as to form a printed image. Since the carriage moves with relatively high velocity, the ink droplets ejected onto the paper undergo a certain aberration and are deposited on the paper in a somewhat dislocated position. The amount of dislocation is proportional to the flight distance of the ink droplets. Thus, when cockles are present in the paper, the flight distance is non-uniform and, accordingly, the dislocation of the spots of ink on the paper also becomes non-uniform, so that the quality of the printed image is deteriorated. The larger the height of the cockles is, the more pronounced is this deteriorating effect.
- When the ink jet print printheads are positioned very close to the surface of the paper to minimize the dislocation, the printheads might even touch large cockles or bumps of the paper, so that the quality of the printed image is also deteriorated.
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EP 0 471 189 A1 discloses a print surface with cover plates which are arranged upstream and downstream of a printing area. The downstream cover plate has upwardly bent teeth for catching those parts of the leading edge of a sheet which are bent upwards or are damaged and therefore stick out upwards. The teeth form guiding ramps that guide the leading edge of the sheet into a slot formed between the cover plate and the print surface. Therefore, the front edges of the teeth must not touch the sheet. Because the sheet can be transported in two opposite directions, the second cover plate arranged at the other side of the printing area has similar teeth. However, in each case the teeth of the upstream cover plate do not guide the sheet, and the problem of cockles forming in the plane area of a sheet is not mentioned. -
EP 1 123 809 A2 discloses an apparatus for keeping receiving material flat against a plate during the application of an ink image to the receiving material. The plate has parallel ribs between which shallow channels are formed. Suction holes are arranged at the ribs. A negative pressure is also formed in the channels, and the receiving material is to some extent pulled into the channels. -
EP 0 729 842 A2 discloses a paper support and transport mechanism having drive roller tires which are distributed laterally across the print medium path. A print medium is crapped around the drive roller tires to make an approximately 180° turn below an upper print media guide. However, at a print zone the print medium is not supported by a print surface but merely by an upper support edge of a lower print medium guide, and the print medium path is formed in a generally concave shape. - It is an object of the invention to provide a sheet handling device which feeds a sheet to the print surface in a basically flat, lowly or not at all cockled configuration, and to provide a printer comprising such sheet handling device.
- According to the invention, this object is achieved by a sheet handling device of the type indicated above , wherein the print surface comprises suction holes for sucking the sheet against the print surface, and wherein the notches, by interrupting the edge, are arranged so that the sheet is mainly guided at those parts of the edge that are between the notches, thereby governing the positions at which cockles or wrinkles may develop in the sheet.
- The notches are separate from each other and are arranged to guide the sheet mainly at those parts of the edge that are between the notches. Thereby, the notches govern the positions at which cockles or wrinkles develop. By adapting the size and the positions of the notches to the material and thickness of the sheets, to their tendency to produce cockles or wrinkles, and to the humidity gradients and temperatures that are to be expected, the notches may be arranged to favor certain smaller cockle sizes over larger cockle sizes.
- At a conventional feed plate with an edge that forms a straight line, an expansion of the sheet material at a certain region of the sheet might lead to the development of a large bump. However, the feed plate of the invention will regulate the forming of cockles, and the expansion of the material of the sheet will be distributed over several smaller bumps or cockles. Thereby, the height of the cockles or bumps is reduced considerably.
- Generally, the height of the cockles is related to their lateral extension. By reducing the lateral extension and thus the height of the cockles, the disadvantages of cockling mentioned above are reduced.
- Useful details of the invention are indicated in the dependent claims.
- Preferably, the notches are arranged in a regular pattern. Thereby, the effect of the notches is uniformly distributed. For example, a repeat distance of the notches may be the same for all neighboring notches, so that a cockle size corresponding to the repeat distance is favored.
- Preferably, the feed mechanism comprises sheet transport rollers that are distributed over the width of the feed plate. For example, the sheet transport rollers are accommodated in slots of the feed plate.
- In a preferred embodiment, the sheet transport rollers and the notches are positioned such that, at lateral positions of the sheet transport rollers, there is a larger distance between neighboring notches than an average distance. Thereby, the flattening effect of the transport rollers is accounted for which suppress the occurrence of cockles at the positions of the transport rollers and thereby favors the development of cockles between the positions of the transport rollers.
- For example, a distance between neighboring notches varies in a regular pattern. For example, the notches are grouped into pairs, each pair being arranged between the lateral positions of the transport rollers. Additionally or alternatively, the size and/or shape of the notches may vary in a regular pattern.
- A preferred embodiment of the invention will now be described in conjunction with the drawings, in which:
- Fig. 1
- is a schematic perspective view of a hot melt ink jet printer;
- Fig. 2
- is a schematic view of a paper sheet, illustrating the occurrence of large cockles after the sheet has been moved past an edge of a conventional feed plate; and
- Fig. 3
- is a schematic view of a paper sheet, illustrating the occurrence of smaller cockles after the sheet has passed an edge of a feed plate of the sheet handling device of
Fig. 1 . - As is shown in
Fig. 1 , a hot melt ink jet printer comprises aplaten 10 which is intermittently driven to rotate in order to advance asheet 12, e. g. a sheet of paper, in a direction indicated by an arrow A over the top surface of asheet support plate 14, the top surface forming aprint surface 15. A number oftransport rollers 16 that are distributed over the width of thefeed plate 18 are accommodated in slots 19 (Fig. 3 ) of thefeed plate 18 and are rotatably supported in thefeed plate 18. Thetransport rollers 16 intersect thefeed plate 18 and form a transport nip with theplaten 10, so that thesheet 12, which is supplied from a reel (not shown) via aguide plate 20, is transported along a sheet transport slot that is formed by thefeed plate 18 and theprint surface 15 of thesheet support plate 14. Then, thesheet 12 is paid out through a gap formed between anedge 21 of thefeed plate 18 and the surface of thesheet support plate 14. At theedge 21, thefeed plate 18 forms an angle of, for example, less than 10° with theprint surface 15. - A
carriage 22 which includes a number of hot melt ink jet printheads (not shown) is mounted above thesheet support plate 14 so as to reciprocate in the direction of arrows B across thesheet 12. Thus, by energizing the printheads, a number of pixel lines of an image are printed in each pass of thecarriage 22. Then, thesheet 12 is advanced by a step of appropriate length in the direction indicated by the arrow A, so that the next pixel lines can be printed. - The
print surface 15 of thesheet support plate 14 has a regular pattern ofsuction holes 24 which pass through the plate and open into asuction chamber 26 that is formed in the lower part of theplate 14. The suction chamber is connected to ablower 28 which creates a subatmospheric pressure in the suction chamber, so that air is drawn-in through thesuction holes 24. As a result, thesheet 12 is sucked against the flat surface of thesupport plate 14. - The
sheet support plate 14 is temperature-controlled in order to control the cooling rate and the solidification of the hot melt ink that has been deposited on the paper. Thesheet support plate 14 is temperature-controlled by means of atemperature control system 30 which circulates a temperature control fluid, preferably a liquid, through theplate 14. The temperature control system includes a circulating system withtubes 32 that are connected to opposite ends of theplate 14. One of the tubes passes through anexpansion vessel 33 containing a gas buffer for absorbing temperature-dependent changes in the volume of the liquid. As will be readily understood, thetemperature control system 30 includes heaters, temperature sensors, heat sinks, and the like for controlling the temperature of the fluid, as well as a pump or other displacement means for circulating the fluid through the interior of thesheet support plate 14. - On its way from the
guide plate 20, past theplaten 10 and past thefeed plate 18 to theprint surface 15, thesheet 12 will inevitably be exposed to ambient air and, as a result, will absorb humidity, especially when the relative humidity RH of the ambient air is high. - When the humidity content of the paper increases, it tends to expand, in particular in the direction in which the fibers in the paper are predominantly oriented. Typically, this is the direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the web. When the
sheet 16, after having expanded in this way, reaches, for example, thesheet support plate 14 and is, for example, heated to the temperature of thesheet support plate 14, part of the water contained in the paper will be evaporated, and the paper shrinks again in width direction of the sheet. Thus, since a humidity gradient is present in the paper, the accompanying reduction in width of the sheet leads to the production of cockles. This has exaggeratedly been illustrated inFigs. 2 and 3 . - Generally, when the
sheet 12 comes into contact with theprint surface 15, the sheet might be exposed to a different temperature or a different relative humidity of the ambient air at thesheet support plate 14. Thereby, new cockles may develop, or those cockles which have already been present in the sheet may expand further. - To control the distribution and the development of the cockles in the
sheet 12 in order to prevent larger cockles from existing, thefeed plate 18 comprisesnotches 40. - As a comparative example,
Fig. 2 shows a part of aconventional feed plate 42 having anedge 44 that forms a straight line. Large cockles or bumps 46 may occur in thesheet 12 that is to be printed. - Due to the
notches 40 of thefeed plate 18 of the invention, the occurrence oflarge bumps 46 is prevented, and smaller cockles 48 (Fig. 3 ) are favored. This is due to the fact that the notches provide space for the sheet, so that the occurrence ofsmall cockles 48 is favored at the positions of thenotches 40. - As is shown in
Fig. 1 , thenotches 40 are arranged in a regular pattern. However, as is shown inFig. 3 , a smaller distance and a larger distance between neighboring notches alternate. Thereby, thenotches 40 are grouped into pairs. Regarding the lateral positions of the slots 19 that accommodate the sheet transport rollers 16 (Fig. 1 ), the slots 19 are arranged in coincidence with the larger distance between thenotches 40. Thus, each pair ofnotches 40 is arranged between the lateral positions of neighboringtransport rollers 16.
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- A sheet handling device for a printer or copier, comprising a print surface (15) for supporting a first surface of a sheet (12), a feed plate (18) having an edge (21) being adjacent to the print surface (15), and a feed mechanism (10, 16) for feeding the sheet (12) to the print surface (15) through a gap between the edge (21) of the feed plate (18) and the print surface (15), the edge (21) of the feed plate (18) comprising notches (40) being arranged such that, at the edge (21), the notches (40) provide space for the sheet (12) at a second surface of the sheet (12), characterized in that said print surface (15) comprises suction holes (24) for sucking the sheet (12) against the print surface (15), and that the notches (40), by interrupting a straight line of the edge (21), are arranged so that the sheet (12) is mainly guided at those parts of the edge (21) that are between the notches (40), thereby governing the positions at which cockles (48) or wrinkles may develop in the sheet (12).
- The sheet handling device according to claim 1. wherein the notches (40) are arranged in a regular pattern.
- The sheet handling device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the feed mechanism (10. 16) comprises sheet transport rollers (16) that are distributed over the width of the feed plate (18).
- The sheet handling device according to claim 3, wherein the sheet transport rollers (16) and the notches (40) are positioned such that, at lateral positions of the sheet transport rollers (16), there is a larger distance between neighboring notches (40) than an average distance.
- The sheet handling device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the print surface (15) is formed by a sheet support plate (14) and the suction holes (24) pass through the sheet support plate (14).
- A printer comprising the sheet handling device according to any one of the preceding claims.
- The printer according to claim 6, the printer being an hot-melt ink jet printer.
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