| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090051944 | Image processing method for reducing imaging artifacts - An image processing method includes a step of converting halftoned pixels of an image to be printed represented at a first lower tonal resolution into pixels represented at a second higher tonal resolution. Image processing is used on the pixels having a higher tonal resolution to reduce image quality artifacts when the pixels are printed at the first lower tonal resolution. In a preferred embodiment, the image processing includes error diffusion of a sigma delta modulation. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20100309268 | RADIATION CURABLE INKJET PRINTING METHODS - A radiation curable inkjet printing method for producing printed flexible foils and plastic bags includes the steps of a) providing a web-like polymeric substrate having a maximum value for Tan δ between 40° C. and 110° C.; b) providing a single pass inkjet printer having at least one page-wide printhead or at least one set of staggered printheads, a transporting device arranged to transport the web-like recording medium, and a curing device; c) jetting onto the web-like polymeric substrate having a surface energy Ssub, a non-aqueous radiation curable inkjet liquid having a surface tension SLiq, wherein SLiq is smaller than SSub by at least 4 mN/m; and d) curing the radiation curable liquid on the substrate at a surface temperature equal or higher than the temperature of the maximum value for Tan δ and smaller than the melting point of the polymeric recording medium. The maximum value for Tan δ is determined by dynamic mechanical analysis at a temperature ramp of 3° C./min using forced oscillation with a cycle of 1 second and an amplitude of 100 μm. Also, a single pass inkjet printer for performing the method. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110007106 | INK SUPPLY SYSTEM WITHOUT PUMP, FOR INK JET PRINTER WITH INK RECIRCULATION SYSTEM - An ink supply system for an industrial inkjet printer makes use of a least one buffer vessel wherein ink at low pressure is isolated and pressurized to a high pressure suited for feeding the ink to the printhead. A recirculation ink supply system using plural buffer vessels is suited for repressurizing the ink without the use of a pump. The system avoids generation of gas bubbles due to cavitation which are present in systems using a pump for repressurizing ink. | 01-13-2011 |