发明名称 Digital customizer system and method
摘要 The present invention is a system and method for digitally customizing or decorating objects typically formed of substrates other than paper. The system includes a computer, color management software, and a full color inkjet printer designed for printing heat activatable ink. The ink comprises heat activatable colorant solids that are printed onto media in the form of an image that may be activated and/or transferred to a subsequent or final substrate by applying heat and intimate contact between the medium and the subsequent or final substrate. Control of first level dot gain upon printing and second level dot gain upon heat activation of the colorant provides an image that is of high quality, and even photographic quality, for most substrates that are usable with the system and method of the invention.
申请公布号 US9302468(B1) 申请公布日期 2016.04.05
申请号 US201414541844 申请日期 2014.11.14
申请人 发明人 Xu Ming
分类号 B41J2/01;B41J2/205;B41J2/045;B41F16/02;B41J2/21 主分类号 B41J2/01
代理机构 Barnwell Whaley Patterson & Helms 代理人 Killough B. Craig;Barnwell Whaley Patterson & Helms
主权项 1. A method of digitally customizing objects, comprising the steps of: providing a digital image file to a computer; selecting a substrate upon which an image from the digital image file is to be printed; transmitting the digital image file to an inkjet printer; choosing a volume of ink emitted per droplet by the inkjet printer, wherein the ink comprises heat activated dye solids, and the volume of ink is chosen as a function of an acceptable primary dot gain on a medium upon printing of the image on the medium and an acceptable secondary dot gain on the selected substrate resulting from gasification of the heat activated dye solids and subsequent fixation of the heat activated dye solids upon heat activated transfer of the image from the medium to the selected substrate; forming the image on the media by the inkjet printer by emitting a plurality of ink droplets, wherein each ink droplet is of the volume chosen, and wherein the plurality of ink droplets form the image on the media and the primary dot gain is within the acceptable primary dot gain; and heat activating the heat activated dye solids to gasify and permanently fix the image to the selected substrate, wherein the secondary dot gain is within the acceptable secondary dot gain.
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