PROCESS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF CURE SETTINGS IN THE PRINTING OF IMAGES ON TRANSPARENT AND SEMI-TRANSPARENT MEDIA

Fecha de publicación: 14/12/2022
Fuente: WIPO Wine
A process is disclosed to precisely control the total amount of UV energy applied to images printed onto the exterior of a 3D object, such as a container like a wine bottle. The process includes establishing a UV dosage energy value to optimally cure an applied layer of ink expressed via an inkjet printing head onto the surface of the object, doing a partial cure of a printed ink layer, using a formula to calculate a power scale factor for the printed 3D object, and then based on the power scale factor tailoring a final cure step by controlling the amount of UV energy applied to the object to obtain an optimum cure result on the 3D object. The process allows for the control of a number of variables in the printing system to consistently apply an optimal amount of UV energy to the printed images.