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Design to Achieve Accuracy in Ink-Jet Cylindrical Printing Machines
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: Received: 3 December 2018 / Approved: 5 December 2018 / Online: 5 December 2018 (07:35:06 CET)
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Arango, I.; Cifuentes, C. Design to Achieve Accuracy in Ink-Jet Cylindrical Printing Machines. Machines 2019, 7, 6. Arango, I.; Cifuentes, C. Design to Achieve Accuracy in Ink-Jet Cylindrical Printing Machines. Machines 2019, 7, 6.
Abstract
Machines for direct digital inkjet printing on cylindrical containers are a new technology out on the market. Their commercialization in the industrial sector has been affected by their high precision. This leads to the use of mechanisms with narrow manufacturing tolerances and to the search for topologies that have the least accumulated error without affecting quality. Machines with topologies to work on flat substrates have printing and productivity problems working on cylindrical substrates. This research paper presents the qualitative design of a direct digital inkjet printer working over cylindrical substrates comparing five mechanical topologies; three topologies with radial distribution and two topologies with parallel distribution. The aim of these topologies is to find the precision, quality and efficiency of the printer taking into account the restrictions present in its construction. Each topology has separate constitutive mechanisms, it is analyzed the tolerance ranges between the print head and the substrate whose cumulative error maximizes the inkjet print resolution to determine precision. From five Topologies, number 1, 2 and 5 meet the requirements. the topology 2 meets the requirements but it is not able to be developed due to current technological limitations.
Keywords
inkjet; printer; topology; tolerance; machine
Subject
Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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