Agfa Nv

Jurgen Van Dorpe

Luc De Roeck

Joris Van Garsse

Paul Wouters

Patrick Van Mooter

Christof Baks

Hans Strijckers

Werner Meuris

Manufacturing decorative panels by using a web-fed inkjet printer. During the feeding of the to-be-printed substrate, the tension of the substrate is controlled by a dancer unit () which includes a dancer roll (), having a connector () on both side ends of said roll, and wherein both connectors () are connected to a pair of parallel guiders () for floating said roll along a floating path (); and wherein the step of controlling comprises the step of moving one guider () of said pair of guiders () parallel to said floating path () whereby the dancer roll () is tilted.

Method of manufacturing decorative panels

An inkjet printing device includes a transport system for transporting a rigid multilayered substrate in a print direction and a support plane; a dryer, attached to a first gantry which is positioned over the transport system and perpendicular to the print direction, for immobilizing a jetted ink layer in a drying zone; and a push down mechanism for the rigid multilayered substrate against the transport system, arranged at least in the drying zone. The push down mechanism includes a bar which is positioned parallel and elongated to the print direction and mounted parallel to the support plane above the transport system. The bar is maintained on a second and third gantry by a maintainer on each gantry and positioned over the transport system at each side of the first gantry and perpendicular to the print direction. The push down mechanism includes a bender for pushing a portion from the bar at the push down side with an angle towards the transport system in a plane, perpendicular to the support plane and parallel to the print direction.

Inkjet printing device for rigid multilayered substrates

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Mortsel, Belgium

Jurgen Van Dorpe