Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag

Tobias Mueller

Willi Becker

Andreas Henn

Josef Wehle

Andreas Schulz

Karl-Heinz Helmstaedter

Juergen Rautert

Anton Rodi

Alexander Weber

Markus Moehringer

Wolfgang Dolz

Stefan Maier

Holger Leonhardt

Torsten Koker

Hans Butterfass

Matthias Noell

Andreas Rupprecht

Alexander Matern

Helge Grandt

Bernhard Mechler

Klaus Mueller

Michael Fuener

Andeas Henn

Martin Schnaiter

A method for inkjet printing an image onto a curved region of an object surface includes applying a screen of ink drops to the region to create print dots, calculating the screen using a computer and generating and applying ink drops to the region using a print head having nozzles on a nozzle surface. The steps include a) providing data representing the print image, b) providing or calculating data representing the region, c) providing or calculating path data on paths for the print head or object, d) calculating application locations of ink drops using data from steps b) and c), e) calculating data based on tiling the region using data from step d), f) calibrating tone values using data from step e), g) screening the print image using data from step f), and h) printing the screened image onto the region. A device implementing the method is also provided.

Method for inkjet printing on at least one curved region of a surface of an object and device for implementing the method

An apparatus for printing a curved surface of an object, for example a ball includes a stationary printing unit for printing the object, the printing unit including an inkjet print head producing a print on the object surface in an active region of the print head, a curing unit for curing the print, the curing unit including a radiant heater curing the print in an active region of the radiant heater, a movable holding unit for receiving the object in a receiving region, moving the object from the receiving region into the active region of the print head, moving the object in the active region of the print head during production of the print and moving the object into the active region of the curing unit, and a control unit for controlling the movements of the holding unit, the production of the print and the curing of the print.

Apparatus for printing a curved surface of an object

According to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method for sensing the position of an edge of a stock being feed to a printing press is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a light source, utilizing the light source to illuminate with planar radiation a preselected area of the stock, and a preselected area adjacent to the stock, and further providing a retro-reflecting surface on at least a portion of the preselected area adjacent to the stock illuminated by the light source. According to a feature of the present invention, a measuring device is provided and utilized to measure radiation reflected by the retro-reflecting surface.

Device and method for sensing the position of an edge of a product

A sheet sensor arrangement for a sheet printing machine and particularly for a turning device of a sheet printing machine, which comprises at least one hollow cylindrical drum (3; 4), which has a gripper system to transport and/or temporarily store individual sheets (5). A sensor arrangement which is not very susceptible to contamination and has a mechanically simple structure is comprised of the fact that the cylindrical wall of the drum (3; 4) has at least one opening which allows light to pass through, and that a sheet sensor is formed by a light barrier (9, 10, 11), which has a light beam which, in at least one angle position of the drum, is directed from the inside at the opening which allows light to pass through. In addition, a corresponding process for optical monitoring of sheets in a sheet printing machine is indicated.

Sheet sensor for use with a drum

A sheet sensor device for a sheet-fed printing press having a sheet-reversing arrangement, said sheet-reversing arrangement being comprised essentially of a storage drum, a reversing drum and gripper systems mounted on these drums, so that a sheet sensor device comprising a transmitter and a receiver is arranged in the sheet-reversing area formed between the storage drum and the reversing drum, and that the transmitter is arranged on the one side of the printing machine, and the receiver is arranged on the other side of the printing machine, outside of the sheet-travel area.

Sheet sensor device with light curtain

Register adjustment device in a sheet-fed printing press having adjusting elements for adjusting a printing operation thereof includes a position sensor, a light source for supplying light to the position sensor, and an evaluating unit connected to the position sensor for receiving data therefrom regarding registration of printing material traveling on a path through the printing press, and the evaluating unit being further connected to the adjusting elements of the printing press for adjusting a printing operation thereof in accordance with the data, the position sensor being disposed in the vicinity of the printing-material travel path so as to determine a respective register affecting the printing material, the position sensor having at least two sensor heads disposed at spaced distances from one another; and a method of register-adjustment.

Device for register adjustment on a sheet-fed printing press

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Tobias Mueller