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Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 22, 2017
Applicant:

Esko Software Bvba, Ghent, BE;

Inventor:

Johan Himpe, Ghent, BE;

Assignee:

ESKO SOFTWARE BVBA, Ghent, BE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/02 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/393 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/005 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1219 (2013.01); B41J 2/0057 (2013.01); B41J 11/008 (2013.01); G06F 3/1243 (2013.01); G06F 3/1251 (2013.01);
Abstract

A printing system including a printing mechanism, a substrate feeder, a print controller, and digital information stored on computer readable media. The digital information includes one or more rows of a first image having a first repeat length side by side with one or more rows of a second image having a second repeat length different from the first repeat length, the first image side by side with the second image comprising a series of composite image groupings. The print controller is configured to access the stored digital information and control the print mechanism to cause the first and second images to be printed on a continuous web of substrate without excess white space between adjacent images or discontinuities caused by the different first and second repeat lengths, by periodically physically shifting the substrate in a reverse direction or by digitally shifting the image groupings before printing them.


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