US 12,240,222 B2
Printing system
Kazuma Tani, Kyoto (JP); Makoto Shiomi, Kyoto (JP); and Yasunori Akiyoshi, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Jan. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/160,415.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-048501 (JP), filed on Mar. 24, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0302822 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41M 5/00 (2006.01); B65H 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/0015 (2013.01) [B41M 5/0017 (2013.01); B65H 5/00 (2013.01); B65H 2301/00 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing system comprising:
a coating device that applies a processing liquid to a base material by bringing a coating roller into contact with the base material transported along a transport path, the coating roller having the processing liquid adhering thereto;
a printing device that performs printing on a surface of the base material to which the processing liquid has been applied; and
a controller that controls the printing device,
wherein the coating device includes:
a mover that moves the coating roller and the base material relative to each other between a separated position and a contact position, the separated position being a position in which the coating roller and the base material are not in contact with each other, the contact position being a position in which the coating roller and the base material start to come in contact with each other, and
the controller includes:
a contact-start-position identifier that identifies a contact start position of the base material in which the coating roller and the base material start to come in contact with each other;
an inappropriate-printing-area setter that sets, as an inappropriate printing area, an area of the base material that has a predetermined length in a transport direction from the contact start position; and
a print controller that stops the printing device from performing printing on the inappropriate printing area.