US 12,409,668 B2
Systems and methods for printing a flexible web and printing compositions
Stanley Litman, Amherst, NY (US); Tom Huang, East Amherst, NY (US); Morgan Ashley Smith, East Amherst, NY (US); Lawrence Albe Pilon, Hamburg, NY (US); Kevin John Hook, Grand Island, NY (US); Daniel Edward Kanfoush, Grand Island, NY (US); Anthony Vincent Moscato, N. Tonawanda, NY (US); Brett Christopher Rimes, Grand Island, NY (US); Alan Ronald Murzynowski, Grand Island, NY (US); Theodore F. Cyman, Grand Island, NY (US); Paul Coniglio, East Amherst, NY (US); Frank J. Rocco, N. Tonawanda, NY (US); and Myron Chester Heeb, West Seneca, NY (US)
Assigned to Cryovac, LLC, Charlotte, NC (US)
Appl. No. 17/910,457
Filed by Cryovac, LLC, Charlotte, NC (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 11, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/021869
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 9, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/183742, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/988,723, filed on Mar. 12, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/988,731, filed on Mar. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0158812 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 15/06 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/00222 (2021.01) [B41J 11/008 (2013.01); B41J 15/06 (2013.01); B41J 2203/011 (2020.08)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing system, comprising:
a transport apparatus adapted to transport a flexible web along a process direction;
first and second individually controllable ink jet imager units offset from one another along the process direction wherein each of the first ink jet imager unit and the second ink jet imager unit includes a first portion operable to print on a first portion of the web and a second portion operable to print on the second portion of the web wherein each of the first portion and second portion of the first and second ink jet imager units is stationary along the process direction and the lateral direction and wherein the first ink jet imager unit prints on the web at a first print resolution and the second ink jet imager unit prints on the web at a second print resolution different than the first print resolution;
the second ink jet imager unit comprising a plurality of inkjet printing units disposed around a circumference of a drum;
each inkjet printing unit comprising a plurality of inkjet printheads such that ejection nozzles of the inkjet printheads substantially span the width of the flexible web;
a first closed-loop control system that controls web handling and a distance of at least one of the first portion and the second portion of at least one of the first ink jet imager unit and the second ink jet imager unit from the web; and
a second closed-loop control system that controls registration between the first ink jet imager unit and the second ink jet imager unit.