US 12,118,415 B2
Apparatus and method for printing on an article based on product data of the article
Sebastian Faltinski, Lemgo (DE); Timo Weber, Detmold (DE); Mattes Reitz, Lemgo (DE); Matthias Tieben, Bad Salzuflen (DE); Marvin Kurde, Paderborn (DE); Sandro Limberg, Blomberg (DE); Jorg Schmidt, Petershagen (DE); Jens Frenser, Detmold (DE); and Marcus Mathes, Detmold (DE)
Assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG, Blomberg (DE)
Appl. No. 17/292,396
Filed by PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG, Blomberg (DE)
PCT Filed Nov. 8, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/080751
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 7, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/094868, PCT Pub. Date May 14, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18205479 (EP), filed on Nov. 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0009256 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G06K 15/02 (2006.01); B41F 33/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 15/1852 (2013.01) [B41F 33/0009 (2013.01); G06K 15/1815 (2013.01); G06K 15/1831 (2013.01); G06K 15/1835 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for printing on an article, the apparatus comprising:
a data providing device, which is designed to provide article-specific printing data for the article from product data of the article and to provide machine-specific printing data for the article in dependence on a printing machine to be used for the printing process, wherein the data providing device is designed to provide the article-specific printing data for the article from the product data of the article present in a neutral data format, which define and classify the article according to customer-specific configuration and which describe parameters, properties and design options of the article; and
a control device which is designed to combine the article-specific printing data and the machine-specific printing data and, based thereon, to control the printing machine for printing on the article.