US 12,122,147 B2
Printing system and process management device
Tomohiko Takizawa, Nagano (JP); Shunsuke Akuta, Nagano (JP); and Tsukasa Takeda, Nagano (JP)
Assigned to MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Nagano (JP)
Appl. No. 17/908,240
Filed by MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Nagano (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 3, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/003972
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 31, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/176938, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-034611 (JP), filed on Mar. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0121680 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B05D 7/24 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01); G06Q 50/04 (2012.01)
CPC B41J 11/0015 (2013.01) [B05D 7/24 (2013.01); B41J 3/4078 (2013.01); G05B 19/042 (2013.01); G06Q 50/04 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2646 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing system configured to generate a product of printing, the printing system comprising:
a pretreatment machine that is a device configured to execute a pretreatment process of performing a predetermined pretreatment on a medium that is a target of the printing;
a printing device configured to execute a print process of performing the printing by ejecting ink onto the medium after the pretreatment performed by the pretreatment machine; and
a process management device configured to propose a condition for the pretreatment process based on a condition for the product to be generated,
wherein
the medium is a fabric medium, and
the pretreatment process is a coating process of coating the medium with a pretreatment agent;
the process management device is configured to set the condition for the coating process based on a result of estimating a time required for executing the coating process.