Printer for forming an image on a transported web
US6592276B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 20, 2001 |
| Grant date | Jul 15, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 25, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB41J11/42
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A printer capable of stably transporting a web at high speed and with a high accuracy has a printing unit (10) for forming images on a web (W); a yet-to-be-printed web control means (2, 3, 5) for controlling the traveling position and tension of the web at a position upstream in a web transporting direction of the printing unit; and an after-printed web control means (12, 13b, 13c, 13d) for controlling the traveling position and tension of the web at a position downstream in the web transporting direction of the printing unit.
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