Print system and registration control method at print start time of the print system

• US 20030039496A1
• Filed: 07/23/2002
• Published: 02/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Printing Solutions, Ltd. (Ricoh Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi KOKI Company Limited (Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Mizuno, Masahiro, Nakazawa, Souichi, Miyamoto, Atsushi
• Granted Patent: US 6,684,051 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 399/384
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 11/46 by marks or formations on the paper being fed
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/60 for printing on both faces of the printing material
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/238 using more than one reusable electrographic recording member, e.g. single pass duplex copiers
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/00021 Plural substantially independent image forming units in cooperation, e.g. for duplex, colour or high-speed simplex

Abstract

A print system having a first printer and a second printer being placed at the stage following the first printer, the first printer having a mark formation section for forming a register mark at a predetermined location of a web and the second printer having mark detector for detecting the register mark and a buffer plate being placed so that it can be advanced to and retreated from a web transport passage for giving a constant tension to the web comprises a controller for setting the buffer plate to a predetermined position during the period until the register mark is transported at a constant distance after passing through the mark detector.

Claims

1. A print system comprising:

a first printer for forming an image on a first side of a web;

a second printer being placed at the stage following the first printer for forming an image on a second side of the web, the first printer having at least mark formation means for forming a register mark at a predetermined location of the web and the second printer having at least a mark detector for detecting the register mark and a buffer plate being placed so that it can be advanced to and retreated from a web transport passage for giving a constant tension to the web; and

a controller for setting the buffer plate to a predetermined position during the period until the register mark is transported at a constant distance after passing through the mark detector.

2. The print system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said control means sets the buffer plate to a neutral position during the period until the register mark is transported at a constant distance after passing through the mark detector.

7. The print system as claimed in any of claims 1, 3, 5 and 6 wherein the second printer comprises at least a storage section for storing a web transport distance in an arbitrary time period and web transport section for arbitrarily controlling start and stop of web transport and starts and stops web transport in response to the position of the buffer plate and the web transport distance.

3. A print system comprising:

a first printer for forming a first image on a web;

a second printer being placed at the stage following the first printer for forming a second image on the web, the first printer having at least a mark formation section for forming a register mark at a predetermined location of the web and the second printer having at least a mark detector for detecting the register mark and a buffer plate being placed so that it can be advanced to and retreated from a web transport passage for giving a constant tension to the web; and

a controller for setting the buffer plate to a predetermined position during the period until the register mark is transported at a constant distance after passing through the mark detector.

4. The print system as claimed in claim 3 wherein said controller sets the buffer plate to a neutral position during the period until the register mark is transported at a constant distance after passing through the mark detector.

5. A print system comprising:

a first printer for forming an image on a first side of a web;

a second printer being placed at the stage following the first printer for forming an image on a second side of the web, the first printer having at least web transport section for transporting the web and mark formation section for forming a register mark at a predetermined location of the web and the second printer having at least a web transport section for transporting the web, a mark detection section for detecting the register mark, a buffer plate being placed so that it can be advanced to and retreated from a web transport passage for giving a constant tension to the web, a position detector for detecting a position of the buffer plate, and a suction section for air-sucking the web for regulating the position of the web; and

a controller for controlling driving the web transport section and the suction section so that the buffer plate is positioned at a neutral position during the period until the register mark is transported at a constant distance after passing through the mark detector.

6. A print system having a first printer for forming a first image on a web;

a second printer being placed at the stage following the first printer for forming a second image on the web, the first printer having at least a web transport section for transporting the web and a mark formation section for forming a register mark at a predetermined location of the web and the second printer having at least a web transport section for transporting the web, a mark detector for detecting the register mark, a buffer plate being placed so that it can be advanced to and retreated from a web transport passage for giving a constant tension to the web, a position detector for detecting a position of the buffer plate, and a suction section for air-sucking the web for regulating the position of the web; and

a controller for controlling driving the web transport section and the suction section so that the buffer plate is positioned at a neutral position during the period until the register mark is transported at a constant distance after passing through the mark detector.

8. A registration control method at print start time of a print system having a first printer for forming an image on a first side of a web and a second printer being placed at the stage following the first printer for forming an image on a second side of the web, the first printer having at least a mark formation section for forming a register mark at a predetermined location of the web and the second printer having at least a mark detector for detecting the register mark and a buffer plate being placed so that it can be advanced to and retreated from a web transport passage for giving a constant tension to the web, said method comprising the step of:

setting the buffer plate to a predetermined position during the period until the register mark is transported at a constant distance after passing through the mark detector.

9. The registration control method as claimed in claim 8 comprising the setting step sets the buffer plate to a neutral position during the period until the register mark is transported at a constant distance after passing through the mark detector.

10. A registration control method at print start time of a print system having a first printer for forming a first image on a web and a second printer being placed at the stage following the first printer for forming a second image on the web, the first printer having at least mark formation section for forming a register mark at a predetermined location of the web and the second printer having at least mark detector for detecting the register mark and a buffer plate being placed so that it can be advanced to and retreated from a web transport passage for giving a constant tension to the web, said method comprising the step of:

setting the buffer plate to a predetermined position during the period until the register mark is transported at a constant distance after passing through the mark detector.

11. The registration control method as claimed in claim 10 wherein the setting step sets the buffer plate to a neutral position during the period until the register mark is transported at a constant distance after passing through the mark detector.