Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Combined
Patent
1996-11-27
1998-11-03
Fuller, Benjamin R.
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Combined
141 1, 409165, 82152, B41J 300
Patent
active
058316418
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for imprinting high quality images on non-planar surfaces, including the surfaces of various types of three-dimensional articles, such as baseball bats, formed from a number of different types of materials. In the preferred method of the invention, the non-planar surfaces of the three-dimensional articles are printed using a uniquely modified ink jet image transfer technique. The apparatus of the invention includes a modified ink jet plotter coupled with a novel article positioning apparatus which functions to automatically maintain the surface of the article to be printed within a plan substantially parallel to and slightly spaced apart from the place within which the ink jet nozzles of the ink jet plotter reside.
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Brunton James E.
Fuller Benjamin R.
Gollings Eugene
Stephens Juanita
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