| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S78049/01 |
| Title: |
RAIS: Digital Jet Printing on Textiles |
| Principal Investigator: |
Dehghani-Sanij, Professor AA |
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Sch of Design |
| Organisation: |
University of Leeds |
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RAIS |
| Starts: |
13 October 2003 |
Ends: |
12 October 2004 |
Value (£): |
27,453
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| Manufacturing Machine & Plant |
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The requirements of the flag and banner industry to produce large printed textiles on short-medium runs had led to an increasing reliance on inkjet printing (a complement to their original screen printing technology). Most printers would prefer to go 100% digital due to the convenience and image quality that are possible with inkjet. This is currently not realistic due to the low speed and throughput of the present inkjet technology.This has been the motivation for design work of a printer that incorporates both screen-printing (to apply the large areas of block colour) and inkjet (for applying specific areas of detail.) Essentially the large areas of flat colour can be screened and the small areas of detail abd colour can be inkjet printed. An inkjet printing facility and vision system developed at Leeds during a 3-year EPSRC project for printing and detecting errors will be used to develop a hybrid printing system for both maintaining print quality and speed for flags, banners and similar applications.The Mechatonics Research group at the University of Leeds have been responsible for developing a range of real-time digital video based vision and inspection systems for textile and other surfaces. An outcome of the EPSRC project was the development of low cost vision systems and controls to provide high speed high reliability inkjet printing for textile substrates. A development of this system is anticipated to be the 'zone printing methodology', a technique that maps the printable surface prior to printing highlighting edges and identifying boundaries. Smart processing algorithms are then able to identify areas for a head to print.
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http://www.leeds.ac.uk |