Development Trend of Carpet Digital Printing Technology

Automatic Color Control

Compared with flat fabrics, it is more difficult to accurately measure the color of carpets, which leads to unsatisfactory ICC automatic color correction results, especially for neutral colors with low saturation. Therefore, most users currently use pattern color separation + color injection printing for accurate color control, which leads to complex color bank and usage management. It is necessary to develop intelligent fast automatic color measurement and automatic color correction equipment, software and methods to achieve the ultimate goal of what you see is what you get.

Intelligent Accurate Color Repeat Control System

There are many factors that affect accurate color repeat. It is necessary to develop an expert system based on a software platform to automatically record production factor data such as yarn specifications, printing parameters, pre-treatment and processing parameters, etc., repeat production intelligent matching, and online monitoring and alarming of the production process. Minimize the occurrence of quality problems such as penetration, color difference and color fastness in repetitive production.

Automatic Color Separation and Color Injection Software System for Pattern Processing before Printing

Digital printing solution is especially suitable for single product customization. But for small number of customized orders, the color separation and color injection process of the pattern processing before printing is longer and the design cost is higher. E.g. The pattern to be processed for four hours and the printing only needs four minutes. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an intelligent color separation and color injection software system to match the time and labor cost of pattern processing with the number of customized items.

High Color Fastness Ink

It is necessary to continuously test and even synthesize new dyes for ink production, so that each type of CMYK four-color ink dyes are better in terms of shade and color gamut, light fastness, rubbing fastness, washing fastness, etc. with balanced performance. To achieve this goal is one of the important ways to extend carpet digital printing technology to high-end carpet customization and completely replace screen printing and color paste jet printing technology.

The Application of AI Vision in Carpet Digital Printing Technology

• Automatic edge seeking, online correction of warp skew and weft skew
• Intelligent recognition of contour borders or yarn borders of a single carpet sheet
• Color online tracking and early warning in the production process
• Positioning printing of high and low pile jacquard carpet
• Double-sided printing of special carpets, pattern positioning and recognition on both sides
• Automatically search the target design and color in the pattern database and color database
• Automatic recognition of clogged printing nozzles and automatic printing compensation