Patent ID: 6453812
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: B41F

Abstract:
A control method of ink supply to a printing machine, the printing machine including:an ink source roller rotating around an ink source roller shaft; an opening and closing piece disposed in a direction extending along the ink source roller shaft and storing ink in a space formed between the piece and the ink source roller, the piece being capable of varying a gap formed between the piece and the ink source roller by carrying out opening and closing operations of the piece thereby ink volume being supplied on an external surface of the ink source roller, an ink roller group for supplying the ink to a printing plate, which is comprised of a plurality of rollers being in contact one with another, each of which rotates around a roller shaft thereof, and a distribution roller capable of moving reciprocally between the ink source roller and the ink roller group, the distribution roller distributing the ink supplied on an external surface of the ink source roller onto external surfaces of the ink roller group, the method comprising the steps of: inputting a kind of the printing paper to be printed, and controlling at least one of rotation of the ink source roller and reciprocal movement of the distribution roller in accordance with a coefficient corresponding to the kind of the inputted printing paper.