Patent ID: 8854686
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A surface printing system that prints a color image on a substrate, the surface printing system comprising: a storage unit that at least temporarily stores image data that corresponds to a print job, the print job setting a deposit order of colors to be applied on a same side of the substrate; a feeding unit that feeds a substrate from a storage location; at least one of a fix station, a dry station, and a cure station; and a plurality of print engines, each print engine including more than two color stations, each color station corresponding to a single color, and each print engine, in accordance with the print job, forms a respective color image portion associated with a portion of the image data that corresponds to the single colors of the color stations of the particular print engine, the plurality of print engines configured in at least one of Image-on-Image, Tandem, or cyclic configurations, each of the respective color image portions being formed by the print engines in the deposit order.