Patent ID: 8511782

Claim:
A method for printing on a surface, the method comprising: providing a printing system comprising a rotating mechanism and a printer comprising an inkjet head having a plurality of nozzles; configuring an image to be printed on the workpiece; determining if a surface of the workpiece where the image is to be printed is curved; if the surface is curved, dividing the image into at least two printing areas; rotating the workpiece on the rotating mechanism, wherein the rotating mechanism rotates the surface of the workpiece to face the inkjet head; preventing the image being printed on the workpiece becomes distorted by separating the at least two printing areas from each other by a buffer area, wherein a width of the buffer area is greater than a distance between a first nozzle of the inkjet head and a last nozzle of the inkjet head; and printing each of the at least two printing areas of the image on the surface of the workpiece.