Research on the Motion Mechanism of Offset Press's Ink Roller

The hard roller and soft roller are alternately arranged in the inking system of offset press. The ink vibrator is a hard roller which transmits the motion to the ink distributing roller. In order to analyze the motion mechanism of the ink roller, a model of an ink distributing roller and an ink vibrator is built up by using the software ANSYS. After the simulation of the motion, the force on the contact area of the ink distributing roller and the rotation speed of both rollers are analyzed. The result is that the ink distributing roller rotates with tangential force on the contact area and this force increases together with the rotation speed. When the two rollers rotate, the tangential elastic deformation is caused by the tangential force on contact area, and the radial deformation of the ink distributing roller is caused by the pressure. It leads to a relative sliding of the two rollers, which is mainly influenced by the rotation speed of ink vibrator and the radial deformation of ink distributing roller. Meanwhile, to verify the accuracy of the analysis, the rotation speed of the two rollers and the deformation of the ink distributing roller have been measured on a printability tester and then compared with the results of simulation. The analysis of the motion mechanism is very important to the study of printing color quality control.