Digital 3D Wood Texture: UV-Curable Inkjet Printing on Board Surface

Abstract

Natural wood textures are appreciated in most forest products industries for their appealing visual characteristics including grain and color, but also their fine surface tactile sensation. The following presents an ultraviolet (UV)-curable inkjet technology printing 3D wood texture on wood-based substrate by image processing and surface treatment. The UV printing was created from scanned digital images of a real wood surface and processed in graphics software. The images were converted to grayscale graphics by selecting color range and setting the parameter of fuzziness. The grayscale images were printed as 3D texture height simulation on the substrates and coated by printing the color images as texture mapping. Based on these wood texture digital images, the marquetry art is also considered in the images processing design to increase the artistry of the printed materials. The medium-density fiberboard (MDF) coated printing marquetry surface replicate realistic natural 3D wood texture surface layers on wood-based panels and imitated the effect of handcrafted wood art works. This study proves that printing 3D texture surface material is creative and valuable with ecologically friendly, low-consumption UV-curable inkjet technology and provides a feasible and scalable approach in flooring/furniture/decorative architectural panels.

Characterizing Mode I Fracture Behaviors of Wood Using Compact Tension in Selected System Crack Propagation

“…The polynomial function is applicable to the orthotropic m 0.7 [41,42]. In this study, a, B and W are equal to 12.5 mm, 12 where KIC refers to the critical stress intensity factor (MPa √ m); P (N); B infers to thickness of the specimen (𝑚); W is the width of to the length from the center of the hole to the crack point (𝑚 function. In order to further study the fracture mechanical behaviors to CT load.…”

“…As a natural composite material, wood has been widely used in engineering fields including wood constructions and wood products [1][2][3][4]. Compared with other engineering structure materials, such as steel rods and cement concrete, wood has the advantages of being environmental friendly [5,6] and having easy processing [7], good decoration [8][9][10][11][12] and an early warning system before failure [13,14]. Crack propagation in mode I fracture is main failure mode under tension [15][16][17].…”

A Modeling Approach on the Correction Model of the Chromatic Aberration of Scanned Wood Grain Images

“…It is known that color is one of the most important parameters of the aesthetic performance of wood surface, and yet wood components are vulnerable to weathering factors, such as UV radiation and humidity, leading to the discoloration [1][2][3]. In order to imitate the color of natural timber and reduce the influence of environmental factors on the color of wood surface, technologies such as wood staining [4], decorative paper, and 3D-printed wood grain [5] have been applied. Most of these surface decoration methods require the image acquisition of the natural wood grain to obtain the digital grain, and they are then applied to mass reproductions [6].…”

“…Sang et al [5] printed the scanned images of a real wood surface by UV-curable inkjet technology, and the replicated wood grain on wood-based panels presented a very vivid and realistic effect in color, texture, and touch under natural light. However, it was not mentioned whether there was any chromatic aberration between the real wood surface and the replicated surface.…”

Image Definition Evaluations on Denoised and Sharpened Wood Grain Images

“…To imitate and communicate such visual impressions of natural wood grain and alleviate the shortage of precious timber resources, decorative paper and wood veneer have been widely used in the surface decoration of wood-based panels [1,2]. In other reports [3,4], a UV-curable inkjet technology approach to print 3D wood grain surface layers on wood-based panels was presented. These surface decoration methods all require image acquisition of the natural wood grain to obtain the digital grain, and then they are applied to mass reproductions.…”