APPLICATION SYSTEM FOR COATING COMPONENTS AND COATING DEVICE

The invention relates to a coating device for coating components with a coating agent, comprising an application system comprising the following: an application device which applies the coating agent, wherein the application device is a printhead (1, 3) which discharges the coating agent out of multiple coating agent nozzles (2, 4, 19), wherein a nozzle valve (5, 20) is attached to each individual coating agent nozzle (2), which opens for a valve opening time when a drop of coating agent is to pass out of the respective nozzle (4); a coating agent supply line (6, 22), with which the coating agent nozzles (4) of the printhead (3) are connected to one another; and a valve controller (25) for controlling the valve opening times and valve closing times of each individual valve (20), wherein the coating device comprises a robot on which at least one application device is accommodated, characterised in that the application system also comprises a pump (21), by means of which the coating agent to be applied is suppl