Abstract: A printing system includes a printing device, a platen roller, a controller, and an interface. The printing device includes a thermal head, a ribbon drive source, and a head drive source. When receiving a print command, the controller executes head movement control for moving the thermal head and ribbon acceleration control for accelerating a transport speed of an ink ribbon to a target speed. After completion of the head movement control and the ribbon acceleration control, the controller is configured to control the thermal head to perform printing on the print medium. At least before receiving the print command, the controller is configured to determine a printable distance over which the print medium is transported from the reception of the print command till the completion of the head movement control and the ribbon acceleration control and outputs the determined printable distance through the interface.

Abstract: The image formation device includes a tank, a hollow member, and a sensor. The tank is configured to store ink. The hollow member is disposed inside the tank, and extends in an up-down direction. The sensor is disposed outside the tank and above the hollow member, and is configured to detect a pressure inside the hollow member.

Abstract: A method of ink jet printing comprising a step of printing a primer onto a media sheet is disclosed. This method comprises a step of printing with ink onto the media sheet so as to form an image superposed on the primer, the step of printing with ink being carried out with a print head having an array of nozzles staggered in several rows, while performing a relative scan movement of the print head and the media sheet in a transport direction normal to the rows. The primer is printed on the media sheet non-uniformly in a pattern that corresponds with a pattern in which the nozzles of the print head are staggered.

Abstract: A conveying device includes a plurality of conveyance passages, a plurality of conveyors, a conveyance passage guide, a conveyance sensor, a conveyance availability detector, and circuitry. The conveyance passages are disposed in parallel to each other. Each conveyors is disposed in corresponding one of the conveyance passages. The circuitry is configured to: set a set retention time for which a conveyance object is to be retained in available one of the conveyance passages; control one of the conveyors to convey and stop conveying the conveyance object guided by the conveyance passage guide; measure a retention time of the conveyance object conveyed in the available one of the conveyance passages; and cause the one of the conveyors to eject the conveyance object from the available one of the conveyance passages in a case in which the retention time of the conveyance object is longer than the set retention time.

Abstract: A printer includes a treatment liquid applier configured to apply a treatment liquid onto a sheet, a printing device configured to print on the sheet onto which the treatment liquid has been applied, a heater configured to heat the treatment liquid in the treatment liquid applier, and circuitry configured to control the heater according to a printing condition to print on the sheet.

Abstract: The area of the openings Ow that discharges the white ink is larger than the area of the openings Ot that discharges the color inks. Since the openings Ow are secured to be large in this way, more white ink can be discharged to one pixel while the number of ink droplets discharged by the multi-drop method is suppressed or without depending on the multi-drop method. As a result, a generation amount of an ink mist can be suppressed while the discharge amount of the white ink is secured.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a head configured to discharge a liquid onto a print target, a carriage configured to hold the head and reciprocally movable in a main-scanning direction, a sealing configured to seal a nozzle surface of the head, and a support configured to hold the print target and movable in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the main-scanning direction, the support including a space configured to accommodate the sealing in the support.

Abstract: In a printing method, is obtained position information of an invisible region invisible from outside, out of the printing surface of the packaging base material. Then a flushing process in which ink is ejected the ink toward the invisible region from the nozzle based on the position information is performed. Therefore, printing for packaging pouch can be satisfactorily performed on the packaging base material without impairing the design quality of the packaging pouch manufactured by applying the bag making process to the packaging base material.

Abstract: A digital web printing press, control apparatus and method for operating the digital web printing press includes selecting a frequency for actuating a digital printing head at the frequency to output printing ink onto a print web, wherein a specified conveying speed for conveying the print web is ascertained based on the selected frequency and printing data, a motor driving a first roller and/or a motor driving a second roller is controlled based on the specified conveying speed such that the print web between the first roller and the second roller is conveyed at the specified conveying speed and the digital printing head at the selected frequency and activated based on the printing data such that the digital printing head is advantageously actuated at a selected, fixed frequency, and such that complex dynamic actuation of the digital printing head and an associated measurement and control system are eliminated.

Abstract: A printing device has a reservoir of colorant that is fillable from an external colorant supply temporarily connectable to the printing device. A selectable fill mode of the reservoir is enabled from a number of fill modes. The fill modes include a restricted fill mode in which the reservoir is filled from the external colorant supply responsive to determining that the external colorant supply can be emptied into the reservoir. The fill modes include an unrestricted fill mode in which the reservoir is filled from the external supply regardless of whether the external colorant supply can or cannot emptied into the reservoir. The printing device, responsive to temporary connection of the external colorant supply, controls filling of the reservoir from the external colorant supply in accordance with the selected fill mode.

Abstract: An example fluid handling system for a printer is disclosed. In an implementation, the fluid handling system includes a first compartment, a second compartment, and a fluid port. The first compartment is fluidly coupled to the second compartment through the fluid port and the first compartment, second compartment and fluid port are disposable within a printer. In addition, the fluid handling system includes a barrier disposed within the fluid port. The barrier separates the fluid port into a first channel and a second channel, wherein the barrier is movable within the fluid port.

Abstract: A fluid interconnect system including a mating component having an inlet port and a liquid outlet, the inlet port configured to support an interconnector and the liquid outlet configured to engage with a print cartridge so that liquid flows from a liquid source, through the interconnector and the inlet port, and out of the liquid outlet into the print cartridge.

Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus can include a supply reservoir including print substance, and a rotary valve having a central rotary axis, where the central rotary axis is perpendicular to a height of the supply reservoir, where the rotary valve is in a closed position such that the print substance is unable to be supplied from the supply reservoir.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a flow path forming substrate in which a pressure generating chamber which communicates with a nozzle which ejects a liquid is formed by a partitioning wall, and a piezoelectric actuator in which a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode are laminated, in which the piezoelectric layer includes a region which is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode in a lamination direction, and in which when viewed in plan view from the lamination direction, the region overlaps at least a portion of the edges of each side of an opening of the pressure generating chamber on the piezoelectric actuator side and does not overlap one of the first electrode and the second electrode in at least a portion of the opening.

Abstract: A liquid absorber includes a case, a first liquid absorption member stored in the case, and a second liquid absorption member stored in the case. The case has an opening. The first liquid absorption member absorbs a portion of a liquid. The second liquid absorption member absorbs a portion of the liquid. The second liquid absorption member is disposed adjacent to the first liquid absorption member and is closer to the opening than is the first liquid absorption member. The first liquid absorption member and the second liquid absorption member include fiber substrates and a liquid-absorbent resin, the liquid-absorbent resin being liquid-absorbent resin particles.

Abstract: In some examples, a controller may include a processing resource and a memory resource storing non-transitory machine-readable instructions that are executed to cause the processing resource to direct a clock signal of an imaging device to a fill port via a detection circuit of the imaging device, determine based on a state of a switch included in the detection circuit whether the fill port is open or closed, determine based on the state of the switch indicating the fill port is closed a status of the fill port, and in response to the status of the fill port being closed, determine based on a voltage of the clock signal whether the fill port is connected to a colorant container.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid container for containing liquid which has a refilling port for refilling the liquid container with liquid, a contained liquid information memory unit for storing information on the liquid contained in the liquid container, a refilling liquid information memory unit for storing information on the liquid to be supplied for refilling the liquid container, a liquid ejection head for ejecting the liquid supplied from the liquid container and a control unit for controlling operation of the liquid ejection apparatus according to the information stored in the contained liquid information memory unit and the information stored in the refilling liquid information memory unit.

Abstract: Provided is an inkjet printer with an unwinding portion and an adjacent winding portion in an uneven arrangement, which enables easy replacement of a web-shaped print base material on an unwinding portion and a winding portion for the web-shaped print base material at the time of printing on the web-shaped print base material with an aqueous ink, is capable of dealing with small-lot and wide-variety printing, and enables further space saving as compared to related arts.

Abstract: The printing medium M after color printing is performed on the front surface M1 (recording surface) by the color printing unit 32 can be conveyed while the front surface M1 and the back surface M2 of the printing medium M are inverted twice by the only rollers 471 to 478 (rotary bodies) in contact with the back surface M2 (non-recording surface) of the printing medium M (inverting conveying part 47). In this way, without providing air turn bars, a time to convey the printing medium M from the color printing unit 32 to the white printing unit 33 can be secured while the printing medium M is firmly supported by the rollers 471 to 478 in contact with the back surface M2 of the printing medium M.

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a transporting belt having an endless shape stretched over a plurality of rollers and configured to rotate while supporting a medium by a support face being a face on an opposite side from a contact face with the roller, to transport the medium in a transport direction, a liquid discharging unit configured to discharge a liquid onto the medium supported by the support face, and a drying section configured to dry, from a side of the contact face, the liquid adhering to the contact face.