Abstract: A printing system comprising a pen comprising a number of print bars; each print bar comprising a number of printheads in which the printheads are grouped to a number of printheads from each of the number or print bars, the grouped printheads forming a slice and in which the printheads of the slice are electrically coupled to a common power supply unit. A printing pen comprising a number of print bars in which each of the number of print bars comprises a number of printheads, in which the number of printheads are grouped together to form a slice, the slice comprising a printhead from each of the print bars, and in which the slice is powered by a common power supply unit.

Abstract: An inkjet printhead assembly includes: a support structure having a recess, the recess having a wall defining a plurality of ink supply apertures; and a plurality of print modules received in the recess in a neighboring arrangement. Each print module includes: a printhead chip carrier having a plurality of convergent ink galleries, each ink gallery receiving ink from an ink supply aperture; and a single printhead chip mounted on the printhead chip carrier, the printhead chip receiving ink from the plurality of convergent ink galleries.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a wood material board production installation for producing a wood material board, in particular a high density fiberboard, the installation having a wood material board workpiece production device for producing a wood material board workpiece and a digital printing device for printing the wood material board workpiece. A temperature measurement device is provided which is disposed to determine an entering temperature of the wood material board workpiece during printing.

Abstract: The inkjet printing machine includes a controlling unit, an inkjet head including a plurality of nozzles, and a head elevating motor that causes the inkjet head to move up or down. The controlling unit causes, while the inkjet head is being moved in a main-scanning direction, the head elevating motor to move the inkjet head up or down depending on unevenness of a surface of a printing medium, selects a nozzle from the nozzles depending on a distance between the inkjet head and the surface of the printing medium at a position of each of the nozzles, and performs printing by using the selected nozzle.

Abstract: An example provides a fluid ejection apparatus including a fluid feed slot to supply a fluid to a plurality of drop ejectors, a first rib at a first side of the fluid feed slot and supporting drop ejection circuitry to control ejection of drops of the fluid from the plurality of drop ejectors, and a second rib at a second side, opposite the first side, of the fluid feed slot supporting a thermal sensor to facilitate determination of a temperature of the first rib and the second rib.

Abstract: A joining method includes a process of applying a joining material including a thermosetting resin to a member. The joining material includes an addition-type silicone resin. The joining material includes one or more kinds selected from the group consisting of a methyl-based straight silicone resin, a phenyl-based silicone resin, and a modified silicone resin.

Abstract: A printing device is disclosed including a path for supplying thermal paper unwound from a roll to a thermal print head arranged for printing on a first side of paper, wherein a linear image sensor is arranged along the path, on a second side of paper opposite the first, transversely to an advancement direction of the paper, to detect the position of an alignment mark arranged on the paper.

Abstract: A ribbon roll held by a ribbon holder comprises a cylindrical member, an ink ribbon wound around the cylindrical member and a data holding section which is arranged on surface of the cylindrical member and has plural areas where identification codes indicating information relating to the ink ribbon are recorded A driver rotates the cylindrical member held by the ribbon holding section. A detector detects components of the identification code and the mark from a position facing the data holding section of the ribbon roll held by the ribbon holder. A rotation controller enables the driver to rotate the cylindrical member to an extent to which the detector can detect the identification code. A reading controller carries out reading of the identification code by taking the mark as a reference from the components detected by the detector in synchronization with the rotation by the rotation controller.

Abstract: A method for forming a fluidic ejection device is described. The method includes depositing a first layer on a silicon wafer, the first layer including a first photoresist, and exposing, at a first energy level, a portion of the first photoresist. The method also includes depositing a second layer on the first layer, the second layer including a second photoresist that is more sensitive to light than the first photoresist, and exposing, at a second energy level, a portion of the second photoresist. The second energy level is less than the first energy level. The method also includes developing unexposed portions of the first photoresist and the second photoresist to form an enclosed firing chamber and a nozzle.

Abstract: An elastic roller includes: a roller shaft; and an elastic member. The elastic roller includes an inner layer side elastic member, and a coating layer. The inner layer side elastic member has a rubber hardness of 30 to 80 degrees that is measured by a durometer type A in accordance with the standard of JIS K 6253. The inner layer side elastic member has a tear strength of 25 N/mm or more that is measured using an unnicked angle-shaped test piece in accordance with JIS K 6252. The coating layer is made of silicone resin, and has a thickness of 10 to 100 ?m. The silicone resin has hardness of 20 degrees or less that is measured using a spring-based Asker C type in accordance with SRIS 0101 standard. The inner layer side elastic member has a plurality of internal grooves along a circumferential direction. Each of the internal grooves has a width of 25 to 1,300 ?m, and has a depth of 25 to 500 ?m. Each of the internal grooves has a V-shaped in cross section and has a groove angle of 50 to 120 degrees.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a recording section which records an image on a sheet conveyed in a conveyance direction in a conveyance route; a first abutment member having a plurality of first abutment portions arranged apart from each other in a width direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction, and configured to abut against the sheet conveyed in the conveyance route; a first supporting member which supports the first abutment member; and a plurality of second abutment members which are supported by the first supporting member at both sides in the width direction, respectively, of the first abutment member, at a distance from the first abutment member, and each of which has a second abutment portion capable of contacting with the sheet conveyed in the conveyance route.

Abstract: A printer is disclosed. The printer has a media control system to control the tension in media loaded in a paper path in the printer. A motor in the media control system is characterized to determine a plurality of motor characteristics. The media control system uses the motor characteristics to adjust the control signal to the motor.

Abstract: A tape drive comprising: first and second motors; first and second spool supports, respectively receiving first and second spools of tape, the first spool support being driveable by the first motor and the second spool support being drivable by the second motor; a sensor arranged to provide a signal indicative of linear movement of tape between the tape spools along a predetermined tape path; a controller arranged to control energization of said first and second motors for transport of the tape in at least one direction between the first and second spools of tape along the predetermined tape path; wherein the controller is arranged to generate data indicating the diameter of said first and second spools of tape based upon said signal provided by the sensor and data indicating rotation of each of said first and second spools.

Abstract: A driving circuit for driving a capacitive load includes: an original drive signal generator that generates a plurality of original drive signals which includes a first original drive signal and a second original drive signal; a selection section that is capable of selecting one original drive signal from the plurality of original drive signals which includes the first original drive signal and the second original drive signal; a driver that generates a drive signal of voltages in accordance with the one original drive signal.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid jet head, including a flow path including a first member, a resin layer, and a second member, wherein the resin layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing an epoxy compound represented by General Formula (1), a polythiol compound having 2 or more thiol groups in a molecule thereof, and a specific imidazole compound, where in General Formula (1), L is an integer of 0 or greater but less than 3, m is a positive number of 0.1 or greater but less than 50, R1 represents any one of a hydrogen atom, and an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R2 represents a substituent represented by a formula below where R3 and R4 each represent any one of hydrogen atom, and a non-substituted or fluorine-substituted methyl group, and n is an integer of 4 to 12.

Abstract: A printer has a separation unit attached to a support board. The separation unit includes a guide rail hole to engage with a shaft so as to slide and swing with respect to the support board. The separation unit moves to a continuous ejection position in which one end of the guide rail hole comes in contact with the shaft, swings in a first rotation direction about the shaft in contact with the other end side of the guide rail hole so as to move away from a thermal head to a swing end position in which the separation unit on the forward end side is within a swing trajectory of the opening and closing cover, and swings from the swing end position in a second rotation direction while engaging on the forward end side with the opening and closing cover moving to the closed position so as to be located at a separation ejection position where the separation roller is adjacent to the feed roller when the opening and closing cover is located at the closed position.

Abstract: A printer includes a substrate and at least one print head. The at least one print head is movable in a print direction. The print head includes an ink jet dispenser configured to jet UV-curable ink toward the substrate in a target region. The at least one print head further includes a UV curing system behind the ink jet dispenser in a following direction opposite the print direction. The UV curing system is configured to emit UV irradiance in a radiation field that covers the target region and provides sufficient intensity to at least pin the UV-curable ink in the target region.

Abstract: This tire marking apparatus is a tire marking apparatus for performing marking in a tire. The tire marking apparatus includes a disk part having a central axis that is adjusted substantially perpendicularly to a printing surface of the tire; a plurality of printing parts that are provided in the disk part so as to be capable of moving forward and backward with respect to the printing surface and are arranged around the central axis; and a printing driving unit that moves at least one printing part arranged at a printing position that faces the printing surface of the tire forward.

Abstract: An inkjet printing method for producing images durable for outdoor usage includes the steps of: a) inkjet printing on a substrate a UV curable colorless primer including monofunctional monomers in a range of 40 wt % to 65 wt % based on the total weight of the UV curable colorless primer; b) at least partially UV curing the inkjet printed UV curable colorless primer; and c) inkjet printing on the at least partially cured UV curable colorless primer one or more UV curable color inkjet inks including monofunctional monomers in a range of 30 wt % to 60 wt % based on the total weight of the UV curable color inkjet inks; wherein a ratio of the wt % monofunctional monomers in the UV curable colorless primer over the wt % monofunctional monomers in the one or more UV curable color inkjet inks is between 0.65 and 2.10.

Abstract: A printing mechanism has: a head mechanism including a printing head configured to print on a recording paper; a platen mechanism including a platen roller configured to nip the recording paper with the printing head to feed the recording paper; a fixed blade arranged in one mechanism of the head mechanism and the platen mechanism; and a movable blade arranged in another mechanism of the head mechanism and the platen mechanism in a slidable manner and configured to cut the recording paper with the fixed blade, the another mechanism comprising: a movable blade guide wall arranged upstream of the movable blade in a paper path direction of the recording paper; a first rib protruding from the movable blade guide wall to downstream of the paper path direction; and a second rib formed at a position on the movable blade guide wall, which is separated from the fixed blade with respect to the first rib in a movement direction of the movable blade.