Abstract: A fluid-ejection element of a fluid-ejection device includes a chamber layer having a pair of chambers fluidically disconnected from one another within the chamber layer. The fluid-ejection element includes a tophat layer over the chamber layer and fluidically connecting the chambers to define a fluid recirculation path between the chambers. The fluid-ejection element includes a nozzle common to both the chambers.

Abstract: The object is to provide a liquid container that can prevent foreign substances from flowing into a liquid ejection apparatus with a simple configuration. The liquid container for containing liquid to be ejected by a liquid ejection apparatus includes: a bag body configured to contain the liquid inside; and a flow path for supplying the liquid contained inside the bag body to the liquid ejection apparatus, wherein, inside a peripheral wall of the flow path, a first capturing unit extending in an anti-gravitational direction and a second capturing unit extending in a gravitational direction are arranged at different positions with respect to a direction in which the liquid flows.

Abstract: A fluid ejection device includes a plurality of fluid actuation devices, a plurality of memory cells, and a configuration register. Each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells corresponds to a fluid actuation device of the plurality of fluid actuation devices. The configuration register stores data to enable or disable access to the plurality of memory cells.

Abstract: A printing device includes a housing, a head arranged inside the housing and configured to eject a liquid, a fan arranged inside the housing, a humidifier configured to supply humidified air to a supply port arranged at an exhaust port side of the fan, and a filter arranged at a fan side of the supply port.

Abstract: A metal fine particle-containing ink that contains metal fine particles dispersed therein with a polymer dispersant, a low-molecular weight carboxylic acid and an aqueous solvent, wherein the polymer dispersant contains a constitutional unit derived from an acid group-containing monomer; a content of the low-molecular weight carboxylic acid C in the ink is not less than 1% by mass and not more than 15% by mass. A boiling point (C) of the low-molecular weight carboxylic acid and a boiling point (D) of the aqueous solvent satisfy the following relational formula (I); and an acid dissociation exponent pKa (C) of the low-molecular weight carboxylic acid and an acid dissociation exponent pKa (B) of an acid group in the polymer dispersant satisfy the following relational formula (II): boiling point (C)>boiling point (D) ??(I), and pKa (C)<pKa (B) ??(II).

Abstract: A printer includes a transport part that transports a sheet, a printing part that prints on the sheet, a cutting part that cuts the sheet by moving a movable blade toward a stationary blade, and a controller that controls the transport part and the cutting part. When the sheet is label paper having an adhesive layer, the controller controls the transport part and the cutting part to transport the sheet rearward before moving the movable blade that cut the sheet, move the movable blade in a direction away from the stationary blade in a state where the sheet is fed in rearward, and thereafter transport the sheet frontward.

Abstract: A printing device includes: a printing unit printing on a recording paper; a feeder unit having a roller that rotates about a shaft and feeds the recording paper and a motor that rotates the shaft; a detection unit detecting the rotation of the shaft; and a control unit controlling the printing unit. The control unit calculates an electrifying time during which the printing unit is electrified and a non-electrifying time during which the printing unit is not electrified following the electrifying time, based on a detection signal from the detection unit. When the calculated non-electrifying time is less than a predetermined time, the control unit corrects the non-electrifying time in such a way that the non-electrifying time becomes equal to or longer than the predetermined time, and causes the printing unit to print.

Abstract: A post-processing device includes a first discharge unit, a processing tray, an end alignment portion, a transport unit that comes into contact with an upperface of a medium placed on the processing tray and transports the medium to the end alignment portion, a position changing unit that changes the relative position of the transport unit with respect to the processing tray, a controller, and a post-processing unit that performs a post-process on the medium on the processing tray, wherein the position changing unit is configured to move the transport unit to a transport position to which the medium is transported and a standby position farther away from the processing tray than the transport position, wherein the controller changes the standby position based on the processing information related to the process performed on the medium, and wherein the processing information includes information about a process performed on the first medium.

Abstract: A fluid ejection device includes a plurality of fluid actuation devices, a plurality of memory cells, and a configuration register. Each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells corresponds to a fluid actuation device of the plurality of fluid actuation devices. The configuration register stores data to enable or disable access to the plurality of memory cells.

Abstract: A print component includes an array of fluidic actuation structures including a first column of fluidic actuating structures addressable by a set of actuation addresses, each fluidic actuating structure having a different one of the actuation addresses and having a fluidic architecture type, and a second column of fluidic actuating structures addressable by the set of actuation addresses. Each fluidic actuating structure of the second column has a different one of the actuation addresses and has a same fluidic architecture type as the fluidic actuating structure of the first column having the same address. An address bus communicates the set of addresses to the array of fluidic actuating structures, and a fire signal line communicates a plurality of fire pulse signal types to the array of fluidic actuating structures, the fire pulse signal type depending on the actuation address on the address bus.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a thermal print head and a method of fabricating the thermal print head. The thermal print head includes a substrate made of a semiconductor material and having a main surface and a convex portion, a resistor layer including a plurality of heat generating portions on the convex portion, and a wiring layer conducted to the plurality of heat generating portions and formed to contact the resistor layer. The convex portion has a top surface, a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface. At least one of two ends of the convex portion in the main scanning direction forms a third inclined surface connected to the main surface and the first inclined surface, and a fourth inclined surface connected to the main surface and the second inclined surface.

Abstract: A droplet discharge apparatus includes a plurality of dischargers and a control device. The plurality of dischargers discharge droplets. The control device acquires characteristic values of end portions of areas on which the droplets discharged by the plurality of dischargers land, from a measurement of the end portions. The control device adjusts the plurality of dischargers such that a difference between the characteristic values is within a range.

Abstract: A system for in-line treatment of thread for use with a thread consuming device is provided. The system includes a treatment unit including at least one discharge device being configured to dispense one or more coating substances onto the at least one thread when activated; and a drive unit being configured to move said at least one discharge device between an idle position and an operational position being arranged along an axis of movement.

Abstract: A cartridge is installed in a tape printing device including a cartridge installation part, a printing head that is provided in the cartridge installation part and performs printing on a printing tape, and a device case, the device case having a device-side tape introduction port that introduces the printing tape from an outside to an inside of the device case and a device-side tape ejection port that ejects the printing tape to the outside of the device case. The cartridge includes a tape path through which the printing tape introduced from the device-side tape introduction port is fed toward the device-side tape ejection port in a state in which the cartridge is installed in the cartridge installation part.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus includes a first transistor in which a second terminal and a third terminal are electrically coupled to according to a first terminal, a second transistor in which a fifth terminal and a sixth terminal are electrically coupled to according to a fourth terminal, and a coil that has one end electrically coupled to the second terminal and the sixth terminal, and the other end electrically coupled to the discharge head, a shortest distance between the second terminal and the one end of the coil is shorter than that between the third terminal and the one end of the coil, a shortest distance between the sixth terminal and the one end of the coil is shorter than that between the fifth terminal and the one end of the coil.

Abstract: A fluid ejection device includes a plurality of fluid actuation devices, a plurality of memory cells, and a configuration register. Each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells corresponds to a fluid actuation device of the plurality of fluid actuation devices. The configuration register stores data to enable or disable access to the plurality of memory cells.

Abstract: In a control device, a controller sets an order condition using a plurality of sets of timing information and a plurality of index values stored in a memory. The plurality of index values is acquired from a recording device under a condition where a first cartridge is mounted in the recording device. The order condition requires that one of a latest index value and a current timing have reached corresponding one of a reference index value and a reference timing, and is set so that a second cartridge is delivered to a predetermined destination at a first timing at which the first cartridge is expected to be out of a printing agent while a tank of the recording device is expected to still accommodate the printing agent. The controller transmits an order command instructing to order the second cartridge to a relevant device after the order condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a head having a plurality of nozzles; and a controller. The controller executes: a discharging processing of discharging liquid, from each of the nozzles toward a recording medium, in a liquid droplet amount which is selected for each of pixels from at least three kinds of liquid droplet amounts; and a total discharge amount calculating processing of calculating a total discharge amount of the liquid to be discharged from the nozzles in the discharging processing, based on the liquid droplet amount selected for each of the pixels and a discharge duty which is density of the liquid droplet per a unit area of the recording medium.

Abstract: A first frame holds a platen. A second frame holds a head. When the second frame is at a first position, the head faces the platen. When the second frame is at a second position, the second frame is positioned farther away from the first frame than when the second frame is at the first position. At the second position, the head is positioned farther away from the platen than when the second frame is at the first position. A head lifter is held by the second frame. At the first position, the head lifter moves the head with respect to the second frame between a printing position and a separate position. At the printing position, the head ejects liquid toward a medium supported by the platen. At the separate position, the head is farther away from the platen in an intersecting direction than at the printing position.

Abstract: To provide a head adjustment device, a head device, and a printing apparatus with which it is possible to perform automatic position adjustment of a head module in a head including one or more head modules. Provided is a head adjustment device (150) which adjusts a position of a head module in a head including one or more head modules, the head adjustment device (150) including an adjustment unit that includes an actuator that is connected to an adjustment member, which is operated in a case where the position of the head module is to be adjusted, and operates the adjustment member, a movement unit (248) that moves the adjustment unit relative to the head, and a movement control unit (244) that sets coordinates to be applied to the movement unit based on a reference position of the head module and moves the adjustment unit based on coordinate values of the adjustment member.