Abstract: A photo album creating or editing software application transfers a total cover page image to a printer. The total cover page image may include printer commands or printer commands may be transmitted separately. The total cover page image is transferred separately or is transferred in sections, such as a back flap section, a back cover section, a spine section, a front cover section, and a front flap section. The printer receives an indication that a printhead is approaching a fold area of the cover page paper. The printer moves the printhead in response to receiving the indication that the printhead is approaching a fold area. The printer forwards the cover page paper by a pre-determined amendment. The printhead of the printer resumes printing, after the forwarding of the cover page paper.

Abstract: A physical sensor having a pressure sensing layer having such property that electrical resistance is changed by application of a stress, and electrical insulating layers which are integrally formed on opposite two surfaces of the pressure sensing layer, respectively, wherein the pressure sensing layer has a matrix comprising glass, and an electrically conductive particle having electrical conductivity and dispersed in the matrix and preferably, the electrically conductive particle includes RuO2, and a thickness of the pressure sensing layer is 1 ?m to 200 ?m, and it is preferable that one pair of electrodes are disposed on the pressure sensing layer.

Abstract: An information processor for information registration, capturing means captures a graphics processing command, and database registering means registers, as information about completed work in the database, information about a series of graphics processing commands concerning completed works out of the captured graphics processing commands. In an information processor for information retrieval, proceeding work detecting means detects a work in progress as a proceeding work based on the captured graphics processing command, and information acquiring means searches a database for the information about the work in progress which has been done before based on the graphics processing command concerning the proceeding work and acquires the information about the work in progress which has been done before.

Abstract: In the present invention, at the time of bonding a top plate with an ink supply member pre-bonded thereto to one side of a head substrate directly or indirectly through a thermosetting adhesive to close grooves formed in the head substrate, or at the time of later bonding an ink supply member through a thermosetting adhesive to a top plate which has been bonded directly or indirectly to a head substrate, the bonding is carried out while applying to the head substrate and the top plate such a load as maintains the head substrate and the top plate in parallel with each other after curing of the adhesive.

Abstract: A physical sensor having a pressure sensing layer having such property that electrical resistance is changed by application of a stress, and electrical insulating layers which are integrally formed on opposite two surfaces of the pressure sensing layer, respectively. The pressure sensing layer comprises a matrix comprising glass, and an electrically conductive particle having electrical conductivity and dispersed in the matrix. Preferably, the electrically conductive particle comprises RuO2, and a thickness of the pressure sensing layer is 1 ?m to 200 ?m. It is preferable that one pair of electrodes are disposed on the pressure sensing layer.

Abstract: An ink jet printer head fabricating method includes forming electrodes on surfaces of plural grooves by an electroless plating method using a wet process, the plural grooves being formed in a laminate substrate of two piezo electric members, cutting a portion of the laminate substrate with a dicing saw, and subsequently removing burrs of the electrodes by brushing with a brushing device. Burrs of the electrodes formed on the surfaces of the grooves are removed by the brushing without chipping or cracking of the electrodes, thereby preventing defects in ink ejection.

Abstract: The present invention provides a recording medium for ink jet printers in which superior image recording quality and color stability are exhibited. In a recording medium for ink jet printers in which an ink receiving layer contained at least pigment and binder resin is provided on a supporting material, partially saponified PVA having a degree of saponification of 85.0 to 73.0 mol % and a degree of polymerization of 300 to 1500, is contained in the ink receiving layer as a color stability improving component.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording material having on a support at least an ink-receiving layer, with the ink-receiving layer being comprised of a light resistance-imparting layer as a lower layer and a coloration layer as an upper layer. Herein, the light resistance-imparting layer comprises a light-resistance imparting chemical constituted of 1 to 10 parts by weight of a benzotriazole compound as ultraviolet absorbent, 1 to 8 parts by weight of magnesium sulfate and 1 to 10 parts by weight of zinc oxide in combination with 100 parts by weight of an ink absorbing pigment, and besides, the coloration layer contains no light resistance-imparting chemicals.

Abstract: In the present invention, at the time of bonding a top plate with an ink supply member pre-bonded thereto to one side of a head substrate directly or indirectly through a thermosetting adhesive to close grooves formed in the head substrate, or at the time of later bonding an ink supply member through a thermosetting adhesive to a top plate which has been bonded directly or indirectly to a head substrate, the bonding is carried out while applying to the head substrate and the top plate such a load as maintains the head substrate and the top plate in parallel with each other after curing of the adhesive.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording material having on a support at least an ink-receiving layer, with the ink-receiving layer being comprised of a light resistance-imparting layer as a lower layer and a coloration layer as an upper layer. Herein, the light resistance-imparting layer comprises a light-resistance imparting chemical constituted of 1 to 10 parts by weight of a benzotriazole compound as ultraviolet absorbent, 1 to 8 parts by weight of magnesium sulfate and 1 to 10 parts by weight of zinc oxide in combination with 100 parts by weight of an ink absorbing pigment, and besides, the coloration layer contains no light resistance-imparting chemicals.

Abstract: A recording medium for ink jet printers having superior effects in preventing recorded image deterioration such as lowering of image clarity, decrease in density, change in color tone, etc., under high temperature and high humidity, is provided. An ink receiving layer is formed on a base material by coating acrylic copolymer containing at least (meth)acrylate having a solubility parameter (&dgr;) of 15.0 to 23.0 MPa½ as a copolymerizing component, and thereby a recording medium for ink jet printers is produced.

Abstract: A superior recording sheet for an ink jet printer which sufficiently satisfies various property requirements such as light resistance of images, ozone resistance, etc., is provided. The recording sheet for an ink jet printer comprises at least an ink receiving layer and a glossiness adjusting layer on a base material, the ink receiving layer includes an organic acid metallic salt and a cationic dye fixing agent, and the glossiness adjusting layer comprises a fine particle pigment and binder resin.

Abstract: A polarizing apparatus extracts light amount of which is increased by incidence of light (10, 12) having a plurality of planes of polarization, and by aligning the planes of polarization. This polarizing apparatus can be used as a polarizer for a liquid crystal display device (optical transducer), or can be disposed as a preliminary stage before a polarizer. Molecules of an optically active material (1) rotates the plane of polarization through an optical rotation angle &thgr;1 when a first vector component 10 of light having a horizontal plane of polarization passes, and rotates the plane of polarization through an optical rotation angle &thgr;2 (>&thgr;1) when a second vector component of light having a vertical plane of polarization passes. Therefore, light having a horizontal plane of polarization is amplified, and light having a vertical plane of polarization is reduced.

Abstract: The invention provides an ink-jet recording sheet having an excellent preventive effect on overall. degradation by light such as degradation of image clarity, and decrease in density or change of tone of images, and a resin composition for ink-jet recording media used in the formation thereof. The recording sheet of the invention comprises a substrate and as an ink-receiving layer provided on the substrate, a layer containing an acrylic resin comprising, as copolymerizable monomers, (a) a dialkylaminoalkyl methacrylate, (b) acrylamide and (c) at least one monomer selected from among an. alkoxypolyethylene glycol methacrylate, a 2-hydroxyalkyl methacrylate and a 2-hydroxyalkyl acrylate.

Abstract: A recording medium for ink jet printers having superior recording properties for ink jet printers and having superior surface strength in which recorded images are not easily peeled. Acrylic type copolymer in which at least three components of an A component: (metha)acrylate; a B component: hydroxyalkyl (metha)acrylate; and a C component: antioxidation monomer and/or ultraviolet ray absorptivity monomer are copolymerizing components is contained in a coating solution, an ink receiving layer is provided by coating this solution on a base material, whereby a recording medium for ink jet printers is formed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink jet printer head fabricating method involving forming electrodes on surfaces of plural grooves by an electroless plating method using a wet process, the plural grooves being formed in a laminate substrate constituted by a laminate of two piezoelectric members, cutting off an end face of the laminate substrate which end face is located on an open side of the grooves, by means of a dicing saw, and subsequently removing burrs of the electrodes by brushing with a brushing device. Burrs of the electrodes formed on the surfaces of the grooves are removed by the brushing completely without chipping or cracking of the electrodes, thereby preventing defects in ink ejection such as misdirection, i.e., failure to make a straight flying of ink droplets, and unstable flying of ink.

Abstract: A superior recording sheet for an ink jet printer which sufficiently satisfies various property requirements such as light resistance of images, ozone resistance, etc., is provided. The recording sheet for an ink jet printer comprises at least an ink receiving layer and a glossiness adjusting layer on a base material, the ink receiving layer includes an organic acid metallic salt and a cationic dye fixing agent, and the glossiness adjusting layer comprises a fine particle pigment and binder resin.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet recording medium which, even when applied to gloss paper, specialty paper for ink jet recording, etc., permits the front side of the recording medium to be easily distinguished from the back side of the recording medium and, at the same time, permits the head edge of the recording medium to be easily distinguished from the rear edge of the recording medium and can maintain good appearance. In an ink jet recording medium 5 in a sheet form having an front side 51a and a back side 51b, predetermined portions 53a and 53b, in end faces 52a and 52b constituted by putting sheets of the ink jet recording medium 5 in such a manner that the front side 51a and the back side 51b are arranged in a given direction, have been colored. By virtue of this construction, the front side 51a of the ink jet recording medium 5 can be distinguished from the back side 51b of the ink jet recording medium 5.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording material having on a support at least an ink-receiving layer, with the ink-receiving layer being comprised of a light resistance-imparting layer as a lower layer and a coloration layer as an upper layer. Herein, the light resistance-imparting layer comprises a light-resistance imparting chemical constituted of 1 to 10 parts by weight of a benzotriazole compound as ultraviolet absorbent, 1 to 8 parts by weight of magnesium sulfate and 1 to 10 parts by weight of zinc oxide in combination with 100 parts by weight of an ink absorbing pigment, and besides, the coloration layer contains no light resistance-imparting chemicals.

Abstract: The present invention provides a superior recording sheet for ink jet printers which can completely satisfy property requirements such as light resistance of the printing images. The recording sheet for an ink jet printer includes a water-soluble divalent or greater metallic salt, so that properties such as light resistance are improved very effectively.