Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device, a motor, and a controller. The fixing device includes a heating unit and a first temperature sensor. The controller is configured to perform driving the fixing device. The driving includes a heating process. The controller is further configured to perform, during the heating process: a first control operation in which the controller rotates the motor at a first rotational speed and adjusts a duty cycle of electric power suppled to a heater of the heating unit to a higher value as a deviation between a target temperature and a temperature detected by the first temperature sensor becomes greater; and a second control operation in which the controller rotates the motor at a second rotational speed lower than the first rotational speed and restricts the duty cycle within a range lower than or equal to a restricted value.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes a housing having a first outlet and a second outlet, a first channel communicating with the first outlet, a second channel communicating with the second outlet, a tank unit configured to hold water for cooling first air and second air, the first air flowing through the first channel, the second air flowing through the second channel, a cooling unit configured to cool the first air by heat of vaporization of water held in the tank unit, a water supply channel for supplying water held in the tank unit to the cooling unit, and a water recovery channel for collecting water remaining in the cooling unit to the tank unit.

Abstract: A developer cartridge may include: a first gear having a small-diameter gear portion and a large-diameter gear portion; and a second gear including: a first columnar portion centered on a second axis; a second columnar portion having a smaller diameter than the first columnar portion; a first engagement portion extending along a portion of a peripheral surface of the first columnar portion and engageable with the small-diameter gear portion; a second engagement portion extending along a portion of a peripheral surface of the second columnar portion and positioned closer to a housing than the first engagement portion in an axial direction and engageable with the large-diameter gear portion; and a protruding portion protruding in the axial direction and rotatable together with the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion. The second engagement portion may engage the large-diameter gear portion after the first engagement portion engages the small-diameter gear portion.

Abstract: An unclamping arm includes a right fulcrum section, a left fulcrum section, a cam follower, and pressing sections. The right and left fulcrum sections are rotatably supported within a spindle head. The cam follower, in conjunction with the movement of the spindle head, 5 contacts a cam surface provided to an upright column, and receives external pressure. As a result of the cam follower receiving external pressure, the pressing sections rotate about the right and left fulcrum sections, thereby pressing or not pressing pins of a draw bar provided within a spindle. The pressing sections are positioned between the cam follower and the right and left fulcrum sections; the right fulcrum section, the left fulcrum section, and the pressing sections are 10 positioned on a straight line intersecting the axial direction of the spindle; and the cam follower is positioned separated to the upright column-side from the right and left fulcrum sections.

Abstract: A tank includes a storage chamber, a bottom wall, a top wall, a peripheral wall connecting the bottom and top walls to each other, and an outlet in communication with the storage chamber. The bottom wall extends in a lateral direction crossing an up-down direction and has an inner surface including: a flat part extending in the lateral direction and defining a bottom of the storage chamber; and a protruding part protruding downward from the flat part and defining an extra space in communication with the storage chamber. The outlet is positioned in the extra space. Either the bottom wall or the top wall is integrally molded with the peripheral wall to constitute an integrally-molded wall structure having an aperture, and the other one of the bottom wall and the top wall is liquid-tightly connected to the integrally-molded wall structure while covering the aperture to define the storage chamber.

Abstract: An inspection apparatus includes a conveyer configured to convey a medium having a plurality of printing areas in a conveying direction, a reader configured to read images printed in the printing areas, and a controller. When a plurality of images, each of which a printing position of a code in the printing area is the same as the other images, are respectively printed in the printing areas, the controller causes the reader to read a prescribed image, inspects whether the code satisfies a prescribed condition, acquires position information for specifying a printing position of the code, causes the reader to read an upstream image in a printing area upstream of the prescribed image, extracts a processing range in which the code is included from a read image of the upstream image based on the position information, and inspects whether the code included in the processing range satisfies the prescribed condition.

Abstract: A function executing device may cause a first output unit to output first output information including location information of a server that is configured to operate according to a predetermined authentication scheme. The first output information may be acquired by a terminal device configured to operate according to the predetermined authentication scheme. The terminal device may be configured to access the server, receive first verification information, create signature information by encrypting the first verification information using a private key in a case where first authentication for a target user succeeds, and send the signature information to the server. The server may be configured to decrypt the signature information using a public key, and send an execution instruction to the function executing device in a case where the first verification information is acquired by decrypting the signature information. The function executing device may execute a specific function.

Abstract: A printing device includes a head including a nozzle configured to ejects ink, a platen including a support surface configured to support a printing medium to which a pretreatment liquid is applied, the pretreatment liquid containing a volatile component that reacts with the ink, and a humidified air supply port configured to supply humidified air to the support surface of the platen that supports the printing medium, the humidified air supply port being provided around the platen in which the support surface of the platen is disposed at a printing position facing the nozzle.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a holder which holds printing media, a conveying unit which conveys each of the printing media picked up from the holder, along a conveyance direction, a printing unit which prints an image on the printing media, a first detecting unit which detects a front end and a rear end in the conveyance direction of each of the printing media conveyed by the conveying unit, a processing unit which processes each of the printing media, by moving a processing member with the processing member contacting each of the printing media, and a controller configured to: calculate lengths of the printing media by using detected results by the first detecting unit; and based on the lengths of the printing media, set a processing position in the conveyance direction at which the processing unit processes each of the printing media.

Abstract: A server may receive, from a terminal device, user identification information, first type of first printer identification information and a specific benefit code. In a case where the user identification information, the first type of first printer identification information and the specific benefit code are received from the terminal device and the first type of first printer identification information and a specific benefit code are stored in a memory in association with each other, the server may grant a specific benefit corresponding to the specific benefit code to a user identified by the user identification information. In a case where the first type of first printer identification information and the specific benefit code are not stored in the memory in association with each other, the specific benefit is not granted to the user.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a main body casing, a drum cartridge and a developing cartridge. The main body casing has an opening and a slot extending in from the opening toward an inside of the main body casing along a first direction. The drum cartridge and the developing cartridge are arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction in a state where the drum cartridge and the developing cartridge are attached to the slot. The main body casing includes a drum guide groove configured to guide movement of the drum cartridge. The drum cartridge includes a drum protrusion configured to be engaged with the drum guide groove. A width of the drum guide groove in the second direction is decreased toward the inside of the main body casing from the opening.

Abstract: A development unit includes a development housing configured to store toner and a development roller rotatable about a development axis extending in a first direction. The development roller supplies the toner in the development housing to a photosensitive drum. The development housing includes a reception port and a slope. The reception port receives toner from a toner container configured to store the toner to be supplied to the development housing. The reception port is located away from the development roller in a second direction crossing the first direction. The slope is located below the reception port in the development housing. The slope includes a first slope portion and a second slope portion. The first slope portion is inclined downward away from the reception port in the first direction. The second slope portion is inclined downward toward the development roller in the second direction.

Abstract: A communication device includes a communication interface, a memory, and a management information base, and a controller. The controller receives a command including an object identifier to request writing a setting value of the object identifier, determines whether the object identifier is a first or second object identifier, sets a setting value according to the received command by writing the setting value when the object identifier is the first object identifier, specifies a memory address indicated by the second object identifier when the object identifier is the second object identifier, and sets a setting value according to the command by writing the setting value to the specified memory address.

Abstract: A communication device includes a communication interface, a memory configured to store a setting value, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a command including an object identifier of a management information base to request reading of the setting value corresponding to a value of the object identifier from the memory or writing of the value of the object identifier in the memory, determine whether the object identifier is a specific identifier, determine whether the command has been transmitted from a first device or a second device, and read or write the setting value corresponding to a value of the specific identifier.

Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a first head including first nozzles; a first irradiator including first light sources; and a controller. The first nozzles are arranged to constitute a nozzle row. The first light sources are arranged to constitute a light source row, and including an inner light source, and first and second outer light sources. The controller is configured to cause: the first head to execute a first discharging operation of discharging a clear ink to a printing medium; and the first irradiator to execute a first irradiating operation of irradiating the clear ink with a light. The controller is configured to make an intensity of the light, from each of the first and second outer light sources, with which the clear ink is irradiated smaller than an intensity of the light, from the inner light source, with which the clear ink is irradiated.

Abstract: A controller of a server is configured to: in a state where first combination data including first account data and first device-identification data is stored in a memory of the server in association with each other, receive a first request including second account data from a first external device; determine whether priority assigned to the second account data is higher than priority assigned to the first account data; based on a determination that the priority assigned to the second account data is higher than the priority assigned to the first account data, replace the existing first account data with the second account data, thereby storing the second account data in association with the first device-identification data; and based on a determination that the priority assigned to the second account data is not higher than the priority assigned to the first account data, not replace the existing first account data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a housing; a drum cartridge as a first cartridge including a photosensitive drum; a second cartridge accommodating toner; and a drawer movable between an inside position where the drawer in its entirety is positioned inside the housing and an outside position where at least a part of the drawer is positioned outside the housing. The drum cartridge is attachable to and detachable from the drawer. The drawer includes: a side plate configured to receive the photosensitive drum; and a locking member supported by the side plate. The locking member is movable relative to the side plate between a locking position where the locking member locks the photosensitive drum to the side plate and an unlocking position where the locking member unlocks the photosensitive drum from the side plate in an attached state of the drum cartridge to the drawer.

Abstract: A fixing device includes: an endless belt; a heater; a stay; a holder having a heater supporting surface and a contacting surface in contact with the stay; and a pressure roller having a diameter that becomes smaller from each end of the pressure roller in an axial direction toward a center of the pressure roller in the axial direction. In a state prior to assembling the holder with both the stay and the heater, a distance in an orthogonal direction between the heater supporting surface and the contacting surface at a center of the holder in the axial direction is longer than a distance in the orthogonal direction between the heater supporting surface and the contacting surface at each end of the holder in the axial direction. The orthogonal direction is orthogonal to the axial direction.

Abstract: A printing device includes a housing, a printing head, and an input unit. The housing includes a cassette accommodating portion to which a tape cassette accommodating a roll of a printing tape is detachably attachable. The cassette accommodating portion has an insertion opening through which the tape cassette can be inserted in an insertion direction. The printing head includes heat-generating elements arrayed in a scanning direction crossing an imaginary plane perpendicular to the insertion direction. The housing has: a principal surface at which the input unit is provided; a side surface crossing the principal surface and the imaginary plane; and a discharge opening formed in the side surface. The insertion opening is positioned above the input unit. At the discharge opening, a normal direction of a printed surface of the printing tape and a normal direction of the principal surface define an interior angle of less than 45 degrees therebetween.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet-supplier, a photoconductor, a fuser and a controller. The controller is configured to, in a case where the number of sheets to be printed indicated by a printing job is less than a first predetermined number of sheets, start supplying a sheet by a sheet-supplier at a timing when a second period of time has been passed from a timing when the temperature in the fuser has reached a second temperature, and, in a case where the number of sheets to be printed is equal to or greater than the first predetermined number of sheets, start supplying the sheet by the sheet-supplier at a timing when the second period of time has been passed from a timing when the temperature in the fuser has reached a first temperature larger than the second temperature.