Abstract: A printer includes a printing portion that performs printing on a media, and a media exchanger that can hold a roll of a plurality of media and can move a specific roll among the rolls to a media supply position where the media can be supplied from the roll to the printing portion. The media exchanger includes a plurality of media holding parts and a rotating part. Each media holding part includes a set of clamping parts that rotatably clamps a single roll, and a guide part that slidably supports one or both of the clamping parts. The rotating part holds the plurality of media holding parts in an arrangement such that, when rotated about the rotation axis, the roll held by each media holding part comes to the media supply position once in the process of the rotation.

Abstract: A cutting device, a cutting method and a printing device are provided. The cutting device performs cutting on a post-printing medium after printing an image data, and includes: a medium transport mechanism configured to transport the post-printing medium in a longitudinal direction thereof; a detection mechanism, configured to detect a cutting position by a first mark and multiple second marks on the post-printing medium, the first mark is for specifying at least one cut position in a transport direction, the second marks are for specifying two cut ranges of the post-printing medium in a width direction, the width direction is orthogonal to the transport direction, and each cut range is shown by two positions corresponding from one end to the other end of the post-printing medium; and a cutting mechanism, configured to cut the post-printing medium in the width direction and in the transport direction of the post-printing medium.

Abstract: A manufacturing system manufactures a predetermined product by printing and applying a coating agent to a base material made of resin. In a coating device of the manufacturing system, as a nozzle spraying the coating agent moves once in a first direction, a linear coating agent being the coating agent in a line shape with the first direction as a longitudinal direction is applied to the base material. A host control device creates application data for applying the coating agent to the base material by the coating device based on image data as data of an image to be printed on the base material by printing devices, and the application data includes, for applying the linear coating agents to the base material, spray range data of the coating agent from the nozzle in the first direction, and application interval data of the linear coating agents in a second direction.

Abstract: A control unit of an image processing apparatus performs a preview screen display process of causing a display unit to display an output setting screen, and a mark adding process of adding a crop mark to a printing area of image data in accordance with a user's operation input on the output setting screen. The output setting screen includes a preview area and a setting input unit into which an addition setting for a crop mark can be input. In a setting field, the setting input unit can set whether the crop mark is to be added to the entire printing area or to each object within the printing area. In the mark adding process, the control unit causes the crop mark in accordance with addition setting in the setting input unit to be displayed in the preview area.

Abstract: A printing device is provided. The printing device prints a cut position mark for specifying a medium cut position that is a cut position of a medium in a medium transport direction at a position separated by a certain distance from each of multiple medium cut positions on an transport direction upstream side, and prints a first cut range mark disposed at a position corresponding to one end of the medium cut range that is a cut range of the medium in the medium width direction at the medium cut position and a second cut range mark disposed at a position corresponding to the other end of the medium cut range.

Abstract: A tilt of a head is discerned. Regions of a test pattern include a base line formed in a Y direction with inks ejected from nozzle portions of heads, and blocks formed with inks ejected from nozzle portions provided at intervals from first nozzle portions of the heads in the Y direction. The block is formed on an X1 side of the base line in an X direction orthogonal to the Y direction, and the block is formed on an X2 side.

Abstract: A control unit of an image processing apparatus executes a home screen display process of displaying a home screen on a display unit. The home screen displays, in respective display fields, a design that can be used for image data, a form with which the design can be combined, and a design placement form obtained by combining the design and the form. The home screen displays the respective display fields for the design, the form, and the design placement form side by side in the vertical direction (first direction), and displays the design placement form display field between the design display field and the form display field in the vertical direction.

Abstract: A control unit of an image processing apparatus executes a preview screen display process of causing a display unit to display a design editing screen (a preview screen for image data). The design editing screen includes a preview area, an object list, and a processing input unit. The preview area displays a preview of objects constituting the image data. The object list displays information on each of the objects in a list format. Input processing content can be input into the processing input unit for each of the objects.

Abstract: A printing system includes a controller that controls printing by a printing apparatus and textile printing processing by a heat treatment apparatus. The controller includes a print data generation unit, a print control unit that prints information on a medium based on the print data, and a textile printing parameter setting unit that sets at least a heating temperature and a heating time of the medium in the processing. Each of the inks included in an ink set contains a sublimable dye as a color development component, and the dye contained in a magenta ink is a disperse red. The textile printing parameter setting unit sets a heating temperature in the processing to a first temperature higher than a heating temperature and sets a heating time in the processing to a first time longer than a heating time when the dye contained in the magenta ink is a disperse red.

Abstract: Provided are a printing device and a printing method. A printing device 10 includes an ink ejection head 40 that ejects a photocurable ink onto a medium 22 while relatively moving with respect to the medium 22 in a main scanning direction Y, and an irradiation unit 32 that irradiates the medium 22 with light while relatively moving together with the ink ejection head 40. The irradiation unit 32 includes a plurality of LEDs 34 arranged in a sub-scanning direction X intersecting with the main scanning direction Y. The printing device 10 further includes an irradiation control unit 60 that controls the irradiation unit 32 such that turning-on and turning-off of irradiation with the plurality of LEDs 34 are repeatedly performed in a predetermined order during one cycle in which the ink ejection head 40 and the irradiation unit 32 relatively move in the main scanning direction Y.

Abstract: To reduce labor and cost in producing a shaped object. A method for producing a shaped object 7 to produce the three-dimensional shaped object 7 includes an ejecting step of ejecting ink from a head unit 2 to a liquid 6 stored in a liquid storage unit 5, and a curing step of curing the ink ejected to the liquid 6 by an ultraviolet curing unit 4.

Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing printed matter having a print layer that can be removed from a base material but does not easily peel off from the base material. A method for manufacturing printed matter includes: a base layer forming step; a print layer forming step; a print quality checking step; and a post-processing step. In the base layer forming step, a base layer which is removable from a base material is formed on a front surface of the base material. In the print layer forming step, a print layer is formed on a surface of the base layer on a side opposite to the base material. In the print quality checking step, a quality of the print layer is checked. In the post-processing step, a coating layer that coats the print layer is formed or the print layer is removed together with the base layer from the base material depending on the quality of the print layer.

Abstract: Various designs are appropriately expressed by a printed matter. A printed matter 52 in which a plurality of ink layers overlap each other includes an image layer 202 and a transmission rate control layer 204, and as the transmission rate control layer 204 has a low-transmission region 302 and a high-transmission region 306, light is transmitted through the printed matter 52 such that a pattern corresponding to a shape of the high-transmission region 306 is visually recognized from an observation-surface side when irradiated with rear-surface light, and the pattern corresponding to the shape of the high-transmission region 306 becomes inconspicuous when not irradiated with the rear-surface light, for an observer observing the image layer 202 from the observation-surface side.

Abstract: A new profile is appropriately created, for example, when a new medium is used. A profile creation method of creating device profiles used in a process of creating print data indicating an image printed by a printing apparatus, the profile creation method includes: a search step of performing search based on a search condition from known profiles that are known device profiles; and a profile creation step of creating a new device profile based on the known profiles selected based on a search result in the search step. The printing apparatus is an apparatus that performs color printing using inks of a plurality of colors. In the search step, a smeared ink amount indicating an amount of ink in which smearing of ink has occurred on the medium is used as the search condition.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a plurality of heads that eject ink, and a control unit that includes a storage unit that stores setting information related to settings of the plurality of heads, and causes the plurality of heads to perform an ejection operation that ejects the ink based on the setting information stored in the storage unit, in which the setting information includes void information related to a setting for setting at least one of the plurality of heads as a void head, and when the void head is present among the plurality of heads, the control unit performs control to cause the head that is not the void head among the plurality of heads to eject the ink and not to cause the void head to eject the ink in the ejection operation.

Abstract: A program causes a controller to generate print data and to perform input processing, plate data generation processing, and print data generation processing. The data input processing includes inputting, as input data for performing inserting-component printing, non-variable data corresponding to a shared portion and variable data indicating a variable portion. The plate data generation processing includes plate data for color layer generation processing for generating a plate data for color layer associated with a color layer and plate data for single-color layer generation processing for generating a plate data for single-color layer associated with a single-color layer. The plate data for color layer generation processing includes generating a plate data for color layer by reflecting the variable portion in the variable data. The plate data for single-color layer generation processing includes generating a plate data for single-color layer by reflecting the variable portion in the variable data.

Abstract: An appropriate maintenance contract fee for maintenance work of a printing device is calculated.

Abstract: Provided are a UV irradiation device and a printing apparatus for easily recognizing what kind of mechanical adjustment is needed. The UV irradiation device includes a rotation mechanism holding a print object and causing the print object to rotate about an axial center of the print object as a rotation center, a UV irradiator configured to irradiate an outer peripheral surface of the print object with ink adhering thereto with UV rays, an input unit used by an operator of the UV irradiation device to input information regarding an outer shape of the print object, and a display unit configured to display mechanical adjustment items of the UV irradiation device. Once the information regarding the outer shape of the print object is input to the input unit, the display unit is able to display the mechanical adjustment items of the UV irradiation device.

Abstract: A printing execution unit (111) of a printing device (100) executes printing of the printing surface identified by printing surface identification information based on printing instruction data including resultant product identification information for identifying a resultant product of printing, a total printing surface number, which is a total number of the printing surface to be printed to obtain the resultant product, printing surface identification information for identifying a printing surface, and printing data of the printing surface identified by the printing surface identification information. A printing history output unit (112) outputs a printing history indicating a result of printing executed based on the printing instruction data including the same resultant product identification information in association with the resultant product identification information.

Abstract: A printing device that performs printing through an inkjet method is provided. The printing device includes an inject head, a sub-tank, a liquid flow amount detection unit, and a notification means. The inject head ejects ink supplied from an ink container that stores ink. The sub-tank is a container that stores ink in a middle of an ink supply path from the ink container to the inkjet head. The liquid flow amount detection unit detects an ink flow amount which is an amount of ink flowing per unit time from the ink container to the sub-tank. The notification means notifies an alarm based on the ink flow amount detected by the liquid flow amount detection unit. The liquid flow amount detection unit further causes the notification means to notify a stepwise alarm according to the detected ink flow amount.