Abstract: A printing device 10 includes an inkjet head 102, a main scanning drive portion 18, a sub-scanning drive portion 20, and a control portion 30. In at least some of the main scanning operations, the main scanning drive portion 18 causes the inkjet head 102 to discharge ink to a region other than the image region on the media 50, and as the main scanning operations that cause the inkjet head 102 to discharge ink to a region other than the image region, at least: a first main scanning operation that causes the inkjet head 102 to draw a nozzle state confirmation pattern on a region other than the image region and a second main scanning operation that causes an amount of ink discharged to a region other than the image region different from the first main scanning operation are caused to be performed by the inkjet head 102.

Abstract: Ink on a nozzle surface is appropriately wiped out. A wiper unit includes a wiping portion that wipes a nozzle surface of an ejecting head having a nozzle surface on which a nozzle for ejecting ink is formed, and a driving unit that moves the wiping portion in a wiping direction along the nozzle surface. The wiping portion includes two wiping members arranged side by side in the wiping direction and having different hardnesses, and a holding portion that integrally holds the two wiping members.

Abstract: The present invention realizes appropriate transfer printing. A transport roller 61 rotates in contact with a film layer of a transfer sheet 500 including a receiving layer that receives the transfer ink, a peeling layer that joins the receiving layer and a film layer in a peelable manner, and the film layer that supports the receiving layer via the peeling layer. A pinch roller 62 clamps the transfer sheet 500 together with the transport roller 61, and rotates in contact with the receiving layer of the transfer sheet 500. A portion of the pinch roller 62 that contacts the receiving layer is formed of a low-adhesion material that is less likely to adhere to the receiving layer than the peeling layer is.

Abstract: A food item fabrication system and a method for fabricating a food item are provided to accurately fabricate a fabricated food item. The food item fabrication system includes a discharge head, a data generation unit and a discharge control unit. The discharge head intermittently discharges a fabrication material for fabricating a fabricated food item, the fabrication material having a fluidity at a time of discharge. The data generation unit generates a slice data for fabricating the fabricated food item. The discharge control unit controls a discharge of the fabrication material by the discharge head based on the slice data generated by the data generation unit.

Abstract: There are provided an inkjet printer that can appropriately prevent a printing defect by reducing adhesion of minute ink to a nozzle surface, and a method for controlling a jetting head. The inkjet printer includes: a jetting head that performs ink jetting from a plurality of nozzle holes formed in a nozzle surface; a cap that is attachable on the nozzle surface of the jetting head; a head driving mechanism that moves the jetting head to a standby position where the cap is detachable and a printing position where printing is performed by acquiring print data; and a flushing control part that sequentially executes, for each group, a flushing operation of ink jetting to the cap from all of a plurality of the nozzle holes belonging to groups grouped in advance in a case where the jetting head moves to the standby position.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a head unit having an inkjet head that discharges ink; a carriage to which the head unit is detachably attached; a carriage drive mechanism that reciprocally moves the carriage in a main scanning direction orthogonal to an up-down direction; and an ink tank that contains ink supplied to the inkjet head. The head unit includes a plurality of ink inflow parts in which ink inlets are formed. The carriage includes a connection part that is connected to the ink tank and in which ink outlets are formed, and that is connectable to the plurality of ink inflow parts. A plurality of the outlets are formed in the connection part. The connection part includes a check valve that prevents ink leakage from each of the plurality of outlets in the case of the ink inflow parts and the connection part being separated from each other.

Abstract: An ink cartridge includes: an ink pack unit having a bag member and a rib member, the bag member housing ink and shrinking in volume housing the ink as a remaining amount of the ink decreases, the rib member having a flat plate shape and being fixed to the bag member so as to move along with shrinkage of the bag member; a head unit coupled to the ink pack unit and connected to a printing apparatus; and a case unit that houses the ink pack unit and the head unit such that a part of the head unit is exposed, in which the ink pack unit has a surface fixed to an inner surface of the case unit, the surface being opposite to a portion to which the rib member is fixed of the bag member, the case unit has a through hole, and the rib member has a projection.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a platen on which a medium is placed, a main body frame configured to support the platen from a lower side, and supporting legs to which the main body frame is fixed. The main body frame includes a fixed portion formed in a flat plate shape elongated in a Y direction, which is a width direction of the medium, and fixed on the supporting legs, and a main frame portion elongated in the Y direction and formed in a groove steel shape in which both sides and a lower side in the Y direction are opened. The width of the fixed portion in an X direction orthogonal to an up-down direction and the Y direction is wider than a width of the main frame portion in the X direction, and the main frame portion is fixed to an upper surface of the fixed portion.

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.