Abstract: A table mover includes a table assembly including a table carriage to support a table, and the table assembly is movable in sub-scanning directions along a first slide rail fixed to a left side frame and a second slide rail fixed to a right side frame. The table carriage includes a first left fixer to which a left fixing bracket coupled to a left slider to be engaged with the first slide rail is fixed and a first right fixer to which a right fixing bracket coupled to a right slider to be engaged with a second slide rail is fixed. The first left fixer is elastically deformable in main scanning directions relative to the left side frame.

Abstract: A printer includes a controller to exercise control so as to print a print layer on or over a medium. The print layer includes a first print region including first protrusions, and a second print region including second protrusions. Any one or more of a size, a height, a planar shape, an arrangement interval, and an arrangement direction of the first protrusions is/are different from a corresponding one or more of a size, a height, a planar shape, an arrangement interval, and an arrangement direction of the second protrusions. An extracted area of about 3 cm by about 3 cm is extracted from any location in the print layer. The first and second print regions are in the extracted area. At least either a number of first print regions or a number of second print regions in the extracted area is more than one.

Abstract: A medical instrument display includes an image storage that stores a plurality of image data of a medical instrument, a data analyzer that searches a plurality of image data stored in the image storage on a certain condition, and a display controller that causes a display to display a first medical instrument image that has been selected from thumbnail images, the thumbnail images being based on a plurality of the image data obtained by the search, and a second medical instrument image in good order, the second medical instrument image being different from the first medical instrument image.

Abstract: A three-dimensional printing device includes a printing tank to accommodate a powder material and including an opening in at least a portion thereof, and an ejector facing the opening of the printing tank to eject a curing liquid to cure the powder material toward the opening. The ejector includes nozzle strings each including nozzles side by side in a first direction. The nozzles each eject the curing liquid and are located in each of the nozzle strings at a density of about 1200 dpi or lower in the first direction. The nozzle strings are spaced away from each other by a distance of about 5 mm or longer in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: A printer includes an ink head including a nozzle surface on which a nozzle is provided, a wiper extending upward to wipe the nozzle surface, a wiper mover to move the wiper in a sub-scanning direction, a wiper cleaner disposed downstream of a carriage and extending downward to remove ink adhering to the wiper, and a controller configured or programmed to control the wiper mover. The controller is configured or programmed to control the wiper mover such that the nozzle surface is wiped by the wiper after bringing the wiper into contact with the wiper cleaner or to bring the wiper into contact with the wiper cleaner after wiping the nozzle surface by the wiper.

Abstract: In a light radiation device including an upstream radiation portion, a middle radiation portion and a downstream radiation portion, the upstream radiation portion overlaps a nozzle array in a transportation direction. A controller includes a path controller to control a path operation of ejecting ink from the nozzle array onto a medium while moving a recording head and the light radiation device in a scanning direction, a transportation controller to control a transportation operation of, after the path operation, transporting the medium downstream in the transportation direction by a distance shorter than a length in the transportation direction of the nozzle array, and a first light radiation controller to control the light radiation device, during the path operation by the path controller, to turn on the upstream radiation portion and the downstream radiation portion and to turn off the middle radiation portion.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a support table supporting a waste liquid tank and being displaceable in accordance with a weight of the waste liquid tank, a first sensor to detect that the support table has reached a first position, a second sensor to detect that the support table has reached a second position, a first determinator to determine that the waste liquid tank is in a near-end state when the support table is detected by the first sensor to have reached the first position, and a notifier to notify a user of the near-end state when the first determinator determines that the waste liquid tank is in the near-end state.

Abstract: A printer includes a platen on which a recording medium is placed, an ink head including a nozzle that discharges ink onto the recording medium placed on the platen and that moves in a main scanning direction, an upstream guide located on an upstream side of the platen in a secondary scanning direction and that guides the recording medium, the upstream guide including an upper surface tilted obliquely downward from a downstream side to the upstream side in the secondary scanning direction, and grit rollers provided in the platen and that move the recording medium in the secondary scanning direction. The upstream guide is recessed from the upper surface of the upstream guide, and includes a concave recess that indicates a position of each of the grit rollers in the main scanning direction so that a position of the grit roller is easily acknowledged when the recording medium is placed on the platen.

Abstract: A printer includes an ink head including a nozzle, a damper connected with the ink head, a pressure sensor to detect a damper pressure in the damper, a cap attachable to the ink head so as to cover the nozzle, an upward/downward moving mechanism to move the cap upward and downward with respect to the ink head, a suction pump connected with the cap, and a controller. The controller is configured or programmed to include a suction controller to execute a suction process to drive the suction pump in a state where the cap is attached to the ink head, a pressure acquisition controller to acquire the damper pressure from the pressure sensor during the suction process, and an upward/downward movement controller to control the cap to move upward toward the ink head when a change amount of the damper pressure is no larger than a reference change amount.

Abstract: A medical instrument display includes an image storage that stores a plurality of image data of a medical instrument, a data analyzer that searches a plurality of image data stored in the image storage on a certain condition, and a display controller that causes a display to display a first medical instrument image that has been selected from thumbnail images, the thumbnail images being based on a plurality of the image data obtained by the search, and a second medical instrument image in good order, the second medical instrument image being different from the first medical instrument image.

Abstract: A printer includes a driving roller to move a medium supported on a support table in a predetermined transportation direction, and pinch roller assemblies each including a pinch roller, a support to support the pinch roller to allow the pinch roller to contact, or to be spaced from, the driving roller, and an actuator provided upstream in the transportation direction with respect to the pinch roller. The actuator includes a contact portion contactable with the support, and an operation portion to press the contact portion to the support to move the pinch roller in a direction away from the driving roller.

Abstract: A printer includes a platen to support a medium, a conveyor to convey the medium supported by the platen from an upstream side toward a downstream side in conveyance directions, a tension bar, and a floating bar. The tension bar is downstream of the platen in the conveyance directions and positioned such that a lower surface of the medium conveyed from the platen to the downstream side in the conveyance directions contacts the tension bar. The floating bar is downstream of the platen in the conveyance directions and upstream of the tension bar in the conveyance directions and positioned such that an upper surface of the medium located between the platen and the tension bar contacts the floating bar, and has a center axis freely movable by a predetermined degree.

Abstract: A printer includes an ink head including a nozzle surface including nozzles, a cap including an end portion contactable with the nozzle surface, a suction device, a memory, and a controller. The memory stores a suction position, a free suction position, and a minute open position located between the suction position and the free suction position. The controller performs a suction process in which the cap is located at the suction position and ink is sucked from the nozzles, and a minute open position process in which the cap is moved toward a minute open position and movement of the cap is stopped with the cap located at a minute open position, after the suction process.

Abstract: A medium transportation device includes a support table to support a medium, and a conveyor to transport the medium supported by the support table in a transportation direction. The conveyor includes a driving roller, a rail, and a pinch roller assembly. The driving roller is provided on the support table, extends in a perpendicular direction that is perpendicular to the transportation direction, and is rotatable in the transportation direction. The rail faces the support table and extends in the perpendicular direction. The pinch roller assembly is in engagement with the rail so as to be movable in the perpendicular direction along the rail. The rail includes shorter rails arranged along a line extending in the perpendicular direction.

Abstract: A printer includes a first guide disposed downstream of a platen in a sub-scanning direction to guide movement of a recording medium, a second guide disposed below the first guide and downstream of the first guide in the sub-scanning direction to guide movement of the recording medium, and a dryer facing the first guide and the second guide to send air toward the recording medium. The dryer includes a body case including an outlet port that is open toward the second guide, a fan to send air toward the recording medium through the outlet port, and a heater to heat air sent by the fan. The first guide has a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of the second guide.

Abstract: A printing jig includes bases to be fitted to a printing apparatus, a first holder fittable to each of the bases, and a second holder fittable to each of the bases. The first holder is able to hold one or more first substrates. The second holder is able to hold one or more second substrates different in size from the first substrate or substrates. The first holder includes a first fitting portion to be fitted to each of the bases. The second holder includes a second fitting portion to be fitted to each of the bases. Each of the bases is structured such that the first fitting portion and the second fitting portion are both fittable thereto.

Abstract: An inkjet printer cleaning system includes an inkjet printer and a cleaning unit. The inkjet printer includes an ink head and a table that faces the ink head and on which a substrate is to be placed. The cleaning unit includes an attachment attachable to and removable from the table, and a cleaner that faces the ink head upon attaching of the attachment to the table.

Abstract: A printer includes a supporting table to support a recording medium, a recording head located above the supporting table to eject ink toward the supporting table, a first contact detector located above the supporting table and lower than the recording head, an oscillator to vibrate the first contact detector, and a vibration detector to detect vibration of the first contact detector and transmit a signal corresponding to the detected vibration. The printer stores a threshold related to the vibration of the first contact detector and determines that an object has come into contact with the first contact detector when an amount of the vibration detected by the vibration detector is equal to the threshold or less.

Abstract: A printer includes: a platen configured to allow a rolled first recording medium and a sheet-like second recording medium to be placed thereon; and a guide table detachably provided on a base member and configured to guide movement of the second recording medium. The platen includes a first platen on which the first recording medium and the second recording medium are placed, and a second platen disposed ahead of the first platen, including an upper surface tilted obliquely downward from the rear toward the front, and configured to guide movement of the first recording medium. The guide table includes a placement portion including a flat upper surface which is located below the first platen and above a portion of the second platen and on which the second recording medium is placed.