Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus, having a head with a nozzle surface, a reservoir section having a liquid reservoir chamber and a first atmosphere communication path, a liquid flow path connecting the head with the liquid reservoir chamber, a first switching assembly to switch states of the first atmosphere communication path between a connecting state and a disconnecting state, a cap having a body and a second atmosphere communication path, a movable assembly to move the cap between a covering position and a separated position, and a controller, is provided. The controller is configured to control the head to discharge the liquid, and after discharging the liquid from the head, control the movable assembly to move the cap from the separated position to the covering position. With the cap being located at the covering position, the first atmosphere communication path is placed in the disconnecting state.

Abstract: A droplet ejection head includes a nozzle plate having a nozzle, a pressure chamber forming substrate having a pressure chamber, a vibration plate, and a piezoelectric element containing potassium, sodium, and niobium and formed on the vibration plate. The piezoelectric element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode. A total thickness of the piezoelectric layer, the first electrode, and the second electrode is larger than a thickness of the vibration plate.

Abstract: A head lifting lowering device includes: a lifting lowering mechanism that moves a liquid ejecting head, which ejects a liquid, in a first direction in which the liquid ejecting head is lifted/lowered; a frame that supports the lifting lowering mechanism; and an adjusting member that moves the lifting lowering mechanism relative to the frame in a second direction different from the first direction.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting portion that ejects a liquid onto a medium which is transported and has an ejection surface from which the liquid is ejected and which intersects a horizontal direction; a transport path that is disposed upstream of a position facing the liquid ejecting portion and is positioned vertically below the liquid ejecting portion; and an opening/closing member that is configured to be opened and closed with respect to a side surface of an apparatus body including the liquid ejecting portion, forms the transport path when closed, and at least partially opens the transport path when opened. A liquid collecting portion that collects the liquid leaking from the liquid ejecting portion is provided on the opening/closing member at a position vertically below the ejection surface.

Abstract: A liquid ejection device includes: a head including a nozzle surface in which a nozzle is opened, the head being configured to eject liquid from the nozzle; a standby cap that covers the nozzle by coming into contact with the head; a receiving unit that receives the liquid ejected from the nozzle; and a maintenance unit that performs maintenance of the head. The head moves in a first area, a second area, and a printing area by moving in a scanning direction, and performs printing on a medium by ejecting the liquid onto the medium while moving in the printing area. The printing area is located between the first area and the second area in the scanning direction. The standby cap and the accommodation unit are located in the first area. The maintenance unit is located in the second area.

Abstract: There is provided an ink jet printer including: an installation case in which a first tank communicating with an atmosphere is to be installed; a second tank; a head communicating with the second tank; a first channel having one end to be communicated with the first tank installed in the installation case and the other end communicating with the second tank; a second channel having one end communicating with an upper part inside the second tank and the other end to be communicated with the first tank installed in the installation case; and a pump which is disposed in the second channel and which is configured to move a fluid at least from the one end of the second channel to the other end of the second channel.

Abstract: An ink recirculating system for an inkjet printer includes an ink tank having a cavity having a lower side wall converging towards a bottom and closing wall of the tank, of a decreasing cross-section; an outlet duct for ink inside the cavity and coaxial to a longitudinal axis of the tank, and an inlet opening above and near the bottom and closing wall; a first duct with an end portion having an opening for supplying ink to the tank provided in the lower portion of the tank; a pump to pump ink from the outlet duct to the inlet duct, the end portion being substantially tangent to a portion of a circular sector of the side wall of the lower portion of the tank, to create a substantially swirling flow in the ink and a mixing of the ink or the components thereof.

Abstract: In an inkjet recording device (1), an intermediate flow passage (53) is connected to a downstream section of a first flow passage (89), and is in communication with a recording head (52) and a second flow passage (90). A communicating flow passage (54) includes a first branch flow passage (54A) that supplies ink from the intermediate flow passage (53) to the recording head (52), a second branch flow passage (54B) that causes the ink to circulate from the recording head (52) to the second flow passage (90), and a third branch flow passage (54C) that causes the ink to flow from the intermediate flow passage (53) to the second flow passage (90). Opening/closing valves (96), (55A), (55B), (55C) are respectively provided to a third flow passage (91) and the first branch flow passage (54A), the second branch flow passage (54B), and the third branch flow passage (54C).

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus including an ink jet head for ejecting and attaching a radiation-curable ink jet composition to a recording medium and an irradiation unit for applying radiation to the recording medium to which the radiation-curable ink jet composition is attached under supply of an inert gas, wherein the irradiation unit has, successively in a transport direction of the recording medium, a nozzle face for ejecting the inert gas and an application face for applying radiation, and h1>h2, where h1 is a distance from the recording medium to the nozzle face and h2 is a distance from the recording medium to the application face.

Abstract: A printer is provided with a head, a platen, a conveyer, and a processor. The head performs printing on a print medium. The platen supports the print medium. The conveyer conveys the platen in a conveyance direction. The processor acquires a platen size. The platen size is a size of the platen in the conveyance direction. When the processor acquires a first platen size, the processor controls a conveyance operation of the platen such that a conveyance time period of the platen between a set position and a printing position is a first time period. When the processor acquires a second platen size, the processor controls the conveyance operation of the platen such that the conveyance time period of the platen between the set position and the printing position is a second time period different from the first time period.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides an inkjet assembly, an inkjet printing apparatus and an inkjet printing method. The inkjet assembly includes at least one jet printing member having a first surface on which an inkjet port is formed. The inkjet assembly further includes a deflection member configured to provide a deflection force to a fluid emitted from the inkjet port and a control member configured to control operation of the deflection member.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a paper supply control device and, specifically, to a paper supply control device which performs printing on printing paper by applying heat to an ink ribbon, performs de-curling with respect to the printing paper of which printing has been done, and then controls feeding and a transfer path of the printing paper so as to provide the printing paper to a user.

Abstract: A recording device has: a recording section that discharges a liquid to a medium for recording purposes; a maintenance unit that abuts the recording section and performs maintenance of the recording section; a first moving section that causes the recording section to abut the maintenance unit and separates the recording section from the maintenance unit; and a restricting section that can suppress movement of the recording section toward the maintenance unit after the recording section abuts the maintenance unit. The first moving section has a driving source and a worm gear that transmits the power of the driving source. A force with which the driving source causes the recording section to abut the maintenance unit is smaller than a force with which the driving source separates the recording section from the maintenance unit.

Abstract: Provided is a recording device including a medium support portion that supports a medium, a recording unit that performs recording on the medium, an irradiation unit that emits an ultraviolet ray toward the medium, a deodorization portion that performs deodorization, and a housing that accommodates the medium support portion, the recording unit, the irradiation unit, and the deodorization portion, in which the deodorization portion includes a deodorization body, a deodorization body cover that covers the deodorization body, and an accommodation portion that accommodates the deodorization body covered by the deodorization body cover, and the deodorization body is configured to be taken out from the accommodation portion together with the deodorization body cover.

Abstract: DOD ink delivery systems and methods are described herein that are used in DOD card printing systems of card processing systems for supplying ink for DOD printing on plastic cards. The ink delivery systems are configured to recirculate the ink without using a recirculation tank separate from an ink supply. The ink can be recirculated back into the ink supply or, when the ink supply is not present, the ink can be recirculated from a return header tank to a supply header tank.

Abstract: A printing apparatus including a printing unit having a first discharge port array with a plurality of first discharge ports in a first direction that discharge first ink, a second discharge port array with a plurality of second discharge ports in the first direction, that discharge a reaction liquid to react with the first ink, and a third discharge port array with a plurality of third discharge ports in the first direction, the third discharge ports configured to discharge a second ink different from the first, the first discharge port array, the second discharge port array, and the third discharge port array being arranged on a discharge port surface in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. A maintenance unit is configured to wipe the discharge port surface with a wiping member provided with a property to absorb the first and second ink, and the reaction liquid.

Abstract: There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus which includes a recording portion, and a contact portion configured to come into contact with an upper surface of the sheet. The contact portion has a storage portion provided on a side of the recording portion and configured to store an ink, and a protruding portion is provided between both ends in a width direction intersecting the transporting direction of the storage portion, and which is protruded toward the recording section, and an upper end of the protruding portion is the highest in the contact portion.

Abstract: A discharge head includes a nozzle, a valve body, a piezoelectric element, and a first biasing unit. The nozzle is configured to discharge liquid. The valve body is configured to open and close the nozzle. The piezoelectric element is configured to drive the valve body. The first biasing unit is disposed in parallel with the piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element is configured to drive the valve body in a direction to open the nozzle when a voltage is applied to the piezoelectric element. The first biasing unit is configured to bias the valve body in the direction to open the nozzle.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head has a nozzle. A controller is configured to: control the liquid ejection head to perform inspection driving, the inspection driving being driving the liquid ejection head to eject liquid from the nozzle for determining whether the nozzle is an abnormal nozzle having an abnormality in ejection of liquid; acquire a determination signal outputted from the signal output device, the determination signal indicating whether the nozzle is the abnormal nozzle; acquire a non-driving signal outputted from the signal output device when the inspection driving is not performed by the liquid ejection head; generate a differential signal by superposing the determination signal and the non-driving signal, the differential signal being a signal indicating a difference between a value of the determination signal and a value of the non-driving signal at each timing; and determine whether the nozzle is the abnormal nozzle based on the differential signal.

Abstract: A print cassette includes a print tape roll in which a print tape is wound around a winding central axis parallel to a first direction, an input gear to which a driving force is to be input from outside, an idle gear directly or indirectly engaging the input gear and the output gear to transmit the driving force input to the input gear to the output gear. At least a portion of the input gear, at least a portion of the output gear, and at least a portion of the idle gear each overlap the print tape roll in the first direction.