Abstract: A recording-head position adjustment mechanism adjusts a position of a recording head that discharges liquid droplets. The recording-head position adjustment mechanism includes a supporting member and a discharge angle adjuster. The supporting member includes an upper support to support an upper portion of the recording head and a lower support to support a lower portion of the recording head. The discharge angle adjuster swings the lower portion around the upper portion as a fulcrum to adjust a discharge direction of the liquid droplets from the recording head.

Abstract: A cartridge includes a liquid container and an adaptor. The liquid container has a liquid storage containing a liquid to be supplied to a printing apparatus, a liquid supply section configured to supply the liquid contained in the liquid storage to a liquid introduction section, and an adaptor mounting section. The adaptor is mounted on the adaptor mounting section and has a terminal placement section in which a cartridge-side terminal electrically connected to an apparatus-side terminal is disposed and an insertion aperture through which the liquid introduction section passes. The adaptor mounting section is provided with a mounting mechanism for mounting the adaptor, which has a predetermined constant shape.

Abstract: A technique for suppressing ejection failure at an ejection port, which is caused by reaction of reaction liquid and ink during a wiping operation, is to be provided. Before the ejection port surface, on which the first ejection port array that is capable of ejecting the ink and the second ejection port array that is capable of ejecting the reaction liquid which reacts with the ink are formed, is wiped by the maintenance unit that is capable of receiving the ink and the reaction liquid, ink that does not contribute to printing is ejected to an area of the maintenance unit between an area abutted by the first ejection port array during the wiping and an area abutted by the second ejection port array during the wiping.

Abstract: A printer for printing plate-like print media includes a printing unit having at least one print head for printing print media according to the inkjet printing. The printing unit is movable in and against a conveying direction. A cleaning unit is provided for cleaning the print unit and includes a cleaning device for suctioning ink out of the print head in a suctioning direction. The cleaning unit further includes a drive device for moving the cleaning device in different operating positions. A cleaning device for such a printer and a method for maintaining the printer are also provided.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage, a tank, a flow passage, and a valve. The carriage includes a recording head that ejects liquid contained in the tank and supplied from the flow passage. The flow passage includes (i) a fixed flow passage connected to the tank without following a movement of the carriage, (ii) a first flow passage that follows the movement of the carriage and is branched off from the fixed flow passage and connected to the recording head, and (iii) a second flow passage that follows the movement of the carriage and is branched off from the fixed flow passage and connected to the recording head. The valve is provided in one of the first and second flow passages and limits a flow of liquid from the tank to the recording head and allows liquid to flow from the recording head to the tank.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a first absorbing member (extended absorbing member or the like) that absorbs a liquid discarded from a discharge head to an outer side of an end portion of a medium supported by a support section as a waste liquid. The recording apparatus includes a second absorbing member (waste liquid absorbing member) that absorbs the waste liquid sent from a cap, an accommodating section (waste liquid box) that holds the second absorbing member, and a delivery section that delivers the liquid between the first absorbing member and the second absorbing member. In a state where the accommodating section is inserted into an apparatus main body, the delivery section 141 is inclined downward from the first absorbing member toward the second absorbing member, and an inclination of the delivery section when the accommodating section is removed from the apparatus main body varies depending on an inserted state.

Abstract: A height adjustment apparatus for a print carriage comprises a support for supporting the print carriage and a moving mechanism. The support has an upper support surface configured to slidingly engage a surface of the print carriage. The height of the support surface in a first direction increases in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction. The moving mechanism is configured to move the support in the second direction, wherein when the support is moved in the second direction, the print carriage surface is configured to slide relative to the support surface to move the print carriage in the first direction.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a first absorbing member (extended absorbing member or the like) that absorbs a liquid discarded from a discharge head to an outer side of an end portion of a medium supported by a support section as a waste liquid. The recording apparatus includes a second absorbing member (waste liquid absorbing member) that absorbs the waste liquid sent from a cap, an accommodating section (waste liquid box) that holds the second absorbing member, and a delivery section that delivers the liquid between the first absorbing member and the second absorbing member. In a state where the accommodating section is inserted into an apparatus main body, the delivery section 141 is inclined downward from the first absorbing member toward the second absorbing member, and an inclination of the delivery section when the accommodating section is removed from the apparatus main body varies depending on an inserted state.

Abstract: A printer includes a liquid discharge head configured to discharge a liquid to a print target, a holder configured to hold the print target, and a height detector configured to detect the print target on the holder at a first height and at a second height lower than the first height.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a discard absorbing member (first absorbing member) that absorbs a liquid discarded from a discharge head to an outer side of an end portion of a medium supported by a support section as a waste liquid. Further, the recording apparatus includes: a cap which is an example of a waste liquid receiving section that receives the liquid ejected from the discharge head as a waste liquid; a waste liquid absorbing member (second absorbing member) that absorbs the waste liquid sent from the cap; and a waste liquid box (accommodating section) that holds the waste liquid absorbing member. The discard absorbing member and the waste liquid absorbing member 50A are coupled to each other such that the waste liquid can be delivered from the discard absorbing member to the waste liquid absorbing member.

Abstract: In a control system, a controller is configured to determine presence or absence of an obstructed area within the intermediate section, and control movement of the moving body in accordance with a selected one of controlling methods including a first and a second control methods. The first control method causes the moving body to move at a first constant speed in the processing section defined within the intermediate section and at a second constant speed faster than the first constant speed in at least a part of a non-processing section within the intermediate section and other than the processing section, the first control method being selected when the obstructed area is absent. The second control method causes the moving body to move at the first constant speed in the processing section and the non-processing section, the second control method being selected when the obstructed area is present.

Abstract: A tag cassette assembly for use in connection with an engraving process carried out in an engraving machine includes a single piece cassette body of plastic material, the cassette body including a first major side and a second major side and a periphery formed by minor edges; a tag secured in a capture space of the cassette body; wherein the cassette first major side is configured to provide access to a first side of the tag to facilitate engraving and the second major side is configured to provide access to a second side of the tag to facilitate engraving.

Abstract: A binary array ink jet printhead assembly includes a cavity for containing ink, nozzle orifices in fluid communication with the cavity for passing the ink from the cavity to form droplets, the nozzle orifices extending along a length of the cavity, and an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a front face configured to be disposed generally parallel to a plurality of droplet paths of droplets from the nozzle orifices. A plurality of charge electrodes are disposed on the front face, each charge electrode corresponding to a droplet path and disposed parallel to the droplet path. Circuitry is disposed on the electrode assembly, wherein each electrode is electrically connected to the circuitry. The circuitry is further in electrical connection to a connector for connecting the electrode assembly to a controller for the printhead.

Abstract: A method for filling an ink cartridge for a printer in an ink-filling station. The type of cartridge to be filled is determined and information associated with the cartridge to be filled is sought in a database. The cartridge is placed in the station. The cartridge includes a wall separating a reservoir of the cartridge from the outside. An opening passing through the wall from the outside to the reservoir is pierced, the position of the opening depends on the information. The cartridge is filled by injecting ink through the opening under ink-injection conditions dependent on the information. The opening is sealed by cooling a deposit of molten plastics material in the opening under sealing conditions dependent on the information. An internal reservoir is taken to a set pressure by blowing or sucking air to pressurize or depressurize the internal reservoir.

Abstract: There is a print head connector assembly for a printer, the print head connector assembly providing at least one continuous fluid and/or electrical connection between a first port and a second port, the at least one continuous connection being provided by at least one conduit. The print head connector assembly comprises: a first component connectable to an umbilical conduit at the first port; a second component connectable to a print head at the second port, wherein one of the first component and the second component comprises a print head connection axis at the second port and the other of the first component and the second component comprises an axis of rotation, the first component and the second component housing the at least one conduit; adjustment means between the first component and the second component for adjusting the print head connector assembly into a plurality of configurations.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection head, a sensor, a carriage, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: setting a first sheet at a first printing position; printing an image on the first sheet while conveying the first sheet from the first printing position; determining whether an interval is more than a predetermined period; in a case where the interval is determined to be more than the predetermined period: causing the carriage to move in a first direction to a first detection position at which a second sheet is detected; and in response to detecting the second sheet, causing the carriage to move in the first direction to a first carriage position.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a micronozzle array including a linear array having a plurality of depositors connected in series, where a first depositor of the plurality of depositors may border a second depositor on a least one side boundary. The micronozzle array may include plurality of orifice arrays, where a width of each orifice in the plurality of orifice arrays is 20 ?m or less in a minor axis of its cross section to flow, to regulate flow through a delivery gas distribution channel. The micronozzle array may include a plurality of exhaust distribution channels, where the delivery gas distribution channel and at least one of the plurality of exhaust distribution channels have separate fluid communication with each of the plurality of depositors.

Abstract: Print apparatus comprises: a platen to support a print substrate; a print head to apply print agent to a print substrate supported by the platen, the print head being movable relative to the platen to vary a distance therebetween; and a suction device having an inlet, the suction device to draw air from between the print head and the platen and into the inlet. The inlet of the suction device is movable with the print head to vary a clearance between the inlet and the platen.

Abstract: A sheet discharge apparatus includes a first conveyance guide having a plurality of first ribs and rotatably supporting a drive roller, with the plurality of first ribs guiding a sheet, and a second conveyance guide to support a holder member movably in a separating direction where the holder member separates from the drive roller. The second conveyance guide includes a plurality of second ribs which form a conveyance path, together with the first ribs, through which the sheet passes, and a regulation portion to regulate movement of the holder member within a range of a first distance in the separating direction from a position where a driven roller is in contact with the drive roller, wherein the first distance is smaller than a second distance which is a distance between the first ribs and the second ribs in the separating direction.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head that includes a nozzle surface on which a nozzle is open and that ejects a liquid through the nozzle; a housing that accommodates the liquid ejecting head; a moving mechanism that moves the liquid ejecting head relative to the housing in a moving direction intersecting the nozzle surface; and a duct in which a fluid flows, in which the duct includes a first coupling section coupled to the housing and a second coupling section coupled to the liquid ejecting head and is configured to expand and contract in the moving direction.