Abstract: Low-profile service stations for use with printers are described herein. One example service station includes a shuttle to support a cap sled. The shuttle has a shuttle drive and a pump drive positioned such that at least one of the shuttle drive and the pump drive does not extend between a first side and a second side of the shuttle. The shuttle drive is coupled to a printer drive to move the shuttle between a first position and a second position.

Abstract: An example provides a fluid ejection apparatus including a plurality of nozzles, a common fluid supply channel in fluid communication with the plurality of nozzles, and a compressible material forming, at least in part, a wall of the common fluid supply channel.

Abstract: A recording device includes a liquid ejection head, a support unit that support a paper sheet, a transportation path along which the paper sheet is reversed and transported, and a transportation roller that transports the paper sheet, wherein a liquid absorbent is provided downstream in the transportation direction of the paper sheet relative to the transportation roller, and liquid absorbents are provided upstream in the transportation direction of the paper sheet relative to the transportation roller, and second liquid absorbent is provided between the liquid absorbent and the liquid absorbent.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a conveyance section, a first voltage applying section, and a second power supplying section. The recording head ejects ink onto a recording sheet. The conveyance section conveys the recording sheet to a position of image forming by the recording head. The first power supplying section applies a voltage to the recording sheet upstream of the recording head in a conveyance direction of the recording sheet. The second power supplying section includes a plate member located between the recording head and the first power supplying section and applies a voltage to the plate member that is of opposite polarity to the voltage applied by the first power supplying section.

Abstract: An erasing apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit from which a sheet is fed into the erasing apparatus, an erasing unit configured to perform an erasing processing on both surfaces of the sheet, a scanning unit configured to scan and generate image data of a bottom surface and a top surface of the sheet, a first storing unit, a second storing unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine, based on the image data, whether the bottom surface of the sheet is reusable and whether the top surface of the sheet is reusable. Further, the controller is configured to cause, if both the bottom and top surfaces have been subject to the erasing processing and are determined to be reusable, the sheet to be conveyed to one of the first and second storing units based on a both-sides-erased criteria.

Abstract: An image printing device and method of printing may include an image medium advancing device to advance an image medium in a first direction, an oscillating printhead to oscillate or move along a second direction defined by an angle not normal to the first direction, and a plurality of ink nozzles associated with the printhead to apply ink to the image medium.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a substrate having discharge energy generating elements generating energy for discharging liquid, a flow path member formed over the substrate and forming a flow path for supplying the liquid, an electric wiring member transmitting a signal for driving the discharge energy generating elements, and an electric connection electrically connecting the substrate to the electric wiring member. The liquid discharge head has a first sealant for sealing under the electric connection, a third sealant for sealing over the electric connection, and a second sealant for sealing side faces where the electric connection is not present, the side faces each being one of side faces of the substrate. An elastic modulus of the third sealant is the largest, that of the first sealant is the second, and that of the second sealant is the smallest. The first and third sealants contain the same type of resin.

Abstract: An inkjet printer including an inkjet head, a head scanning unit, a wave shape generating mechanism to deform a recording medium into a predetermined wave shape, an obtaining device to obtain information concerning a type of the recording medium to be used in a printing operation, a gap information storing device to store gap information related to a gap between an ink discharging surface and the recording medium in association with a predetermined type of the recording medium, the gap information being acquired from a predetermined range in the recording medium, and a correcting device to correct the gap information according to the type of the recording medium obtained by the obtaining device when the type of the recording medium obtained by the obtaining device is different from the predetermined type of the recording medium stored in association with the gap information, is provided.

Abstract: A recovery system for a recording head of the present disclosure includes a wiper, a drive mechanism, a first rotary mechanism, and a control portion. The first rotary mechanism causes the wiper to rotate. The control portion is capable of executing the recovery operation of a recording head including an ink push-out operation in which ink is forcibly pushed out, a first wipe-off operation in which purged ink is wiped off, a rotary moving-away operation in which, while being caused to move in a first direction, the wiper is caused to rotate toward an obliquely lower side in a second direction opposite to the first direction, thus moving away from the ink discharge surface, and a second wipe-off operation in which ink is wiped off by causing the wiper to move in the second direction.

Abstract: A rotary wiper assembly for a fluid-ejection printhead that has fluid-ejection nozzles includes one or more wipers and a rotatable shaft to which the wipers are at least indirectly attached. The rotatable shaft is to rotate the wipers to a static wiping position. While the wipers are stationary in the static wiping position, the fluid-ejection printhead is to move back and forth in relation to the wipers while the wipers are not to move, to cause the wipers to come into contact with the fluid-ejection nozzles to wipe material from the fluid-ejection nozzles.

Abstract: A printer cleaning device includes a cleaning blade that is operatively disposed on a cleaning surface to contact and remove a material from the cleaning surface. The cleaning blade has a body portion and a cleaning edge adjoining the body portion adapted to contact the cleaning surface. The printer cleaning device further includes a pad that is attached to the body portion of the cleaning blade and is disposed across a predetermined length of the cleaning blade. The pad has a first corner that is located at a first end of the body portion wherein the first end is at a predetermined distance from the cleaning edge. The printer cleaning device further includes a controller configured to control the cleaning blade to contact and wipe the cleaning surface.

Abstract: An inkjet printer including an inkjet head, a head scanning unit, a wave shape generating mechanism to deform a recording medium into a predetermined wave shape, an obtaining device to obtain information concerning a type of the recording medium to be used in a printing operation, a gap information storing device to store gap information related to a gap between an ink discharging surface and the recording medium in association with a predetermined type of the recording medium, the gap information being acquired from a predetermined range in the recording medium, and a correcting device to correct the gap information according to the type of the recording medium obtained by the obtaining device when the type of the recording medium obtained by the obtaining device is different from the predetermined type of the recording medium stored in association with the gap information, is provided.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a print element substrate, comprising preparing a substrate, including a first region and a second region, in which a printing portion is formed on the first region, and a wiring pattern connected to the printing portion is formed on the first region and the second region, forming an insulating film covering the printing portion and the wiring pattern, and forming a conductive cavitation-resistant film on the insulating film, wherein in the forming the insulating film, the insulating film is formed such that a side surface of a portion of the insulating film, which is formed on the second region, includes an inclined face.

Abstract: The inkjet head for discharging a water-based ink for inkjet recording is disclosed, the inkjet head including two or more types of metal members used at portions to be brought in contact with the water-based ink, wherein at least two of the two or more types of the metal members are electrically connected, and the two or more types of the electrically connected metal members have spontaneous potentials each of which is measured with a reference electrode Ag/AgCl in the water-based ink and which provide an absolute value of a maximum difference therebetween, the absolute value being not more than 60 mV. An ink jet head is provided, in which any corrosion of a metal member is suppressed.

Abstract: An ink cartridge prevents ink from leaking from a waste ink recovery chamber, and an inkjet printer in which ink does not leak from the ink supply needle of the ink cartridge holder. The ink cartridge 10 has an ink chamber 30 and a waste ink inlet 57 in the top of the ink cartridge 30. Ink overflowing the capacity of the waste ink recovery chamber 20 flows through an ink trap 22 and into the ink cartridge 30 from the waste ink inlet 57. The ink supply needle 7 of the inkjet printer 1 has an ink path 73, valve member 90, and coil spring 74. The valve member 90 moves between a closed position 90A and a open position 90B according to whether or not an ink cartridge 10 is installed, and prevents ink from leaking from the ink supply needle 7.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a first passage through which liquid flows from a tank to liquid ejecting heads; and a second passage through which liquid flows from the heads to the tank. The first passage includes a third passage connecting to the tank, a fourth passage branching from the third passage at a first position to allow the third passage to communicate with a first head, and a fifth passage branching from the third passage at a second position to allow the third passage to communicate with a second head. The lengths, cross-sectional areas, and resistances of various passages are set relative to others.

Abstract: In an inkjet printer having a small print head assembly and a large print head assembly, a wiper includes a first wiper section having a width approximately equal to a width of an orifice area of the small print head assembly, a decoupler adjacent to the first wiper section, a second wiper section adjacent to the decoupler, where the first and the second wiper sections and the decoupler combined have a width approximately equal to a width of an orifice area of the large print head assembly, and a squared tip at an extremity of the single, segmented wiper to impede wicking action. A tab holds the wiper oriented so as to wipe the print head assemblies in a direction of a printing operation.

Abstract: An inkjet printer can desirably clean two inkjet heads mounted on a head carriage before printing starts. The inkjet printer 1 has first and second inkjet heads 13A and 13B mounted on a head carriage 14. Before printing starts, the inkjet printer moves the head carriage 14 from a home position HP to a shift position SP so that the second inkjet head 13B, which is closest to the home position HP, is opposite a maintenance head cap 22 with an ink absorption capability and cleans the inkjet head. The head carriage 14 is then returned to the home position HP so that the first inkjet head 13A is opposite the maintenance head cap 22 and cleans the inkjet head. The head carriage 14 then moves to the printing area C side and printing starts.

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: According to an image forming apparatus and an exposure position adjusting method of one aspect of the present invention, an exposure section scans a plurality of light beams to form a plurality of electrostatic latent images periodically along a main-scanning direction of the photoreceptor at a predetermined pitch in a sub-scanning direction of the photoreceptor. Next, a surface potential detecting section detects electric potentials of the plurality of electrostatic latent images formed on the surface of the photoreceptor, along the main-scanning direction. Furthermore, a controller calculates exposure timings by the plurality of light beams in the exposure section on the basis of a detection result by the surface potential detecting section.