Abstract: An inkjet ink includes a) an aqueous medium; and b) capsules composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core; wherein the capsules are dispersed in the aqueous medium using a dispersing group covalently bonded to the polymeric shell; wherein the core contains a photoinitiator and one or more chemical reactants capable of forming a reaction product upon application of UV light; wherein the capsules have an average particle size of no more than 4 ?m as determined by dynamic laser diffraction; and wherein the photoinitiator is a diffusion hindered photoinitiator selected from the group consisting of multifunctional photoinitiators, oligomeric photoinitiators, polymeric photoinitiators and polymerizable photoinitiators.

Abstract: A printing suction system for a printer can include at least one print bar with at least one print head, and at least one suction device arranged in proximity to an underside of the print bar thereby forming a gap through which a recording medium that can be printed to by the print bar can be directed. The suction device can extend along at least a portion (or the entire) width of the print bar. The section device can generate a suction pressure based on a suction pressure profile to suction and smooth the recording medium.

Abstract: A printing method is provided and includes: ejecting a photo-curable ink from a head onto a print medium by an ejection amount v2 required of matte-finish printing; irradiating a light after a standby time t2 is passed to cure the photo-curable ink in a manner that a matte finish is obtainable; ejecting a transparent-photo-curable ink from the head onto the print medium by an ejection amount v3 greater than the ejection amount v2 and less than or equal to an ejection amount v1 required of glossy-finish printing; and irradiating the light after a standby time t3 shorter than a standby time t1 is passed to cure the transparent-photo-curable ink which is ejected.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus of the present disclosure includes a recording head, a supply unit, a supply path, and a circulation path. The supply unit supplies liquid to the recording head. The liquid passes through the supply path to be supplied from the supply unit to the recording head. The liquid passes through the circulation path to return from the recording head to the supply unit. The supply path is provided with a supply coupling, and the circulation path is provided with a circulation coupling. Such part of the supply path as is located on an upstream side with respect to the supply coupling and such part of the circulation path as is located on a downstream side with respect to the circulation coupling are connected to each other by the bypass path which is switchable between a communicating state and a cut-off state.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus to which a cartridge is attachable includes: a tank including a storage chamber and an outlet port; a recording portion including a damper chamber and a recording head; an ink passage; a pump configured to suck fluid in the damper chamber; a first switch; and a controller. After attachment of the cartridge, the controller is configured to perform an initial ink introduction process to supply the ink from the cartridge to the storage chamber. The initial ink introduction process includes: a first suction process to drive the pump for a first period of time in a state where the first switch is in a first state to allow ink in the storage chamber to be sucked toward the damper chamber; and after performing the first suction process, an open process to switch the first switch to a second state.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a medium support portion that has a medium support surface for supporting a medium, a liquid ejecting unit that ejects liquid onto the medium supported on the medium support surface through a plurality of nozzles arranged in a nozzle surface, a first cleaning member that wipes the nozzle surface by moving relative to the liquid ejecting unit in a direction along the nozzle surface in a first maintenance operation of discharging the liquid through the nozzles for maintenance of the liquid ejecting unit, and a second cleaning member that removes foreign matters which have adhered to the nozzle surface by moving relative to the liquid ejecting unit in the direction along the nozzle surface in a second maintenance operation of removing the foreign matters.

Abstract: The ink is discharged to the printing medium F located in the first range R1 from the upstream end Wuu of the upstream winding part Wu where the support roller 26a and the printing medium F are in contact to the downstream end Wdd of the downstream winding part Wd where the support roller 26e and the printing medium F are in contact. The support rollers 26a, 26e located on both ends of the first range R1 are in contact with the printing medium F on the peripheral surfaces 261 having such a concave shape to increase the diameter from the center toward the ends in the width direction Y (axial direction). This causes these support rollers 26a, 26e to suppress the formation of wrinkles in the first range R1 where the ink is discharged.

Abstract: A printing method includes an analysis step, which analyses the shape of the three-dimensional surface and position of the printing part of the object to be printed with the three-dimensional surface and converts into two-dimensional data, a placement step, in which at least one part of the object is placed in the placement recess of jig with the three-dimensional surface facing upwards, a primer layer formation step, which forms a primer layer on the printing part based on the two-dimensional data, a white color coating step, which performs UV irradiation after coating white UV curable ink on the surface of the primer layer based on the two-dimensional data, and a color printing step, which performs UV irradiation by coating UV curable ink other than white color on the surface of the printing part on which the white UV curable ink has been coated based on the two-dimensional data.

Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions readable by an information processing apparatus. The instructions cause the information processing apparatus to: obtain a type of a printer; obtain a combination between a type of a printing medium and a color of a coloring agent for printing of a code; determine whether the obtained combination is included in a first combination or whether the obtained combination is included in a second combination; and output an alert message when the obtained combination is included in the second combination or not included in the first combination. A combination between the color and the type of the printing medium printable by the printer of the obtained type includes the first combination in which a probability of reading of the code is a first value and the second combination in which the probability is a second value less than the first value.

Abstract: An image-recording apparatus includes: a cartridge including a first storage chamber and a supply port; a tank including a second storage chamber and an inlet port; a connecting portion including a liquid channel providing communication between the supply port and the inlet port; and a detector for detecting whether a liquid level in the second storage chamber is at a prescribed position. The first storage chamber includes an upper space and a lower space partitioned by a wall formed with a communication opening. An inequality of Pm<?·Hs·g?Ic·Rn is satisfied, where: Pm: withstand pressure of meniscus formed at the communication opening; P: density of liquid; Hs: vertical length between the prescribed position and the communication opening; g: gravitational acceleration; Ic: flow rate of liquid from the first storage chamber to the second storage chamber; and Rn: passage resistance at the liquid channel.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a first tank; a second tank; a recording portion including a first damper chamber and a second damper chamber; a first switch; a pump; a second switch; and a controller. The first switch is configured to be switched between a first state and a second state. The second switch is configured to be switched between a third state and a fourth state. After attachment of first and second cartridges to the inkjet recording apparatus, the controller performs an initial ink introduction including one of: a first drive process to drive the pump in a state where the first switch is in the first state and the second switch is in the fourth state; and a second drive process to drive the pump in a state where the first switch is in the second state and the second switch is in the third state.

Abstract: A drying device includes heaters disposed along the direction of conveyance of a recording medium to which liquid is applied, the heaters being configured to heat the recording medium, wherein the recording medium is conveyed in contact with the heaters on a conveyance path including a first path on which the recording medium is conveyed in contact with the heaters for the second time and a second path on which the recording medium is conveyed in contact with the heaters for the second time, wherein a dried film of the liquid formed by the following method has a Martens hardness of 30 N/mm2 or greater at 120 degrees C.: method: the liquid is applied to a glass plate to form a film and the film is dried with a reduced pressure at 100 degrees C. for three hours to obtain the dried film having an average thickness of 5 ?m.

Abstract: A liquid cartridge includes a first surface, a second surface spaced apart from the first surface, and a third surface extending between the first surface and the second surface, with a liquid outlet through the first surface. A circuit board is mounted on the third surface. A locking mechanism includes a locking surface that extends above the third surface, and a liquid detection mechanism includes a light access portion. The light access portion is disposed between the circuit board and the locking surface, and the circuit board is disposed between the first surface and the light access portion.

Abstract: A conveying device includes a rotator, a drier, and a conveyance direction changer. The rotator winds a web-shaped recording medium around a predetermined region of an outer peripheral surface of the rotator with one side of the web-shaped recording medium facing outward and conveys the recording medium with rotation. The drier is disposed downstream from the rotator in a direction of conveyance of the recording medium, to dry and convey the recording medium. The conveyance direction changer is disposed on a conveyance path of the recording medium between the rotator and the drier. The conveyance direction changer has an outer peripheral surface that includes an opposed region opposed to the one side of the recording medium. The opposed region has openings to blow gas toward the one side of the recording medium. The rotator and the drier are disposed at positions not overlapping with each other in a plan view.

Abstract: Methods for fabricating three-dimensional objects by 3D-inkjet printing technology are provided. The methods utilize curable materials that polymerize via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) for fabricating the object. Systems suitable for performing these methods and kits containing modeling material formulations usable in the methods are also provided.

Abstract: An inkjet printer having at least one print head in which an aerodynamic element is placed before (e.g. in a transport direction) a recording medium (e.g. in the form of a sheet or page or plate) to reduce or avoid turbulences that may arise due to the relative motion between print head(s) and recording medium at an edge of the recording medium.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a feeder, a printing, a communication device, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute a temperature reception process and a printing control process. In the temperature reception process, first temperature data is received. The first temperature data is broadcast-transmitted from at least one other printer and corresponds to a first temperature inside the other printer. In the printing control process, a feeder and a printing head are controlled on the basis of the first temperature data to form a print on a printing medium and thereby generate a printed matter.

Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes individual channel rows each formed by individual channels aligned in a first direction and including nozzles respectively, the individual channel rows being arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, first manifolds each extending in the first direction and connected to the individual channels, the first manifolds being arranged in the second direction, and at least one second manifold extending in the first direction and connected to the individual channels. First connecting ports are formed in end portions, of the first manifolds, on one side in the first direction and open on one side in a third direction orthogonal to both the first direction and the second direction. A second connecting port is formed in an end portion, of the second manifold, on the one side in the first direction and open on the one side in the third direction.

Abstract: A tape cartridge includes a platen roller, a winding up core, and a cartridge casing that accommodates a printing tape, an ink ribbon, the platen roller, and the winding up core. The cartridge casing includes an insertion hole in which a head cover on a cartridge installation portion of a tape printing apparatus is inserted when the tape cartridge is installed on the cartridge installation portion. The insertion hole includes a facing portion that faces a convex portion on the head cover when the tape cartridge is installed on the cartridge installation portion. The facing portion is part of an inner wall of the insertion hole.

Abstract: A control method of a liquid ejecting apparatus is provided. The liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head for ejecting a liquid in an inner-space thereof through a nozzle, an inflow-channel for flowing the liquid into the inner space, an outflow-channel for flowing the liquid out of the inner space, and a valve for the inflow-channel. The control method includes first control of opening the inflow-channel by opening the valve in accordance with a negative pressure on a downstream side of the valve to generate a liquid flow from the inflow-channel to the outflow-channel, second control of opening the inflow-channel by opening the valve by an external force to generate the liquid flow from the inflow-channel to the outflow-channel, and performing the second control, in accordance with a flow amount of the liquid flow, to open the valve under the first control.