Abstract: A rotary printing integrated ink box special for seal printing comprises an ink box body (1) with a cylindrical or elliptic cylindrical outer contour, a spray head (6) with a circuit board (5) is arranged outside the ink box body (1), the spray head (6) corresponds to an ink outlet (3), and contacts (7) connected with control lines of the spray head (6) are integrated on the circuit board (5); and a rotary fixed surface of the ink box body (1) is parallel to a rotary injection surface of the spray head (6).

Abstract: An inkjet image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a transfer body by discharging an ink droplet from an inkjet head; and a hardware processor that detects a landing state of the ink droplet that has been discharged and landed on the transfer body and changes an image forming condition when the image is formed so that a detected landing state approaches a target landing state.

Abstract: A printer includes a transport unit, a first head, a second head disposed downstream of the first head, a first suction unit configured to suction ink mist discharged from the first head, a second suction unit configured to suction ink mist discharged from the second head, and a suction device coupled to the first suction unit and the second suction unit, and configured to generate an airflow for suctioning the ink mist, and a first suction device disposed either one of on a first path from the first suction unit to the suction device, and at the suction device, and configured to adjust a flow rate at the first suction unit, and a second suction device disposed either one of on a second path from the second suction unit to the suction device, and at the suction device, and configured to adjust the flow rate at the second suction unit.

Abstract: In an example, replaceable print apparatus component authentication apparatus comprises a memory and circuitry. An electrical characteristic of the circuitry may be variable in response to a stimulus, and the memory may store data indicative of an expected variation in the electrical characteristic in response to the stimulus which is associated with a variation in capacitance.

Abstract: A damper for a continuous ink jet printer, comprising a fluid receiving chamber (6), comprising at least a lateral wall (22), a fluid inlet (11), and a fluid outlet (12), and at least one membrane (14), the membrane being in a material having a Young modulus between 0.5 MPa and 1000 MPa, the membrane being deformed under the influence of a pressure variation in the first portion.

Abstract: In an example, a print system includes a redundancy engine, a separation engine, and a print engine. In that example, the redundancy engine may identify a group of nozzles based on a redundancy characteristic of a plurality of print head nozzles of a print head to be received at the print head station and the separation engine may select a color separation operation corresponding to a drop domain associated with the group of nozzles identified by the redundancy engine to operate the print head with redundancy. In that example, the print engine may generate instructions using the selected color separation operation to cause the print head to eject print fluid from a combination of nozzles corresponding to the group of nozzles based on the drop domain to operate the print head with a redundancy print mode.

Abstract: Method and tools for sensing pen-to-reference space (PRS) are disclosed. Example removable pen-to-reference space (PRS) sensing tools for a printer comprise proximity sensors and a body. The body has a printer mounting portion, corresponding to a printhead mounting socket of the printer, and a sensor portion, hosting the proximity sensor.

Abstract: An intermediate transfer member (ITM) (210, 310, 320, 330, 400, 410, 420, 430, 500, 520, 540, 600, 700, 802) configured for receiving ink droplets to form an ink image thereon and for transferring the ink image to a target substrate (226), the TTM (210, 310, 320, 330, 400, 410, 420, 430, 500, 520, 540, 600, 700, 802) includes one or more layers (273, 277, 373, 379, 602, 604, 606, 608, 610, 704, 706, 708, 712) and one or more markers (33, 333, 335, 392, 408, 418, 428, 448, 458, 612, 710, 804, 806) integrated with at least one of the one or more layers (273, 277, 373, 379, 602, 604, 606, 608, 610, 704, 706, 708, 712) at one or more respective marking locations along the ITM (210, 310, 320, 330, 400, 410, 420, 430, 500, 520, 540, 600, 700).

Abstract: A liquid container includes: a bag that contains a liquid; and a pair of members configured to be reused when the liquid container is reassembled by replacing the bag used. The pair of members are fixed to each other by one or more swaging pins.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a printed paper layer. The method may involve providing the paper layer with a printed pattern. Providing the printed pattern may involve depositing water based inks using a digital inkjet printer. The water based inks may be pigment containing inks. The dry weight of the deposited pigment containing inks may be lower than 9 grams per square meter. The paper layer may include an inkjet receiver coating, such that the inks are deposited on the inkjet receiver coating. The paper layer may have a mean air resistance according to the Gurley method (Tappi T460) of below 30 seconds.

Abstract: A light-irradiating device of the disclosure comprises: a light-irradiating unit comprising a housing in which a light-emitting element is disposed, the housing comprising a light irradiation surface through which light from the light-emitting element can be transmitted; and a gas supply unit comprising a flow channel connected to a part of the light irradiation surface of the housing. A printing device of the disclosure comprises: the light-irradiating device mentioned above; a conveying unit which conveys a medium to be printed while causing the medium to face the light irradiation surface of the light-irradiating device; and a printing unit which is disposed adjacent to and upstream from the light-irradiating device in a conveyance direction of the medium to be printed.

Abstract: A liquid cartridge includes a housing, a circuit board including an electrode, and a liquid supply portion extending from the housing in a depth direction. The housing includes a top wall, and first and second protrusions protruding upward from the top wall. The first protrusion is positioned rearward but the second protrusion is positioned frontward relative to the circuit board. The first protrusion is higher than an upper edge of a front end of the second protrusion. No part of the liquid cartridge is positioned higher than an imaginary plane in a height direction in a region between a first point on the first protrusion and a second point on the second protrusion (the upper edge of the front end of the second protrusion) in the depth direction. The imaginary plane passes through the first and second points, and extends perpendicularly to the depth direction.

Abstract: A three-dimensional printer for providing additive material to an object in need thereof includes a non-transitory computer memory; a processor in data communication with the computer memory; a material reservoir; an output device in communication with the material reservoir; a scanning device for obtaining existing contour information about the object; and a contour database accessible by the processor which has contour information about the object. The scanning device is in data communication with the processor. Programming causes: (1) the scanning device to obtain the existing contour information; (2) the computer memory to store the obtained existing contour information; and (3) the processor to create a print file based on data from each of: (a) the obtained existing contour information, and (b) the contour database. Further programming selectively actuates the output device, utilizing the print file, to apply the material from the material reservoir to the object in need thereof.

Abstract: A cartridge is configured to be moved in a ?Y direction and then rotated in an intersecting direction intersecting with a Y direction in an installation process of installing the cartridge in a printing device including a device terminal holder holding device terminals and having first and second positioning portions. The cartridge includes cartridge terminals and a cartridge terminal mounting portion disposed on a case and has the cartridge terminals thereon in a movable manner in the Y direction and a rotation radial direction relative to the case. The cartridge terminal mounting portion includes a restricting portion configured to restrict the movement of the cartridge terminals in the Y and Z directions during the installation process. The restricting portion includes first and second restricting portions located at respective ends in the +Y and ?Y directions of the cartridge terminal mounting portion and being in contact with the respective first.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a head configured to discharge a liquid, and a discharge receptacle configured to receive the liquid discharged from the head at an installation position. The discharge receptacle includes a liquid holder configured to receive the liquid discharged from the head, and a support configured to detachably support the liquid holder. At least a part of the support is displaceable to a detachment position at which the liquid holder is detachable from the support, and the detachment position is lower than the installation position.

Abstract: Proposed is an ink storage tank that stores ink to supply the ink to an inkjet head equipped with a plurality of nozzles configured to eject the ink, the tank including an agitator configured to agitate the ink in an ink storage space defined in a housing of the ink storage tank, where the agitator includes a rotary shaft horizontally installed in the ink storage space, one or more blades that protrude outward from the rotary shaft, and a rotation drive unit configured to rotate the rotary shaft, and where the bottom surface of the ink storage space has a concavely curved shape corresponding to the trace of the outer edges of the rotating blades. The ink storage tank has an effect of maintaining desired dispersibility of particles in ink due to the agitator having the horizontal rotary shaft and the concavely curved bottom surface of the ink storage space.

Abstract: A logic circuitry package for a replaceable print apparatus component includes an interface to communicate with a print apparatus logic circuit, and a logic circuit having a communication address to communicate with the print apparatus logic circuit. The logic circuit is configured to detect, via the interface, communications that include an other communication address. The logic circuit is configured to respond, via the interface, to a command series directed to the logic circuit that include the communication address of the logic circuit, based on the detected communications.

Abstract: Printing is performed with a printing material accommodated in a printing material accommodation body. Accommodation body information on the printing material accommodation body is acquired. When the accommodation body information on the printing material accommodation body is first information, an operation of a first mode is performed. Meanwhile, when the accommodation body information on the printing material accommodation body is second information, in a case in which a permission condition is satisfied according to communication with a server apparatus, an operation of a second mode is performed.

Abstract: A liquid container includes: a liquid containing section that stores liquid; a supply port joined to the liquid containing section, the supply port having an opening for supplying the liquid to an outside; a seal member disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the opening of the supply port; a cap configured to be attached to a position where it covers the supply port, the cap having a tubular protruding portion extending from a cap opening formed at a center of the cap, the protruding portion having a length sufficient to be inserted into the opening of the supply port; and a fixation portion that fixes the cap to the supply port, wherein the tubular protruding portion has a shape that abuts the seal member disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the opening when the cap is fixed to the supply port by the fixation portion.

Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a print liquid supply is described. The print liquid supply includes a reservoir for holding a supply of print liquid. The reservoir includes a pliable body having a front face and a back face. The print liquid supply also includes a spout affixed to the reservoir. The spout is located at a corner of the front face offset from a centerline of the front face.