Abstract: A mixer system for use with a non-contact liquid printer comprises: a printing liquid reservoir (103) and an expansion volume (105); and an aspirator element (111; 311; 411), configured to reduce the pressure in the expansion volume (105), thereby to displace printing liquid (L) from the reservoir (103) to the expansion volume (105), and restore the pressure in the expansion volume (105), thereby to return the printing liquid (L) to the reservoir (103) so as to mix the printing liquid (L) therein.

Abstract: There is provided an ink jet recording apparatus capable of preventing a user from erroneously performing an opening and closing operation of a valve in the supply of ink to a recording head from an ink tank.

Abstract: A method for printing on an article is disclosed wherein a transfer medium is loaded into a digital printer. A print head of the printer is used to deposit a main color layer on the transfer medium. A primer layer is deposited onto the main color layer. In some embodiments, an initial color layer is deposited prior to deposition of the main color layer. An adhesive powder is deposited on the primer layer, and the main color layer and primer layer are cured using ultraviolet illumination. The transfer medium is contacted (placed into contact) with the article and heat and/or pressure are applied to transfer the deposited layers to the article. The transfer medium is removed leaving the main color layer and primer layer adhered to the article.

Abstract: A nozzle-clogging determining device is provided for detecting nozzle clogging without causing an increase in the cost. A nozzle-clogging determining device is configured to detect pass of droplets ejected from a plurality of nozzles of a head of an inkjet printer, and includes a droplet detector and a determination controller. The droplet detector includes a light emitter configured to emit detection light for detecting pass of droplets in a direction intersecting with a traveling direction of droplets, and a light receiver configured to receive the detection light. The determination controller consecutively ejects a plurality of droplets from each nozzle of the head at equal intervals, and has a threshold for performing determination on nozzle clogging on the basis of a light interception rate of the detection light which the light receiver receives when droplets are positioned inside a spot of the detection light which the light receiver receives.

Abstract: An apparatus includes: a delivering-side gear train that transmits motive power to a delivering-side drive shaft; an winding-side gear train that transmits motive power to an winding-side drive shaft; a second clutch mechanism that connects the drive motor and the delivering-side gear train to each other in accordance with reverse rotation of the drive motor and disconnects the drive motor and the delivering-side gear train from each other in accordance with forward rotation of the drive motor; and a first clutch mechanism that is provided upstream of the second clutch mechanism, connects the drive motor and the winding-side gear train to each other in accordance with the forward rotation of the drive motor, and disconnects the drive motor and the winding-side gear train from each other in accordance with the reverse rotation of the drive motor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides supports for a microfluidic die and one or more additional die including, but not limited to, microfluidic die, ASICs, MEMS devices, and sensors. This includes semi-flexible supports that allow a microfluidic die to be at a 90 degree angle with respect to another die and rigid supports that allow a microfluidic and another die to be in close proximity to each other.

Abstract: A lamp array for drying liquid ink on a media in a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a transport system arranged to move the media through the printing apparatus in a process direction. The lamp array includes at least one lamp having a longitudinal axis arranged in a direction parallel to the process direction and adjacent to the transport system.

Abstract: In one example, a processor readable medium having instructions thereon that when executed cause a printer controller to monitor a temperature of a dryer in the printer, continue to apply power to a heating element in the dryer after executing a first print job and before executing a second, next consecutive print job, and turn off the power applied to the heating element if the temperature of the dryer exceeds a threshold temperature while the printer is not printing.

Abstract: A tank includes a case provided with a pair of lateral walls separated in a first direction, a first chamber and a second chamber retaining a liquid, a liquid channel rendering communication between the second chamber and the outside of the case, a liquid inlet port for filling the first chamber with the liquid, a first communicating port rendering communication between the first chamber and the second chamber, and a second communicating port rendering communication between the second chamber and the liquid channel. If the first chamber and the second chamber retain the liquid at the maximum amount retainable in the tank in the usable posture, then with the tank in such a rotated posture that one of the pair of lateral walls becomes the upper end of the tank along a vertical direction, the first communicating port is positioned above the level of the liquid at the maximum amount.

Abstract: A joint section of a fill device is coupled to a supply opening of an ink cartridge, and a pressing force section presses an inside plug of the ink cartridge into the supply opening, to press down the inside plug against a biasing unit and release an opening to connect an ink fill section with an ink container. A first pump is operated and fills ink to the inside of the ink container. After the filling, the joint section separates from the supply opening, and the inside plug seals the supply opening by the biasing unit. Ink is filled with no spilling, into the ink container having an ink supply section with valve, and the ink cartridge can be manufactured with good efficiency.

Abstract: A septum device usable with a fluid interconnect unit of a fluid supply device is disclosed. An example septum for use with a fluid supply device, the septum includes a body defining an interior aperture, the body, including: an exterior surface defining a groove to receive a locking member of the fluid supply device when the septum is inserted into the fluid supply device; and a protrusion extending into the interior aperture, the protrusion to rotate at least a portion of the exterior surface toward the locking member in response to an extraction member entering the aperture.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus is provided including a liquid discharge head, a cap, and a wiper. The liquid discharge head includes a nozzle plate having thereon a nozzle for discharging a liquid. The cap caps a surface of the nozzle plate. The wiper moves relative to the nozzle plate to wipe the surface of the nozzle plate. The surface of the nozzle plate has a cap contact region that is contactable with the cap. The wiper starts wiping from a wiping start position that is disposed between both end parts of the cap contact region in a direction of wiping. The wiper comes into contact with the surface of the nozzle plate at the wiping start position and moves in a first direction to wipe the surface of the nozzle plate, and thereafter moves in a second direction opposite the first direction to wipe the surface of the nozzle plate.

Abstract: A joint structure includes a first substrate in which a resin portion which protrudes from one face and is formed of a resin, and a first electrode which covers a part of the resin portion are formed, and a second substrate on which a second electrode corresponding to the first electrode is formed are joined in a state in which the first electrode and the second electrode are electrically connected, in which a region in which the resin portion is disposed on one face of the first substrate includes a first region in which the resin portion is in contact with the one face, and a second region in which the resin portion is separated from the one face, and the second region is formed in the outside of the first region in the inside of the one face.

Abstract: Problems such as blocking are suppressed and more appropriately perform printing, in a case of using a configuration in which each medium is wound after printing. A printing device for performing printing on a medium includes a printing head configured to form an overcoat layer on the medium, an after-heater configured to heat the medium having the overcoat layer formed thereon, and a winding roller which is a medium winding unit configured to wind the medium heated by the after-heater, and the after-heater heats the medium such that the temperature of the overcoat layer becomes a temperature equal to or higher than a glass-transition point, and the winding roller winds the medium having a state where the temperature of the overcoat layer is a temperature lower than the glass-transition point.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a fluid ejection device includes a substrate with a fluid slot formed therein, a chamber layer formed on the substrate defining fluid chambers on both sides of the fluid slot, a thin-film layer between the substrate and chamber layer that defines an ink feedhole (IFH) between the fluid slot and the chamber layer, and a chamber layer extension that forms a bridge across the IFH between two chambers.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head on which a plurality of nozzle rows are arranged in a width direction that intersects with a transfer direction; and a support section which includes a discarding section which includes a position which faces the nozzle rows and allows ink ejected by the recording head to pass therethrough, and a support surface which is disposed at a position which does not face the nozzle rows and is configured to support the paper sheet, wherein the support surface includes a first support surface which is disposed in a region which faces gaps between the nozzle rows in the width direction and a second support surface which extends in a region longer than a region in which the first support surface is disposed in the width direction, and the first support surface and the second support surface are formed to be flush with each other.

Abstract: According to one example there is provided a method of adjusting a support structure. The method comprises obtaining a reference orientation of the support structure when the support structure is positioned in a reference position. The height of the support structure is adjusted to a predetermined position and the orientation of the support structure is adjusted such that the orientation of the support structure when in the predetermined position is substantially the same as the reference orientation.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes an ejecting unit configured to eject a first ink for image forming and a substantially colorless second ink onto a recording surface of a recording medium, and a control unit configured to control ejecting operations of the first ink and the second ink. The second ink is permeation ink configured to permeate the first ink into the recording medium from the recording surface to an opposite surface of the recording medium. The control unit controls the ejecting unit to perform a plurality of ejecting operations of the first ink with respect to one ejecting operation of the second ink. An ejecting amount of the first ink ejected when the ejecting unit ejects both of the first ink and the second ink is greater than an ejecting amount of the first ink ejected when the ejecting unit ejects only the first ink without ejecting the second ink.

Abstract: An inkjet printing head 1 includes an actuator substrate, having an ink flow passage that includes a pressure chamber, a movable film formation layer, including a movable film, disposed on the pressure chamber and defining a top surface portion of the pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element 9, formed on the movable film, and a protective substrate 4, bonded to the actuator substrate so as to cover the piezoelectric element 9, and the protective substrate 4 has an ink supply passage 53 in communication with the ink flow passage, and on a surface of the protective substrate 4 at an opposite side from the actuator substrate, an alignment mark 81 is formed in each of a plurality of small regions set by dividing an entire region of the surface.

Abstract: There is provided a tank including a liquid inlet port, an atmosphere open port, a liquid outflow port, a first liquid chamber having a first atmosphere communication channel, a second liquid chamber being in communication with the first liquid chamber and having a second atmosphere communication channel, and a liquid channel. The liquid inside the liquid channel is movable along with a liquid consumption of a liquid consuming device connected to the tank. With the tank in a usage posture, when the liquid is stored in the first liquid chamber and the second liquid chamber, the liquid level of the liquid stored in the first liquid chamber is formed independently from the liquid level of the liquid stored in the second liquid chamber.