Abstract: The recording method includes ejecting a first ink for image forming and a substantially colorless second ink onto a recording surface of a recording medium at an ejecting unit, and controlling ejecting operations of the first ink and the second ink in the ejecting unit. 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, and the opposite surface is opposite the recording surface. The controlling includes performing a plurality of ejecting operations of the first ink with respect to one ejecting operation of the second ink, so that at least a part of a landing position of the second ink and a landing position of the first ink overlap on the recording medium.

Abstract: A recording apparatus comprising a container to store a sheet of recording medium; a conveyer configured to convey the recording medium in the container; a main tank receiving portion configured to receive a main tank for storing liquid; a sub tank configured to store liquid supplied from the main tank; and a recording head including an ejection surface where ejection openings for ejecting liquid supplied from the sub tank are formed. Each of three projected areas which are an area of the main tank receiving portion, an area of the sub tank, and an area of the recording head, each projected to a virtual plane parallel to a surface of the recording medium contained in the container from a first direction orthogonal to the virtual plane, at least partially overlaps a container projected area which is an area of the container projected to the virtual plane from the first direction.

Abstract: A method for forming an ink jet printhead comprises processing an epoxy adhesive such that negative effects from physical contact with particular inks are reduced or eliminated. Conventional adhesives processed using conventional techniques are known to gain weight and squeeze out when exposed to certain inks such as ultraviolet inks, solid inks, and aqueous inks. An embodiment of the present teachings can include processing of a particular adhesive such that the resulting epoxy adhesive is suitable for printhead applications.

Abstract: A mobile printing system including a handheld printing device including at least two navigation sensors, a transmitter, a processor, and a print nozzle, and a distance sensing module including at least two distance sensors, the distance sensing module to be mountable to a print media at a distance from the handheld printing device, the distance sensing module to sense positional data of the handheld printing device, wherein the processor determines current, past, and anticipated positions of the handheld printing device based on positional data information received from the distance sensing module and navigation information received from the at least two navigation sensors and controls the handheld printing device to cause print fluid to be dispensed according to a print request and the anticipated positions of the handheld printing device.

Abstract: Examples of a printing device, a method for use in a printing device, and a machine readable non-transitory storage medium including instructions relating to a printing device that are executable by a processor are disclosed herein. An example of the machine readable non-transitory storage medium includes instructions relating to a printing device that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to: segment data for an image into a plurality of positions, analyze performance data regarding an actual portion of the image formed by each of a plurality of print heads, arrange the segmented image data for each portion of the image based on the performance data for each of the print heads, and transmit the arranged image data to each of the print heads so that each print head forms a correct portion of the image.

Abstract: A controller performs an ejection-timing setting process of setting, for each of first and second nozzle groups, ejection timing in scan printing in which a liquid ejection head ejects a liquid droplet while a head moving device moves the head in a scanning direction. The process includes: in response to receiving a first signal, setting ejection timing such that a time difference between ejection timing of the first nozzle group and ejection timing of the second nozzle group is first time, the first signal instructing printing such that a conveyance amount of a medium between successive two-time scan printing is a first conveyance amount; and in response to receiving a second signal, setting ejection timing such that the time difference is second time shorter than the first time, the second signal instructing printing such that the conveyance amount is a second conveyance amount smaller than the first conveyance amount.

Abstract: According to one example, there is provided a method of determining an alignment characteristic of a printhead die installed in a printer. The method comprises controlling the printer to print a predetermined pattern using the printhead die and determining, through analysis of the distance between features of the printed predetermined pattern, alignment characteristics of the printhead die.

Abstract: A thermal printer includes: a housing having a roll sheet receiving portion; a thermal head printing on a recording paper drawn out from the roll sheet; a platen roller feeding the recording paper and held in abutment against the thermal head; a delivery slot through which the recording paper having been subjected to printing by the thermal head is delivered to an outside of the housing, the delivery slot being formed in the housing; a retaining portion for retaining liquid having entered the housing in an assumed carriage posture assumed as a posture during carriage, the retaining portion being formed below the delivery slot in a gravitational direction; and a flow path for guiding the liquid having entered the housing to the retaining portion.

Abstract: An ink-jet printer with a print assembly includes an ink jet print head, the print assembly configured to be movable between a first position in which print head is positioned over a substrate to be printed upon and a second position in which the print head is positioned away from the substrate. The print head purges ink at the second position. A wiper assembly is positioned between the first position and the second position of the print assembly. The wiper assembly has a first orientation in which the wiper assembly does not contact the print head when the print assembly moves between the first position and the second position. The wiper assembly has a second orientation in which the wiper assembly contacts the print head when the print assembly moves between the second position and the first position. A fluid distribution device provides fluid to clean the wiper assembly.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a supporting portion that supports a sheet of paper transported and a recording head fixedly disposed at a position opposing the supporting portion, for recording. The recording head has nozzle rows for ejecting ink, and the nozzle rows are arranged side by side in the recording head in a direction intersecting a transport direction of the sheet. The supporting portion has a dumping portion including a position opposite the nozzle rows of the recording head, and the dumping portion is capable of receiving the ink ejected from the nozzle rows when the recording head performs flushing. The supporting portion has a supporting surface capable of supporting the sheet at a position not opposite the nozzle rows of the recording head. A slope inclining relative to the supporting surface is disposed in at least part of the boundary region between the dumping portion and the supporting surface.

Abstract: A tape cartridge detachably mounted in a tape printing apparatus, which has a printing head portion, a drive shaft, and a base convex portion that includes a pedestal erectly disposed on a mounting base and a convex portion erectly disposed on and integrally formed with the pedestal, includes a tape roll and a core shaft that has an outer circumferential face that rotatably supports the tape roll and an inner circumferential face formed into a stepped cylindrical shape formed by a concave portion and a depressed portion which has a diameter larger than that of the concave portion. A spring is installed into the concave portion. When the tape cartridge is mounted in the tape printing apparatus, the convex portion is inserted into the concave portion and presses the spring to release an inverse rotation prevention of the tape roll, and the depressed portion receives the pedestal.

Abstract: There is provided a recording device including a transport section that transports paper along a support surface; a recording section; a determination region setting section; a liquid volume ratio calculation section; a determination section; and a recording position adjustment section that, when the determination section determines that the average value is larger than the threshold, adjusts a distance of the recording section from the support surface to a distance which is longer than a case in which the average value is not larger than the threshold.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a nozzle, an individual liquid chamber, a common liquid chamber, a fluid restrictor, a circulation channel, a circulation fluid restrictor, and a plurality of laminated plate members. The nozzle discharges liquid. The individual liquid chamber is communicated with the nozzle. The common liquid chamber supplies the liquid to the individual liquid chamber. The fluid restrictor is disposed between the individual liquid chamber and the common liquid chamber. The circulation channel is communicated with the individual liquid chamber. The circulation fluid restrictor is disposed between the individual liquid chamber and the circulation channel. The plurality of laminated plate members constitutes the fluid restrictor, the individual liquid chamber, and the circulation fluid restrictor. A single plate member of the plurality of laminated plate members defines a fluid resistance value of the fluid restrictor and a fluid resistance value of the circulation fluid restrictor.

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: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for printing on a convex or concave glass surface and for an apparatus for holding the one or more work pieces for printing. The invention operatively couples one or more curved pieces in a mounting fixture, wherein each of the one or more curved pieces comprise a convex surface or a concave surface. Furthermore, the invention accesses a flattened image of the convex outer surface or the concave inner surface of one or more generally curved pieces and disposes pigment on the convex surface or the concave surface of the one or more curved pieces according to the flattened image. Further embodiments may be directed towards printing on curved pieces such as glass eyes.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head that has a nozzle opening surface in which the nozzles open, a displacing mechanism formed to change a posture of the liquid ejecting head between a first posture in which the nozzle opening surface is inclined with respect to the horizontal and a second posture in which an inclination of the nozzle opening surface is smaller than the inclination of the nozzle opening surface in the first posture, and a wiping member to wipe the liquid ejecting head. On the nozzle opening surface, if a vertical lower end in the first posture is a first end and a vertical upper end in the first posture is a second end, the wiping member wipes the liquid ejecting head from the first end side toward the second end side when the liquid ejecting head is in the second posture.

Abstract: Disclosed are a light irradiation apparatus that prevents or suppresses projection of light on adjoining other portions and can be miniaturized overall, and a photocurable material treatment apparatus that includes this light irradiation apparatus. The light irradiation apparatus includes: a light source having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in the x direction; and an elongated cylindrical lens extending in the x direction along the light source unit. A light source reference plane that includes a center of a light emission surface of each light emitting element is located on a plane separated in the y direction from a lens reference plane that includes a center axis of the cylindrical lens.

Abstract: A cleaning module includes an actuator device, a fluid chamber, and a wiper member. The actuator device may enter an activation state based on a movement of at least a portion of the actuator device in response to an engagement with the printhead. The fluid chamber may store and supply fluid to the porous wipe material in response to the activation state of the actuator device. The wiper member may apply pressure to a porous wipe material including the fluid therein to wipe the printhead.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes a feeder unit that stores a sheet on which no image is formed. A printer device forms an image on the sheet stored by the feeder unit. An erasing apparatus is connectably and detachably attached to the image forming apparatus. The erasing apparatus includes a first sheet stack that stores an unerased sheet on which an image is formed and an erasing device that erases the image formed on the unerased sheet.

Abstract: A waste liquid container is mounted on a mounting portion including a discharging portion discharging waste liquid and an apparatus-side terminal portion in accordance with movement in a mounting direction. The waste liquid container includes a waste liquid containing chamber which is capable of containing the waste liquid, a connection opening which is opened in the mounting direction in a shape of being connectable to the discharging portion, and a container-side terminal portion which is electrically connected to the apparatus-side terminal portion at the time of being mounted on the mounting portion. In a state of being mounted on the mounting portion, the container-side terminal portion is disposed lower than the connection opening in a posture of being inclined with respect to the mounting direction.