Abstract: A printing technique is presented for efficiently printing (i.e. with production lines rates at high resolution and high accuracy) on outer surfaces of a plurality of objects passing in an optimized stream through a printing route/zone. According to this technique, at least one array of printing head units is provided being configured to define at least one printing route along a printing axis, where the at least one printing route is a substantially linear segment of a closed loop lane along which the objects are progressing.

Abstract: An ink tank for an ink delivery system in a printer includes: a lower portion having an ink inlet port and an ink outlet port; and an upper portion having a roof defining a tortuous vent pathway open to atmosphere via a gas port. The lower portion has a smaller volume than the upper portion.

Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a transport section that transports a medium in a first direction; a discharge section that discharges a liquid to the medium transported by the transport section; and a heater that is provided downstream of the discharge section in the first direction, and heats the medium, in which the heater includes a ceramic substrate, a heat generating resistor provided on the ceramic substrate, and a protection section that protects the heat generating resistor.

Abstract: An integrated inkjet module includes: a print module positioned between end brackets, the print module having an elongate printhead; a wiper carriage configured for longitudinally wiping the printhead; and a print module carrier supporting the print module. The print module carrier is slidably mounted between the end brackets for lifting relative to a media feed path. The wiper carriage, in a parked position, is positioned between one end of the print module and an end bracket, and the print module carrier includes a mounting arm bridging over the wiper carriage in the parked position.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing portion that performs printing on a printing medium, a heating portion that heats the printing medium, which is performed downstream of the printing portion in transport of the printing medium, and a controller. The heating portion is disposed in a position facing a back surface, on which the printing is performed. The controller executes first control for putting the heating portion in a first state in which the heating portion is in contact with the back surface during a transport stop period, in which transport of the printing medium is stopped, and executes second control for putting the heating portion in a second state in which the heating portion contacts the back surface at a lower degree than in the first state during a transport period, in which the transport of the printing medium is performed.

Abstract: A method of inkjet printing includes the steps of: feeding print media past a printhead; printing onto the print media via a stream of inkjet droplets ejected from the printhead; and generating a jet flow in the vicinity of the stream of inkjet droplets, wherein the jet flow is digitally controlled.

Abstract: A plant and a process for printing a sheet fibrous material. The plant includes a conveyor belt, a preparing station, and a printing station. The conveyor belt is configured for temporarily receiving in contact a first side of the sheet fibrous material and, during a predetermined operative condition, for continuously moving the sheet fibrous material along an advancement direction. The preparing station is configured for placing on the sheet fibrous material a treatment composition. The printing station is adapted to ink-print at least part of a second side, opposite to the first side, of the sheet fibrous material. The printing station includes a printing module which, during the predetermined operative condition, is configured for defining a print on an overall width of the sheet fibrous material, staying in a fixed position and printing the second side of the sheet fibrous material sliding on the conveyor belt.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a dryer configured to attenuate the effects of temperature differentials arising in substrates that are caused by holes in a media transport belt and a platen covering a vacuum plenum. The dryer includes a platen, a heater configured to direct heat toward the platen, at least one media transport belt configured to slide over the platen to move the substrates past the heater after the ink images have been formed on the substrates, and at least one belt diversion component configured to divert the at least one media belt from a straight-line path over the platen.

Abstract: A medium heating device is provided, which is configured to heat a medium that is conveyed in a state where liquid is ejected onto the medium, and which includes: a support unit configured to support the medium that is conveyed in a state where the liquid is ejected onto the medium; a first heater configured to heat a first surface, of the medium, onto which the liquid ejected; and a second heater configured to heat a second surface of the medium opposite from the first surface. A region heated by the second heater includes a region downstream from a region facing the first heater.

Abstract: In one example, a printing material cartridge includes a container to contain a printing material and a memory to enable an exchange of information between the cartridge and a printer controller when the cartridge is installed in the printer. The memory includes a first write once then read only memory with a first memory address, a second write once then read only memory with a second memory address, the first memory address having information to prompt the printer controller to write a printer identifier to the second memory address, and a memory controller to control data storage and retrieval to and from the write once then read only memories and to control the exchange of information with the printer controller.

Abstract: An ejecting apparatus includes an ejection control unit configured to cause a first ejecting unit among ejecting units (301) configured to move in a main-scanning direction, to eject a liquid; an irradiating unit (400) divided into a plurality of irradiating blocks (401) in a sub-scanning direction; an irradiation control unit configured to turn off an irradiating block corresponding to the first ejecting unit. A first distance (Y) between a downstream end of the first ejecting unit in the sub-scanning direction and an upstream end of an irradiating block is larger than a second distance (C) by which the irradiating block irradiates a recording medium outside from an end of an emission surface of the irradiator block in the sub-scanning direction. The irradiation control unit is configured to cure the liquid by causing the irradiating block positioned downstream of the turned-off irradiating block corresponding to the first ejecting unit, to emit the activation energy ray.

Abstract: In one example, a printing material cartridge includes a container to contain a printing material and a memory to enable an exchange of information between the cartridge and a printer controller when the cartridge is installed in a printer. The memory includes a write once then read only first memory address, a write once then read only memory second memory address, and a memory controller to control data storage and retrieval to and from the first and second memory addresses and to control the exchange of information with the printer controller. The second memory address has information to prompt the printer controller to write a printer fleet identifier to the first memory address.

Abstract: Provided is an ink jet printer including an electromagnetic wave generator that includes an electromagnetic wave generation section, a high-frequency voltage generation section, a transmission line, an ink jet head, and a control section. The electromagnetic wave generation section includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first coil coupled to the first electrode or the second electrode in series, an impedance matching circuit constituted by a second coil and a capacitor coupled between the first coil and the high-frequency source. A thin ink film discharged from the ink jet head and attached to the recording medium is heated and dried by the electromagnetic wave generator. The control section controls a constant of the second coil or a constant of the capacitor of the impedance matching circuit according to information on the thin ink film.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head and a window. The liquid discharge head discharges a liquid onto a recording medium to form an image. The window is near the liquid discharge head. The image on the recording medium is visually recognizable through the window.

Abstract: A contact member (4) includes a surface containing a fluororesin fiber layer containing a fluororesin fiber, wherein the surface contacts a contact-target member (6) having an area to which a liquid composition is applied and the fluororesin fiber layer has a thickness of 500 pm or more.

Abstract: This light irradiation device is provided with: an LED substrate, on which a plurality of LED chips that emit ultraviolet light are arrayed in a first direction; and a cover capable of transmitting the ultraviolet light emitted from the LED chips. When a plane, on which an intersection point that the light emitted from the LED chips positioned at both ends in the first direction reach is positioned, said plane being parallel to an LED substrate surface, is specified as a reference plane Z1, the distance between the LED substrate surface and the reference plane Z1 is represented by D (mm), and the distance between the LED substrate surface and a cover outer surface is represented by W (mm), W satisfies formula W<D.

Abstract: In some examples, a fluid ejection device includes a nozzle to dispense fluid, and a recirculation controller to control recirculating of the nozzle. The recirculation controller is to receive, from a fluid ejection controller, an indication corresponding to a start of a sampling time interval, determine, during the sampling time interval, whether a firing event corresponding to firing of the nozzle has occurred, and in response to determining that the firing event has not occurred, cause activation of a recirculation pump to recirculate fluid through a chamber of the nozzle.

Abstract: Power allocation in printing devices is disclosed. Independent load requests are received from printing device heater systems. Power grants are allocated based on a general power arbitration of a power source in response to the independent load requests. A power grant is adjusted based on a contextual printing condition to provide an adjusted grant from the power source to a printing device heater system of the printing device heater systems. The adjusted grant is based on a power grant limit corresponding with the contextual printing condition.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head having a supply port to which a liquid is supplied and a discharge port from which the liquid is discharged includes a pressurization chamber communicating with one of the supply port and the discharge port, a nozzle for discharging the liquid pressurized in the pressurization chamber, a first flow path extending in a first direction between the pressurization chamber and the nozzle, and a second flow path communicating with the other of the supply port and the discharge port, branching from the first flow path, and extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction. The first flow path includes a downstream first flow path close to the nozzle and an upstream first flow path closer to the pressurization chamber than the downstream first flow path, and a central axis of the downstream first flow path is positioned further in a third direction, which is an opposite direction from the second direction, than a central axis of the upstream first flow path.

Abstract: A printing apparatus is provided in which at least one type of a printing medium is usable, the printing apparatus including a surface treatment unit configured to modify, by varying an output therefrom, a surface state of the printing medium to a plurality of modified states, a head configured to discharge at least one type of an ink of ultraviolet-curable type onto the printing medium having the surface state modified by the surface treatment unit thereby forming an image, an ultraviolet irradiation unit configured to irradiate with an ultraviolet ray the printing medium on which the image is formed by the head, thereby curing the ink, a storage unit configured to store a relationship between the output from the surface treatment unit and the modified state, and a control unit configured to control the output from the surface treatment unit, based on the relationship stored in the storage unit.