Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a drying unit that includes a bring-in port where a medium is brought in and a bring-out port where the medium is brought out, and dries ink applied onto the medium, and in a case in which printing is temporarily stopped and a predetermined maintenance work is performed, the medium is transported in a transporting direction which is a direction toward the bring-out port from the bring-in port in a maintenance work period from starting of the maintenance work to finishing of the maintenance work or in a partial period of the maintenance work period.

Abstract: A nozzle plate includes a nozzle open to one surface of the nozzle plate to eject ink, and a diamond-like carbon (DLC) layer disposed adjacent to the one surface. The DLC layer has surface irregularities including recesses and protrusions. The protrusions adjoining one another have ends to be in contact with the ink. The ends are located at mutually different positions in a direction intersecting the one surface.

Abstract: A capping assembly includes a capper having a perimeter seal for sealing engagement with the printhead. The capping assembly has an enclosed capping volume when the capper is sealingly engaged with the printhead, whereby the capping volume is variable in response to relative differences in pressures inside and outside the capping volume.

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 printing apparatus includes a printing section, an imaging section, a color measurement section, and a discharge amount upper limit determining section. The imaging section is configured to capture an image of a test medium on which a test pattern has been printed. The color measurement section is configured to execute color measurement on the test medium. The discharge amount upper limit determining section is configured to determine an upper limit of an amount of ink to be discharged based on at least one of a color saturation suppression upper limit calculated based on color measurement information of the test medium obtained by the color measurement section and at least one of an overflowing suppression upper limit, a bleeding suppression upper limit, and an aggregation suppression upper limit calculated based on imaging information of the test medium obtained by the imaging section.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an inkjet head, a head base, a conveyance unit, and a rotation mechanism. The inkjet head ejects ink on to a sheet. The inkjet head is fixed to the head base. The conveyance unit faces the inkjet head and conveys the sheet. The rotation mechanism rotates the head base and the conveyance unit around an axis perpendicular to a sheet conveyance surface of the conveyance unit while maintaining a constant relative position of the head base to the conveyance unit.

Abstract: A drone printer configured to print an image on a destination surface includes a flying management module (FMM) and a printing system (PS). The FMM comprises a positioning system configured to detect position of the drone printer in 3-Dimensional (3D) space, and generate a rendering flight plan (RFP) in the 3D space, said RFP being representative of routing path that the drone printer is to follow during printing of the image on the destination surface; and a stabilizer system configured to stabilize the drone printer in the 3D space during any or a combination of flying, aerial manoeuvring, and homing. The PS can include at least one colorant tank; and at least one printing device configured to draw colorant from the at least one colorant tank, and apply the colorant on the destination surface so as to print the image along at least a part of the RFP.

Abstract: A multi-pass UV inkjet printer for outputting high glossy varnish and a printing method using the same includes providing a side UV light irradiation device at a side of an inkjet module and a front UV light irradiation device in front of the inkjet module not overlapped by a varnish print head. During output of the varnish, varnish outputted on a substrate in the nth pass is passed under the side UV light irradiation device with a lower UV irradiation power during or after the n+1th pass performed by the UV inkjet printer for shaping or temporarily not curing, and then during or after the next pass, the varnish is passed under the front UV light irradiation device with a higher UV irradiation power for complete curing, thereby increasing production yield.

Abstract: Ejection device for fluid, comprising a solid body including: first semiconductor body including a chamber for containing the fluid, an ejection nozzle in fluid connection with the chamber, and an actuator operatively connected to the chamber to generate, in use, one or more pressure waves in the fluid such as to cause ejection of the fluid from the ejection nozzle; and a second semiconductor body including a channel for feeding the fluid to the chamber, coupled to the first semiconductor body, in such a way that the channel is in fluid connection with the chamber. The second semiconductor body integrates a damping cavity over which extends a damping membrane, the damping cavity and the damping membrane extending laterally to the channel for feeding the fluid.

Abstract: A cutting portion (cutting device) includes a fixed blade that extends in an intersecting direction (X axis direction) intersected with a transport direction transporting a roll paper, and a round blade that cuts the roll paper by relatively moving in the intersecting direction (X axis direction) with respect to the fixed blade in a state of being abutted on the fixed blade, in which the fixed blade extends over a portion of a range where the round blade relatively moves, and the round blade is in a separation state of being separated from the fixed blade in the transport direction when entering a region facing the fixed blade (cutting operation region) from a region not facing the fixed blade (standby region).

Abstract: A machine arrangement sequentially processes sheet-like substrates with multiple different processing stations each having a substrate-guiding unit and a substrate-processing unit. At least one of the processing stations has, as a substrate-processing unit, at least one non-impact printing device which prints on the substrate. The processing station with the at least one non-impact printing device has a printing cylinder. Each non-impact printing device is arranged at the circumference of the printing cylinder. The printing cylinder is triple-sized or quadruple-sized. A double-sized or a triple-sized transfer drum, or a corresponding feed cylinder, is arranged directly upstream of this printing cylinder. Alternatively, a double-sized or a triple-sized transfer drum, or a corresponding transfer cylinder, is arranged directly downstream of this printing cylinder.

Abstract: A method for printing a print control strip onto a sheet of printing material. The print control strip is divided into strip sections and the strip sections are printed into gripper gaps at the leading sheet edge and/or the trailing sheet edge of the sheet. In a variant embodiment, there is also printed a print control strip onto two sheets of printing material. The print control strip is divided into at least two portions of respective strip sections and the strip sections of a first portion and of a second portion are printed into respective gripper gaps at at least one sheet edge of a first sheet and of a second sheet, respectively. Waste production is eliminated or at least reduced and costs are thus lowered.

Abstract: A tank, including a case, has a pair of lateral walls separated in a first direction with the tank in a usable posture, a first 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 liquid, a first communicating port rendering communication between the first and second chambers, and a second communicating port rendering communication between the second chamber and the liquid channel. If the first and second chambers retain the liquid at the maximum amount retainable in the tank in the usable posture, then with the tank in a 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 liquid level at the maximum amount.

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 a plurality of lamps, each lamp of the plurality of lamps having a longitudinal axis arranged in a direction parallel to the process direction and adjacent to the transport system, wherein the plurality of lamps are equidistantly positioned substantially across a cross process width of the transport system.

Abstract: A winding device includes a winding shaft that rotates and winds a print medium conveyed from a printing device having a conveyance roller that conveys the print medium, a gear, and a motor driving the conveyance roller and the gear. The winding device also includes a power transfer mechanism to connect to the gear and transfer power to the motor, and a lever disposed between the winding shaft and the conveyance roller in a conveyance path in a configuration in which the winding device is connected to the printing device. The lever may be moved between a first position in which the print medium bends and a second position in which the print medium bends at a shallower angle than at the first position.

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 drying unit includes: an irradiation portion that radiates laser light to a recording medium being fed in a predetermined feeding direction, so as to evaporate moisture of liquid droplets adhering to the recording medium; a supply portion that blows and supplies air to a space between the irradiation portion and the recording medium through and outlet from a position at a downstream side of the irradiation portion in the feeding direction; an absorption portion that absorbs at least a part of the air flowing to an upstream side in the feeding direction along the recording medium in a position at an upstream side of the irradiation portion in the feeding direction; and a suction guide unit as defined herein.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a liquid ejecting head chip includes an actuator plate and an in-channel electrode. In the actuator plate, a plurality of channels are arranged at a distance in an X-direction. Each of the channels includes an extension portion and a raise-and-cut portion. The extension portion extends in a Z-direction. The raise-and-cut portion continues from the extension portion toward one side of the Z-direction and has a groove depth which is gradually reduced toward the one side of the Z-direction. The in-channel electrode is formed on an inner surface of each of the channels, with a plating film.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a feeding roller, a rear feeding unit being provided on a rear side of the apparatus, and a medium reversing unit provided below a medium support section and including a reversing roller. At least a part of a rear side of the rear feeding unit forms a medium transport path in which the medium is transported by the reversing roller, the rear feeding unit includes a driven roller configured to nip the medium with the reversing roller therebetween, and at least a part of the driven roller is located in a roller accommodating space formed on a rear side of the medium support section.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a drive element, a drive circuit that outputs a signal for driving the drive element, and a wiring board. The wiring board is provided with a power supply wire through which power is supplied to the drive circuit, a first drive signal wire through which a first drive signal is supplied to the drive circuit, and a second drive signal wire through which a second drive signal is supplied to the drive circuit and that is not electrically connected to the power supply wire and the first drive signal wire on the wiring board, each of the first drive signal wire and the second drive signal wire is provided with a buried wire that is buried in a groove, and the first drive signal wire and the second drive signal wire are different from each other in number of the buried wires.