Abstract: An example of an inkjet ink for textile printing includes a polycarbodiimide, a pigment, a sulfonated polyester-polyurethane binder, and a liquid vehicle. Examples of the inkjet ink may be used in textile printing kits and printing methods with a textile fabric. Examples of the textile fabric may be selected from the group consisting of cotton, polyester, nylon, and silk.

Abstract: A microfluidic device including a fluid ejection channel defined by a fluid barrier and an orifice, or nozzle, for containing and/or passing fluids, and further including micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and/or electronic circuitry may be fabricated on a silicon substrate and included in a fluid ejection system. Various microfabrication techniques used for fabricating semiconductor devices may be used to manufacture such microfluidic devices.

Abstract: In a printing apparatus, in a first mode a head ejects a first type of liquid onto a printing medium and an energy applying device applies energy to the first type of liquid to form a background, and subsequently the head ejects a second type of liquid onto the background and the energy applying device applies energy to the second type of liquid on the background so that an image is formed on the background. In a second mode the head ejects the second type of liquid onto the printing medium without forming a background, and the energy applying device applies energy to the second type of liquid. The controller performs setting a quantity of the second type of liquid to be used in the first mode, to be greater than a quantity of the second type of liquid to be used in the second mode.

Abstract: A direct to shape (DTS) printer including a plurality of inkjet print head channels configured to deposit ink on an external surface of the vessel and a pinning lamp configured to provide light having a first peak power density to at least partially cure the ink deposited on the surface of the vessel is disclosed. The DTS printer can also include a rotary drive assembly configured to rotate the vessel relative to the plurality of inkjet print head channels, and a final curing lamp configured to provide light having a second peak power density to fully cure the ink deposited on the surface of the vessel.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a plurality of head chips having nozzles; a holder holding the plurality of head chips; and a planar heater disposed on the holder and heating the holder, in which the heater includes an outer peripheral region along an outer edge of the holder and a middle region positioned inside the outer peripheral region in a plan view, and a heat generation amount per unit time of the outer peripheral region is larger than a heat generation amount per unit time of the middle region.

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a conveyor configured to convey a recording medium in a first direction; a discharging head configured to discharge an ultraviolet light-curable clear ink to the recording medium; an ultraviolet irradiator configured to irradiate, with ultraviolet light, the clear ink discharged to the recording medium, and arranged at a position different from the discharging head in the first direction; and a carriage configured to move in a second direction crossing the first direction, and having the discharging head and the ultraviolet irradiator mounted thereon.

Abstract: A deposition device is described. The deposition device has a substrate support and an imaging system disposed to image a portion of a substrate positioned on the substrate support. The imaging system comprises an LED light source and an imaging unit, and is coupled to a deposition assembly disposed across the substrate support.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a first ejection unit, a processing tray, a blower unit, a control unit, and a post-processing unit. The first ejection unit ejects a medium recorded by ejection of a liquid. On the processing tray, the medium ejected by the first ejection unit is stacked. The blower unit blows air to the medium stacked on the processing tray. The control unit controls the blower unit. The post-processing unit post-processes the medium stacked on the processing tray. Based on processing information about processing performed on the medium, the control unit changes a blowing amount at which the blower unit blows air.

Abstract: A printer includes a platen, a head, and an irradiation device. The platen is configured to support a printing object and to move the printing object in a first scanning direction. The head is configured to move in a second scanning direction relative to the printing object. The second scanning direction crosses the first scanning direction. The head ejects light-curable ink onto the printing object. The irradiation device is configured to move in the second scanning direction relative to the printing object. The irradiation device irradiates light onto the light-curable ink deposited on the printing object. The irradiation device includes a first light source configured to emit light having a first wavelength, and a second light source configured to emit light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. The first and second light sources are disposed on one side of the head in the second scanning direction.

Abstract: A conveyance device includes a conveyor that conveys a sheet. A ventilator sends air to the sheet conveyed by the conveyor in a predetermined region. A controller controls the ventilator to change an air capacity of the air at a time when a leading end of the sheet in a sheet conveyance direction is in the predetermined region and at a time when the leading end of the sheet is past the predetermined region.

Abstract: A printing apparatus 1 includes a pretreatment unit 4 that applies a processing liquid containing a polar material to a fabric M, a printing unit 5 that applies ink containing a color material to the fabric M applied with the processing liquid, and an AC electric field generator 62 that generates an AC electric field. The AC electric field generator 62 includes a first electrodes 71 and a second electrode 72 that face the fabric M and that are disposed adjacent to each other, a high-frequency voltage generator 77 that generates a high-frequency voltage to be applied to the first electrodes 71 and the second electrode 72, and a conductors 73 that electrically connects the first electrodes 71 and the second electrode 72 to the high-frequency voltage generator 77.

Abstract: A method for determining print defects in a printing operation carried out on an inkjet printing machine for processing a print job includes using a camera system to record and digitize printed products generated during the printing operation, feeding the camera image having been thus generated to a detection algorithm on the computer, alerting a machine control unit when print defects are found, and ejecting the printed product through a waste ejector if necessary. The detection algorithm separates color separations of the camera images, detects the print defects in the color separations, links images of the individual color separations to form a candidate image, filters the candidate image, enters the remaining detected print defects into a list, and forwards the list to the machine control unit of the printing machine.

Abstract: A printer includes a head, a lamp, a first sensor, and a processor. The head is configured to eject photocurable ink onto the object to be printed supported by a platen. The lamp is configured to irradiate light onto the object to be printed on which the ink is ejected. The first sensor is provided inside the printer, and is configured to detect a temperature inside the printer. The processor causes the first sensor to acquire the temperature inside the printer. The processor acquires, based on the print data, a duty ratio indicating a printing ratio when ejecting the ink onto an ejection region of the object to be printed. The processor sets an illuminance of the light irradiated by the lamp, based on the temperature acquired by the first sensor and the acquired duty ratio.

Abstract: A heating device includes a blower configured to blow air, the blower comprising a channel member defining a channel of the air, and a heater disposed outside the channel member. The channel member has end portions and a central portion in a longitudinal direction, each of the end portions having higher heat absorption property than the central portion, and said each of end portions of the channel member faces the heater.

Abstract: A printing apparatus that performs a first control of performing discharge of ultraviolet curable ink from a printing head and irradiation of ultraviolet rays from an ultraviolet irradiation unit while performing a first movement along a main scanning direction and a second movement along a sub scanning direction from a print start position side to a print end position side, and a second control of performing irradiation of ultraviolet rays from the ultraviolet irradiation unit without performing discharge of ultraviolet curable ink from the printing head while performing the first movement and the second movement from the print end position side to the print start position side, and in which a movement speed of the first movement in the second control is faster than a movement speed of the first movement in the first control.

Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus including: head configured to discharge a photo-curing liquid to a medium; irradiator configured to irradiate a curing light to cure the photo-curing liquid; distance measurer including first light emitter configured to emit a ranging light to measure a distance to the medium, and first light receiver configured to receive the ranging light; and casing housing the head, the irradiator and the distance measurer, and having a window through which an inside of the casing is visually perceptible. First filter is provided on the window, the first filter having a function of restraining transmission of the curing light more compared to transmission of a visible light. Second filter is provided on the first light receiver, the second filter having a function of restraining transmission of the visible light more compared to transmission of the ranging light.

Abstract: A drying device that dries a medium being transported, the drying device includes a support that supports a medium being transported, an AC electric field generation unit that generates an AC electric field, a detector that detects an amount of moisture contained in the medium, and a control unit, wherein the AC electric field generation unit has first electrode and second electrodes disposed adjacent to each other and facing the medium supported by the support, a high-frequency voltage generator that generates a high-frequency voltage at the first and second electrodes, and a conductor that electrically couples the first electrode and the second electrode to the high-frequency voltage generator, and the detector is disposed at least one of downstream or upstream of the first and second electrodes in a transporting direction, and the control unit controls the AC electric field generation unit in accordance with a detection result of the detector.

Abstract: An ink heating device, which is incorporated in an inkjet printing apparatus, includes: a planar heating member bonded in a state where one surface of the planar heating member is thermally bonded to an outer surface of an ink tank storing ink; an elastic member, having a heat insulation property, is provided on the other surface of the planar heating member and presses the planar heating member against the ink tank; and a hardware processor that performs heating control on the planar heating member in a stepwise manner according to a stop time of a main body of the printing apparatus at a time of starting the main body of the printing apparatus.

Abstract: A flow channel member includes a first flow channel member non-transmissive of ultraviolet light and absorbent of laser light, a second flow channel member non-transmissive of ultraviolet light and absorbent of laser light, the second flow channel member being stacked on the first flow channel member to define a flow channel for liquid to flow between the second flow channel member and the first flow channel member, and a third flow channel member transmissive of laser light, the third flow channel member being fixed to the first flow channel member and the second flow channel member in such a manner as to close a gap between the first flow channel member and the second flow channel member.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a thin film structure includes printing, using an electrohydrodynamic jet (e-jet) printing apparatus, a first layer comprising a first liquid ink, such that the first layer is supported by a substrate, curing the first layer; printing, using the e-jet printing apparatus, a second layer comprising a second liquid ink, such that the second layer is supported by the first layer, and curing the second layer.