Abstract: A method of printing includes applying a processing fluid to a substrate and inkjet discharging a white ink to the substrate onto which the processing fluid has been applied, wherein the processing fluid contains a tri-valent metal salt, a nonionic urethane resin, and water and the white ink contains a white pigment, a resin, and water.

Abstract: In some examples, a convective gas bar can include a gas inlet to receive supply gas to a first portion of the convective gas bar, feed holes located in the first portion, a nozzle plate located in a second portion of the convective gas bar, where the nozzle plate includes nozzles, and the nozzles are adapted to receive and direct the supply gas from the feed holes through the nozzles.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a rotatable conveying member, and a suction device. The image forming device forms an image on a continuous recording medium. The conveying member has a hollow drum shape. The conveying member conveys the continuous recording medium. The suction device is disposed inside the hollow drum shape of the conveying member. The suction device sucks the continuous recording medium through the conveying member in a fixed region in which the continuous recording medium and the conveying member are in contact with each other.

Abstract: There is provided an ultraviolet ray irradiating apparatus configured to cure an ultraviolet-curable ink discharged to an object, by a discharging head which is configured to move in a main scanning direction, in a state that the ultraviolet ray irradiating apparatus is moved in the main scanning direction. The ultraviolet ray irradiating apparatus includes a plurality of light emitting chips configured to emit an ultraviolet ray, the plurality of light emitting chips being arranged side by side with a first pitch in the main scanning direction and being arranged side by side with a second pitch smaller than the first pitch in a sub scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction.

Abstract: An ink jet printing recording apparatus includes a belt which supports a recording medium; a heating portion which heats the belt; and an ink jet recording head which ejects an ink jet ink composition, the belt is provided with an adhesive layer, the ink jet ink composition contains a heat cross-linking component, and the belt is heated by the heating portion to a temperature lower than a reaction temperature of the heat cross-linking component.

Abstract: An ink jet recording device includes the following. A conveyor conveys a recording medium. A recording operator ejects an ink to cause the ink to land on the recording medium in a middle of a conveyance path of the recording medium conveyed by the conveyor. A reverser returns the recording medium from a first position downstream of a landing position of the ink, which is ejected from the recording operator, to a second position upstream of the landing position along the conveyance path. A first temperature regulator that regulates a temperature of the recording medium in at least a part of a region from the second position to the landing position on the conveyance path. A hardware processor causes the recording operator not to eject the ink while the recording medium initially passes through the landing position.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a main storage unit for storing ink, an auxiliary tank, a head supply tank, a main pump, and a first ink amount detector for detecting an amount of the ink stored in the auxiliary tank. The printing apparatus drives the main pump to transport the ink from the main storage unit to the auxiliary tank, measures a time required for the amount of the ink stored in the auxiliary tank to reach a first target amount, and determines a settling state of the ink based on the measured time.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a liquid discharge device, a heating device, and a cassette. In the imaging system, the cassette includes a holder to hold a recording medium and a storage device to store heating-area data indicating a heating area of the recording medium to be heated before an image is printed on the recording medium. Moreover, in the imaging system, the liquid discharge device includes a printing device to discharge liquid onto the recording medium held by the holder to print the image on the recording medium and a writing device to write liquid discharge region data to the storage device, the liquid discharge region data indicating a liquid discharge region of the recording medium onto which the liquid is discharged by the printing device. Further, in the imaging system, the heating device includes a heater to heat the heating area of the recording medium.

Abstract: A fixation/transfer device for control of dye waste in a dye sublimation process. The device comprises a textile inlet, a textile outlet, a heat press or calender, an endless belt for driving the textile from the textile inlet to the textile outlet through the heat press, the heat press being held at a temperature sufficient to cause sublimation of the printing dye, and a cleaning station for cleaning the endless belt, the cleaning station being located downstream of the textile outlet and upstream of the textile outlet. The feed belt may be heated at the cleaning station so that sublimation may assist cleaning.

Abstract: An ink-jet coater and a coating method for improving smoothness of a mixed part where the coating position in the previous scan overlaps the coating position in the next scan includes a robot arm configured to move a nozzle head unit by driving arms via an arm driving mechanism and a coating control unit configured to control driving of the nozzle driving mechanism and driving of the arm driving mechanism to execute coating on the coating object. The coating control unit performs coating by forming, in segmented coating surfaces formed by each scanning of the nozzle head unit, a normal coating region coated with a target coating film thickness and an overlapping coating region coated with a spray amount of the paint less than the normal coating region.

Abstract: A droplet ejection apparatus including a droplet deposition head, actuating circuitry and head controller circuitry. The droplet deposition head having an array of actuating elements and a corresponding array of nozzles. The actuating circuitry applies drive waveforms to the actuating elements causing the ejection of fluid in the form of droplets through the array of nozzles and onto deposition media, which are moved relative to the droplet deposition head. The head controller circuitry is configured to receive an input set of ejection data, generate a series of sub-sets of ejection data based on the input set, and send the series of sub-sets of ejection data to the actuating circuitry. The actuating circuitry is further configured so as to, for each sub-set of ejection data, apply drive waveforms to the actuating elements such that they repeatedly eject droplets from one or more nozzles, thus depositing successive rows of droplets.

Abstract: A pagewide printhead for printing redundantly in four colors. First and second rows of printhead chips are mounted on a common ink manifold having four ink supply channels for supplying four colors of ink to the first and second rows of printhead chips. Dedicated ink outlets interconnect one ink supply channel of the ink manifold with a pair of redundant nozzle rows in each printhead chip.

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: One embodiment can provide a heating system with thermal-visual-servo control. The system can include a heat source configured to emit localized heat to an object, a thermal camera configured to capture thermal images of the object, and a motion-control module coupled to the heat source and configured to control movement and focus of the heat source based on temperature information extracted from the thermal images, thereby facilitating controlled heating of the object.

Abstract: A print supply, the print supply containing a print material and to connect to a printing device to provide the print material to the printing device that includes a container to maintain the print material, an integrated circuit coupled to the box to interface electrically with the printing device, and a load cell communicatively coupled to the integrated circuit to detect a weight of the print liquid supply.

Abstract: In a medium heating device, a medium is conveyed along a conveyance path. A first contact heater contacts a back surface of the medium. A second contact heater is disposed downstream from the first contact heater in a conveyance direction of the medium and contacts the back surface of the medium. A non-contact heater faces the second contact heater across the conveyance path and heats a front surface of the medium at a position separated from the medium on the conveyance path. In an operation period in which the medium is intermittently conveyed on the conveyance path, circuitry supplies power to each of the first contact heater, the second contact heater, and the non-contact heater to generate heat, and the power supplied to the second contact heater is smaller than the power supplied to the first contact heater.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a head which has nozzles configured to discharge a photocurable liquid that is curable by light toward a recording medium, the recording medium including a first base material and a second base material having a surface state different from a surface state of the first base material; a light irradiator which is configured to irradiate the light onto the photocurable liquid disposed on the recording medium; a movement mechanism which is configured to relatively move the recording medium, and the head and the light irradiator in a movement direction; and a controller configured to execute a recording process; an information acquiring process; an irradiation light amount acquiring process; and a first light irradiation process.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a head, a radiation unit, a movement mechanism, and a controller. The controller is configured to: acquire a radiation distance for each of a plurality of areas defined on a surface of a recording medium; control the movement mechanism and the head to discharge the liquid to the surface of the recording medium; and control the radiation unit to radiate the light onto the plurality of the areas of the recording medium so that the longer the radiation distance for each of the plurality of areas, the stronger a light emission intensity of each of the plurality of light sources which faces each of the plurality of areas in the first direction.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a stacking portion on which a recording medium is stacked; a recording portion for recording an image on the recording medium; a heating portion for heating the recording medium recorded by the recording portion; a discharge portion for discharging the recording medium recorded by the recording portion; a first path for conveying the recording medium in order of the stacking portion, the recording portion, the heating portion, and the discharge portion; a second path branching off from the first path between the recording portion and the heating portion, and merging with the first path downstream of the heating portion; and a third path for connecting the second path and a part of the first path between the stacking portion and the recording portion, and inverting a recording surface of the recording medium.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet, a printing unit configured to print an image by discharging ink to the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, a heating unit configured to heat the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit and to which the image has been printed by the printing unit, and a control unit configured to, in a case of double-side printing in which after printing an image on a first side of the sheet, an image is printed on a second side of the sheet, based on an amount of ink discharged for the first side and an amount of ink discharged for the second side, control heating by the heating unit with respect to the second side.