Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head configured to discharge a liquid onto a medium being transported in a transport direction, a platen disposed facing the recording head, and supporting the medium at a front face side, and a reinforcing member of a plate-like shape supporting the platen, in which the reinforcing member includes a first plate portion having a first face facing a back face of the platen, and a second plate portion bent, with respect to the first plate portion, in a direction intersecting the transport direction and opposite to the platen, in which a convex portion protruding from a side of the first face toward the platen is provided at an edge portion of a bent section between the first plate portion and the second plate portion, and the platen is supported at a top portion of the convex portion.

Abstract: Examples include a fluid ejection device. The fluid ejection device includes at least one fluid ejection die coupled to a support structure and having a die length and a die width. The at least one fluid ejection die may include a plurality of nozzles arranged along the die length and a die width. The plurality of nozzles is arranged such that at least one pair of neighboring nozzles are positioned at different die width positions along the width of the fluid ejection die. The at least one fluid ejection die further includes a plurality of ejection chambers including a respective ejection chamber fluidically coupled to each respective nozzle. The at least one fluid ejection die further includes an array of fluid feed holes. The array of fluid feed holes includes at least one fluid feed hole fluidically coupled to each respective ejection chamber.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a printing engine, a paddle device, a stapler device, and a processor. The printing engine is to form an image on a printing paper. The paddle device is to move the printing paper ejected from the printing engine in a moving direction to align a first end of the printing paper. The stapler device is to staple the align printing paper. The processor is to control the paddle device and the stapler device to move a second end of the aligned printing paper in an opposite direction to the moving direction when the first end of the printing paper is aligned.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to acquire a first characteristic value indicating a shape characteristic of a surface of a medium, and calculate, based on the first characteristic value, a penetration degree of a droplet into the medium.

Abstract: A method and a printer for aligning leading edge of a printable receipt to print position of a printer is described. The printer includes a sensor placed proximal to a cutter position. The sensor generates a first signal in response to a printable receipt blocking the sensor. Upon detection of first signal from the sensor, a backward feed signal is provided to a first motor until the first signal is stopped to roll the printable receipt into a print receipt roller. Further, a forward feed signal is provided to the first motor to unroll printable receipt from the print receipt roller until a second signal is received from the sensor on blocking by the printable receipt. Upon detection of the second signal, an automatic fixed backward feed signal is provided to the first motor to align the leading edge of the printable receipt in the print position thereby avoiding wastage of printable receipt.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit that performs printing on a print medium with a sheet shape, a medium feeding unit and a medium winding unit that conveys the print medium in a predetermined conveyance direction, a controller that controls the printing unit, the medium feeding unit, and the medium winding unit, and a shaft that winds the printed print medium. The controller includes a cutting position determination unit that determines a cutting position to cut and separate the print medium in the width direction upstream by a predetermined length from the end of the image of the first print surface in the conveyance direction, and the cutting position determination unit determines the cutting position so as to cut upstream from the end with an increase in the circumferential length of the print medium wound around the shaft.

Abstract: A printer comprises at least one longitudinal cutter module to cut a print medium in a longitudinal direction with respect to a print media advance direction. The printer comprises a controller to position the longitudinal cutter module along a direction perpendicular to the print media advance direction. The controller is to receive a full-bleed print job and in response to receive print job to position the at least one cutter module along the direction perpendicular to the print media advance direction. The longitudinal cutter module is positioned by the controller to longitudinally cut the print medium.

Abstract: A method of marking an optical fiber is disclosed, wherein the method includes forming an ink stream, moving an optical fiber over a fiber path that resides adjacent the ink stream, and periodically changing the position of the fiber path so that the optical fiber at least partially enters the ink stream so that the ink from the ink stream forms spaced apart marks on the outer surface of the optical fiber. An optical fiber marking apparatus is also disclosed that includes payout and take modules that move the optical fiber over the fiber path, a marking unit configured to form an ink stream adjacent the fiber path, and a fiber positioning device that causes the optical fiber to periodically intersect the ink stream so that ink from the ink stream forms spaced apart marks on the outer surface of the optical fiber.

Abstract: Digital printing device having a print media advancement system, and comprising: a sliding surface (3) of the print media, arranged at a printing area with above a printing module of the digital printing device; means for dragging (4) the print media, arranged downstream and/or upstream the printing area and arranged to make the print media advance in an advancement direction (x) above said sliding surface (3); wherein said sliding surface (3) comprises blowing portions (35) destined to realize an air cushion between sliding surface and print media (100). The sliding surface further comprises at least a suction portion (30), arranged to realise a depression by locally putting the print media near said sliding surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveyance portion, a recording portion, a sheet detection portion, and a control portion. In a duplex printing including a first and a second process of printing on a first surface and a second surface of the sheet, in the first process, the control portion calculates a center position of the sheet based on an edge position of the sheet on one side in the width direction and size information of the sheet, prints a first image on the first surface such that the first image is centered on the center position calculated, and prints a reference marker on the first surface. In the second process, the control portion calculates a correction magnification ratio based on a difference between a reading position and the printing position of the reference marker, and corrects a size and a printing position of a second image.

Abstract: A fluid reservoir (100) includes a circuit (105) extending in the fluid reservoir to be at least partially in contact with fluid (120) inside the fluid reservoir during use, at least a first impedance sensor (110) and second impedance sensor (115) coupled to the circuit, wherein the at least first and second impedance sensors are to output impedance values indicative of a degree of particle separation in the fluid.

Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a printer, a supporting member having a sheet-like shape and configured to support a discharged medium, and a winding unit configured to wind the supporting member and move with respect to the printer. The winding unit has a first case and a second case that rotatably support a winding shaft, and a placement portion placed at a flat surface. The first case and the second case in a state where axis lines of respective bearing portions that support the winding shaft are aligned with each other and in a state of being held so as to be mutually non-rotatable in a plane orthogonal to an axis line of the winding shaft, and when the winding unit is installed on a flat surface, the placement portion contacts the flat surface.

Abstract: An adjusting method for a printing apparatus includes a head configured onto perform printing on a medium, a winding shaft configured to wind thereon the transported medium, a shaft adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a position of the winding shaft, and a notification part configured to provide a notification, the method including a printing step for printing a scale onto the medium, a transporting step for transporting the scale to the winding shaft, an image-capturing step for image-capturing the scale, which is transported to the winding shaft, at two different locations of the medium in a direction along an axis of the winding shaft, a notification step for providing to the notification part a notification about a result based on a captured image of the scale, and an adjustment step for adjusting a position of the winding shaft in accordance with a result notified to the notification part.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink jetter that jets ink and a transfer unit that has a ring-shaped intermediate transfer body. The transfer unit transfers, to a recording medium, a primary image formed on an outer circumferential surface of the intermediate transfer body with the ink that is jetted to land on the outer circumferential surface by the ink jetter. The transfer unit includes a heater that heats air in an internal space of the intermediate transfer body enclosed by an inner circumferential surface of the intermediate transfer body, and an air mover that flows the air in the internal space.

Abstract: Examples include a fluid ejection die having a die length and a die width. The fluid ejection die may include a plurality of nozzles arranged along the die length and a die width. The plurality of nozzles is arranged such that at least one pair of neighboring nozzles are positioned at different die width positions along the width of the fluid ejection die. The example fluid ejection die further includes a plurality of ejection chambers including a respective ejection chamber fluidically coupled to each respective nozzle. The fluid ejection die further includes an array of fluid feed holes. The array of fluid feed holes includes a first respective fluid feed hole fluidically coupled to each respective ejection chamber, and the array of fluid feed holes includes a second respective fluid feed hole fluidically coupled to each respective ejection chamber.

Abstract: An intermediate unit includes a transportation path along which a medium, on which printing has been performed by a printing unit that performs printing on the medium by using liquid, is transported to a post processing unit that performs post processing on the medium. The transportation path is provided with a drying unit that accelerates the drying of the medium. The drying unit is driven according to the printing data.

Abstract: With a cover in a closed position, a first internal gear and a first spur gear do not mesh with each other, and a second internal gear and a second spur gear do not mesh with each other. When the cover rotates by a predetermined angle around a first support shaft from the closed position, the first internal gear and the first spur gear start to mesh with each other. When the cover rotates by a predetermined angle around a second support shaft from the closed position, the second internal gear and the second spur gear start to mesh with each other.

Abstract: The invention relates to a direct printing device for applying a circumferential print onto containers with at least one container seam, comprising a printhead which is configured to print directly onto a container, a detection device which is adapted such that at least one predetermined feature of the container is detected, a computing device which is configured to determine whether and possibly how the container is to be oriented in order to be moved from an actual container orientation to a predetermined target container orientation, and an orientation device which is configured to orient the container to the target container orientation on the basis of the determination by the computing device. The target container orientation is predetermined such that the container seam is oriented relative to the printhead such that a print seam, which is produced during the application of a circumferential print, substantially coincides with the container seam.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming device forming an image on an image forming medium based on image data; a medium reading device acquiring, on a conveyance path, medium image data representing the image forming medium; an abnormality detector using the image data to generate contrast image region data for specifying an image formation target region that is a region targeted for image formation, using the medium image data to generate contrast medium region data for specifying an image formation permitted region that is a region on the image forming medium where the image formation is enabled, and detecting, as an abnormal region, the image formation target region present outside of the image formation permitted region or a region corresponding to deficiency present within the image formation permitted region; and an abnormality related information output device using the medium image data to output abnormality related information.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a first control unit, a light projection unit, a light reception unit, a determination unit, and a liquid ejection head. The first control unit is configured to change a threshold for determining a lifting of a recording medium conveyed along a conveyance path according to thickness of the recording medium. The light projection unit is configured to emit a detection beam for detecting the lifting of the recording medium. The light reception unit is configured to receive the detection beam. The determination unit is configured to determine the lifting of the recording medium, when the recording medium is detected with a height greater than the threshold by the detection beam. The liquid ejection head is configured to eject liquid to the recording medium.