Abstract: A print engine includes: a media support chassis having a plurality of guide rollers mounted between opposite sidewalls thereof, the plurality of guide rollers defining a curved media feed path; a plurality of spittoons, each spittoon being positioned between a neighboring pair of guide rollers and each spittoon having an upper guide portion; and a plurality of printheads, each printhead opposing a respective spittoon. The upper guide portion of each spittoon has an upstream leading edge sloped towards the media feed path and a downstream trailing edge sloped away from the media feed path.

Abstract: A printer includes a platen that supports a print medium, an ejection head that ejects a liquid as a droplet toward the supported print medium, a carriage that mounts the ejection head, a guide shaft that movably supports the carriage, a first frame, and a second frame disposed opposite to the first frame. One end portion of the guide shaft is fixed to the first frame and another end portion of the guide shaft is fixed to the second frame. One end portion of the platen in a direction along the guide shaft is fixed to the first frame and another end portion of the platen in the direction along the guide shaft is fixed to the second frame.

Abstract: An example system includes an imaging device and a consumable storage unit. The imaging device includes at least one consumable used in operation of the imaging device and a controller. The consumable storage unit includes at least one cavity to store a replacement consumable therein. The replacement consumable is inaccessible for use in operation of the imaging device. The controller is communicatively coupled to the consumable storage unit to receive a signal indicative of presence or absence of replacement consumable in the consumable storage unit.

Abstract: A drying device includes a first-heating rotator configured to contact a sheet twice from different directions, and at least three second-heating rotators each configured to contact the sheet once. The at least three second-heating rotators are in a conveyance path configured to guide the sheet to contact the first-heating rotator again after the sheet contacts and passes the first-heating rotator.

Abstract: Provided is a photo printer including: a paper supply unit for accommodating stacked sheets of paper and having a pickup roller protruding from a bottom surface thereof; a platen roller provided at a front end of the paper supply unit; a head provided above the platen roller so as to form an image on the paper fed; a motor for providing a driving force to the platen roller; deceleration gears for decreasing revolutions per minute of the motor; a gear plate provided at one side of the paper supply unit and having the deceleration gears shaft-coupled thereto; and a motor plate having an aligning hole adapted to pass the shaft of the deceleration gear therethrough and a motor hole adapted to pass a rotary shaft of the motor therethrough.

Abstract: A cutter device includes a pair of pulleys including a first pulley and a second pulley, an endless belt spanning the pair of pulleys, a holder that holds a movable blade and moves in accordance with a movement of the endless belt, a first sensor configured to detect that a position of the movable blade is at a first position, and a second sensor configured to detect that the position of the movable blade is at a second position. The first sensor and the second sensor are disposed at positions overlapping with the holder in an up-down direction. The holder includes a first arm protruding toward the first position and a second arm protruding toward the second position. The first arm faces the first sensor when the holder is at the first position, and the second arm faces the second sensor when the holder is at the second position.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a print head coupled to a substrate to dispense fluid from the substrate in response to a command. A reservoir coupled to the substrate transports the fluid to the print head. A preloaded storage container mounted on the reservoir stores the fluid and provides the fluid to the reservoir in response to pressure applied to the container.

Abstract: A transfer device includes: a first container including a bag portion configured to house liquid; a second container configured to house the liquid transferred from the first container; a transfer unit configured to transfer the liquid from the first container to the second container; and a controller configured to control the transfer unit to intermittently and repeatedly execute a transfer operation of starting transfer of the liquid and then completing the transfer before a side of the bag portion toward the transfer unit transitions to a suction contact state upon transferring the liquid from the first container to the second container.

Abstract: Provided is a tape cutter including a full-receiving portion having a full-receiving blade and a positioning hole, and a full-movable portion having a full-movable blade and a positioning pin, and that comes into contact with or separates from the full-receiving portion. The full-receiving blade and the full-movable blade overlap and rub against each other to cut a tape, and when the full-movable portion moves toward the full-receiving portion, the positioning hole and the positioning pin are engaged with each other, so that the full-receiving blade is positioned with respect to the full-movable blade in a direction in which the full-receiving blade and the full-movable blade overlap.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head including a first-liquid ejecting portion, a second-liquid ejecting portion, a common supply flow path being supplied a liquid from a liquid reservoir, a first-individual supply flow path communicating the common supply flow path and the first-liquid ejecting portion to each other, a second-individual supply flow path communicating the common supply flow path and the second-liquid ejecting portion to each other, a first-filter provided in the first-individual supply flow path, and a second-filter provided in the second-individual supply flow path. In the liquid ejecting head, regarding flow path resistance in the first-individual supply flow path, flow path resistance in the first-filter is the largest, regarding flow path resistance in the second-individual supply flow path, flow path resistance in the second-filter is the largest, and the flow path resistance in the first-filter and the flow path resistance in the second-filter are the same.

Abstract: Methods for fabricating three-dimensional objects by 3D-inkjet printing technology are provided. The methods utilize curable materials that polymerize via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) for fabricating the object. Systems suitable for performing these methods and kits containing modeling material formulations usable in the methods are also provided.

Abstract: A printer and method having a print assembly movable over a print zone, and a controller associated with the print assembly. The printer is capable to receive a second print assembly with an associated second controller. The first controller positions the first print assembly over the print media and to position the second print assembly over the print media. The first controller directs the first print assembly in printing. The second controller to direct the second print assembly in printing.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a supply manifold, a plurality of supply throttle channels, a plurality of pressure chambers, and a plurality of nozzles. The supply manifold includes a supply opening through which liquid is supplied from an exterior. The supply manifold extends in a first direction. Each of the supply throttle channels is connected, at one end thereof, to the supply manifold, and extends in a second direction. Each of the pressure chambers is connected to the other end of a corresponding one of the supply throttle channels, and extends in a third direction different from the first direction. Each of the nozzles communicates with a corresponding one of the pressure chambers. The second direction in which each of the supply throttle channels extends has a component of the first direction and a component of the third direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyor belt for conveying a sheet, a plurality of ink heads for fulfilling printing on the sheet, a sensor whose detection position is a position within a belt zone, a controller for halting the printing upon occurrence of jam, and a notification part for executing a notification process that urges cleaning of the conveyor belt. Upon occurrence of jam, the controller, based on an output signal of the sensor, decides for each one of the plurality of ink heads whether or not an ink head is a sheet-nonarrival head where an in-zone sheet has not yet arrived at a gap between the ink head and the conveyor belt, and given that there is no such sheet-nonarrival head, the controller keeps the notification part from executing the notification process.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for printing and drying inks on substrates. Printing systems may include a metering device positioned between a printing station and a light source. During operation, the printing station deposits ink onto a substrate to define a printed region. And the light source directs infrared light onto the substrate to define an illumination zone. The printed region is advanced from the printing station to the metering device and from the metering device through the illumination zone, wherein the ink is dried with infrared light traveling from the light source, which also heats the substrate and changes the modulus of elasticity of the substrate. In turn, the metering device isolates the printing station from the change in the modulus of elasticity to help reduce phase shifts caused by changes in the modulus of elasticity resulting from heat in the substrate.

Abstract: A control portion sets, as a head line of test mask data, such a read pixel line of a plurality of read pixel lines of read data obtained by a reading portion by performing reading, the plurality of read pixel lines being orthogonal to the sheet conveyance direction, as is located at a position upstream of a read pixel line of the plurality of read pixel lines as is read at a time when a detection portion detects a leading end of the sheet, by a number of lines calculated by adding an initial number of offset lines to a reference number of lines, and sets, as a non mask region, a sheet read region of the test mask data, and replaces, with white pixels, pixels outside such a region of test image data as corresponds to the non mask region.

Abstract: An ink mist recovery device allows suction of ink mist with uniform suction force irrespective of a position on a confronting sheet. The ink mist recovery device includes a recovery casing having multiple suction ports confronting a sheet, and a suction unit connected to the recovery casing. At least one of a size of each of the suction ports and a first suction distance from each of the suction ports to a suction slit is set in accordance with a second suction distance from the suction unit to the suction slit via each of the suction ports so that the suction force is kept uniform at the respective positions on the sheet corresponding to the suction ports. The mist suction force is made uniform over the entire width of the suction slit to improve quality of the printed image without sucking ink droplets required to land.

Abstract: A head pressurizing mechanism in which in a state in which a first tape cartridge is mounted, a first contact pin is positioned at a first switching position in which the first contact pin comes in contact with a pressure receiving portion provided on a side of a thermal head opposite a platen roller, and in a state in which the second tape cartridge is mounted, by pushing the pressurizing position switching portion in a mounting direction with the second tape cartridge, a second contact pin is positioned at a second switching position in which the second contact pin comes in contact with the pressure receiving portion at, with respect to the first switching position, a portion in a direction opposite the mounting direction.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to reduce density unevenness and streaks of an image that is printed in a case where it is not possible to implement sufficient correction only by the correction for a defective nozzle. One embodiment of the present invention is an image processing apparatus that performs processing for an input image for an image forming apparatus performing printing on a printing medium by using a print head in which a plurality of printing elements is arrayed, the image processing apparatus including: a storage unit configured to store density characteristic information indicating an output density for each tone for each of the printing elements; a target value acquisition unit configured to acquire a target characteristic indicating a target value for each tone; and a first correction unit configured to correct the input image based on the density characteristic information and the target value.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing decorative panels includes selecting a paper with a paper weight between 50 g/m2 and 130 g/m2 and a porosity according to Gurley's method between 8 and 20 seconds; selecting a wood pattern; generating a selection mask representing one or more wood nerves; one or more wood pores, and/or one or more wood imperfections from the wood pattern, by image analyzing the wood pattern; and supplying the wood pattern and the selection mask to an inkjet print head unit for forming a decorative layer. The inkjet print head unit includes a plurality of nozzles and the method further includes determining a set of nozzles from the plurality of nozzles based on an inactivity of a nozzle by calculating an inactivity-duration for the nozzles and by comparing the calculated inactivity-duration to a threshold value; wherein a part of the selection mask is formed with the determined set of nozzles.