Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus and method for applying writings and other markings to a frozen vial or ampoule, which is filled with biological material, and which is held at temperatures between about ?70° C. and about ?196° C. More particularly, the invention relates to a laser marking method that allows frozen vials to be labeled, while maintaining the integrity of the biological material contained therein.

Abstract: Printer is provided having support base on which print media travels. Printer includes thickness detection module and processor. Thickness detection module includes pinch arm assembly with pinch arm having first and second ends, encoder, and proximate dual channel encoder sensor. First end is biased toward support base. Encoder with number of circumferentially spaced line pairs is disposed at second end. Pinch arm and encoder configured to rotate in response to engagement of pinch arm with at least print media portion. Dual channel encoder sensor configured to detect rotation direction and encoder count and output signal representing encoder count. Encoder count is number of circumferentially spaced line pairs that pass by dual channel encoder sensor as pinch arm and encoder rotate. Processor is communicatively coupled to dual channel encoder sensor and configured to receive signal and calculate print media thickness of portion from encoder count using conversion factor.

Abstract: An inkjet printhead includes: an elongate fluid manifold comprising at least one longitudinally extending channel, the fluid manifold having a base defining a plurality of ink outlets, the fluid outlets being spaced apart longitudinally along a floor of the channel; a plurality of printhead chips bonded to the base of the fluid manifold, each printhead chip receiving ink from one or more fluid outlets; and a plurality of transverse ribs positioned across the channel, each transverse rib extending upwardly from the floor of the channel. One or more of the transverse ribs has a recess allowing fluid flow along the floor of the channel between the transverse ribs.

Abstract: An inkjet printhead includes an elongate fluid manifold having a base which includes a truss structure. The truss structure has webs extending between opposite chords, wherein a plurality of openings between the webs and the chords define fluid outlets. One or more printhead chips are attached to the webs of the truss structure with each printhead chip receiving printing fluid from a plurality of the fluid outlets.

Abstract: There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus including: a first transporting portion provided in a first transport path; a support member configured to support the sheet; a recording portion; a plurality of contact portions configured to come into contact with the sheet; a plurality of support ribs; a second transporting portion provided in a second transport path connected with the first transport path; and a third transporting portion configured to sandwich and transport the sheet in the first transporting direction or toward the second transport path. On the upstream side to the second transporting portion in the second transporting direction, a projecting portion is formed with the upper guide member to project toward the lower guide member below a virtual line linking a nip position of the sheet due to the third transporting portion with another nip position of the sheet due to the second transporting portion.

Abstract: The present abstract relates to a patent of invention for a method for obtaining a tape (1) for self-adhesive, linerless leaflet labels, pertaining to the field of self-adhesive articles, comprising: 1)—Providing and unwinding a self-adhesive-material tape (20); 2)—Printing labels (4) and sensing marks (6) on the tape (3) of the tape (20); 3)—Applying an adhesion control layer (40) to the printed face of the tape (3), preferably comprised by laminating a BOPP-film tape; 4)—Delaminating the liner (10) from the tape (20); 5)—Inverting the position of the liner (10) in relation to the remaining tape of the self-adhesive-material tape (20); 6)—Applying a layer (50) of adhesive to the face of the liner (10) that includes Corona treatment (13), facing the tape (3); 7)—Drying the adhesive (50); 8)—Applying the leaflets (7) to the tape (3) in correspondence with respective labels (4); 9)—Relaminating the liner (10); 10)—Slitting the leaflet-label linerless self-adhesive tape (1) obtained; and 11)—Winding up the finis

Abstract: Systems and methods for concentric arrangement of web conditioning modules in a dryer of a printing system. In one embodiment a dryer includes a drum, first rollers positioned in an arc around the drum to define a web path between an entrance of the dryer and the drum, and second rollers positioned along the arc between the first rollers and the drum that reverse the web path between the drum and an exit of the dryer. The dryer further includes first web conditioners positioned along the arc and beyond the first rollers from the drum that direct energy toward a portion of the web path that is between the entrance of the dryer and the drum. The dryer further includes second web conditioners positioned along the arc between the second rollers and the drum that direct energy toward a portion of the web path that wraps around the drum.

Abstract: In one example, a container for holding printing fluid includes a chamber to hold a printing fluid and an inelastic, expandable, and contractible bag occupying space in the chamber. The exterior of the bag is exposed to an interior of the chamber and an interior of the bag is sealed against the interior of the chamber and vented to the atmosphere.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to control apparatus and methods of a printing system, for example, comprising an intermediate transfer member (ITM) and to user-related features of a printing system. Some embodiments relate to regulation of a velocity and/or tension and/or length of the ITM. Some embodiments relate to regulation of deposition of ink on the moving ITM. Some embodiments regulate to apparatus configured to alert a user of one or more events related to operation of the ITM. Some embodiments relate to a time-line GUI for visualizing and/or manipulating queued print jobs which may be employed. Some embodiments relate to a reversed augmented reality GUI for visualization and/or control of the printing system. In some embodiments, a display screen is mounted to a printer housing and/or able to control access to moving parts of a printing system.

Abstract: A switchable mirror system and method includes a laser imaging module including one or more lasers and one or more DMDs (Digital Micromirror Devices), and a switchable mirror component located in a path upstream from the DMD (or DMDs) to direct a laser from the DMD when there is pause in a printing operation facilitated by said laser imaging module. A non-mechanical and electronic switchable mirror is thus located in the laser path between an LDA (Laser Diode Array) and a DMD to divert energy out of the system and away from the DMD during periods of non-laser imaging without reducing or power down the laser system.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for sublimating images onto two or more products substantially simultaneously are disclosed. Software components are configured to receive input of a desired number of products to sublimate, and then determine a spatial arrangement of the printed images to sublimate the desired number of products substantially simultaneously. The apparatus is configured to print the images according to the spatial arrangement. The apparatus is configured, using a control, to sublimate multiple products substantially simultaneously in a single thermal cycle.

Abstract: Systems and methods for selectively powering multiple microwave energy sources in a dryer of a printing system. One embodiment is a microwave dryer that includes microwave energy sources configured to generate electromagnetic energy to dry a wet colorant applied to a continuous-form print media by a printer. The microwave dryer also includes waveguides configured to transport the electromagnetic energy. The waveguides include a passageway to pass the print media through the waveguides as the print media travels along a media path. A long axis of each the waveguides are positioned in a direction along the media path, and each waveguide is coupled to a different microwave source to section the electromagnetic energy into regions that are distinct from one another in a direction across the media path. The microwave dryer further includes a controller configured to regulate a power output for each of the microwave energy sources.

Abstract: A system for forming a structure on a print medium 1 includes: a print unit (print device) 10 for printing an electromagnetic wave-heat conversion layer for converting electromagnetic waves into heat, on a medium including an expansion layer that expands by heating; an expansion unit (expansion device) 20 aligned laterally with the print unit 10, for expanding the expansion layer by irradiating the medium with electromagnetic waves; and a top plate 30 covering the print unit 10 and the expansion unit 20 from above.

Abstract: A printer includes a print head; a platen roller; a frame, to which the print head or the platen roller is attached, that includes a frame body, a sidewall that is perpendicularly bent from the frame body with respect to a longitudinal direction of the platen roller, and a back surface member that is bent from the frame body in parallel to the longitudinal direction of the platen roller, the back surface member including an end portion and a support portion provided to support the sidewall from an inner side and an outer side of the sidewall, respectively, the sidewall being supported by the back surface member while being interposed between the end portion the support portion of the back surface member.

Abstract: A method for printing a digital image on a media object lying on a flatbed surface of a printer, the printer comprising a print head for ejecting recording material on the media object, a camera system connected to the control unit and positioned above the flatbed surface, and a control unit for storing a digital image and controlling the printing of the digital image on the media object, the media object having a contour as seen from a point of view of the camera system towards the flatbed surface, a first point having a position on the contour at a particular height with respect to the flatbed surface, and a second point being one of a point of normal projection of the first point on the flatbed surface and a point having another position on the contour than the first point, the second point being at the same height as the particular height of the first point, and the control unit storing a distance between the first point and the second point, the method comprising the steps of capturing a camera image of

Abstract: A printer includes a platen roller configured to feed recording paper by nipping the recording paper with a thermal head; a frame which includes a shaft support portion configured to support the platen roller so that the platen roller is rotatable about an axis direction thereof; a drive source arranged on an inner side of the frame in the axial direction with respect to the shaft support portion; a planetary gear mechanism which is arranged on the inner side of the frame in the axial direction with respect to the shaft support portion and is configured to reduce power of the drive source; and a power transmission mechanism which is arranged on an outer side of the frame in the axial direction with respect to the shaft support portion and is configured to transmit power of the planetary gear mechanism to the platen roller.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including a liquid ejecting portion that has a nozzle and performs a recording process by ejecting liquid from the nozzle toward a medium, a supply flow path that is provided so as to allow the liquid that is accommodated in a liquid accommodating body to flow toward the liquid ejecting portion, and a pressure feeding mechanism that forcefully causes the liquid to flow from the liquid accommodating body toward the liquid ejecting portion, and an accommodating body holding portion that is capable of having the liquid accommodating body mounted thereon and is disposed at a supply position at which it is possible to supply the liquid to the liquid ejecting portion using a water head with respect to the nozzle of the liquid that is accommodated in the mounted liquid accommodating body.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring at least one exhaust gas turbocharger (ATL) of a large internal combustion engine (BKM), comprising at least one compressor (1a) and one exhaust gas turbine (1b) arranged on the same shaft as the compressor, wherein the current pressures (p1, p2) upstream and downstream of the compressor (1a) and the current temperatures (T1, T4) upstream of the compressor (1a) and upstream of the exhaust gas turbine (1b) are measured.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a recording head that performs printing on a printing surface of a medium, a transport portion that transports the medium in a transport direction, a medium support portion that is disposed on an upstream side in the transport direction with respect to the recording head and supports the medium, a removal portion that is disposed on the upstream side in the transport direction with respect to the recording head, and a fixing portion to which the removal portion is fixed, in which the removal portion includes a removal member that has a flexible property and comes into contact with the printing surface, and an elastic member that holds the removal member between itself and the medium support portion, and that presses the removal member.

Abstract: A conveyor line system including an image processing device configured to irradiate a recording part with laser light to perform at least one of image recording and image erasing, the conveyor line system being configured to manage at least one conveying container each including: the recording part in which the image recording is performed by irradiation with the laser light; and an image part in which a displayed image has been drawn, wherein a formula below is satisfied at a wavelength of the laser light with which the recording part is irradiated during the image recording: A+30>B where A denotes an absorbance of the recording part and B denotes an absorbance of the image part of the conveying container.