Abstract: In a liquid ejection head capable of suppressing a decrease in printing quality, circulation efficiency J at an ejection orifice on a downstream side in a flow direction in a channel is set high.

Abstract: A UV curable inkjet ink including a free radical polymerizable compound and an acyl phosphine oxide initiator wherein the acyl phosphine oxide initiator includes an acyl group selected from the group consisting of a benzoyl group substituted by an urea group or an oxalylamide group; a 2,6-dimethyl benzoyl group substituted in position 3 by an urea group or an oxalylamide group; a 2,6-dimethoxy benzoyl group substituted in position 3 by an urea group or an oxalylamide group; a 2,4,6-trimethyl benzoyl group substituted in position 3 by an urea group or an oxalylamide group; and a 2,4,6-trimethoxybenzoyl group substituted in position 3 by an urea group or an oxalylamide group wherein the urea group and the oxalylamide group include a tertiary amine group positioning a phosphorus atom of the acylphosphine oxide initiator in a 1 to Z position, where position 1 is defined as that of the phosphorus atom and position Z is defined as the nitrogen atom of the tertiary amine group with Z representing an integer of at le

Abstract: The present invention relates to a printing ink composition comprising one or more keratin-based pigment(s) and water, wherein the one or more keratin-based pigment(s) has an average particle size of no more than 3000 nm.

Abstract: An ink composition able to yield a printed adherend having high weathering resistance; wherein, this ink composition is an active energy ray curing type ink composition that is discharged using an inkjet method. The ink composition contains a polymerizable compound, an ultraviolet radiation absorber and an antioxidant. The ultraviolet radiation absorber has a maximum absorption wavelength within the range 315-400 nm. A medium containing the ultraviolet radiation absorber at a concentration of 20 ppm has an absorbance area Ab of 25.0 or more at wavelengths within the range of 315-400 nm.

Abstract: A method including receiving a first signal indicative of a first electrical current measured on a first motion assembly (77) for moving a flexible substrate (44) that receives droplets of a printing fluid from an image forming station (60) to form an image thereon. A second signal indicative of a second electrical current measured on a second motion assembly (99) for moving the flexible substrate (44), is received, wherein a section of the flexible substrate (44) is moving between the first motion assembly (77) and the second motion assembly (99). A parameter, which is indicative of a distortion in the image, is calculated based on the first signal and the second signal. In response to detecting, based on the parameter, an increase in the distortion, a corrective action is applied to reduce the distortion.

Abstract: A recording element substrate includes an ejection port forming member in which an ejection port configured to eject liquid is formed, and a substrate. The substrate includes a liquid supply port that supplies the liquid to the ejection port, a first surface on which the ejection port forming member is placed, and a second surface that is a rear surface of the first surface. The liquid supply port includes a first portion perpendicularly connected to the first surface, and a second portion connected to the first portion. An inner wall of the second portion includes an inclined surface that is inclined toward an inner wall of the first portion such that a width of the second portion is gradually increased toward the second surface. A hydrophilic film is formed at least on the inner wall of the first portion.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit to convey a printing medium, a printing unit, a support member, a detection unit, and a control unit. The detection unit emits light in a direction toward a surface of the support member supporting the printing medium and outputs information indicating an amount of light that is reflected The control unit performs setting related to the detection unit output to set output from the detection unit such that a difference between a value indicating the detection unit output in detecting the light reflected from the support member and a value indicating the detection unit output in detecting the light reflected from the conveyed printing medium is equal to or greater than a predetermined magnitude. The control unit executes predetermined processing related to an end portion of the conveyed printing medium based on the set output from the detection unit.

Abstract: A printing system comprises a transport apparatus adapted to transport a flexible web (24) along a process direction and first and second individually controllable inkjet imager units (44, 60, 70, 82) offset from one another along the process direction. Each of the first imager unit and the second imager unit includes a first portion (226) operable to print on a first portion of the web and a second portion (228) operable to print on the second portion of the web wherein each of the first portion and second portion of the first and second imager units is stationary along the process direction and the lateral direction.

Abstract: Provided is an ink jet printing method including: a first step of ejecting an ink containing a water-soluble polymerizable component A and water from a printing head of an ink jet system to apply the ink to a medium M, to thereby form a first image; and a second step of applying an active energy ray to the first image to form a second image. The polymerizable component A is dissolved in the first image, and a moisture concentration “x” (mass %) in the first image and a moisture concentration “y” (mass %) in the second image placed under an environment at a humidity of 95% satisfy a relationship of 0<(y/x)?0.80.

Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which are stored computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to access a characteristic of a motor coupled to a carriage in a printer. In this regard, an ink cartridge may be mounted on the carriage and the characteristic may be of the motor during movement by the motor of the carriage. The processor may calculate an amount of ink in the ink cartridge based on the characteristic of the motor and may determine whether the calculated amount of ink differs from an estimated amount of ink in the ink cartridge. In some examples, based on the amount of ink in the ink cartridge differing from the estimated amount of ink in the ink cartridge, the processor may disable the printer and/or generate a notification.

Abstract: There is provided a head module in which a first direction is a main scanning direction, including: a first nozzle row including a first nozzle; a second nozzle row including a second nozzle; and a third nozzle row including a third nozzle, in which a distance P1 between the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row in the first direction and a distance P2 between the first nozzle row and the third nozzle row in the first direction are expressed as P1:P2=E1:O1 where a value E1 is a positive even number and a value O1 is a positive odd number satisfying O1>E1.

Abstract: A print unit includes a reactive liquid element row in which a plurality of print elements are arrayed in a first direction, a first element row in which a plurality of print elements are arrayed in the first direction, and a second element row in which a plurality of print elements are arrayed in the first direction. The reactive liquid element row, the first element row, and the second element row are arrayed in this order in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A scan unit scans the print unit in the second direction. A print control unit controls a print operation by the print unit such that a ratio of the number of pixels permitted to eject the second ink to the number of pixels in a predetermined region on the print medium does not exceed a threshold.

Abstract: In a method of controlling a digital inkjet printer, the digital printer is arranged to operate in a selected first print mode which includes a first speed in a main scanning direction. A digital image and a print setting that the digital image is planned to be printed in an enhanced adhesion print mode are received. A time period needed for a pass in the main scanning direction is extended by lowering a speed from the first speed to a second speed, and by enlarging the pass width up to a maximum medium width and/or by temporarily stopping the printer at an end of the pass. Marking material is ejected during the pass on the image receiving medium by a print head at the second speed within the extended time period, and is cured by a UV curing device at the second speed within the extended time period.

Abstract: A printing device 1 includes a setting section 2 that sets a roll-shaped print medium P, a winding section 5 that winds up the print medium P, a print head 3 that forms an image by ejecting ink onto an image forming surface P1 of the print medium P, and a drying oven 10 that is disposed downstream of the print head 3 in the transport direction and that is for drying ink that was ejected onto the print medium P, wherein the drying oven 10 includes a heating section 11 for heating the print medium P and the heating section 11 is configured such that the heating temperature at the inlet side of the drying oven 10 in the transport direction A is higher than the heating temperature at the outlet side of the drying oven 10 in the transport direction.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an ink ejector, a dryer, and a melting device. The ink ejector ejects an ink to an object on which a printed record is to be produced. The ink contains a medium and a fixing polymer. The dryer heats the object to expedite evaporation of the medium. The melting device is configured to irradiate the ink on the object with ultraviolet rays to subject the ink to heat that causes the fixing polymer to melt and to fix the ink to the object accordingly.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure chamber substrate having a pressure chamber, a drive element, a communication substrate having a supply communication flow path and a nozzle communication flow path at a position different from the supply communication flow path, and a coupling substrate having a supply port and the supply communication flow path and a discharge port, in which the pressure chamber substrate has a partition wall, and the communication substrate includes a first region bonded to the coupling substrate and overlapping the pressure chamber between the supply communication flow path and the nozzle communication flow path when viewed in a thickness direction, and a second region bonded to the coupling substrate and overlapping the partition wall at a position adjacent to the first region via an opening of the supply communication flow path when viewed in the thickness direction of the pressure chamber substrate.

Abstract: A support unit is configured to support a medium that is imaged by an imaging device and on which printing is performed by a printing apparatus in accordance with a result of the imaging. The support unit includes a table unit including a support region that supports the medium and a non-support region that does not support the medium, and a sandwiching unit having a portion with light transmissivity and being configured to sandwich the medium with the table unit. The non-support region is provided with a plurality of marks recognizable by the imaging device.

Abstract: Provided is an aqueous inkjet ink, including: a colorant; a water-soluble organic solvent; a surfactant; and water, wherein the water-soluble organic solvent includes a diol having 2 to 5 carbon atoms, and a hexylene glycol, and the surfactant includes an acetylenediol having an HLB value of 10 or less.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording unit, an acquisition unit, a scanning unit, and a control unit. In the recording unit, a plurality of nozzles to which ink is supplied from a common liquid chamber is arranged in a first direction. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire image data. The scanning unit is configured to perform relative scanning with a recording medium in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The control unit is configured to control ink ejection operation of the recording unit. In a predetermined one time of relative scanning, the control unit uses a first nozzle, and does not use a second nozzle adjacent to the first nozzle in the first direction, for edge areas of a barcode including a plurality of bars in which a length in the first direction is longer than a length in the second direction.

Abstract: A medium transport device includes a medium mounting portion, a feeding roller configured to feed a first medium, a separation roller configured to separate the first medium and a second medium, a transport roller pair configured to transport the first medium sent from the feeding roller, and a driving mechanism configured to drive the separation roller. The driving mechanism causes the separation roller to rotate in a second rotational direction and applies a rotational load having a first load value to rotation of the separation roller in a first rotational direction, and switches, after a leading edge of the first medium passes through the transport roller pair and before a trailing edge of the first medium passes through between the feeding roller and the separation roller, a rotational load applied to the separation roller to a second load value that is lower than the first load value.