Abstract: A chassis component (1, 38, 40) has a joint inner portion (2) and a structural component (3), where the joint inner portion (2) is fitted and able to move in an articulated manner in a joint holder (4). A measuring device (5) is configured to determine a relative position of the joint inner portion (2) with respect to the structural component (3) and includes a first measuring element (6) and a second measuring element (7). The first measuring element (6) is on the structural component (3) and the second measuring element (7) is on the joint inner portion (2). In one example, the joint inner portion (2) extends out of the joint holder (4) and the second measuring element (7) is attached on a section (8) of the joint inner portion (2) which is outside the joint holder (4).

Abstract: A recording device includes a pair of transport rollers for transporting a medium, a rotating body provided downstream of the pair of transport rollers in a transport path of the medium and configured to switch between a first state in which the medium being nipped by the pair of transport rollers is passed and a second state in which the the medium being nipped by the pair of transport rollers is not passed, and a recording portion performing recording on the medium by discharging a liquid, in which the pair of transport rollers includes a first toothed roller having a plurality of convex portions configured to make point contact with the medium and nipping the medium by the plurality of the convex portions, and, the pair of transport rollers is arranged only in a central region when the transport path is divided into three in a rotating shaft direction.

Abstract: A printer includes: a print engine configured to discharge ink onto a fabric to print the fabric; a heating device configured to heat the fabric under a prescribed treatment condition; and circuitry configured to: set a type of the fabric; and acquire the prescribed treatment condition from an external device connected to the printer. The prescribed treatment condition includes: a temperature at which the heating device heats the fabric; and a duration of time during which the heating device heats the fabric, and the prescribed treatment condition is set for each types of fabrics.

Abstract: A maintenance operation can be executed by ejecting a liquid when a time measured with reference to displacement of a cap from a maintenance position to a separation position exceeds a defined time. Before start of a recording operation in a recording job, a first medium waits at a standby position where the medium can wait upstream of a liquid ejection head. The cap is located at the separation position when a first medium in the recording job is waiting at the standby position. During an initial control period, in parallel with the maintenance operation, a post-processing operation can be executed on a second number of media that is smaller than a first number of media, and a post-processing operation can be executed on the first number of media in parallel with the maintenance operation after end of the initial control period.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head, a first holder to which a main tank is attached, a second holder to which a sub tank is attached, a supply channel coupled to the head and the first holder, a branch channel that branches off at an intermediate point in the supply channel and that is coupled to the second holder, and a controller. Each of the main tank and the sub tank is a liquid container including a container and a memory circuit. The first holder includes a connector. The controller updates, via the connector, remaining amount information stored in the memory circuit of the main tank, performs an operational control based on the remaining amount information stored in the memory circuit of the main tank, and does not perform the operational control based on the remaining amount information stored in the memory circuit of the sub tank.

Abstract: A printhead in a digital printing includes an array of light sources for exposing a photosensitive medium moving past the printhead. Artifacts are reduced in a high-speed print mode by defining first and a second power level control values that differ by at least 20%. The light sources used to print odd-numbered image pixels are activated responsive to the first power level control value and the light sources used to print even-numbered image pixels are activated responsive to the second power level control value.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus including: a print head including a printing element array provided with printing elements each configured to generate thermal energy required to eject an ink, a supply flow channel provided along the printing element array and configured to supply the ink to the respective printing elements, an opening provided to the supply flow channel and configured to cause the ink to flow in, and heating units provided along the supply flow channel and configured to heat the ink inside the supply flow channel; and a heating control unit configured to carry out heating control of the heating units based on a heating pattern determined based on heating intensity distribution, the heating intensity distribution representing heating intensities corresponding to the respective heating units and representing the heating intensities corresponding to positions in a direction of the printing element array.

Abstract: A printer includes: a liquid discharger configured to discharge a liquid onto a print target; a carriage configured to move the liquid discharger in a main scanning direction; a holder configured to hold the print target and relatively move the print target in a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction to cause the print target to face the liquid discharger; and multiple height detectors at different positions in the sub-scanning direction, the multiple height detectors configured to detect the print target on the holder.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a roll sheet container that contains a roll sheet around which a recording sheet is wound; a first sheet guide that makes contact with a first surface of the recording sheet; a second sheet guide that makes contact with a second surface of the recording sheet; and a transport roller that transports the recording sheet. The first and second sheet guides are disposed so as to face each other to form a sheet route along which the recording sheet is to pass. The transport roller transports the recording sheet that passed along the sheet route. The second sheet guide includes: a projection that protrudes toward the roll sheet container; and a pushing section that extends from the projection along an outer circumference of the roll sheet and in a direction away from the first sheet guide.

Abstract: The ratios (Wp1/Wm1, Wp2/Wm2) of the pattern widths Wp1, Wp2 to the paper widths Wm1, Wm2 are obtained, respectively, after the first drying and after the second drying (Step S109). Then, in accordance with these ratios, a range (in other words, the width) in which the back print image G2 is to be printed is adjusted in the width direction Aw (Step S204). As a result, when the double-sided printing is performed on the continuous form paper M by performing drying every time when the image is printed on each of the surfaces Ma, Mb of the continuous form paper M, it is possible to suppress the difference in the ratios of the widths of the images G1, G2 to the width of the continuous form paper M between the surfaces Ma and Mb of the continuous form paper M.

Abstract: A printing machine comprising advancement elements for advancing material in sheet form to be printed which are provided at least with a traction drum which is designed to receive, at an entry region, the material in sheet form to be printed and to convey it toward an exit region spaced circumferentially apart, along the direction of rotation of the traction drum about its own axis, from the entry region; analog print stations are arranged around the traction drum, between the entry region and the exit region and, between at least two analog print stations, conveyance means are provided for conveying the material in sheet form to be printed which arrives from the traction drum along an advancement path that has at least one advancement portion for advancing the material in sheet form to be printed which extends substantially straight, along which at least one digital print station is arranged.

Abstract: A conveying belt has a plurality of flushing openings and a detection hole, and the plurality of flushing openings are arranged in at least two rows along the main scanning direction. Furthermore, the discharge timing controller (a) detects a position of the detection hole in the main scanning direction with a belt sensor, (b) identifies the flushing opening corresponding to the nozzle based on the position of the detected detection hole in the main scanning direction, and (c) causes the print engine to perform flushing of the nozzle at a timing corresponding to the flushing opening.

Abstract: An inkjet printer and method of operating the inkjet printer modifies the image content data for an ink image to be printed on a media sheet to maintain the operational status of each inkjet in the inkjet printer. For each inkjet that is operated less than an operational threshold, image data is added to the image content data to operate each inkjet at the operational threshold.

Abstract: Micro characters are expressed by a thermal fusion transfer technique. In a printed matter manufacturing method, a printed matter is manufactured by heating a thermal transfer sheet in accordance with image data, the thermal transfer sheet including a base member, a release layer disposed on the base member and containing a wavelength conversion material that emits visible light with excitation by invisible light, and a thermally fusible ink layer disposed on the release layer, and by transferring the thermally fusible ink layer to a transfer-receiving body. In this method, the image data includes a first pattern and a second pattern. The second pattern is disposed on the first pattern and has a maximum width of a predetermined value or less.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a nozzle; a pressure chamber; a supply flow channel which is located on one side in a first direction relative to the pressure chamber and through which a liquid is supplied to the pressure chamber; a discharge flow channel which is located on another side in the first direction relative to the pressure chamber and through which the liquid is discharged from the pressure chamber; a supply-side compliance substrate which absorbs a vibration of the liquid in the supply flow channel; and a discharge-side compliance substrate which absorbs a vibration of the liquid in the discharge flow channel. A length of the discharge-side compliance substrate in the first direction is shorter than a length of the supply-side compliance substrate in the first direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of executing a single-sided recording mode in which an image is recorded on one side of a recording medium and a double-sided recording mode in which an image is recorded on both sides of the recording medium, the image forming apparatus includes: a first temperature adjustment device that adjusts a temperature of the recording medium; an inkjet head that ejects ink onto a surface of the recording medium; a reverse unit that reverses front and back surfaces of the recording medium by switching a conveying direction of the recording medium when the double-sided recording mode is executed; a second temperature adjustment device that controls the temperature of the recording medium in which the front and back surfaces are reversed; and a control device that controls at least one of the first and second temperature adjustment devices.

Abstract: A system and method for performing quality control in a digital printing system (DPS) is provided. The DPS includes an impression station for transferring an ink image from a surface of an intermediate transfer member to a substrate. The impression station includes an impression cylinder housing one or more grippers operable to grasp and hold a leading edge of the substrate as it passes through the DPS, for conveying the substrate along the impression cylinder during the transfer of the ink image. An imaging device is operable, during advancement of the substrate on the impression cylinder, to capture a digital image including a region of interest (ROI) that is associated with at least a portion of the grippers and at least a portion of the substrate. A controller is configured, based on the digital image, to indicate an error in a position of the substrate relative to the grippers.

Abstract: A device is provided for personalizing documents, which includes a personalization device for applying personalization information to a document to be personalized. In addition, the device has a conveying device which includes at least two movable document carrier devices, each of which is configured: to receive a document to be personalized at a transfer position of the device that is the same for all document carrier devices; to move the document received, into the operating region of the personalization device, for the purpose of being personalized; and to move the document received, after its personalization, back to the transfer position and to discharge it there. The conveying device is configured, during its operation, to convey each of the document carrier devices along a respective associated path curve in the shape of a closed loop between the transfer position, the operating region and, in turn, the transfer position.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a motor; a printing mechanism; a print processor; a connector; a substrate that transmits a signal received via the connector to the print processor, the print processor and the connector being mounted on the substrate; a plurality of metal plates that separate the substrate from the motor. The metal plates surround the substrate. The cable is coupled to the connector via a through-hole. The through-hole is covered with a metal cover.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a recording head that ejects ink, an ink tank that contains ink and that includes an inlet through which ink is poured from a refill container, an outer case that houses the recording head and the ink tank and that includes an upper case member disposed in the +Z direction and a side case member crossing the upper case member, and an opening and closing cover that is attached to the outer case and that is configured to rotate between an open position at which the ink can be poured from the refill container into the ink tank and a closed position at which the ink tank is covered. The side case member has a cutout.