Abstract: A medium includes a heat-sensitive medium and an adhesive medium. The heat-sensitive medium includes a first base material and a first heat-sensitive layer. The first base material has a transparency. The first heat-sensitive layer has a transparency. The first heat-sensitive, layer is provided on one surface of the first base material. The first heat-sensitive layer is configured to develop a first color when heated to a first temperature or higher. The adhesive medium includes a second base material and a first adhesive layer. The first adhesive layer is provided on one surface of the second base material. The heat-sensitive medium and the adhesive medium are to be superimposed such that the first heat-sensitive layer and the first adhesive layer are interposed between the heat-sensitive medium and the adhesive medium. The adhesive medium has an ultraviolet absorbance greater than an ultraviolet absorbance of the first base material.

Abstract: There are provided a substrate on which a first integrated circuit, a first transistor, and a first inductor element are disposed, and which has a first side and a second side facing each other; a heat sink having a fifth side and a sixth side along the first side; the first integrated circuit, the first transistor, and the first inductor element are positioned in order of the first integrated circuit, the first transistor, and the first inductor element from the first side toward the second side, and the heat sink is fixed to the substrate such that a shortest distance between the fifth side and the first side is shorter than a shortest distance between the sixth side and the first side, and a shortest distance between the first integrated circuit and the fifth side is longer than a shortest distance between the first transistor and the sixth side.

Abstract: A thermal printing apparatus includes a frame, an endless ribbon to transport ink on its outer face, a coating device to coat the endless ribbon with ink, a printhead to print by thermal transfer a substrate with a part of the ink, a plurality of first rollers supporting and transporting the endless ribbon by its inner face along a path from the coating device to the printhead and from the printhead to the coating device in a cyclic manner, at least one first conveyor arranged to support the inner face of the endless ribbon between two adjacent first rollers along its path from the coating device to the printhead; the first conveyor including a plate fixed in translation and rotation with the frame and having a first convex surface supporting the inner face, a heat exchanger designed to cool down the first surface of the plate at a predefined temperature.

Abstract: An image formation device includes a support, a fluid ejection device, and a first porous element. The support is to support movement of a substrate along a travel path, while the fluid ejection device is located along the travel path to deposit droplets of ink particles within a liquid carrier onto the substrate to at least partially form an image on the substrate. The first porous element is located downstream along the travel path from the fluid ejection device to be in contact against the substrate to remove, via electroosmotic flow through the first porous element, at least a portion of the liquid carrier from the substrate.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus and a substrate processing method are provided, which can improve the yield by minimizing the occurrence of stains. The substrate processing method includes forming on the substrate a plurality of ink patterns spaced apart from each other by jetting ink onto the substrate by using a plurality of nozzles, calculating the density of each of the plurality of ink patterns, and selecting at least one nozzle for jetting ink into one pixel area based on respectively calculated densities of the plurality of ink patterns.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an optical unit for expanding and displaying a hitting point of ink, from above a substrate; and a nozzle unit for ejecting the ink, wherein the nozzle unit includes a nozzle body that is obliquely disposed with respect to the substrate; and a nozzle that is coupled to the nozzle body, and has a flow path from which the ink is ejected, and has a tip that is bended towards the substrate.

Abstract: A medium includes: a heat-sensitive medium subjected to thermal printing; and an adhesive medium to be superimposed on the heat-sensitive medium in a thickness direction and bonded to the heat-sensitive medium. The heat-sensitive medium includes: a surface contacting the adhesive medium; a heat-sensitive medium base material having a transparency; and a first color producing layer having a transparency. The heat-sensitive medium base material has an uneven shape having roughness greater than that of the surface of the heat-sensitive medium. The first color producing layer is configured to produce a first color when heated to a temperature higher than or equal to a first temperature. The adhesive medium includes: an adhesive medium base material; and an adhesive layer provided on the adhesive medium base material. The adhesive layer makes contact with the surface of the heat-sensitive medium so that the adhesive medium is bonded to the heat-sensitive medium.

Abstract: A label printer includes: a thermal head to execute printing on a label sheet that includes a front print surface and a back adhesive layer and that does not include a liner; a platen roller that is provided at a position facing the thermal head, that pulls out, by being rotationally driven, one end of a roll sheet obtained by winding the label sheet in a roll shape, and that conveys the roll sheet to the thermal head; and a reciprocating control unit (configured to, when a print start instruction is received, cause a holding position of the label sheet sandwiched between the thermal head and the platen roller to reciprocate between a first position downstream in a conveyance direction of the print sheet and a second position upstream of the first position.

Abstract: Disclosed is a printing device including: a first nozzle that ejects a first ink; a second nozzle that ejects a second ink; a third nozzle that ejects a third ink; and at least one processor that, upon performing alignment adjustment of one nozzle preparing one of the first nozzle and any of the second nozzle and the third nozzle for alignment pattern printing and the other of the first nozzle and any of the second nozzle and the third nozzle for auxiliary printing, controls to eject any of the first to third inks selected based on ejection information from among the second ink in the second cartridge and the third ink in the third cartridge, from any of the first to third nozzles for the alignment pattern printing or the auxiliary printing. The first ink, the second ink and the third ink have different colors from each other.

Abstract: A media processing device includes: a print head; a housing supporting the print head, and defining chambers to receive a media supply, and a ribbon supply; a media guide coupled to the housing, and defining a portion of a media path extending from the media supply to the print head; a first sensor support affixed to the media guide on a first side of the media path, between the media path and a ribbon path extending from the ribbon chamber to the print head; a ribbon sensor on a ribbon-facing side of the first sensor support; a first media sensor on an opposite, media-facing side of the first sensor support; a second sensor support affixed to the media guide on a second side of the media path, opposite the first side of the media path; and a second media sensor on a media-facing side of the second sensor support.

Abstract: A grayscale inkjet printing method including the steps of: a) supplying a pigmented inkjet ink to a grayscale print head having nozzles with an outer nozzle surface area smaller than 500 ?m2 and having an acoustic resonance period ARP of not more than 5.5 ?s; and b) applying a voltage wave form for ejecting pigmented inkjet ink from a nozzle of the grayscale print head within one jetting cycle; wherein the pigmented inkjet ink has a viscosity of at least 3.8 mPa·s at jetting temperature and a shear rate of 1,000 s?1; wherein the voltage wave form for ejecting the largest ink droplet includes, in chronological order, a first ejecting pulse having an amplitude A1 and a second ejecting pulse having an amplitude A3 with the amplitude A1 complying with the relationship: 0.50×A3<A1<1.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a recording head and processing circuitry. The recording head includes a plurality of nozzles. The processing circuitry prints a reference adjustment pattern on a recording medium using a reference nozzle, which is one of the nozzles. When the recording medium is conveyed from the reference nozzle in a sub-scanning direction by a predetermined conveyance amount, the processing circuitry prints an adjustment pattern on the recording medium using a designated nozzle, which is apart by a predetermined distance with respect to a nozzle apart from the reference nozzle in the sub scanning direction by the predetermined conveyance amount. The processing circuitry detects the reference adjustment pattern and the adjustment pattern, computes a distance between the reference adjustment pattern and the adjustment pattern in the sub-scanning direction, and determines whether a standard deviation of the distance computed is equal to or larger than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head configured to discharge a liquid, a liquid cartridge configured to store the liquid to be discharged from the liquid discharge head, a holder to which the liquid cartridge is detachably attachable, a timer configured to countdown a time, and circuitry configured to control the liquid discharge head to discharge the liquid as a discharge operation, control the liquid discharge head to stop the discharge operation, determine an attachment or a detachment of the liquid cartridge to or from the holder while the discharge operation is stopped, control the timer to prepare countdown of the time in response to a detachment of the liquid cartridge from the holder, and control the liquid discharge head to continue stopping the discharge operation in response to an attachment of the liquid cartridge to the holder before the time has reached zero.

Abstract: A sheet transport device includes: a chain that circulates and moves; a driving unit that circulates and moves the chain; a holding unit that is provided on the chain and holds an end portion of a sheet along a transport direction of the sheet; and a first positioning portion that positions the holding unit on both sides along a direction intersecting both the transport direction of the sheet and a width direction of the sheet while the chain moves along the driving unit.

Abstract: A printing device includes: a thermal head; and a processor. The thermal head includes a heating element. The processor is configured to perform: (a) creating; and (b) driving. The (a) creating creates print data based on image data representing an image to be printed on a printing medium. The (b) driving drives the heating element to apply heat to the printing medium according to the print data. The processor is configured to further perform: (c) determining. The (c) determining determines whether to create a plurality of labels for lamination using at least one printing medium including a first printing medium. The first printing medium is transparent and includes a plurality of heat-sensitive layers laminated together. Each of the plurality of heat-sensitive layers is configured to develop a different color when heat is applied from the heating element. The (c) creating is performed in accordance with a determination result in (a).

Abstract: An inkjet recording device including: inkjet head having a pressure chamber; a first pressure source to adjust ink energy per unit volume to generate “energy per unit volume” P1(Pa) relative to static ink at an atmospheric pressure at a nozzle opening height; a second pressure source to adjust ink energy per unit volume to generate “energy per unit volume” P2(Pa) relative to static ink; and a hardware processor. The first pressure source, pressure chamber, and second pressure source are connected in this order by a flow path. Assuming that a pressure loss occurring from the first pressure source to the nozzle due to circulation flow rate is ?Pa, a proportionality constant of a differential pressure (P1?P2) and ?Pa is “a”, and an appropriate pressure in vicinity of the nozzle opening is Pn, the hardware processor controls pressure to establish P2={Pn?(1?a)P1}/a.

Abstract: An electrohydrodynamic print head has a plurality of nozzles arranged in a plurality of wells. Extraction electrodes are located around the wells at a level below the nozzles. Further, shielding electrodes are located around the wells at a level below the extraction electrodes. For each well, there are several such shielding electrodes located at different angular positions. This allows to use the shielding electrodes for laterally deflecting the ink after its ejection from the nozzles.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a substrate treating apparatus having improved efficiency and productivity. The substrate treating apparatus provided includes a stage extending in a first direction, for moving a substrate in the first direction, and having an air floating system, a gantry arranged on the stage to extend in a second direction crossing the first direction, a head module installed on the gantry and movable in the second direction, and a displacement sensor installed in the head module, for measuring a separation distance between the substrate and stage, wherein at a first position, the head module ejects ink to the substrate and the displacement sensor measures a first separation distance between the substrate and the stage, and at a second position that is different from the first position, the head module ejects ink to the substrate and the displacement sensor measures a second separation distance between the substrate and the stage.

Abstract: The area necessary to install the liquid jet head to be positioned by a positioning mechanism is reduced. An inkjet head is provided with a head main body for jetting ink, a base member which supports the head main body, and is installed on an installation surface of a carriage, and a positioning mechanism which adjusts a position of the base member in a direction along the installation surface with respect to a positioning pin disposed on the installation surface, wherein the positioning mechanism is supported by the base member, and at least a part of the positioning mechanism is arranged inside an outer shape of the base member in a plan view of the installation surface viewed from a vertical direction thereof.

Abstract: A thermal printer includes: a roll sheet receiving portion; and a delivery slot through which a portion of the recording sheet drawn from the roll sheet is delivered to an outside of the thermal printer; a printing unit including: a thermal head; and a platen roller configured to convey the recording sheet toward the delivery slot while sandwiching the recording sheet between the thermal head and the platen roller; a flap provided on a portion of the casing between the printing unit and the roll sheet receiving portion so as to be pivotable about a first axis, and configured to press the roll sheet in a direction of separating away from the delivery slot through abutment against an outer peripheral surface of the roll sheet; and an urging member configured to urge the flap about the first axis in the direction of separating away from the delivery slot.