Abstract: An inkjet printer is provided, which is configured to acquire gap information related to a gap between an ink discharging surface and a recording sheet in each individual position of top-formed positions and bottom-formed positions within a predetermined wave-shape generating range, identify, when the predetermined wave-shape generating range includes a partial range in which the recording sheet is not placed, a top-formed position where the gap information has not been acquired and a bottom-formed position where the gap information has not been acquired, within the partial range, complement the unacquired gap information in the identified top-formed position with a value determined based on the respective pieces of gap information acquired in other top-formed positions, and complement the unacquired gap information in the identified bottom-formed position with a value determined based on the respective pieces of gap information acquired in other bottom-formed positions.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes: an original drive signal generator that generates a plurality of original drive signals which includes a first original drive signal and a second original drive signal; a selection section that is capable of selecting one original drive signal from the plurality of original drive signals which includes the first original drive signal and the second original drive signal; a driver that generates a drive signal of voltages in accordance with the one original drive signal; a piezoelectric element that is displaced according to the drive signal; a cavity of which an inside volume is changed due to the displacement of the piezoelectric element; and a nozzle that is provided to discharge a liquid in the cavity according to the change of the inside volume of the cavity.

Abstract: In a system of a data processing apparatus coupled to a printer, the apparatus sends a status information transmission request to the printer and, in response, receives status information from the printer. The status information includes ink storage identification information written in a memory contained in an ink storage, device identification information identifying the printer in which the ink storage is installed, and ink usage amount information for use by the printer in calculating a remaining ink amount.

Abstract: A printer includes a substrate and a print head. The print head is movable in a print direction. The print head includes an ink jet dispenser configured to jet ink toward the substrate. The print head further includes a UV source coupled to the ink jet dispenser in a following direction. The UV source is configured to emit UV irradiance. The plurality of mirrors are coupled to the UV source and configured to deflect UV irradiance from the UV source in a direction perpendicular to the print direction.

Abstract: A tape printer includes a cartridge installation portion to install a tape cartridge, an opening/closing cover that rotates about a hinge portion to open/close the cartridge installation portion, a cover urging portion that rotates and urges the opening/closing cover in an opening direction in a state in which the opening/closing cover is rotated to an opening side to get across a prescribed rotation position and that rotates and urges the opening/closing cover in a closing direction in a state in which the opening/closing cover is rotated to a closing side to get across the prescribed rotation position, and a cover opening operation portion that has an opening button and rotates the opening/closing cover to the opening side to get across the prescribed rotation position with a force to press the opening button. The cover opening operation portion has the opening button, a leverage member, and a rotation spring.

Abstract: To provide a thermal head in which separation of a protective layer is unlikely to occur. A thermal head X1 includes a substrate 7, a heat-generating portion 9 disposed on the substrate 7, electrodes 17 and 19 disposed on the substrate 7 and electrically connected to the heat-generating portion 9, and a protective layer 25 which covers the heat-generating portion 9 and part of the electrodes 17 and 19. The electrodes 17 and 19 each includes a first region R1 which lies below a depth of 150 nm from the surface 17e or 19e located on the protective layer 25 side, and the first region R1 contains oxygen. It is possible to suppress separation of each of the electrodes 17 and 19 from the protective layer 25.

Abstract: An illumination apparatus for illuminating an image bearing surface, comprising including an end-coupled illuminator comprising a light pipe having a first end face, a lateral surface and an illuminator longitudinal axis, a first light source (e.g., an LED) arranged to emit first light into the light pipe through the first end face, and a plurality of extractors disposed at selected locations along the illuminator longitudinal axis each adapted to deflect a corresponding portion of the first light from the light pipe though the lateral surface. The apparatus also includes a diffuser positioned to receive the portions of the first light and diffuse the portions of the first light in the direction of the illuminator longitudinal axis. The illumination apparatus may be included in a copier or a printer.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a tape cartridge including a connecting arm, a guide attaching/detaching part, and a second guide member. The connecting arm rotatably supports a first winding core and a second winding core. The guide attaching/detaching part is configured to detachably attach a first guide member. The first guide member is configured to allow a tape fed out from a first tape roll to pass and to guide the tape by regulating movement in a tape width direction through contact with both end portions of the tape in the tape width direction. The second guide member is disposed on the connecting arm. The second guide member is configured to guide the tape passes while being guided by the first guide member, by regulating movement in a second direction through contact with one side part of the tape in the second direction.

Abstract: A dummy head is attachable to and detachable from a carriage of a liquid ejecting apparatus including a first route having a supply port through which a liquid can be supplied to a liquid ejecting head in a state of being attached to the carriage, and a second route having a collection port through which the liquid can be collected from the liquid ejecting head. The dummy head has a third route which can be connected to the supply port and the collection port.

Abstract: A method of producing a high quality image on a blanket, including providing an image, a first piece of material having a substantially zero-nap upper surface configured to receive the image thereon, and a lower coupling surface. The method may include providing a second piece of material different than the first piece of material, the second piece of material having an upper coupling surface including a non-zero nap and a lower surface of a soft material. The method may include coupling the lower coupling surface of the first piece of material to the upper coupling surface of the second piece of material to form a single unit, while leaving the soft material of the second piece of material substantially exposed to an outside ambient environment, and incorporating the image within the substantially zero-nap upper surface of the first piece of material using a printing process.

Abstract: There is provided an aqueous ink which contains a coloring agent, a polymer particle, water and an aqueous organic solvent, and a surface resistivity of a film obtained by film formation on a glass plate is 1×106 ?/? or less, and a recording method containing: a first discharge step that discharges the first aqueous ink on a front surface of a recording medium; a first drying step that dries the first aqueous ink discharged on the front surface of the recording medium after the first discharge step; and a second discharge step that discharges a second aqueous ink on a rear surface of the recording medium after the first drying step.

Abstract: An inkjet printer is provided that is configured to store a plurality of pieces of gap information respectively corresponding to a plurality of examined sections discretely arranged along a head moving direction on a recording sheet, each of the plurality of examined sections including a corresponding one portion of top portions and bottom portions on the recording sheet, and calculate interpolation gap information to be interpolated over a whole width in the head moving direction of at least one of a plurality of segments, each of which has a width in the head moving direction defined by two adjacent sections of the plurality of examined sections, based on the stored gap information.

Abstract: A drive signal applied to a thin-film piezoelectric element includes the following: at least one discharge pulse that causes a drop of ink to be discharged from a pressure chamber; and a cancellation pulse. Said cancellation pulse has the same polarity as the discharge pulse(s) and serves to suppress reverberations of a pressure wave applied to the pressure chamber when the thin-film piezoelectric element is driven by the application of the discharge pulse(s). Letting Tc represent half of the natural vibration period of the pressure chamber, within the period within which a single pixel is placed, the cancellation pulse is applied once an amount of time equal to Tc times an even integer greater than or equal to 4 has passed since the end of the application of the first discharge pulse.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a fusing device, a cooling device, and a processor. The fusing device includes a fusing member and a pressure member, the fusing member being heated by a heat source. The fusing device conveys a sheet, the sheet being heated and pressed between the fusing member and the pressure member. The processor causes the cooling device to perform the cooling process to cool the fusing member every predetermined timing when the image erasing process is performed.

Abstract: A capacitive load drive circuit, which may be embodied in a printer, includes capacitive elements; a first circuit substrate, on which is installed a control signal supply unit that generates control signals; a second circuit substrate, on which is installed a circuit that charges or discharges the capacitive elements according to the control signals; and a flexible flat cable, on which is formed wirings including control wiring, which transmits the control signals from the first to the second circuit substrate, and a wiring, which supplies power supply and ground voltages to the second circuit substrate. A total path length of the wirings between the first and second circuit substrates is shorter than the total path length of the wiring between the second circuit substrate and each of the capacitive elements.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, an opening/closing portion that is opened or closed relative to the apparatus main body, a first member configured to move as the opening/closing portion is opened or closed, a second member that contacts the first contact portion in the first member and interlocks with the first member, a sensor configured to generate a signal corresponding to a position of the second member, and a recess portion that is provided in one of the first contact portion and the second contact portion and engages with another portion of the first contact portion and the second contact portion, in which the recess portion has a surface inclined relative to a movement direction of the first contact portion.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including a plurality of paper feeding cassettes, a paper detecting sensor, a detecting sensor, a paper feeding switching determination part, and a system control part. The paper feeding switching determination part confirms a state change in the paper feeding cassettes, after the elapse of awaiting time until a start of determination of whether or not switching of paper feeding is possible, if it is determined that a document stored in the paper feeding cassettes runs out, based on an operating condition of the apparatus, a change in detection results by the paper feeding detecting sensor, and detection results by the detecting sensor, and determines whether or not the switching of paper feeding is possible. The system control part controls the switching of paper feeding based on the determination results by the paper feeding switching determination part.

Abstract: A printing device includes a paper medium print mode configured to execute printing on a paper medium; and a textile print mode configured to execute printing on a fabric medium, a print resolution in the textile print mode being lower than a print resolution in the paper medium print mode.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including a storage part, a feeding roller, a printing head, a core driving device, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute a feeding process, a printing process, a taking-up process, and a torque correction process. In the feeding process, the feeding roller is driven to feed the print-receiving tape fed out from the print-receiving tape roll. In the printing process the printing head is controlled to form a desired print, thereby a printed tape is formed. In the taking-up process, the core driving device is driven to sequentially take up the printed tape around an outer circumferential portion of a second core. In the torque correction process, a drive torque of the core driving device is corrected from a first drive torque to a second drive torque corresponding to a tape width of the print-receiving tape.

Abstract: A paper feed device is disposed near an opening formed on a housing of for an image forming apparatus. The paper feed device includes a paper feed tray on which papers can be stacked, upper and lower guide plates disposed on a downstream side from the opening to form a paper transfer path therebetween, a drive shaft extended along a paper width direction perpendicular to the paper transfer direction, a paper feed roller attached to the drive shaft for feeding out a paper from the paper feed tray to the paper feed path, and a pair of elastic rollers coaxially attached to the drive shaft on either side of the paper feed roller. The pair of elastic rollers covers a space between the upper and lower guide plates. Each diameter of the elastic rollers is made slightly smaller than a diameter of the paper feed roller.