Abstract: An ink set for inkjet recording includes a base ink which contains at least one polymerizable compound selected from the group consisting of a monofunctional polymerizable compound and a difunctional polymerizable compound and an image recording ink which contains a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a chiral compound. An image recording method uses the ink set.

Abstract: There is provided a tank including: a wall defining a liquid storage chamber, the wall including: an upper wall defining an upper end of the liquid storage chamber, a lower wall defining a lower end of the liquid storage chamber, and an erected wall between the upper wall and the lower wall and through which the liquid inside the liquid storage chamber is visible from outside of the tank; an inlet penetrating through the upper wall or the erected wall; and an outlet, wherein the lower wall includes an upper stage wall making contact with the erected wall; a lower stage wall located at a position separated and away from the erected wall and below the upper stage wall; and a connecting wall connecting the upper and lower stage walls; and the outlet is disposed below the upper stage wall.

Abstract: A setting device for a print engine is configured to cause the print engine to print a specific image including a first image to be printed using first nozzles of a first head unit and a second image to be printed using second nozzles of a second head unit, receive relative position information determined based on the printed specific image, the relative position information including information indicating a positional deviation amount in a specific direction between the first nozzles and the second nozzles, and set, based on the relative position information, use nozzles to be used for printing and non-use nozzles not to be used for printing among the first nozzles and the second nozzles within a range in which a first range where the first nozzles are located and a second range where the second nozzles are located overlap with each other.

Abstract: A liquid composition contains a coloring material, an organic solvent, a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 below, a resin, and water, wherein the contact angle of water against a liquid composition film formed by attaching the liquid composition to a non-permeable printing medium is 60 degrees or less, where n represents an integer of from 4 to 10.

Abstract: There is provided an ink discharging apparatus including: a conveyor, a head, and a heater. The water-based ink for recording includes: a resin-dispersed pigment, resin fine particles of which glass transition temperature is not less than 33° C., water, and an organic solvent including a specific organic solvent of which saturation vapor pressure at 20° C. is not less than 0.03 hPa. The ink discharging apparatus satisfies the following condition (I): 6?(?/?)×1000?31. In the condition (I), ? (° C.) is the glass transition temperature of the resin fine particles, and ? (J/cm2) is an irradiation energy, radiated from the heater, per unit area of the recording medium.

Abstract: Provided are a textile printing ink set including a pretreatment liquid including a cationic compound having a molecular weight per cationic valence of 150 to 220, and an ink composition including a water-insoluble dye, a dispersing agent, and water, wherein the dispersing agent is at least one selected from the group consisting of a urethane resin, a urea resin, and a urethane-urea resin; and a textile printing method.

Abstract: A substrate joined body including: a first substrate; a second substrate; an organic film that comprises silicon and carbon and joins the first substrate and the second substrate; and a protective film that comprises an inorganic element and is formed over the organic film from at least a part of the surface of the first substrate and at least a part of the surface of the second substrate, wherein the protective film comprises a region in which the ratio of carbon to silicon based on atomic percentage is from 0.0 to 5.0 in a region within 50 nm in a thickness direction from a surface of the organic film on the protective film side, when the surface is measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

Abstract: There are provided a head chip, a liquid jet head, and a liquid jet recording device each capable of ensuring an electrical reliability, and enhancing the durability. The head chip according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an actuator plate having ejection channels and non-ejection channels extending in a Z direction and arranged alternately in an X direction, and a nozzle plate which has nozzle holes respectively communicated with the ejection channels, and faces the actuator plate. The non-ejection channels are terminated at positions separated from a lower end surface of the actuator plate. The ejection channels open on a lower end surface of the actuator plate.

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus is provided with a tank that stores ink, a print head that performs print operation by ejecting ink supplied from the tank, a circulation unit that establishes a circulating state to circulate ink in a circulation path if print operation is performed and establishes a stopped state to stop circulation of ink if print operation is terminated, and a deaeration unit that performs deaeration operation to deaerate ink inside the circulation path. The apparatus includes an estimation unit that estimates a dissolved gas amount in ink inside the circulation path based on dissolved gas amounts increased in the circulating state and in the stopped state, respectively, and a control unit that causes the deaeration unit to execute deaeration operation after completion of print operation if the dissolved gas amount estimated by the estimation unit exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A method and device are provided for marking electrical devices which can be arranged in a row on a support rail, with the aid of a laser head, wherein the support rail is pivotable about its longitudinal axis and the laser head is guided such that it can be moved at least along the longitudinal axis of the support rail. A number of marking instructions, each including a marking content and a position and an orientation of the surface to which the marking content is to be applied are specified. An image of at least a section of the support rail and of at least one electrical device are created from an image capture device and at least one of the positions at which one of the marking contents is to be applied is corrected based on an evaluation of the image. The marking instructions are grouped into marking levels in such a way that all marking instructions of one marking level can be applied by the laser head without a movement of the laser head or the support rail.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a first liquid ejecting head configured to eject a liquid to an ejection direction, a sub-carriage that holds the first liquid ejecting head, and a carriage that holds the sub-carriage. The sub-carriage includes: a first member that is thermally conductive and holds the first liquid ejecting head; and a heating section provided in the first member. The first liquid ejecting head includes a first side wall facing the first member. The first member is located between the heating section and the first side wall when viewed in the ejection direction.

Abstract: Provided are an active energy ray-curable ink including a photopolymerization initiator including a compound represented by Formula (1) and at least one of a monomer A composed of a photopolymerizable monomer having a molecular weight of 400 or more or a monomer B composed of a photopolymerizable monomer having a molecular weight of 130 or more and less than 400, and an image recording method. L1 represents an organic group having 20 or less carbon atoms and a valence of n, and n represents an integer of 3 to 8. AO represents an alkyleneoxy group having 2 or 3 carbon atoms, and m represents an integer of 0 to 15. L2 represents a single bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or —NR11—. R11 represents a substituent. X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, and n R1's and n R2's each independently represent a substituent.

Abstract: The trouble of removing a protective film such as a poly-paraxylene film from the part not requiring the protective film is reduced. A method of manufacturing a head chip according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a substrate preparation step of preparing an actuator plate substrate having a jet channel communicated with a nozzle hole configured to jet ink, and a non-jet channel which does not jet the ink, and a protective film formation step of forming a protective film configured to protect a common electrode formed on an inner surface of the jet channel from the ink in a state in which the jet channel is exposed and the non-jet channel is covered after the substrate preparation step.

Abstract: Provided is a jetting driver that can be used for various types of heads with minimal changes. The jetting driver includes: an image board receiving raw image data and generating image data by transforming the raw image data into a form suitable for a type of heads used; and an interface board physically separated from the image board, receiving the image data, and transmitting the image data to the heads through a plurality of channels.

Abstract: Examples describe maintenance scheduling of printhead in an image forming device by monitoring image data processed by an image forming device, determining that the image data processed by the image forming device comprises color image data, and generating a firing signal based on a mode of the image forming device.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head configured to eject a liquid; a liquid flowing portion coupled to the liquid ejecting head and configured to flow the liquid; and a frame that houses the liquid ejecting head and the liquid flowing portion. The frame is provided with a passage hole configured to pass the liquid flowing portion along a depth direction. when viewed in the depth direction, a portion of the liquid flowing portion disposed outside the passage hole is configured to be deformed.

Abstract: Printheads and a method of operating a printhead. In one embodiment, a printhead comprises a plurality of jetting channels, a manifold internal to the printhead that is configured to convey a print fluid from an inlet of the printhead to the jetting channels, and an internal pump disposed at the manifold. The internal pump is configured to draw the print fluid into the manifold through the inlet, and to discharge the print fluid from the manifold to the jetting channels.

Abstract: A fluid package, having a pouch with a compartment apartment delimited by a film and a spout, is provided. The film includes an outer layer, an inner layer, a light-shielding layer, and a bonding layer. An outer periphery of the light-shielding layer is located at a position on an inner side of outer peripheries of the outer layer and the inner layer, at one of a position same as an outer periphery of the container compartment and a position on an outer side with respect to the outer periphery of the container compartment. The light-shielding layer covers an entirety of the container compartment and blocks ultraviolet rays. The bonding layer bonds the outer layer and the inner layer with the light-shielding layer interposed there-between. The bonding layer includes a directly-bonded area, in which the outer layer and the inner layer are directly bonded, in a range surrounding the light-shielding layer.

Abstract: Proposed are a thermal transfer ribbon and a sticker printing method using the same, which can form not only full-color images formed by a color ink part but also points, such as pearl, fluorescent, luminous, sparkling, glass, and metal glitters. The thermal transfer ribbon includes: a color ink part having a yellow ink part (Y), a magenta ink part (M), and a cyan ink part (C); an overlay part forming an overlay layer to protect a printed surface; and at least one point ink part provided between the color ink part and the overlay part.

Abstract: There is provided liquid discharging head including; channel member which includes plates stacked in a first direction and adhered to each other via adhesive, and in which individual channels each including nozzle and pressure chamber communicated with the nozzle is formed. The plates include first plate and second plate adhered to adhesion surface of the first plate via the adhesive. Hollows each construct one of the individual channels are opened in the adhesion surface. The hollows are arranged side by side in second direction orthogonal to the first direction in the adhesion surface, and three or more grooves are formed in the adhesion surface between two of the hollows adjacent to each other in the second direction, each of the three or more grooves extending in third direction which is orthogonal to the first direction and which crosses the second direction.