Abstract: A printing system having: a print head arranged with a predetermined nip for printing to a recording medium; a sensor positioned upstream of the print head, and configured to detect possible joints of the recording medium; a spacer arranged in a region of the print head, the spacer being configured to be displaceable to deflect the recording medium and increasing a distance between the print head and recording medium; an actuator to displace the spacer element; and a controller configured to activate the actuator to displace the spacer upon detection of a joint by the sensor.

Abstract: Provided herein is a printing apparatus including a printhead movable between a first position and a second position. The printhead includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate define at least a first burn line and a second burn line, respectively, of heating elements disposed adjacent to a first edge and a second edge, respectively of the printhead. A printhead bracket receives the printhead in one of the first position or the second position. In the first position, the heating elements of the first burn line perform a printing operation and the printhead bracket is configured to preclude operation of the heating elements of the second burn line. In the second position, the heating elements of the second burn line perform a printing operation, and the printhead bracket is configured to preclude operation of the heating elements of the first burn line.

Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluidic ejection die is described. The die includes an array of nozzles. Each nozzle includes an ejection chamber, an opening, and a fluid actuator disposed within the ejection chamber. Each nozzle also includes an inlet passage to deliver fluid into the ejection chamber and an outlet passage to deliver fluid out of the ejection chamber. The fluidic ejection die also includes an array of channels divided into inlet channels and outlet channels. Each inlet channel is fluidly connected to a respective plurality of inlet passages and each outlet channel is fluidly connected to a respective plurality of outlet passages.

Abstract: A jetting assembly for ejecting a print material includes an actuator for applying a pressure to the print material, and further includes jetting assembly block that defines a pump chamber, a converging part (i.e., a narrowing taper), and a nozzle bore that ends or terminates in a nozzle from which a drop of the print material is ejected. An implementation can further include a throat and a diverging part that, together with the converging part, forms a venturi. The converging part results in an increase in a velocity of the print material and a decrease in pressure as the print material passes an supply port of a supply channel. The decrease in pressure can result in a replacement of at least a portion of the drop volume within the throat or the nozzle bore even before the drop is ejected from the nozzle.

Abstract: A print engine performs printing on a print medium conveyed by a conveyor. The cutter cuts the print medium conveyed by the conveyor. The first sensor is provided upstream of the cutter in the conveyance direction and detects a leading end and a trailing end of the print medium. The second sensor detects a conveyance amount of the print medium conveyed by the conveyor. The controller determines a print medium length that is a length of the print medium in the conveyance direction, based on the conveyance amount detected by the second sensor from when the first sensor detects the leading end of the print medium until when the first sensor detects the trailing end of the print medium, determines a cutting position of the print medium based on the determined print medium length, and controls the cutter to cut the print medium at the determined cutting positon.

Abstract: A cleaning device includes a cleaning unit which removes foreign matter adhered on a conveyance face of a conveyance member conveying a sheet, by using a belt shaped web; and a unit moving mechanism which displaces the cleaning unit to a cleaning position where the cleaning unit comes into contact with the conveyance face and to a separation position separated away from the cleaning position. The cleaning unit includes a delivery roller delivering the web, a pressure roller bringing the web pressure-contact with the conveyance face and a winding roller winding the web passed the conveyance face. The cleaning unit is tilted such that a cleaning face of the web between the pressure roller and the winding roller faces upward as the cleaning unit is displaced from the cleaning position to the separation position.

Abstract: A liquid discharge device includes a case receiving a cartridge having a first liquid chamber, a tank having a second liquid chamber, a head, a liquid level sensor and a controller configured to: based on receiving, from the liquid level sensor, a second signal after receiving a first signal, determine a total liquid amount Vt as a fixed value A; receive a second discharge instruction; update a second count value with a value equivalent to an amount of the liquid instructed to be discharged by the second discharge instruction; subtract the second count value from the total liquid amount Vt determined as the fixed value A to calculate the total liquid amount Vt; and determine the liquid amounts Vc and Vs based on the obtained total liquid amount Vt.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing printed matter includes applying a curable composition to a water-absorptive substrate, wherein the curable composition has a moisture content ratio of 0.4 percent by mass or less.

Abstract: A production process and a related device comprises a formation process comprising: contacting a first liquid material and a second liquid material with each other at a contact point in a gas atmosphere, wherein at the contact point at least one of the first liquid material and the second liquid material is provided as a liquid jet propagating in a direction, to provide at the contact point a third jet of a coalesced third material propagating in a third direction.

Abstract: There is provided a transfer type ink jet recording apparatus including: an image forming section forming an image by applying, onto a transfer body, a reaction liquid for increasing a viscosity of ink and ink containing an aqueous liquid medium and a coloring material; a liquid absorbing section having a porous body that absorbs at least a part of a liquid component from the formed image; a heating section heating the image treated by the porous body; a transfer section that transfers the heated image onto a recording medium; and a deterioration prevention treatment section including a deterioration preventing agent applying device that applies, onto the porous body provided in the liquid absorbing section, a deterioration preventing agent that prevents deterioration of the transfer body.

Abstract: In some examples, a circuit package includes a packaging, and a circuit device in the packaging, where the packaging comprises a first EMC having a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), and a second EMC having a second CTE higher than the first CTE. The second EMC is on the first EMC that has gelled over time.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a channel member including individual channels that include nozzles and pressure chambers communicating with the nozzles and at least part of a first common channel communicating with the individual channels; a vibration plate overlapping in a first direction with the channel member and covering the pressure chambers; driving elements placed on a surface of the vibration plate at a side opposite to the pressure chambers in the first direction; and a protection substrate disposed on the surface of the vibration plate, where the driving elements are placed, at the side opposite to the pressure chambers and covering the driving elements, wherein the protection substrate includes a second common channel that is common to the individual channels and the channel member includes a connection channel connecting the individual channels and the second common channel.

Abstract: An example of a print system including a dryer to dry a sheet of paper. The print system includes a media feeder to feed the sheet of paper into the dryer and a controller to vary a speed of the media feeder. The print system includes a communication interface to receive data associated with an image to print on the sheet of paper and a processor. The processor is coupled to the controller and the communication interface. The processor is to determine a first density index for a first portion of the image and to determine a second density index for a second portion of the image. The processor is to adjust the speed of the media feeder via the controller based on the first density index and the second density index.

Abstract: A pressureless high-frequency suspension thermal transfer printer is disclosed, in which a high-frequency signal of 60-100 Hz is generated by a high-frequency switching power supply, and a high-frequency energy conversion motor is driven to convert a signal into high-frequency mechanical vibration which produces 60-100 Hz high-frequency waves which propagate in a longitudinally diffused manner in which an entire transfer printing surface is covered in a direction that is perpendicular to the transfer printing surface, avoiding wasteful loss in the direction of lateral propagation parallel to the transfer printing surface, so that the high-frequency waves act on a molecular movement during the transfer printing process to the greatest extent, which effectively changes a state of the molecular movement, enhances a molecular penetration force, realizes replacement of physical pressure with the high-frequency waves, completely changes a thermal transfer printing process, and achieves pressureless thermal transfer

Abstract: A printer includes a gap adjustment unit that displaces a carriage in a Z-axis direction in which a gap changes. The gap adjustment unit has a sliding member that moves in a width direction integrally with the carriage, and a cam member that is interposed between the carriage and the sliding member and has a stepped portion in which a maintenance surface that maintains a position of the carriage in the Z-axis direction and an adjustment surface that changes the position of the carriage in the Z-axis direction are alternately arranged in the width direction. The gap adjustment unit is configured such that the cam member slides in the width direction with respect to the carriage and the sliding member to change the gap. The gap adjustment unit includes a buffer unit that decreases a displacement speed of the carriage in the Z-axis direction when the gap is reduced.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a recording element substrate including a discharge port configured to discharge a liquid, a pressure generating element configured to pressurize the liquid to discharge the liquid, and an electric connecting portion connected to the pressure generating element through an electric wiring and configured to supply power for driving the pressure generating element to the pressure generating element. The liquid discharge head includes a first recessed portion and a second recessed portion formed in a range from a back surface of a discharge port surface in which the discharge port of the recording element substrate is formed up to the electric connecting portion, and a communicating portion configured to connect a space formed within the first recessed portion and a space formed within the second recessed portion by allowing the first recessed portion and the second recessed portion to communicate with each other.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes: individual passages each having a nozzle; supply liquid passages each communicating with an individual inlet of a corresponding one of the individual passages; return liquid passages each communicating with an individual outlet of a corresponding one of the individual passages; a first supply coupling liquid passage coupling the supply liquid passages to each other and communicating with a first inlet of each of the supply liquid passages; and a second supply coupling liquid passage coupling the supply liquid passages to each other and communicating with a second inlet of each of the supply liquid passages. In each of the supply liquid passages, the individual inlet of the corresponding one of the individual passages is located between the first inlet and the second inlet.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes an individual flow passage member; and a common flow passage member joined to the individual flow passage member in a first direction. The individual flow passage member has nozzle groups formed on a surface on a side opposite to the common flow passage member and connecting hole groups formed on a surface on a side of the common flow passage member; and the common flow passage member has manifold flow passages corresponding to the connecting hole groups respectively. Each of the nozzle groups includes nozzles aligned in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and each of the connecting hole groups includes connecting holes aligned in the second direction and connected to the nozzles respectively. Each of the manifold flow passages extends in the second direction and is connected to the nozzles via the connecting holes.

Abstract: A printing apparatus prints by discharging ink to a transfer member from a first printhead, discharging a transfer accelerator to the ink from a second printhead, and transferring an image formed on the transfer member to a print medium. When inspecting a discharge state of each of plural nozzles provided in each of the first and second printheads, the apparatus controls the second printhead so as to discharge the transfer accelerator from at least one nozzle of the second printhead to a discharge area of the transfer member to which the ink is discharged by the first printhead for inspection of the discharge states of the plural nozzles of the first printhead, while inspecting a discharge state of a nozzle different from the at least one nozzle of the second printhead by discharging the transfer accelerator from the nozzle.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes: a conveyer configured to convey a print medium; an inkjet head configured to eject ink to the print medium conveyed by the conveyer; a flow adjuster configured to adjust strength of an air flow in an under-head space which is a space between the inkjet head and the conveyer; and a controller configured to control the flow adjuster such that the smaller a satellite droplet generated from the ink ejected by the inkjet head is, the stronger the air flow in the under-head space is.