Abstract: A liquid ejecting head has head units for ejecting a liquid from nozzles onto a medium that is relatively moved in a first direction are arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The head unit includes: a nozzle row in which the nozzles are arranged in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction; a pressure chamber which communicates with the nozzles; a pressure generation element which corresponds to the pressure chamber; a supply liquid chamber which communicates with the pressure chambers and into which the liquid to be supplied to each pressure chamber is introduced; an inflow port through which the liquid flows into the head unit; and an outflow port through which the liquid flows out of the head unit.

Abstract: A de-curling device de-curls a sheet and includes an endless belt, a de-curling roller, a nip width adjusting mechanism, and a belt tension adjusting mechanism. The endless belt is looped around a pair of supporting rollers. The de-curling roller is provided between the pair of supporting rollers and has a first outer circumferential surface pressed against a second outer circumferential surface of the endless belt to form a nip portion at which the endless belt curves along the first outer circumferential surface, the de-curling roller being configured to de-curl the sheet passing through the nip portion. The nip width adjusting mechanism adjusts the nip width by moving the de-curling roller in a direction intersecting the second outer circumferential surface of the endless belt. The belt tension adjusting mechanism adjusts the tension of the endless belt according to the nip width adjusted by the nip width adjusting mechanism.

Abstract: The invention describes a number of methods and apparatus for shortening the inter-message gap on a continuous inkjet printer. Included is a novel phase testing methodology.

Abstract: A printing device includes a printing section including an inkjet head configured to eject ink onto a conveyed roll paper, a conveying section configured to convey the conveyed roll paper, and a control section configured to print an image on the conveyed roll paper with the printing section and the conveying section. The control section has a normal printing mode for printing the image with a plurality of operations based on the printing section and the conveying section and a high-speed printing mode for, during first print, printing the image while omitting or changing a part of the plurality of operations included in the normal printing mode according to the operation.

Abstract: A medium transporting device and a liquid jetting device, which can suppress the lifting of both ends of a medium in a width direction of a medium and can suppress the occurrence of wrinkling of the medium, are provided. The medium transporting device includes a gripping unit that grips a leading end region of a medium, a medium supporting unit that has a first adsorption supporting unit which adsorbs and supports a trailing end region of the medium and a second adsorption supporting unit which adsorbs a non-end region of the medium and generates an adsorption pressure less than an adsorption pressure generated by the first adsorption supporting unit, a medium position moving unit that moves a position in a medium width direction in the medium width direction, and a medium transporting unit that transports the medium.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus (1) includes an image forming section (40), a decurler (20), a changing section (50), a first calculating section (72), storage (60), a second calculating section (73), and a controller (75). The image forming section (40) ejects ink onto a sheet (S). The decurler (20) bends the sheet (S). The changing section (50) changes a bending amount of the sheet (S). The first calculating section (72) calculates an ink ejection rate (?) to the sheet (S) for each of areas of the sheet (S). The storage (60) stores therein first bending information (62) indicating a first target bending amount (?) of a specific area of the sheet (S) corresponding to the ink ejection rate (?) to the specific area. The second calculating section (73) calculates a second target bending amount of each of the areas. The controller (75) controls the changing section (50) based on the second target bending amounts.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing printed matter is provided. The method includes the steps of: irradiating applied droplets of an active energy ray curable composition with an active energy ray having an illuminance less than 0.8 times a maximum gloss illuminance; and applying droplets of the active energy ray curable composition onto the applied droplets irradiated in the irradiating.

Abstract: An electric apparatus for controlling movement of a target object by performing first and second feedback controls, based on a detection signal obtained from detecting the movement of the target object, generates an operation quantity on the target object based on first and second operation quantities for the second feedback control if one of a predetermined target value and an estimated first state quantity of the target object is higher than a first threshold value, and generates the operation quantity on the target object using only the first operation quantity from among the first and the second operation quantities if one of the target value and the first state quantity of the target object is lower than the first threshold value.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nozzle head includes a nozzle plate, a piezoelectric element, an actuator plate, a fixing part, and a conductive part. The nozzle plate includes a plurality of nozzle holes. The piezoelectric element includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes provided alternately and a piezoelectric part provided between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes. The piezoelectric element is provided for each of the plurality of nozzle holes. The actuator plate is provided on opposite side of the nozzle plate from a side to which the plurality of nozzle holes are opened. The fixing part is insulative and provided between each of a plurality of the piezoelectric elements and the actuator plate. The conductive part is conductive and provided between each of a plurality of the piezoelectric elements and the actuator plate.

Abstract: The present disclosure prevents a visible pattern corresponding to the pattern of a mask from being noticeable and enables more appropriate printing. A printing apparatus 10 performing printing by an inkjet scheme includes: an inkjet head 102; and a controller 20, configured to control the operation of a main scan driver 16 and a sub scan driver 18 to perform a main scanning operation multiple times on each position on a medium 50. In the main scanning operation, for at least part of ejection positions serving as ejection targets of ink droplets in the main scanning operation, the controller 20 causes the inkjet head 102 to eject an ink droplet in accordance with a mask for selecting part of the at least part of ejection positions. In the main scanning operation at one time, the controller 20 causes the inkjet head 102 to eject an ink droplet in accordance with a preset first mask.

Abstract: A printing system for printing to a recording medium can include a guide, a printer, and a cleaner. The guide can guide the recording medium and be arranged in a first vertically traveling region. The printer having a print bar with a print head can print to the recording medium. The printer can be arranged in a printing position located in the first vertically traveling region, and be displaced, to facilitate the cleaning of the print head, into a service position located in a second vertically traveling region. The cleaner can be adapted to clean the print head. The cleaner can be arranged in a printing position located in the first vertically traveling region, and be displaced into the service position located in the second vertically traveling region to clean the print head. The cleaning can be automatically or manually performed.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording head that performs recording on a medium, a transport belt that has an clinging surface that cling the medium, and transports the medium to a position facing the recording head, a first charging unit that is in contact with the transport belt to frictionally charge the clinging surface, and a second charging unit that applies a voltage to the transport belt to charge the clinging surface, in which a control unit, which switches between charging of the clinging surface by the first charging unit and charging of the clinging surface by the second charging unit, switches between the charging of the clinging surface by the first charging unit and the charging of the clinging surface by the second charging unit, according to a state of a surface of the medium, which is in contact with the clinging surface.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting portion that performs printing by ejecting a liquid to a medium from a plurality of nozzles, a first mounting portion that is configured to mount a first liquid container that contains the liquid, a second mounting portion that is configured to mount a second liquid container having a liquid containing amount smaller than a liquid containing amount of the first liquid container, a detecting portion that detects a remaining amount of the liquid contained in the first liquid container mounted in the first mounting portion, and a control portion that calculates a remaining amount of the liquid contained in the second liquid container, based on a standard value representing an amount of the liquid contained in the second liquid container and a standard value representing an ejection amount of the liquid ejected from the liquid ejecting portion.

Abstract: A liquid container is configured to be fitted to the carriage of a liquid consumption device including the carriage where a head is provided and that jets, while making the carriage reciprocate, a liquid from the head so as to consume and stores the liquid to be supplied to the head. The liquid container includes: a liquid storage portion configured to store the liquid inside; an undulation reduction portion provided in the liquid storage portion and including a wall surface configured to reduce the undulation of the liquid and be directed in the direction of gravity in a fitting posture where the liquid container is fitted to the carriage; and a support portion configured to support the undulation reduction portion such that the undulation reduction portion is allowed to swing with the liquid and that the movement of the wall surface along the direction of gravity is restricted.

Abstract: One embodiment relates to a liquid discharge head substrate including at least one heat generating resistive element, a first insulating layer covering the heat generating resistive element, a conductive layer disposed on the first insulating layer and overlapping the heat generating resistive element with the first insulating layer interposed therebetween in a plan view with respect to an upper surface of the heat generating resistive element, and a second insulating layer covering an edge of the conductive layer. The edge of the conductive layer has a tapered shape.

Abstract: A curl straightening device includes an endless belt, a curl straightening roller, a nip width adjusting mechanism, and a guide member. The curl straightening roller makes pressure contact with an outer peripheral surface of the endless belt, forming a nip portion, and straightens curl of the sheet which passes through the nip portion. The nip width adjusting mechanism moves the curl straightening roller in a direction away from or close to the endless belt so as to change a nip width. The mechanism includes a supporting holder of the curl straightening roller, and a rotationally moving portion that rotationally moves the roller supporting holder for moving the curl straightening roller. The guide member includes a pair of hanging members that are hung from both ends of the curl straightening roller so as to keep the guide member in constant position and posture relative to the curl straightening roller.

Abstract: An inkjet printing method for decorative surfaces includes jetting an image on a first thermoplastic foil with one or more pigmented free radical UV curable inkjet inks, at least partially UV curing the jetted image on the first thermoplastic foil, inserting a layer containing a vinylchloride-vinylacetate-vinylalcohol copolymer between a second thermoplastic foil and the first thermoplastic foil with the at least partially UV cured image facing the layer containing the vinylchloride-vinylacetate-vinylalcohol copolymer. At least one of the first and second thermoplastic foils is a transparent thermoplastic foil. The one or more pigmented free radical UV curable inkjet inks contains a polymerizable composition having 30 to 90 wt % of one or more compounds with one ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable group; 10 to 70 wt % of one or more compounds with two ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable groups; and 0 to 10 wt % of one or more compounds with three or more ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable groups.

Abstract: There is provided a droplet deposition apparatus comprising: control circuitry configured to generate a common drive waveform; storage to store data, wherein the storage comprises a buffer to store scheduled image data relating to one or more pixels; a droplet deposition head having one or more actuator elements configured to be driven in response to drive pulses derived from the common drive waveform; and wherein the common drive waveform comprises a plurality of pixel periods comprising a firing phase and a non-firing phase, each firing phase comprising a firing pulse and each non-firing phase comprising a non-firing pulse, wherein the characteristics of each non-firing pulse are defined in response to the data in storage, and wherein, the firing pulse of a first pixel period is applied as a drive pulse to an actuator element based on the scheduled image data relating to a first pixel, and wherein the non-firing pulse of the first pixel period is applied as a drive pulse to the actuator element based on pas

Abstract: The method and apparatus for protecting the printhead in a thermal printer includes preparing the printer for label dispensing and then covering the printhead such that the label run or thermal material passing over the same does not contact the printhead. The cover for the printhead can take various forms. In one implementation, the cover is a sleeve configured to fit over the entire printhead assembly of the thermal printer. The printhead cover has a low coefficient of friction.

Abstract: An object is to identify an abnormal mounted state of a liquid supply unit to a liquid ejection apparatus. There is provided a liquid supply unit configured to supply a liquid to a liquid ejection apparatus that comprises a first electrode assembly including a first electrode and a second electrode; an engagement structure; and a mounting structure which the liquid supply unit is mounted to. The liquid supply unit comprises a liquid supply portion; an engaged structure configured to be engaged with the engagement structure in a mounted state and thereby restrict a motion of the liquid supply unit in a first direction that is a direction of dismounting the liquid supply unit; and an electrically conductive portion provided in the engaged structure.