Abstract: This invention provides a cancer antigen peptide that can be administered to a wide range of cancer patients in the form of a peptide vaccine for cancer without the need for HLA typing and regardless of the HLA types of patients. Such peptide having 5 linked CTL epitopes is obtained by linking 5 CTL epitope peptides selected from among CTL epitope peptides derived from tumor antigen molecules that are reported to have the capacity for CTL induction via linkers.

Abstract: A sheet processing device includes a housing, a sheet stacking portion, a sheet discharge portion, a contact member, a conveyance unit, and an association mechanism. A sheet discharge portion is disposed in the housing and faces a space over the sheet stacking portion, the sheet discharge portion including a pair of discharge rollers. The contact member is disposed in the sheet discharge portion, and is movable to project into a sheet conveyance passage to come into contact with a surface of the sheet. The conveyance unit is selectively mounted in the space of the housing, and is configured to receive a sheet delivered by the pair of discharge rollers and convey the sheet. The association mechanism is operable to cause the contact member to recede from the sheet conveyance passage in association with the mounting of the conveyance unit in the housing.

Abstract: A printing apparatus is provided in which a position of a joint of a first yellow nozzle group and a second yellow nozzle group in a predetermined direction is offset from a position of a joint of a first magenta nozzle group and a second magenta nozzle group in a predetermined position and a position of a joint of a first cyan nozzle group and a second cyan nozzle group in the predetermined position, and the position of the joint of the first magenta nozzle group and the second magenta nozzle group in the predetermined position is the same as the position of the joint of the first cyan nozzle group and the second cyan nozzle group in the predetermined direction.

Abstract: A printing apparatus including a head section which discharges a color ink which is cured due to irradiation of light and a clear ink which is cured due to the irradiation of light, an irradiation section which irradiates the light, and a storage section which stores a relationship between a total amount of color duty which is an amount of the color ink which is discharged per unit region and clear duty which is an amount of the clear ink which is discharged per unit region, and glossiness of an image which is printed using the color ink and the clear ink which have been discharged, wherein, according to the color duty in a certain region in the image, the clear duty in the region is determined based on the relationship so that the glossiness of the image is a predetermined value.

Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a transport unit which transports a medium in a transport direction, a first head, a first light source which is provided further to the downstream side in the transport direction than the first head, a second head which is provided further to the downstream side in the transport direction than the first head and the first light source, and a second light source which is provided further to the downstream side in the transport direction than the second head and which irradiates light with a stronger irradiation energy than the irradiation energy of the first light source, in which the first head ejects ink of one color of any among magenta ink, cyan ink, and black ink onto a medium, and the second head ejects yellow ink onto the medium.

Abstract: The necessity of calculating a SaaS usage fee by a SaaS service provider is eliminated, and operation efficiency of the SaaS service provider is improved. When a SaaS user 10 uses a SaaS 14, the used volume thereof is accumulated in an operation-system database 21 through a SaaS execution infrastructure 17. When a usage-fee calculation date of the SaaS 14 comes, a business infrastructure 18 acquires used-volume information from an operation infrastructure 19 and calculates a usage fee of the SaaS 14 in accordance with application contents of the SaaS user 10 and usage cost of the SaaS execution infrastructure 17, the business infrastructure 18, and the operation infrastructure 19 used by the SaaS service provider 12 for realizing the SaaS 14.

Abstract: A multilayer wiring board has a strip structure comprising a core material in which a ground pattern is disposed on one side of an insulating layer and a strip line is disposed on the other side, a prepreg disposed on the strip line of the core material, and a ground pattern disposed on the prepreg. In this multilayer wiring board, the core material is formed with a high frequency-adaptive base material, and the prepreg is formed with a general-purpose material.

Abstract: A printing apparatus having a head unit that ejects a yellow UV curable-type ink onto a medium, an irradiating section that irradiates the UV light, and a controller that works as follows: when the first mode is set, control is carried out so that, after the UV light with the first energy is irradiated on the UV curable-type ink ejected onto each unit area of the medium, the UV light with the second energy higher than the first energy is irradiated; when the second mode is set for printing an image with a glossiness higher than that of the image printed according to the first mode, control is carried out so that the UV light with an energy higher than that of the first energy is irradiated on the UV curable-type ink ejected on unit area of the medium.

Abstract: To minimize any decrease in image quality, even in an instance in which there is a displacement in a landing position of a fluid in a region in which nozzle rows overlap, (A) a fluid-ejecting device including: a first nozzle column; (B) a second nozzle column, the second nozzle column being arranged so as to form an overlapping region; and (C) a control part for causing the fluid to be ejected so that in each of a plurality of raster lines arranged in a row in the predetermined direction in the overlapping region, dots to be formed are apportioned between the first nozzles and the second nozzles; the control part causing the fluid to be ejected so that there are produced.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharging apparatus including: a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row in which nozzles for discharging liquid are lined up, and the second nozzle row is disposed by forming an overlapped region in which an end portion of one side in a predetermined direction is overlapped with an end portion of the other side in the predetermined direction of the first nozzle row; and a control unit which discharges liquid from the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row depending on input data of an image and a recording duty for discharging liquid, increases a recording duty in the overlapped region with respect to a recording duty in a non-overlapped region which is a region other than the overlapped region, and differentiates increased amounts of the recording duty in the overlapped region from each other depending on the input data.

Abstract: A printing method including: ejecting an ink which includes a designated compound is ejected from a first nozzle row which is relatively move in an intersection direction intersecting a direction along the nozzle row with respect to a medium, ejecting the ink while relatively moving in the intersection direction to the medium, from the end portion of a second nozzle row which is overlapped with the end portion of the first nozzle row in a direction along the nozzle row direction, wherein when nozzles of the nozzle rows which are partly overlapped with each other in a direction along the nozzle row share with each other to form a common dot line, the amount of ink ejected per unit area in the partly overlapping region is larger than the amount of ink ejected per unit area in a non-overlapping region.

Abstract: A printer or the like is provided that can increase adhesiveness between cured photo curable ink and a print medium as necessary. The printer includes a discharge unit 8 that discharges UV ink on a print medium S, an ultraviolet ray irradiation unit 15 that is set to a first mode in which, of a first light for curing the UV ink and a second light with higher curing properties than the first light, only the first light is irradiated on the print medium S on which the UV ink has been discharged, or a second mode in which at least the second light is irradiated, an adhesiveness information acquisition unit that acquires adhesiveness information related to ink adhesiveness which is adhesiveness between the UV ink and the print medium S when the UV ink is cured using the first light, and a control unit that sets the ultraviolet ray irradiation unit 15 to the second mode when the acquired adhesiveness information is designated information related to low ink adhesiveness.

Abstract: A printer or the like is provided that can perform wettability enhancement treatment as necessary. The printer includes a discharge unit 8 that discharges UV ink on a printing surface Sa of a print medium S, a corona treater 18 that, before discharging of the UV ink by the discharge unit 8, is set to a treating state that performs corona treatment that enhances wettability in relation to the UV ink, or a non-treating state that does not perform the corona treatment, a wettability information acquisition unit that acquires wettability information related to the wettability of the printing surface Sa for which corona treatment has not been performed, and a control unit that sets the corona treater 18 to the treating state when the acquired wettability information is designated information related to low wettability, and that sets the corona treater 18 to the non-treating state when the acquired wettability information is not the designated information.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a nozzle that ejects, onto a medium, photo-curing ink cured when irradiated with light, and an irradiation unit that irradiates, with the light, the photo-curing ink landed on the medium. Here, when printing an image on the medium by coating with the photo-curing ink, the photo-curing ink is ejected from the nozzle so that the photo-curing ink is coated on the medium with a smaller amount of ink than normally coated in a region inside an outer border of the image, and the photo-curing ink is cured by irradiating the image with the light from the irradiation unit.

Abstract: In a method of adding a gloss control table, first base material information formed from a first gloss control table of a first base material and a first pattern measurement value of a test pattern formed on the first base material, and second base material information formed from a second gloss control table of a second base material and a second pattern measurement value of a test pattern formed on the second base material, are stored in the storage unit. The method includes: measuring a pattern of new base material for measuring the test pattern formed using a predetermined amount of ink of a new recording medium, and interpolating the gloss control tables for obtaining a new gloss control table of the new base material using a predetermined measured value interpolation method based on the first base material information and the second base material information.

Abstract: To prevent uneven gloss on a printed image in a printing apparatus in which light-curable ink is used, a printing apparatus is provided. The printing apparatus includes a controller controls medium-conveying parts for conveying a medium so that the medium supplied from an upstream side is released on a downstream side; nozzles for discharging ink droplets cured by light irradiation onto the medium; a light-irradiation part for irradiating the medium with light; and medium-deforming parts arranged on the downstream side of the nozzles, holding the medium from the front and back, and deforming the medium so that an irregular shape is formed in cross section; the medium is conveyed downstream by the medium-conveying parts after the medium is deformed by the medium-deforming parts; droplets of ink are discharged from the nozzles to form an image on the surface of the medium; and the ink droplets discharged onto the medium are irradiated with light by the light-irradiation part to cure the droplets.

Abstract: To well prevent a conductive contact from being peeled off with a simple structure, a rear end portion of the conductive contact to which a cable-shaped signal transmission medium is coupled is directly held by a contact engaging part. Even when an external force due to so-called flapping or the like is added from the cable-shaped signal transmission medium to the conductive contact, the conductive contact is well prevented from being peeled off. Also, a guide inclined surface for positioning the cable-shaped signal transmission medium is provided at the contact engaging part, and the cable-shaped signal transmission medium can be stably mounted along the guide inclined surface of the contact engaging part, thereby easily and accurately performing operations at the time of mounting, such as positioning.

Abstract: A plurality of test patterns that are disposed in a predetermined direction are printed using dot arrays formed along an intersecting direction interesting with the predetermined direction using nozzles included in an overlapping portion of a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array, a plurality of rules lined in the predetermined direction are printed so as to be adjacent to the test patterns using nozzles included in the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array, density correction values are computed according to density of each of raster lines of the test patterns, and the positions of nozzles specified from the positions of rules are associated with the positions of the raster lines for which density correction values are computed.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharging apparatus including: a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row in which nozzles for discharging liquid are lined up in a predetermined direction; and a control unit, in which the control unit, when a value of the input data of the image is at least in a partial range, obtains a corrected discharging rate which is a discharging rate smaller than a discharging rate in the non-overlapped region with respect to the value of the input data at least in the partial range of the input data, and discharges the liquid from the nozzles of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row depending on the corrected discharging rate, and a predetermined recording duty which is a recording duty higher than a recording duty in the non-overlapped region, in the overlapped region.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a supporting member which supports a medium; a transport device which transports the medium; first to fourth heads which eject first to fourth radiation curable type inks; a first irradiation section; a second irradiation section; a third irradiation section; and a fourth irradiation section which is arranged on the downstream side of the fourth head, in which the radiation rays respectively irradiated from the first irradiation section to the third irradiation section have a peak wavelength of 350 nm to 450 nm, and coloring materials included in the third ink and the fourth ink have higher absorption properties of the radiation rays with the peak wavelength than coloring materials included in the first ink and the second ink.