Abstract: A printing device prints an object on a medium by inkjet printing. The printing device includes: a glossy ink head that discharges ink droplets of a glossy ink having a glossy color; and a main scan driver that prompts the glossy ink head to perform main scans in which the glossy ink head discharges the ink droplets while moving in a predetermined main scanning direction. The glossy ink contains a glossy pigment. In the main scans, the glossy ink head discharges the ink droplets plural times while moving in the main scanning direction to form ink dots at positions on the medium aligned in the main scanning direction. The ink droplets discharged from the glossy ink head each have a volume constituting a size that allows for contact on the medium between any ones of dots formed in each one of the main scans.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object that maintains a satisfactory visual color quality when the object is observed at different positions or through different angles, and a three-dimensional shaping apparatus for and a three-dimensional shaping method of shaping such a three-dimensional object are provided. The three-dimensional object includes: a shaping base having a first and second outer surfaces adjacent to each other at an adjacent angle; a first colored layer formed on the first outer surface and including a transparent material colored in a first color; a second colored layer formed on the second outer surface and including a transparent material colored in a second color different from the first color; and a partition layer interposed between the side surfaces of the first colored layer and the second colored layer. The partition layer is opaque and has one of the first color, the second color, and an achromatic color.

Abstract: A forming device that forms a 3D object includes a head section including a plurality of nozzle rows, and a scanning driving section that causes the head section to carry out a scanning operation; where the head section includes a first nozzle row group, a second nozzle row group, and a support nozzle row group; in an operation of at least one of the forming modes, the forming device forms at least one part of the 3D object using the first nozzle row group and the second nozzle row group and forms a support layer in a periphery of the 3D object; and when a maximum value of a material dischargeable in unit time in one scanning operation is defined as a material discharging ability, the material discharging ability of the support nozzle row group is greater than the material discharging ability of the first nozzle row group.

Abstract: A printing device prints an object on a medium by inkjet printing. The printing device includes: a solid print nozzle discharging solid-color printing ink; a color printing nozzle discharging color printing ink; and a main scan driver prompting the nozzles to perform main scans in which the nozzles discharge the ink droplets while moving in a main scanning direction previously set, wherein with a density of ink dots formed on the medium by one nozzle in a preset number of the main scans being defined as a main scan dot density, the main scan driver prompting the solid print nozzle to form ink dots at a first main scan dot density, the main scan driver further prompting the color printing nozzle to form ink dots at a second main scan dot density lower than the first main scan dot density.

Abstract: A method for forming a three-dimensional object by extruding ink droplets from ink-jet heads includes forming an inner build region of the object. A colored region is formed outside of the inner build region so as to color the object. A support region is formed outside of the colored region so as to support the object while the object is being formed. An intermediate region is formed between the inner build region and the colored region. The intermediate region is formed in such a manner that affinity between the intermediate region and the inner build region and affinity between the intermediate region and the colored region are higher than affinity between the colored region and the support region.

Abstract: A method for forming a three-dimensional object by extruding ink droplets from ink-jet heads includes forming an inner build region of the object. A colored region is formed outside of the inner build region so as to color the object. A support region is formed outside of the colored region so as to support the object while the object is being formed. An intermediate region is formed between the inner build region and the colored region. The intermediate region is formed in such a manner that affinity between the intermediate region and the inner build region and affinity between the intermediate region and the colored region are higher than affinity between the colored region and the support region.

Abstract: A forming apparatus for forming a three-dimensional object is provided. The forming apparatus includes: a data storage, storing multiple pieces of slice data; a discharge head, discharging a forming material; a forming platform; a main scan driver, i.e., a first direction scan driver, driving the discharge head to perform a main scan as a first direction scan; and a material-accumulating direction driver, changing a head-platform distance between the discharge head and the forming platform. The main scan driver, based on a respective one of the multiple pieces of slice data, drives the discharge head to perform a plurality of the main scans at the same position in the three-dimensional object currently formed.

Abstract: This calorie measurement device is provided with the following: a light-emission unit that exposes a food article to light that contains near-infrared wavelengths; a light-reception unit that receives transmitted light that had passed through the food article and/or reflected light that was reflected by the food article; a correction unit that computes a base absorbance for the food article on the basis of the transmitted and/or reflected light and corrects the light intensity measured by the light-reception unit and/or the computed base absorbance on the basis of affecting factors, said affecting factors being those that affect the absorption and reflection of light by the food article but are essentially unaffected by the light-absorption and light-reflection properties of the components of the food article; and an analysis unit that computes an analysis value indicating the caloric content of the food article on the basis of the corrected light intensity measured by the light-reception unit and/or the corr

Abstract: A building apparatus having a configuration more suitable for building an object is provided. The building apparatus is configured to build an object in three-dimensional by ejecting ink. The building apparatus includes an ink container holder 202 that is a first container holder for holding an ink container 302 that is a first ink container, an ink container holder 204 that is a second container holder for holding an ink container 304 that is a second ink container, a first ejection head for ejecting ink supplied from the ink container 302, and a second ejection head for ejecting ink supplied from the ink container 304. The capacity of the ink container 302 is smaller than the capacity of the ink container 304.

Abstract: This food-article analysis device is provided with a light-reception/detection unit that receives near-infrared light reflected off of at least one measurement region of a measurement target and/or near-infrared light that has passed through at least one measurement region of said measurement target and generates a signal corresponding to the intensity of the received light, a computation unit that computes sectional nutrition information containing information regarding the caloric content of at least one measurement region and/or information regarding the components thereof on the basis of the signal supplied by the light-reception/detection unit and generates a distribution image by combining a plurality of pieces of sectional nutrition information relating to a plurality of measurement regions with position information for said measurement regions, and a display unit that displays the distribution image supplied by the computation unit.

Abstract: A printing device prints an object on a medium by inkjet printing. The printing device includes: a solid print nozzle discharging solid-color printing ink; a color printing nozzle discharging color printing ink; and a main scan driver prompting the nozzles to perform main scans in which the nozzles discharge the ink droplets while moving in a main scanning direction previously set, wherein with a density of ink dots formed on the medium by one nozzle in a preset number of the main scans being defined as a main scan dot density, the main scan driver prompting the solid print nozzle to form ink dots at a first main scan dot density, the main scan driver further prompting the color printing nozzle to form ink dots at a second main scan dot density lower than the first main scan dot density.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object manufacturing method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by ejecting a liquid shaping material and then solidifying the ejected shaping material includes: an interior forming process of forming an interior portion of the three-dimensional object by the shaping material; and a periphery forming process of forming a peripheral portion of a periphery of the interior portion by stacking a plurality of layers by the shaping material, where the shaping material for forming the interior portion in the interior forming process has a larger rigidity in a solid state compared to the shaping material for forming the peripheral portion in the periphery forming process, the periphery forming process is a process of forming a groove configuring one part of the peripheral portion, and the interior forming process is a process of forming the interior portion by placing the liquid shaping material in the groove.

Abstract: A printing device prints an object on a medium by inkjet printing. The printing device includes: a glossy ink head that discharges ink droplets of a glossy ink having a glossy color; and a main scan driver that prompts the glossy ink head to perform main scans in which the glossy ink head discharges the ink droplets while moving in a predetermined main scanning direction. The glossy ink contains a glossy pigment and a solvent. In the main scans, the glossy ink head discharges the ink droplets plural times while moving in the main scanning direction to form ink dots at positions on the medium aligned in the main scanning direction. The ink droplets discharged from the glossy ink head each have a volume constituting a size that allows for contact on the medium between any ones of dots formed in each one of the main scans.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object production method according to the disclosure includes a step of allocating one of regions in a nozzle row (22) that is different from each other to each of pixel groups (25A, 25B) divided into a predetermined number n (n being an integer ?2) of groups among pixel rows constituting the unit layer (25), and a step of forming the pixel rows by nozzles (21) included in each region forming one pixel group (25A, 25B).

Abstract: To cure a layer of curable material for building more uniformly and appropriately at the time of building an object. A building apparatus that builds an object using a curable material that is cured by being irradiated with an ultraviolet ray, the building apparatus including: an ink-jet head serving as an ejection head that ejects a curable material for building; a UV light source that emits the ultraviolet ray to the curable material ejected from the ink-jet head; and a light source driver that supplies electric power for driving the UV light source. The UV light source is a UV LED, and the light source driver supplies electric power that varies in a pulse-like form to the UV light source to drive the UV light source using a pulse driving scheme.

Abstract: A nozzle check suitable for production of a three-dimensional shaped object is performed. A production method of a three-dimensional shaped object M configured to laminate unit layers (L1, L2, . . .), in which a nozzle checking step inspects at least a part of nozzles (6) for ejecting ink for forming a particular unit layer, which is performed after having started production in a case where a timing of the nozzle check is before forming the particular unit layer and this unit layer is a lowermost layer (L1), and is performed after having formed a unit layer that is located directly under the particular unit layer in a case where the timing of the nozzle check is before forming the particular unit layer and this layer is not the lowermost layer (L1).

Abstract: A shaping device that shapes a stereoscopic three-dimensional object including a light reflecting material head, a plurality of coloring material heads, a clear material head, and a controller; where the three-dimensional object includes a light reflecting region and a coloring region; the coloring region includes an inner region and an outer region; and when a ratio of the coloring material with respect to a sum of materials for shaping used when forming each region of the coloring region is defined as a coloring material ratio, the controller causes the plurality of coloring material heads and the clear material head to eject the material for shaping so that the coloring material ratio in the outer region becomes greater than the coloring material ratio in the inner region.

Abstract: An information presentation system according to the present disclosure includes: an analyzer that makes an analysis of food and outputs an analysis value indicating a result of the analysis; a generator that generates information on at least one of food ingestion by a user and calorie consumption by the user based on the analysis value output by the analyzer; and a presentation unit that presents the information generated by the generator. In this way, the information presentation system of the present disclosure can improve display of the analysis result of the food analyzer.

Abstract: In a printing method in which a base layer is formed with glossy ink or the like, a longer time period for drying the base layer is ensured. A metallic ink nozzle section, a superimposed colored ink nozzle section configured to discharge superimposed colored ink that is to be superimposed onto a metallic ink layer, and a non-superimposed colored ink nozzle section configured to discharge colored ink onto a position at which no metallic ink layer has been formed are provided. The non-superimposed colored ink nozzle section is interposed between the metallic ink nozzle section and the superimposed colored ink nozzle section.

Abstract: To provide a three-dimensional building apparatus and a three-dimensional building method capable of generating a three-dimensional object with sufficient adhesion between unit layers even when a photocurable material having larger cure shrinkage due to photocuring placed under a low temperature condition is used as a model material and a support material. A three-dimensional building apparatus includes: a stage configured to hold a deposition structure formed by depositing unit layers; an ejector configured to eject a photocurable model material and a photocurable support material toward the uppermost surface of the deposition structure while moving relative to the stage; an emitter configured to emit an active beam light capable of curing the photocurable model material and the photocurable support material; and a heater configured to heat the uppermost surface of the deposition structure in forming a workpiece.