Abstract: A printing method includes determining a first correction value corresponding to a first print mode, determining a second correction value corresponding to a second print mode, and correcting an ink ejection amount of each row region individually, using a combined correction value obtained by combining the first correction value and the second correction value. The first print mode is a print mode that is applied to a rear end area, with respect to a transport direction, of a medium. Dot rows are formed extending in a nozzle movement direction that is perpendicular to the transport direction, on a plurality of row regions lined up in the transport direction. The dot rows are formed by repeating a movement ejection operation of ejecting ink onto the medium while moving nozzles in the movement direction, and a transport operation of transporting the medium in the transport direction. The first correction value is for correcting an ejection amount of the ink in each row region individually.

Abstract: A method of judging whether or not darkness of a foreign matter on a test pattern printed on a medium with predetermined darkness has been read at the time of reading the darkness of the test pattern using a reading section, includes: detecting a section in the test pattern for which an amount of deviation, from a predetermined reference value, of a readout value on the darkness of that section exceeds a predetermined darkness-deviation threshold which is a threshold adopted for the deviation in darkness; and judging whether or not the darkness of the foreign matter has been read based on a size of the above-mentioned section that has been detected.

Abstract: To perform transport by correcting the transport amount while modifying the relative position of a correction value applied for transport of a medium.

Abstract: A medium is carried to a predetermined position in a carrying direction. A first pattern is formed on the medium with nozzles on the carrying direction upstream side of a nozzle row constituted by a plurality of nozzles lined up at predetermined intervals. After forming the first pattern, the medium is carried in the carrying direction by a target carry amount that is shorter than the length in the carrying direction of the nozzle row. Along with forming on the medium a second pattern that forms a boundary with the first pattern with nozzles on the carrying direction downstream side of the nozzle row, a third pattern is formed on the medium with the nozzles on the carrying direction upstream side of the nozzle row.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus has a head, a transport mechanism, a memory, and a controller. The head ejects a liquid. The transport mechanism transports a medium in a transport direction with respect to the head in accordance with a target transport amount that is targeted. The memory stores a plurality of correction values, each of the correction values being associated with a relative position between the head and the medium, a range of the relative position to which that correction value is to be applied being associated with that correction value. In the case where a transport using the target transport amount is performed beyond the range of the relative position associated with the correction value that is associated with the relative position before the transport, the controller corrects the target transport amount based on the correction value associated with the relative position before the transport and the correction value associated with the relative position after the transport.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head unit, a movement mechanism, and a control section. The head unit has along a first direction a plurality of heads, in which a plurality of nozzles that eject a liquid onto a medium are lined up in the first direction, and the head unit forms a single raster line by ejecting the liquid while performing m number of movements relative to the medium in a second direction, which intersects the first direction. A width of the head unit in the first direction is greater than a width of the medium in the first direction. The movement mechanism causes the head unit to perform a plurality of movements relative to the medium alternately in the second direction and the first direction. The control section forms an image having a resolution that is n times a pitch of the nozzles, by forming a plurality of the raster lines by the plurality of relative movements of the head unit.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an upstream-side roller and an downstream-side roller, an ejecting section, and a controller. The controller stores in advance a correction value for correcting a pre-correction target transport amount for transporting the medium, the correction value being associated with a range from a first position to a second position. The controller carries out the transport operation based on a post-correction target transport amount in the case where the controller carries out the transport operation in such a manner as the medium is transported from a third position upstream in the transport direction from the second position to a fourth position downstream in the transport direction from the first position and the third position, the post-correction target transport amount being obtained by correcting, using the correction value, the pre-correction target transport amount for transporting the medium from the third position to the fourth position.

Abstract: Aromatic vinyl ether compounds represented by Formula (1) or by Formula (2) wherein each R and R? is a hydrogen atom or a group represented by Formula (3) and wherein the remaining variables are as defined in the specification, provided that at least one pR in Formula (1) and at least one uR in Formula (2) is a Formula (3) group. These aromatic vinyl ether compounds are useful as, e.g., curing agents for cationic polymerization.

Abstract: An amide or lactam is produced by conducting a rearrangement of a corresponding oxime compound in the presence of a cyclic compound containing a structure represented by following Formula (1) as a ring constituent and a fluorinated alcohol: wherein Z represents a halogen atom or an —OR group, where R represents an organic group. Z is preferably chlorine atom. Exemplary fluorinated alcohols include fluorine-containing branched-chain aliphatic alcohols represented by following Formula (3): wherein Rf1 and Rf2 may be the same as or different from each other and each represent a perfluoroalkyl group having one to eight carbon atoms; and “n” denotes an integer of 0 to 8. According to this process, amides or lactams can be simply produced in high yields without causing large amounts of by-products.

Abstract: An increase in the width in the first direction of the head unit is controlled and deterioration in image quality is curbed as well.

Abstract: Aromatic vinyl ether compounds represented by Formula (1) or by Formula (2) wherein each R and R? is a hydrogen atom or a group represented by Formula (3) and wherein the remaining variables are as defined in the specification, provided that at least one pR in Formula (1) and at least one uR in Formula (2) is a Formula (3) group. These aromatic vinyl ether compounds are useful as, e.g., curing agents for cationic polymerization.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing polyorganosiloxane particles through the step of hydrolyzing and condensing a silicon compound having a non-hydrolyzable group and a hydrolyzable alkoxyl group bonded to its silicon atom in the presence of a catalyst and thereby forming seed particles of polyorganosiloxane particles to obtain a seed-particles-containing solution and the step of adding a particle-diameter-growing aqueous solution containing the same silicon compound or a hydrolyzate thereof to the above seed-particles-containing solution to grow the above seed particles, the method comprising the step of obtaining the seed-particles-containing solution, in which particles are measured for a particle diameter continuously or at intervals of a constant time period and terminating the reaction at a time when an intended particle diameter is reached.

Abstract: The appearance of images printed by draft printing or the like is improved. Provided are, for example, a print head having a first dot formation section and a second dot formation section that are provided at positions that are offset from one another in a predetermined direction and that respectively form dots of different colors as said dots; and a controller for printing said image with the print head in a first resolution and in a second resolution that is lower than the first resolution based on data of pixels constituting said image to be printed, wherein, when the image is to be printed in the second resolution, the controller causes the first dot formation section and the second dot formation section to form the respective dots based on data of the same pixel in each printing operation.

Abstract: A line position calculating method is a method for calculating a position, in a second direction, of a line along a first direction in an image, based on image data of the image constituted by a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form in the first direction and in the second direction, the method obtains pixel data of each of a plurality of pixels arranged in the first direction, calculates an extent of unevenness of each tone value indicating the pixel data of each of the plurality of pixels arranged in the first direction, sets a threshold value according to the extent of unevenness, sets a range based on the threshold value, detects a defective pixel in which the tone value indicating the pixel data is out of the range, calculates a representative value indicating a tone value of a pixel row, based on the pixel data of the pixels other than the defective pixel of the plurality of pixels constituting the pixel row, and calculates a position, in the second direction, of the line, based on the represent

Abstract: Disclosed is an oxetane-containing vinyl ether compound including one or more aromatic or non-aromatic carbocycles and/or two or more vinyl ether structures, such as a compound of Formula: wherein Ring Z1 is non-aromatic carbocycle; Ra is vinyl group of Formula: wherein each of R1, R2, and R3 is hydrogen or C1-C4 alkyl; Wa is single bond or organic group having a valence of (m+1); X1 is, for example, hydrocarbon; “m” and “q” are each 1 or 2; and “p” is 0 to 5. Also disclosed is an alicyclic epoxy-containing vinyl ether compound of Formula: wherein Ring Z2 is non-aromatic carbocycle; Rb is vinyl group of Formula: wherein R4, R5 and R6 are each hydrogen or C1-C4 alkyl; Wb is single bond or organic group having a valence of (r+1); Rc and Rd are hydrogen or alkyl; and “r” and “s” are 1 or 2.

Abstract: A process produces an aromatic compound by bringing an aromatic compound (B) into contact with molecular oxygen (C) in the presence of a catalyst (A) comprising at least one of (A1) a heteropolyacid and/or a salt thereof, and (A2) a mixture of oxoacids and/or salts thereof containing, as a whole, one of P and Si and at least one selected from V, Mo and W to thereby yield another aromatic compound (G) than the aromatic compound (B). The process can produce, for example, a corresponding aromatic hydroxy compound (G1) by allowing the aromatic compound (B) to react with the molecular oxygen (C) further in the presence of a reducing agent (D).

Abstract: A transport amount correcting method is provided that includes: (A) determining whether or not correction values associated with relative positions of a head and a medium are stored in a memory, wherein the correction values are correction values for correcting target transport amounts when transporting the medium, and the medium is of a predetermined combination of a type and size of the medium; and (B) transporting, when carrying out transport of the medium of the predetermined combination, the medium while correcting a target transport amount using a correction value corresponding to a relative position at a time of carrying out the transport, and transporting, when carrying out transport of a medium other than the predetermined combination, the medium while correcting the target transport amount using a fixed correction value.

Abstract: A test pattern is formed by forming a plurality of dot rows using a first printing in a first printing region and a second printing region, transporting a medium by a predetermined transport amount, and forming a plurality of dot rows using a second printing in the second printing region. Second printing region correction values are obtained based on a reading result of a scanner. Densities of a print image constituted by a plurality of dot rows of the second printing region are corrected by correcting data corresponding to the second printing region correction values based on the second printing region correction values. In such a printing method, when forming the print image, if a transport amount of transport to be carried out between the first printing and the second printing is set shorter than the predetermined transport amount, data corresponding to a portion of correction values of the plurality of second printing region correction values is not corrected based on the portion of the correction values.

Abstract: A line position calculating method according to the present invention includes obtaining pixel data of pixel rows each constituted by a plurality of pixels lined up in a first direction, from image data of an image constituted by a plurality of pixels lined up in a matrix form in the first direction and a second direction, the image data being of an image containing a line along the first direction, calculating each representative value indicating a tone value of each pixel row based on the pixel data of each pixel row, and calculating a position in the second direction of the line in the image based on the representative value of each pixel row.

Abstract: A correction value determining method of the present invention includes: causing a head to record a first pattern for confirming a transport amount of a medium, while transporting the medium in a transport direction relative to the head in accordance with a target transport amount, obtaining a first correction value that is associated with a relative position of the head and the medium based on the first pattern, the first correction value being a correction value for correcting the target transport amount during transport of the medium, causing the head to record a second pattern for confirming the transport amount of the medium, by transporting the medium while correcting the target transport amount using the first correction value associated with the relative position, obtaining a second correction value that is associated with the relative position of the head and the medium based on the second pattern, the second correction value being a correction value for correcting the target transport amount during