Abstract: A printer includes a liquid discharge head configured to discharge a liquid to a print target, a holder configured to hold the print target, and a height detector configured to detect the print target on the holder at a first height and at a second height lower than the first height.

Abstract: A printer includes a liquid discharge head configured to discharge a liquid to a print target, a holder configured to hold the print target, and a height detector configured to detect the print target on the holder at a first height and at a second height lower than the first height.

Abstract: A waste liquid collection device includes: a tank housing that stores a liquid; a tubular member that causes the liquid to flow into the tank housing; a distance holding device disposed at an end portion of the tubular member suspended in an internal space of the tank housing; and a buoyancy imparting device having buoyancy for the liquid and causes the distance holding device to float on a liquid surface of the liquid, while keeping a certain distance between the end portion of the tubular member and the liquid surface using the buoyancy of the buoyancy imparting device. A liquid discharge apparatus includes the waste liquid collection device.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes an apparatus body, a liquid discharge device configured to discharge a liquid, a carriage in the apparatus body, the carriage configured to movably mount the liquid discharge device, a first storage container detachably attached to the carriage, the first storage container configured to store a first liquid, and a second storage container detachably attached to the apparatus body, the second storage container configured to store a second liquid different from the first liquid.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes an apparatus body, a liquid discharge head in the apparatus body, the liquid discharge head configured to discharge a liquid, and a waste liquid tube coupled to a coupling portion of the apparatus body, the waste liquid tube having flexibility and including a spiral structure portion at least in a part of the waste liquid tube, the waste liquid tube configured to discharge, outside the apparatus body, a waste liquid discharged from the liquid discharge head.

Abstract: A printer includes a head configured to discharge a liquid onto a print target, and a platen configured to hold the print target. The platen includes multiple supports arrayed in a first direction and in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and each of the multiple supports is configured to movable between a first position and a second position different from the first position.

Abstract: A package includes a print target material on which printing is to be performed by a printing apparatus. The package includes a plate-like member, a positioning target portion, and an opening portion. The plate-like member configured to hold a portion on which printing is to be performed, of the print target material to cause the portion to be flat. The positioning target portion is arranged in the plate-like member and configured to engage with a positioning member configured to position the print target material with respect to a printing position in the printing apparatus. A portion of a printing region of the print target material is opened in the opening portion.

Abstract: A printer includes a head configured to discharge a liquid onto a print target, and a platen configured to hold the print target. The platen includes multiple supports arrayed in a first direction and in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and each of the multiple supports is configured to movable between a first position and a second position different from the first position.

Abstract: A cap for capping a nozzle surface of liquid discharge head, the cap includes a rod in the cap. The rod has a circular outer shape or a polygonal outer shape in a cross-section perpendicular to an axial direction of the rod.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes an apparatus body, a liquid discharge device configured to discharge a liquid, a carriage in the apparatus body, the carriage configured to movably mount the liquid discharge device, a first storage container detachably attached to the carriage, the first storage container configured to store a first liquid, and a second storage container detachably attached to the apparatus body, the second storage container configured to store a second liquid different from the first liquid.

Abstract: A printer includes a liquid discharge head configured to discharge a liquid to a print target, a holder configured to hold the print target, and a height detector configured to detect the print target on the holder at a first height and at a second height lower than the first height.

Abstract: A cap for capping a nozzle surface of liquid discharge head, the cap includes a rod in the cap. The rod has a circular outer shape or a polygonal outer shape in a cross-section perpendicular to an axial direction of the rod.

Abstract: A package includes a print target material on which printing is to be performed by a printing apparatus. The package includes a plate-like member, a positioning target portion, and an opening portion. The plate-like member configured to hold a portion on which printing is to be performed, of the print target material to cause the portion to be flat. The positioning target portion is arranged in the plate-like member and configured to engage with a positioning member configured to position the print target material with respect to a printing position in the printing apparatus. A portion of a printing region of the print target material is opened in the opening portion.

Abstract: An image processing device includes circuitry to acquire image data of an image to be formed by a recording unit employing an inkjet method, calculate, based on the image data, ink thickness per pixel that indicates a thickness of ink to be discharged to form the image, set the maximum ink thickness per pixel of the entire image as a target thickness of the image, calculate, for each pixel, the difference between the target thickness and the ink thickness per pixel, create complementary data regulating thickness compensating the difference, and create print data including the image data and the complementary data.

Abstract: An image processing device includes circuitry to acquire image data of an image to be formed by a recording unit employing an inkjet method, calculate, based on the image data, ink thickness per pixel that indicates a thickness of ink to be discharged to form the image, set the maximum ink thickness per pixel of the entire image as a target thickness of the image, calculate, for each pixel, the difference between the target thickness and the ink thickness per pixel, create complementary data regulating thickness compensating the difference, and create print data including the image data and the complementary data.

Abstract: A fixing unit includes an endless belt accommodating a heat source inside a loop formed by the endless belt, a rotary pressing member rotating in contact with the endless belt in a pressure contact section, and a heat transfer member secured to a side plate within the loop of the endless belt to support and heat the endless belt with heat conducted from the heat source. The heat transfer member has an opening opposite the rotary pressing member. A securing member is disposed in the opening of the heat transfer member in pressure contact with the rotary pressing member via the endless belt. The heat transfer member and the securing member collectively include a pair of latching parts to firmly connect the heat transfer member and the securing member with each other when one of the latching parts is fitted to the other one of the latching parts.

Abstract: A fixing device fixes a toner image on a recording medium transported to a fixing nip by applying pressure and heat to the recording medium. The fixing device includes an endless belt formed into a loop with both ends bonded together, the belt accommodating a heat source inside thereof, a pressing roller rotating in contact with the endless belt forming the fixing nip between the endless belt and the pressing roller, and a fixed member provided inside a loop of the endless belt to press the endless belt against a pressing roller. A reinforcing member is bonded to the fixed member inside the loop of the endless belt to reinforce the fixed member. A reflector is provided to reflect light emitted from the heat source toward the inner circumferential surface of the endless belt. The reflector is held on the reinforcing member by either plastically or elastically deforming by itself.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid cartridge containing a liquid supplied to a recording head to eject liquid drops. The liquid cartridge includes a case member, and a liquid container member disposed inside the case member. The case member includes a base member, and a cover member having a snap-fit part and configured to be fit in the base member, the cover member and the base member being snap-fit connected via the snap-fit part. The base member includes a hole part via which a snap-fit connected state of the snap-fit part of the cover member is viewable from outside in a condition where the cover member and the base member are snap-fit connected by sliding the cover member and the base member.

Abstract: A fixing device fixes a toner image on a recording medium transported to a fixing nip by applying pressure and heat to the recording medium. The fixing device includes an endless belt formed into a loop with both ends bonded together, the belt accommodating a heat source inside thereof, a pressing roller rotating in contact with the endless belt forming the fixing nip between the endless belt and the pressing roller, and a fixed member provided inside a loop of the endless belt to press the endless belt against a pressing roller. A reinforcing member is bonded to the fixed member inside the loop of the endless belt to reinforce the fixed member. A reflector is provided to reflect light emitted from the heat source toward the inner circumferential surface of the endless belt. The reflector is held on the reinforcing member by either plastically or elastically deforming by itself.

Abstract: A fixing unit includes an endless belt accommodating a heat source inside a loop formed by the endless belt, a rotary pressing member rotating in contact with the endless belt in a pressure contact section, and a heat transfer member secured to a side plate within the loop of the endless belt to support and heat the endless belt with heat conducted from the heat source. The heat transfer member has an opening opposite the rotary pressing member. A securing member is disposed in the opening of the heat transfer member in pressure contact with the rotary pressing member via the endless belt. The heat transfer member and the securing member collectively include a pair of latching parts to firmly connect the heat transfer member and the securing member with each other when one of the latching parts is fitted to the other one of the latching parts.