Abstract: The printing apparatus includes a supply section that supports a plurality of rolls into which roll-paper strips are wound and supplies the roll-paper strips, a transport section that applies respective transporting forces to the supplied roll-paper strips and transports the roll-paper strips, a printing section that performs printing onto the transported roll-paper strips, and a tension-imparting section that individually imparts respective tensile forces to a plurality of roll-paper strips against the transporting forces.

Abstract: A connector is disclosed, which includes a main body and a valve body. The main body can include a main line flow channel capable of circulating an infusion solution, and valve body arrangement portions and connecting to the main line flow channel. The valve body includes an operable and closable slit provided to a deformed portion. The valve body is provided along an opening/closing direction of the slit, and includes a guide portion configured to facilitate opening and closing of the slit, and a thickened portion protrusively formed so as to extend through near both ends in a longitudinal direction of the slit and on both sides of the guide portion.

Abstract: The printing apparatus includes a supply section that supports a plurality of rolls into which roll-paper strips are wound and supplies the roll-paper strips, a transport section that applies respective transporting forces to the supplied roll-paper strips and transports the roll-paper strips, a printing section that performs printing onto the transported roll-paper strips, and a tension-imparting section that individually imparts respective tensile forces to a plurality of roll-paper strips against the transporting forces.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a head that discharges ink to a printing region, and causes ink dots formed on the printing region to be cured to form a line image in a first direction, and a movement section that that causes the printing medium to move relative to the head in a second direction intersecting the first direction, in which the printing region is divided into a plurality of areas in the second direction, and the movement section alternately switches the area in which the line image is formed by the head between the plurality of areas while causing the printing medium to relatively move.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a head that discharges ink to a printing region, and causes ink dots formed on the printing region to be cured to form a line image in a first direction, and a movement section that that causes the printing medium to move relative to the head in a second direction intersecting the first direction, in which the printing region is divided into a plurality of areas in the second direction, and the movement section alternately switches the area in which the line image is formed by the head between the plurality of areas while causing the printing medium to relatively move.

Abstract: Disclosed is a correction method of printing image data, including correcting printing data for printing, based on color information of an adhering medium bonded to a printing medium after performing printing on the printing medium.

Abstract: With the printing method according to the above described aspect of the present invention, when first ink and second ink made of resin are placed on a printing medium, a first dot for which a first ink droplet land on the printing medium and a plurality of second dots for which a plurality of second ink droplets land on the printing medium are in contact, but adjacent ones of the second dots are separated from each other. With this printing method, the first ink is high in stretchability, and the glass transition point when the second ink is cured is higher than the glass transition point when the first ink is cured.

Abstract: A connector is disclosed, which includes a main body and a valve body. The main body can include a main line flow channel capable of circulating an infusion solution, and valve body arrangement portions and connecting to the main line flow channel. The valve body includes an operable and closable slit provided to a deformed portion. The valve body is provided along an opening/closing direction of the slit, and includes a guide portion configured to facilitate opening and closing of the slit, and a thickened portion protrusively formed so as to extend through near both ends in a longitudinal direction of the slit and on both sides of the guide portion.

Abstract: A connector is disclosed, the connection including a main line flow channel through which a transfusion material can be circulated; a body includes a through-hole communicating with the main line flow channel; and a valve includes a slit that can open and close with respect to the main line flow channel due to elastic deformation of a deformed portion. The body includes a stopper for restricting a predetermined or more degree of elastic deformation of the valve when the valve is displaced.

Abstract: Disclosed is a correction method of printing image data, including correcting printing data for printing, based on color information of an adhering medium bonded to a printing medium after performing printing on the printing medium.

Abstract: With the printing method according to the above described aspect of the present invention, when first ink and second ink made of resin are placed on a printing medium, a first dot for which a first ink droplet land on the printing medium and a plurality of second dots for which a plurality of second ink droplets land on the printing medium are in contact, but adjacent ones of the second dots are separated from each other. With this printing method, the first ink is high in stretchability, and the glass transition point when the second ink is cured is higher than the glass transition point when the first ink is cured.

Abstract: There are provided an ink set, printed matter, and a molded article, with which a first ink and a second ink are applied over a substrate in the form of a sheet, for example, and which lends itself well to processing of this coated surface. An ink set 10 includes first inks 1Y, 1C, 1M, and 1K containing a pigment as a colorant, and a second ink containing no pigment. Films of the first inks 1Y, 1C, 1M, and 1K each stretch at least 70% when cured into the film with a thickness of 5 ?m and the film is stretched under a 150° C. environment. A film of the second ink has an elastic modulus of no more than 200 MPa when the second ink is cured into the film with a thickness of 50 to 200 ?m.

Abstract: A film-forming method includes: a) discharging a liquid including a film material on an object so as to form a liquid film made of the liquid; b) irradiating the liquid film with light and thus detecting light from the liquid film so as to measure distribution of an optical constant, which is related to a film thickness of a thin film, with respect to the liquid film; and c) drying the liquid film on the object so as to form the thin film by converting the distribution of the optical constant into distribution of a temperature of the liquid film based on converting information that relates the optical constant of the liquid film to the temperature of the liquid film and thus forming the distribution of the temperature on the liquid film.

Abstract: A pattern formation method includes discharging a functional liquid substance having a functional material to an object, and irradiating the functional liquid substance with light emitted from a light source thereby to form a pattern of a functional film on the object. In this method, when the thickness of the functional liquid substance on an optical axis of the light is L and the absorption coefficient of the functional liquid substance for the light is ?, the thickness and the absorption coefficient are set so as to satisfy an equation (1): 0.1??·L?0.7 ??(1).

Abstract: A ceramic shaped body for producing a wiring board includes a ceramic material, a binder, and a polyalcohol, the polyalcohol being present in at least a near-surface region of the ceramic shaped body.

Abstract: A method for forming a conductor pattern includes: forming a conductor pattern precursor by ejecting liquid droplets of a conductor pattern forming ink by a liquid droplet ejecting method onto a substrate, and drying the liquid droplets, thereby forming a conductor pattern precursor having a pad part and a wiring part connected to the pad part on the substrate; and firing the precursor, thereby forming the conductor pattern, wherein in the formation of the conductor pattern precursor, the liquid droplets of the conductor pattern forming ink are ejected in such a manner that positions where the liquid droplets of the conductor pattern forming ink are attached form plural concentric annular shapes within a pad forming region where the pad part is to be formed on the substrate.

Abstract: In a film formation method, a droplet discharge unit discharges droplets of a functional liquid material on a substrate as the droplet discharge unit is moved with respect to the substrate to form a liquid film on the substrate. The film formation method includes discharging a plurality of first droplets onto a plurality of first positions on the substrate with the first positions being arranged so that the first droplets do not touch each other on the substrate, discharging a plurality of second droplets onto a plurality of second positions on the substrate with the second positions being disposed between the first droplets that were discharged on the substrate; and causing the second droplets to touch a plurality of adjacent ones of the first droplets to form the liquid film.

Abstract: A liquid droplet drying method of a liquid droplet discharging apparatus includes discharging liquid droplets from respective nozzles of a discharging head onto a substrate, the droplets being discharged from the nozzles at timings different from each other; and drying the liquid droplets by irradiating a laser beam to the liquid droplets vertically to a discharging direction of the liquid droplets while the droplets are flying toward the substrate, the laser beam being irradiated in a layout direction of the nozzles of the discharging head.

Abstract: A film-forming method includes: a) discharging a liquid including a film material on an object so as to form a liquid film made of the liquid; b) measuring distribution of an optical constant related to a film thickness of a thin film by irradiating the liquid film with light from a first light source so as to detect light from the liquid film; and c) modulating light from a second light source corresponding to the optical constant of the liquid film based on converting data indicating a relation between the optical constant and light wave information of the light from the second light source while irradiating the liquid film with the light from the second light source so as to dry the liquid film to form the thin film on the object.

Abstract: A film-forming method includes: a) discharging a liquid including a film material on an object so as to form a liquid film made of the liquid; b) irradiating the liquid film with light and thus detecting light from the liquid film so as to measure distribution of an optical constant, which is related to a film thickness of a thin film, with respect to the liquid film; and c) drying the liquid film on the object so as to form the thin film by converting the distribution of the optical constant into distribution of a temperature of the liquid film based on converting information that relates the optical constant of the liquid film to the temperature of the liquid film and thus forming the distribution of the temperature on the liquid film.