Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a substrate, a heat resistor layer, and a side wall member that forms a side wall of a pressure chamber. The heat resistor layer has a heat effect portion configured to foam liquid in an interior of the pressure chamber to discharge liquid from a discharge port. The heat effect portion is apart from the substrate, at least part of a surface of the heat resistor layer is covered with a covering layer in the interior of the pressure chamber, and the covering layer extends from the interior of the pressure chamber to a position coming into contact with the side wall of the side wall member.

Abstract: A fluid ejection device includes first and second nozzles arranged at a pitch. The pitch for example is based on a substrate advance distance associated with a complete turn of a rotating body for advancing a substrate or a substrate advance distance associated with a period of a periodic error function.

Abstract: To provide an inkjet printing apparatus that can suppress influence by a backflow of the fluid flowing from the pump to the cap. An inkjet printing apparatus includes: an inkjet printing head including an ejection opening face formed with an ejection opening; a cap being capable of sealing the ejection opening face; a tube pump connected with the cap and configured to be able to generate a negative pressure inside of the cap; and a buffer member provided between the cap and the tube pump and having a volume being capable of storing a fluid flowing from the tube pump to the cap.

Abstract: A liquid droplet ejection apparatus including a head 1 in which a plurality of ink chambers 11 are aligned in one or both of an X direction and a Y direction, liquid droplets are ejected from nozzles 12, and printing is carried out in a print region of a recording medium based on print data, wherein the ink contains a dispersion medium and solid particles having higher specific gravity than that of the dispersion medium, and the liquid droplet ejection apparatus includes a flushing device that performs a flushing operation when the head 1 is present in a non-print region in such a manner that an amount of liquid droplets ejected from the nozzle 11b placed at an end portion in an alignment direction becomes larger than an amount of liquid droplets ejected from the nozzle 11a placed in a central portion in the alignment direction.

Abstract: An ink jet recording method for recording an image onto a recording medium by ejecting an aqueous ink containing a resin from an ejection orifice through use of an ink jet recording apparatus including a recording head having a water-repellent face subjected to water-repellent treatment as an ejection orifice face provided with an ejection orifice; a wiping unit configured to wipe the water-repellent face; and a heating unit configured to heat the water-repellent face, the ink jet recording method including a heating step of wiping the water-repellent face with the wiping unit after heating the water-repellent face with the heating unit and continuously heating the water-repellent face until after the wiping of the water-repellent face.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head that includes a nozzle formation surface on which a plurality of nozzles which eject a liquid are formed to be lined up in one direction to form nozzle columns, a belt-shaped member that is brought into contact with the nozzle formation surface, and a belt-shaped member contact portion that brings the belt-shaped member into contact with the nozzle formation surface in both a first contact state where the belt-shaped member is brought into contact with a partial area of the nozzle formation surface and a second contact state where the belt-shaped member is in contact with an area corresponding to the nozzle column in a direction along the nozzle column on the nozzle formation surface.

Abstract: A movable carriage unit on which a head for discharging ink is mountable includes a fixing member movable between a fixing position for fixing the head to a mounting position and a releasing position for releasing the fixation of the head, and a moving unit including an operation portion. The moving unit is configured to move the fixing member from the fixing position to the releasing position. A guide configured to guide the head to the mounting position when the fixing member is moved to the releasing position by an operation of the operation portion is formed on the operation portion.

Abstract: A liquid storage container supplies ink to a printer which consumes the ink, and includes a liquid storage body which includes a liquid lead-out port communicating with the printer and a filler port formed to pour the liquid to the liquid storage container, an auxiliary holding member which is mounted to be slidable to a side in which the filler port is formed, and a memory unit holding member which is detachably configured to the auxiliary holding member and includes a memory unit.

Abstract: An object is to prevent the occurrence of contact failure between a cartridge equipped with a recording medium and an ink jet recording apparatus. A bottle body is crushed to reduce the volume thereof when an ink or solvent is sucked out of the bottle body. A bottle has a neck and a mouth. The neck is rigid. The ROM unit records therein an ink or solvent type, a serial number, the capacity of the bottle, and the amount of remaining ink or solvent. The ROM unit has first and second arms, and freely movably attached to the neck by the first and second arms. A positioning hole is formed on a ROM holder body which houses therein a recording medium. The positioning hole positions the ROM holder body in cooperation with a positioning pin of a reservoir.

Abstract: There are provided an image formation device, an image formation method, a program, and an image forming product capable of preventing noise and granularity of an image from deteriorating even when dots with a plurality of dot sizes are arranged to be aggregated. When a continuous tone image signal is a signal which indicates a tint image, at least one of dot aggregation portions 16, 18, 68, and 72 is formed through arrangement for aggregation of dots 14 (dots 14L and 14S) with two or more dot sizes, on a part of dot images 10, 12, 66, and 70 which are indicated by dot image signals. In addition, the dot aggregation portions 16, 18, 68, and 72 are formed through arrangement for non-aggregation of the dots 14 (dots 14L) with at least one dot size.

Abstract: A control device may specify a target transportation pathway to be used for transporting a target print medium, select one type of printing control in accordance with the specified target transportation pathway, and control a print performing unit in accordance with the selected one type of printing control. In each of a first type of printing control and a second type of printing control, when a central image is to be printed, the target print medium is transported by a first transportation amount. In the first type of printing control, when an edge image is to be printed, the target print medium is not transported by a transportation amount greater than the first transportation amount. In the second type of printing control, when the edge image is to be printed, the target print medium is transported by a second transportation amount greater than the first transportation amount.

Abstract: An image forming device and method are provided which reduce erroneous detection of a border between transfer material areas when forming a new image by using unused portions of partially used transfer material areas. The image forming device forms an image having a first size or a second size which is one-half of the first size or smaller on a recording medium by transferring transfer materials respectively for transfer material areas, while feeding a strip-shaped transfer medium on which the transfer material areas each having the first size and respectively corresponding to the transfer materials are repeatedly arranged in a predetermined sequence in the longitudinal direction thereof.

Abstract: There is provided an exposure device including an exposure head having a light-emitting member which has a plurality of light-emitting sections arranged in a row and a casing which holds the light-emitting member and which is elongated in a longitudinal direction orthogonal to an optical axis direction of a light emitted from the light-emitting sections; and an elongated frame member fixed to the casing and having a reference portion at which the frame member is positioned with respect to the light-emitting sections; wherein the frame member is fixed to the casing such that the frame member is positioned with respect to the light-emitting sections in both of the longitudinal direction and a width direction of the casing, the width direction being orthogonal to the longitudinal direction and the optical axis direction. The exposure device is capable of performing exposure precisely at a desired exposure position.

Abstract: An optical scanning device includes a light source, a deflector, a scanning optical system, a BD sensor, and a half-silvered mirror. The light source emits a light beam. The deflector deflects a light beam emitted from the light source. The scanning optical system includes a scan lens and causes the deflected light beam to form an image on a photosensitive surface. The BD sensor detects a light beam. The half-silvered mirror splits the light beam into a first beam and a second beam. The first beam passes through the scan lens to enter the photosensitive surface. The second beam enters the BD sensor.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a signal generation unit configured to generate a light-emission signal. The signal generation unit stores information relating to a toner non-adherent area oriented light-emission pattern having been set beforehand. The toner non-adherent area oriented light-emission pattern is a light-emission pattern that causes a light irradiation unit to emit light in such a way as to prevent toner particles from adhering to a photosensitive member. When the light irradiation unit scans respective portions corresponding to two pixels adjacently disposed in a scanning direction a based on a part of the light-emission signal generated based on the toner non-adherent area oriented light-emission pattern, at least one of (a) light-emission start timing of light irradiation unit and (b) light-emission termination timing of the light irradiation unit is differentiated between the two pixels.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide laser object marking methods and devices in which multiple slidable mechanisms are used for holding respective laser heads.

Abstract: A machine for the decoration of tridimensional products, including a basement, means for supporting the product to be decorated associated to the basement and a unit for decorating the product associated to the basement. The decoration unit includes a moveable arm rotatably associated to the basement, a plurality of print heads of the ink-jet type, provided with at least one head with ejector nozzles, sliding along the moveable arm. Each of the print heads is moveable from a non-operating position, in which it is spaced from the product, to an operating position in which it is in proximity of the surface of the product, to obtain a decoration.

Abstract: A two-sided receipt printing method that prints on both sides of paper and produces receipts, and can reduce white space at the leading end of receipts without conveying the paper in reverse. A device that produces two-sided receipts has a cutter, a first printhead that prints on one side of the paper, and a second printhead that prints on the other side of the paper disposed at specific intervals along the paper conveyance path from the paper exit. When an end-of-transaction declaration is received, transaction information is printed by the second printhead and non-transaction information is printed by the first printhead. After printing the transaction information, header information of a length that fits between the cutter and the second print data is printed by the second printhead. The cutter then cuts the paper at a position between where the transaction information was printed and where the header information was printed.

Abstract: A printer includes an apparatus main body including a recording head, and a duplexing unit configured to be removable with respect to the apparatus main body and forming a reverse transport path in which a sheet fed from the recording head side is reversed. The sheet width (for example, width of A4 short side) able to be transported to a region opposing the recording head through the reverse transport path is smaller than the width (for example, width of A4 long side) of the manual supply path, and in a case where the sheet on which recording is performed warps in the width direction, the extent of the warping is restricted to a predetermined range.

Abstract: A plasma treatment apparatus includes a discharge electrode; a dielectric roller which includes a rotatable counter electrode and a rotatable dielectric, the dielectric being at least provided on a surface with which a treatment target comes into contact; an adjusting roller configured to adjust a contact amount of the treatment target with respect to the dielectric roller; and a control unit configured to control the adjusting roller.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a plasma processing unit that processes a surface of a processing object by using plasma; a recording unit that forms a first-color image on the surface of the processing object by inkjet recording, the surface being plasma-processed by the plasma processing unit, and forms a second-color image to be superimposed on the first-color image by the inkjet recording; and an adjusting unit that adjusts a plasma energy amount that is to be applied to the processing object according to the second-color image.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a support that supports a medium; a head that discharges liquid to the medium transported onto the support; and a drying portion that dries the liquid that has landed on the medium. The liquid discharge apparatus has a heated area and a non-heated area. The drying portion is disposed in the heated area, and the support and the head are disposed in the non-heated area.

Abstract: A printed sheet drying apparatus includes, among other components, a nozzle connected to a heated air supply, and an exhaust chamber connected to the nozzle and to a blower. The nozzle comprises a heated air outlet portion. The heated air outlet portion comprises a multi-planar surface having parallel slot openings tapering away from the printed sheet to prevent saturation at the boundary layer. The exhaust chamber has an exhaust opening that matches the shape of the multi-planar surface, and the exhaust opening is larger than the nozzle and is positioned to form an exhaust periphery gap surrounding a periphery of the nozzle.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejection section that ejects a liquid, a medium supporting section that supports a medium onto which the liquid is ejected, a heater that is disposed at a position which is not in contact with the medium supporting section and is configured to emit a thermal energy, a heat receiving section that receives the thermal energy emitted from the heater, and a stop section that stops the heater when a temperature of the heat receiving section becomes a predetermined temperature or higher, wherein the heat receiving section is disposed at a position on a first direction side with respect to the heater and between the heater and the medium supporting section, when the first direction is defined as a direction which is directed from the heater to the medium supporting section.

Abstract: A method is provided for imaging fibrous polyamide flooring material. Images are formed on fibrous polyamide flooring material having vivid color and color saturations by piezoelectric digital means without going through washing process or discharging hazardous chemicals. The energy-saving and environmentally friendly method can produce high resolution product with durability and longevity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating a print of a digital image comprising image pixels by a printer comprising a print head and radiation means for curing recording material by irradiation, the recording material to be ejected by the print head on a substrate, wherein the print may have palpable differences between a height of various pixels of the print, the method comprising the steps of providing the digital image comprising an elevation channel for indicating an elevation of each image pixel of the digital image, deriving from the elevation channel of the digital image pixels in the digital image which may be expected to receive such a low amount of radiation that recording material is insufficiently cured, for each derived image pixel adapting at least one elevation channel value of the derived image pixel or image pixels adjacent to the derived image pixel by such an amount that the recording material is expected to be sufficiently cured, and printing the digital image with the adapted elev

Abstract: It is disclosed a printer comprising an opening through which one or more sheets to be treated could be introduced therein and further comprising a paper board for supporting said one or more sheets to be treated, wherein said paper board comprises at least one root and at least a free end, wherein said at least one free end is movable with respect to said at least one root when it is subject to a vertical load.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a sensor configured to detect a state of an object and outputs a detection value; a drive unit configured to be able to move the sensor in a direction in which the sensor approaches the object and in a direction in which the sensor is away from the object; and a control unit configured to execute calibration for setting a positional relationship between the sensor and the object based on the detection value of the sensor while causing the drive unit to change the positional relationship between the sensor and the object.

Abstract: There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus which includes a recording portion, and a contact portion configured to come into contact with an upper surface of the sheet. The contact portion has a storage portion provided on a side of the recording portion and configured to store an ink, and a protruding portion is provided between both ends in a width direction intersecting the transporting direction of the storage portion, and which is protruded toward the recording section, and an upper end of the protruding portion is the highest in the contact portion.

Abstract: A printer includes a printing part that performs printing on recording paper, a cutter that cuts the recording paper, a first roller provided on the side to which the recording paper is discharged from the cutter, a second roller that is in contact with the first roller and is rotated by the rotation of the first roller, a third roller that is in contact with the first roller and is rotated by the rotation of the first roller, and a connecting arm that connects the center of the first roller and the center of the second roller, wherein the recording paper is discharged between the first roller and the second roller or between the first roller and the third roller.

Abstract: A thermal transfer printer according to the present invention includes a printing section that thermally transfers an ink of an ink sheet to printing paper for performing printing and a slitter section that cuts, in a paper transport direction, the printing paper after the printing by the printing section. The printing section includes a thermal head and a platen roller pressed against the thermal head. The slitter section is capable of adjusting a cutting position for cutting the printing paper.

Abstract: A paper tape printer includes a receipt printer and a scissor cutter for cutting off a receipt from a paper tape. The scissor cutter includes: a moving blade having a fixed range of motion; and an adjustable stationary blade, which is stationary during a cutting operation and is moveable laterally relative to the moving blade to allow the paper tape to be selectively (i) fully cut when the stationary blade is positioned for a full cut of the paper tape, or (ii) partially cut, when the stationary blade is repositioned laterally to a partial cut position relative to the moving blade, which enables a partial cut of the paper tape. If a full cut is desired, the stationary blade is positioned against the full width of the paper tape. For a partial cut, the stationary blade is positioned against only a portion of the width of the paper tape.

Abstract: A printing apparatus and a roll paper transportation device which reduces the space needed to accommodate a roll paper buffer mechanism unit and paper detection unit, and to reduce poor electrical contact in the contact part of the paper detection unit. The roll paper transportation device has a paper detection unit for detecting the presence of roll paper. The paper detection unit itself comprises a detection lever that pivots rotationally when in contact with the roll paper, a cam formed integrally with the detection lever and having a curved surface that is concentric to the rotary axis of the detection lever, and a switch lever that contacts the curved surface of the cam.

Abstract: The present teachings relate to various embodiments of an hermetically-sealed gas enclosure assembly and system that can be readily transportable and assemblable and provide for maintaining a minimum inert gas volume and maximal access to various devices and apparatuses enclosed therein. Various embodiments of an hermetically-sealed gas enclosure assembly and system of the present teachings can have a gas enclosure assembly constructed in a fashion that minimizes the internal volume of a gas enclosure assembly, and at the same time optimizes the working space to accommodate a variety of footprints of various OLED printing systems. Various embodiments of a gas enclosure assembly so constructed additionally provide ready access to the interior of a gas enclosure assembly from the exterior during processing and readily access to the interior for maintenance, while minimizing downtime.

Abstract: Provided is a printer with a blower that is capable of easier maintenance than a conventional printer. In order for this, the printer comprising an access cover and a blower unit, when the access cover is in a closed state, the blower unit blows airflow on a sheet where ink has been applied, when the access cover is in an opened state, the part of the blower unit is/are open together with the access cover to be exposed.

Abstract: In an image recording method of an image recording apparatus provided with an inspection unit which inspects the presence/absence of abnormality in each recording element of a print head at regular intervals, the recording element determined to have abnormality by inspection in the inspection unit is disabled during a determination period set in advance. If the disabled recording element is determined to have no abnormality by inspection immediately after the recording element is disabled, recovers the recording element to be enabled. If the disabled recording element is determined to have abnormality again by inspection within a prescribed frequency N from inspection immediately after the recording element is disabled, the recording element is continuously disabled during the determination period. In cases where the recording element is disabled, the use of the disabled recording element is prohibited, image defect due to the use-prohibited recording element is complemented, and an image is recorded.

Abstract: A tape cartridge includes grasping portions that allow the tape cartridge to be grasped when the tape cartridge is installed to or detached from a tape printing apparatus and are disposed at two opposite places on a side surface of the tape cartridge, a platen that has a first reception portion in which the first shaft is inserted when the tape cartridge is installed and a second reception portion into which the second shaft is inserted when the tape cartridge is installed in the cartridge installation portion. The second reception portion is positioned on an opposite side over an imaginary line connecting the grasping portions with respect to the first reception portion and disposed at a position to which one of the two grasping portions farther from the first reception portion is closer than the other of the grasping portions.

Abstract: A removable print element assembly can be installed on and removed from a hand stamp without the user's fingers ever being in close proximity to the print element (die). The removable print element assembly can be installed on and removed from a hand printer without the need for a friction fit fastener or mechanical linking device. The removable print element assembly is provided for a hand printer with a support element capable of magnetic engagement. The removable print element assembly comprises a print carrier having a surface for removable magnetic engagement with the support element of the hand printer, a removal actuator, and a print element (die) affixed to the print carrier. The surface for removable magnetic engagement with the hand printer is a magnetic. The surface for removable magnetic engagement with the hand printer is the surface of a magnet fixed to the print carrier.

Abstract: A multicolor thermal recording material that allows multicolor printing in at least four colors and a method for developing color of the multicolor thermal recording material.

Abstract: In order to prevent protruded parts formed on an oriented film print pattern of a printing plate for flexographic printing from being lost, a linear bank is formed on the periphery of one side of the oriented film print pattern where wiping work is started. The bank prevents the protruded part in the oriented film print pattern from being lost by the wiping work. The protruded parts are formed in a matrix in order to retain an oriented film liquid in the oriented film print pattern. Thickness irregularity of the oriented film due to presence of the bank is reduced by making the diameters of the protruded parts smaller in a peripheral region than in a central region of the oriented film print pattern and forming a space between the peripheral-side protruded parts and the bank.

Abstract: A method for preparing a flexographic printing precursor is carried out by forming a laser-engravable composition in a layer. This laser-engravable composition has one or more EPDM elastomeric rubbers, at least one of which comprises at least 8 weight % polyene recurring units. This laser-engravable composition of elastomeric rubbers can be quickly crosslinked using sulfur-containing vulcanizing compositions to provide laser-engravable compositions and layers in the flexographic printing plate precursors that can be laser-engraved to provide relief images for flexographic printing.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet conveying portion conveying a sheet to a sheet stacking portion; a regulating portion regulating a position of the sheet on the stacking portion; a rotary member pair having first and second rotary members and conveying the sheet toward the regulating portion through rotation in a first direction, and conveying a bound sheet bundle through rotation in a second direction opposite to the first direction; a moving portion moving the second rotary member to a separation position after the rotary member pair conveys the sheet, and moving the second rotary member to a nipping position before the rotary member pair conveys the sheet bundle; and a control portion controlling to rotate the rotary member pair in the second direction after the second rotary member is moved to the separation position and before the second rotary member is moved to the nipping position.

Abstract: A security element includes a coating of a material which has an optically variable effect, in particular a color-tilt effect, and cutouts which are identifiable in transmitted light. The security element comprises a carrier substrate and a partial layer having cutouts. The partial layer is made of an opaque coating having light-absorbing properties on the side that faces the coating made of the material having an optically variable effect and having a metallic coloration on the side that faces away from the coating made of the material having an optically variable effect. The partial opaque coating consists of a light-absorbing metallic layer.

Abstract: Cold-worked metal articles, methods of forming cold-worked metal articles, and methods of authenticating cold-worked metal articles are provided. In an embodiment, a cold-worked metal article includes a cold-worked metal-containing surface that defines pores. The cold-worked metal-containing surface includes luminescent phosphor particles disposed within the pores. The luminescent phosphor particles include a host crystal lattice material and at least one active ion that includes an absorbing ion and an emitting ion that is different from the absorbing ion. The luminescent phosphor particles are harder than the cold-worked metal-containing surface.

Abstract: A display includes light-scattering regions. Each of the light-scattering regions is provided with linear protrusions and/or recesses having the same longitudinal direction. The light-scattering regions are different from each other in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: Disclosed are waterborne coating compositions that include: (a) a base-neutralized carboxylic acid functional polyacrylate; and (b) a hydrophilic polycarbodiimide, in which (a) and (b) are present in relative amounts such that a ratio of carbodiimide groups to carboxylic acid groups in the composition is greater than 0.2:1, and in which the composition is substantially free of isocyanate functionality. Also disclosed are methods of using such compositions to produce a dry-erase surface and kits that include such compositions.

Abstract: A wheel oil supply device assigned to a wheel of a vehicle includes an oil supply pathway for supplying oil to a hub bearing, which rotatably supports a hub connected to a disk wheel of the wheel, an oil seal which is interposed between the hub bearing and a region outside of the hub bearing to seal the oil supplied to the hub bearing through the oil supply pathway, and an oil guiding pathway for guiding the oil which has leaked from the hub bearing to the region outside of the hub bearing through the oil seal, to an oil reservoir which is a predetermined discharge region.

Abstract: A caster comprises a body including a stem cavity with a stem of the caster rotatably mounted in the stem cavity to permit rotation of the stem relative to the body about a stem access. The stem may comprise a spline shaft extending from the stem into the stem cavity. The stem and spline shaft are operatively connected. The stem cavity may have a spline bushing. The spline bushing and the body are operatively connected to each other. The spline shaft and the spline bushing are releasbeably interlockable. One of the spline bushing and the spline shaft may be movable in a direction along the stem axis between the swivel position wherein the spline shaft is not engaged with the spline bushing, and a fixed position wherein the spline shaft is engaged with the spline bushing.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a tire having improved abrasion resistance and appearance, as well as reduced rolling resistance and therefore improved fuel economy. The present invention relates to a tire including a tread, the tread containing 0.9 to 1.5% by mass of a wax, 0.9 to 1.5% by mass of an amine antioxidant, 0.3 to 1.0% by mass of a quinoline antioxidant, and a tread rubber component containing 3% by mass or more of a polybutadiene rubber, the tread having a rubber thickness between a tread groove bottom and an outermost belt-reinforcing layer of 0.1 to 2.0 mm.

Abstract: Provided is a tire having a circular tire frame formed of at least a thermoplastic resin material, in which the tire includes a reinforcing cord member that forms a reinforcing cord layer on an outer circumference of the tire frame, and the thermoplastic resin material contains at least a polyester-based thermoplastic elastomer.