Abstract: An Anisotropic Conductive Film (ACF) is stuck to a substrate by: under-receiving the substrate on which a film-shaped component is mounted by a under-receiving section, transporting a tape member in which a base tape is bonded to the ACF by a tape transport section and causing a sticking surface of the ACF to face the substrate, pressing the ACF together with the base tape on the substrate by a pressing tool and sticking the ACF to the substrate, peeling the ACF sticking to the substrate from the base tape by moving a peeling member in a horizontal direction by causing the peeling member to be interposed between the ACF and the base tape, and regulating an upward warpage deformation of the component during peeling the ACF from the base tape by moving the peeling member.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing display laminate, wherein the display laminate includes a front electrode layer, a display material layer and a protective film layer. The display laminate is continuous. A section of protective film layer is continuously removed from the edge of the display laminate by a cutting unit while the display laminate is running through the cutting unit.

Abstract: A CPU reads out image data from a frame memory line by line, performs logical addition of each bit of readout original image data corresponding to one line and a corresponding bit of each image data acquired by shifting the original image data by one to four bits, and thereby generates image data whose width has been enlarged by four bits. When writing the image data enlarged in the leftward and rightward directions in a ring buffer, the CPU generates image data on a transfer base material which has been enlarged in the upward and downward directions by copying or logical addition. A transfer base material transfer control section outputs the image data on the transfer base material written in the ring buffer for each line to a print head control section under the control of the CPU at predetermined timing.

Abstract: A method of producing a high quality image on a blanket, including providing an image, a first piece of material having a substantially zero-nap upper surface configured to receive the image thereon, and a lower coupling surface. The method may include providing a second piece of material different than the first piece of material, the second piece of material having an upper coupling surface including a non-zero nap and a lower surface of a soft material. The method may include coupling the lower coupling surface of the first piece of material to the upper coupling surface of the second piece of material to form a single unit, while leaving the soft material of the second piece of material substantially exposed to an outside ambient environment, and incorporating the image within the substantially zero-nap upper surface of the first piece of material using a printing process.

Abstract: A system and method for the overprint on flexible supports are described. In particular, the overprint system 1 comprises a printing unit 2 comprising a rotatable printing cylinder 3, having printing zones at the surface thereof, and first actuating means 14, configured to drive in a controllable manner the printing cylinder 3 rotation. The system further comprises a first reel 5 for unwinding a flexible support 4 to be printed, which has preset zones to be overprinted, and a second reel 8 for rewinding the flexible support 4, once it has been printed. A plurality of winding rolls 7 arranges an unwinding path, for the flexible support 4, comprised between the first 5 and the second 8 reels, and passing through the printing unit 2.

Abstract: A method for stabilizing a print quality in an inkjet printing system is described. The inkjet printing system can include a nozzle arrangement that may be activated with a number of control signals that can be used to fire ink droplets with corresponding different droplet sizes onto a recording medium. In the method for stabilizing a print quality in an inkjet printing system, a rastered image for an image template can be created. The rastered image can be printable by the inkjet printing system using a subset of the different droplet sizes. Further, the nozzle arrangement can be activated with a control signal for an unused droplet size of the different droplet sizes to induce the nozzle arrangement to generate a prefire pulse.

Abstract: An apparatus for ejecting liquids includes a liquid ejection head including a nozzle, the nozzle ejecting the liquids; and an ejection detector to detect whether the liquids are ejected from the nozzle of the liquid ejection head, the ejection detector including an insulated receiver having an adhering face to receive and adhere the liquids ejected from the nozzle and an electrode disposed on an opposite side of the adhering face of the receiver. The ejection detector detects electrical change generated when the liquids adhere to the adhering face of the receiver while generating a potential difference between the liquid ejection head and the electrode.

Abstract: A recording apparatus is capable of executing multiple types of different temperature control. A recording head of the recording apparatus has multiple temperature sensors disposed at different positions from each other in the recording head. Each of the multiple types of different temperature control is performed based on representative temperatures acquired using different combinations of the temperature sensors.

Abstract: In a case where the temperature difference between first and second time points detected by a first temperature sensor provided in a print head is lower than a threshold temperature, a temperature correction for the first temperature sensor is performed based on a temperature detected by a second temperature sensor provided within a printing apparatus thereof. In a case where the temperature difference is higher than the threshold temperature, a temperature correction for the first temperature sensor is performed without using the temperature detected by the second temperature sensor.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a fluid ejection device includes a die substrate with a chiclet adhered by its front side to the die substrate. The fluid ejection device also includes an ink delivery slot formed through the chiclet from its back side to its front side. The fluid ejection device further includes a mixing bead at the back side of the chiclet, adjacent the ink delivery slot.

Abstract: Encapsulating a bonded wire with low profile encapsulation includes applying encapsulation over a bonded wire that is connected to a die on a first end and to a circuit component on a second end and truncating a shape of the encapsulation to form a truncated shape.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a driving element for ejecting a liquid from a nozzle; a wiring electrically connected to the driving element; an accommodation space that accommodates at least a portion of the wiring; and dummy wirings which are arranged in the accommodation space and adsorb sulfur.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a piezoelectric element that is disposed on a flow passage formation substrate, and discharges liquid from nozzle openings through the nozzle openings by pressurizing the liquid which fills the inside of a pressure generating chamber due to the displacement of a vibration film according to driving of the piezoelectric element, the piezoelectric element includes an insulating film formed on the vibration film, a first electrode film formed on the insulating film, a piezoelectric layer formed on the first electrode film, and a second electrode film formed on the piezoelectric layer, and the insulating film includes a lower insulating film formed on the vibration film and an upper insulating film which is formed on the lower insulating film with the same material as that of the lower insulating film, but has a different crystal structure.

Abstract: Provided is a driving device of a liquid droplet discharging head including a driving unit that drives a liquid droplet discharging head which includes plural nozzles, which discharge an ultraviolet ray curable liquid, as liquid droplets, the ultraviolet ray curable liquid being cured by being irradiated with ultraviolet rays, and a control unit that controls the driving unit so that, among the plural nozzles, a draw-in driving signal for drawing the liquid in from a discharge surface of non-discharge nozzles of the liquid droplets is supplied to the non-discharge nozzles while ultraviolet rays from an ultraviolet ray light source, which irradiates liquid droplets discharged from the liquid droplet discharging head with ultraviolet rays, are being emitted.

Abstract: A print device includes a head portion, a wiper, a first wall portion, a pressing piece, a support member, and inserted members. The head portion has a nozzle face with a nozzle for discharging a liquid onto a print medium and moves in relation to the print medium. The wiper is provided between the first wall portion and the support member. The wiper is a plate-shaped elastic body and is opposed to the nozzle face. The pressing piece is provided in the first wall portion and presses against the wiper to maintain the wiper in a state of elastic deformation. The inserted members extend between the support member and the first wall portion and are inserted into a plurality of the holes formed in the wiper. The support member supports the wiper. The wiper wipes the nozzle face.

Abstract: A printer cleaning device includes a cleaning blade that is operatively disposed on a cleaning surface to contact and remove a material from the cleaning surface. The cleaning blade has a body portion and a cleaning edge adjoining the body portion adapted to contact the cleaning surface. The printer cleaning device further includes a pad that is attached to the body portion of the cleaning blade and is disposed across a predetermined length of the cleaning blade. The pad has a first corner that is located at a first end of the body portion wherein the first end is at a predetermined distance from the cleaning edge. The printer cleaning device further includes a controller configured to control the cleaning blade to contact and wipe the cleaning surface.

Abstract: A liquid supply device and an image forming apparatus in which the maintenance of a concentration detecting device is improved are obtained. The liquid supply device includes a flow passage through which liquid to be imparted to paper flows; a case including an inlet that is fixed to the flow passage and introduces a liquid from the flow passage, and an outlet that leads the liquid out to the flow passage; and a concentration detecting device that is openably and closably or attachably and detachably attached to the case and includes a detection unit, which detects the concentration of the liquid, at a position that faces the case.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid storing body that makes it possible to prevent a liquid containing a sedimentous component whose concentration is higher than a proper range from being supplied to a liquid jetting apparatus. An ink pack 1 is provided with a flexible ink storage bag 2 capable of storing pigment ink containing a sedimentous component, an ink supply part 3 provided at an upper portion of the ink storage bag 2, and a flow path member 4 that connects the interior of the ink storage bag 2 and the ink supply part 3. The flow path member 4 is provided with a vertical tube part 41 extending downward from the ink supply part 3, a lateral tube part 42 extending horizontally from the lower end of the vertical tube part 41, and a vertical tube part 43 extending upward from the end of the lateral tube part 42.

Abstract: A print cartridge including a cartridge housing having a container body and a lid that encloses the container body. The lid includes a bottom surface and a top surface. One or more air vent openings are formed through the entire thickness of the lid from the top surface to the bottom surface. A hydrophobic coating is disposed on at least one of the top or the bottom surfaces of the lid, with the hydrophobic coating being absent over the one or more air vent openings. The hydrophobic coating is deposited in liquid or gaseous form.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a plurality of pressure chambers which generate a pressure for ejecting liquid from a nozzle; a common liquid chamber which stores liquid which is supplied to the plurality of pressure chambers; a flexible film which configures a part of a wall face of the common liquid chamber; a damper chamber which is partitioned from the common liquid chamber using the flexible film; and a first pressurizing unit which pressurizes the damper chamber.

Abstract: Gas is blown at a predetermined speed from a predetermined area on an orifice substrate with reference to the position of an ejection port array.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including an ejection section that ejects liquid droplets of plural colors including black liquid droplets, a control section that controls the ejection section such that the black liquid droplets and at least a part of the liquid droplets of other colors contact on a recording medium when preliminary ejection is performed on a non-image forming region of the recording medium, and a drying section that dries the liquid droplets of the plural colors.

Abstract: Provided is an inkjet recording device and an inkjet recording method that can selectively perform a high-speed recording mode or a high-quality recording mode without requiring a process of changing configurations of nozzle rows. The head control section performs the discharge control by using all the nozzles belonging to the nozzle groups of respective colors as the usable range Ru in the case where the “high-speed mode” is designated by the mode designating section. On the other hand, in the case where the “high-quality mode” is designated, the head control section determines, for each color, the usable range Ru being a part of the nozzle range Rn configured by the nozzle groups, and performs the discharge control using only the nozzles belonging to the usable ranges Ru so as to cause the ink droplets to be discharged according to the particular color order at any positions on the recording medium.

Abstract: Printing using two colors can be performed by a thermal print head. A base member, a thermosensitive color developing material layer formed by applying a thermosensitive color developing material on the entire surface of the base member, and a thermosensitive decolorizing material layer formed by applying a thermosensitive decolorizing material having a decolorizing temperature different from a color developing temperature of the thermosensitive color developing material on the entire surface of the thermosensitive color developing material layer, are provided.

Abstract: A compliant micro device transfer head and head array are disclosed. In an embodiment a micro device transfer head includes a spring portion that is deflectable into a space between a base substrate and the spring portion.

Abstract: A method of providing a mark to a case of a cartridge of ammunition. The mark includes at least one sub-mark and is suitable for identification and/or for tracking of the cartridge. At least one indenter selectively radially indents a circumferential surface of a bottom of the case, thereby forming the at least one sub-mark.

Abstract: A decorator assembly is provided. The decorator assembly includes a mandrel turret assembly. The mandrel turret assembly includes a rotatable turret, a number of mandrels, and a number of independent ink stations. Each mandrel is rotatably coupled to the turret. Each mandrel extends generally radially from the turret and is disposed generally in a plane about an axis of rotation. The turret is structured to rotate about an axis of rotation thereby moving each mandrel over a generally circular path of travel. Each independent ink station is disposed adjacent to the path of travel of the mandrels.

Abstract: A printing apparatus capable of continuously printing images on a recording medium, each of the images including a variable image of which an aspect is variable for each of the images to be continuously printed and a fixed image of which an aspect is the same for each of the images to be continuously printed, the printing apparatus includes a storage unit that associates and stores therein image data of the fixed image and a template having at least information about a position of printing an image, and a printing control unit that, when a control command which includes information for designating the template and instructs a printing of the variable image is input, superimposes the variable image and the fixed image associated with the designated template, on the basis of the template and print the superimposed image.

Abstract: A system and methods for printing and curing ink deposited on a substrate using a first light source and a second light source. In various embodiments, the first light source emits one or more wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation subtype C (UVC), and the second light source emits one or more wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation subtype A (UVA), subtype B (UVB), subtype V (UVV), or a combination thereof. The substrate is configured such that any ink deposited on the substrate by a printer head is predominantly exposed to the first light source prior to the second light source.

Abstract: A recording apparatus is provided that includes a first operating portion which operates for the first regions at both outsides further than the discharging portion in the opening width direction of the discharged paper to be positioned on the lower side (first direction side) further than the pinched position which is pinched by the discharge driving roller and the discharge driven roller, in the recording surface intersecting direction (vertical direction) intersecting with surfaces which become the recording surface, and a second operating portion which operates for the second regions on each outside of the first region in the opening width direction of the discharged paper to be positioned on the upper side (second direction side) further than the first region.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording section, a transportation unit, and a supporting frame. The recording section performs recording on paper. The transportation unit includes a transportation belt and a moving section. The transportation belt can transport the paper by turning. The moving section causes the transportation belt to move between a recording position, at which the recording is performed by the recording section, and a retracted position, which is more distant from the recording section than the recording position is. The supporting frame supports the transportation unit inside. A first opening portion is formed in the supporting frame. Through the first opening portion, the transportation unit supported inside the supporting frame can be drawn out from the inside of the supporting frame to the outside of the supporting frame in a state in which the transportation belt has been moved to the retracted position.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an inkjet printing device includes a first sprayer and a second sprayer; a first alignment unit configured to align the first sprayer to be above a display region of a display substrate; a second alignment unit configured to align the second sprayer to be above a peripheral region of the display substrate, the peripheral region surrounding the display region; a control unit configured to control the first sprayer to spray a solution toward the display region of the display substrate and control the second sprayer to spray a second solvent toward the peripheral region of the display substrate, the solution being obtained by dissolving a film-forming material in a first solvent; and an evaporation unit configured to evaporate the first solvent and the second solvent so as to form a film at the display region of the display substrate.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head ejects liquid from a plurality of ejection orifices thereof for recording while being moved relative to a recording medium. The liquid ejecting head includes a gas discharge port configured to allow gas to be discharged therefrom. The gas discharge port is disposed on a downstream side of the ejection orifices in a direction of relative movement of the recording medium as viewed from the liquid ejecting head. The gas discharged from the gas discharge port joins an airflow that forms a vortex on an upstream side of the ejection orifices in the direction of relative movement. The vortex is generated by the liquid ejected from the ejection orifices.

Abstract: Gas is ejected toward a region between a liquid ejection head and a recording medium so as to enlarge and stabilize a vortex generated by an airflow generated by liquid droplets ejected from ejection ports. Accordingly, an airflow turbulence generated between the liquid ejection head and the recording medium is reduced and displacements of positions at which the liquid droplets are applied due to the airflow turbulence are reduced.

Abstract: An inkjet printer system includes a porous printing table and thereunder a vacuum chamber that may be divided into sub-vacuum chambers by a movable vacuum divider and a brush attached to prevent contamination and vacuum leakages in the vacuum chamber.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a sheet feed section, an image forming section, a partition unit, an air inflow portion, a first sheet conveyance section, a second sheet conveyance section, and an air sucking and discharging section. The partition unit partitions an interior of an apparatus casing into a first space in which the image forming section is disposed and a second space in which the sheet feed section, the first sheet conveyance section, and the second sheet conveyance section are disposed. Air outside the apparatus casing is taken into the first space through the air inflow portion. The second sheet conveyance section includes a conveyance guide disposed downstream of the image forming section in a conveyance direction of a recording sheet. The air sucking and discharging section sucks air around the conveyance guide and discharges the air into the second space or out of the apparatus casing.

Abstract: An inkjet printer capable of suppressing a reduction in adsorption power relative to media as compared to the related art is provided. The inkjet printer includes a medium adsorbing device that has a medium adsorbing unit for adsorbing a medium, and an inkjet head that faces a portion of the medium adsorbing unit with a medium interposed therebetween. The medium adsorbing unit has a plurality of suction holes for sucking gas in order to adsorb a medium on an adsorption surface positioned on a side of the inkjet head. The medium adsorbing unit has a printing section and a downstream side adjacent section on a side of the adsorption surface. In the printing section, printing is performed on each medium by the inkjet head.

Abstract: A printing apparatus including a conveyance roller conveying a print medium, a printhead printing an image on the print medium, a carriage supporting the printhead and movable in a direction parallel to an axial direction of the conveyance roller, and a detecting unit detecting a rotation amount of the conveyance roller. The detecting unit is a rotary encoder including a code wheel provided coaxially with the conveyance roller. The carriage can move to a position at which the carriage overlaps the code wheel in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the conveyance roller.

Abstract: A method for aligning print head cartridges arranged in a printing system along a print media propagation path, each print head cartridge having a plurality of print head tiles arranged spanning a width of the print media propagation path. The includes printing first Vernier patterns using a reference print head cartridge; printing second Vernier patterns over the first Vernier patterns using a second print head cartridge; and determining, from an interference pattern generated, a distance of separation along the print media propagation path of print head tiles in the second print head cartridge from corresponding print head tiles of the reference print head cartridge.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes an apparatus main body portion that contains a recorder that performs recording on a recording medium, and a panel having a display unit that displays various information and being capable of opening and closing an upper portion of the apparatus main body portion by pivoting about a first pivot shaft. The panel has an outer perimeter that includes two short sides and two long sides. The display unit has an outline that includes two short sides and two long sides and is provided on the panel so that a longitudinal direction of the display unit coincides with a longitudinal direction of the panel. The longitudinal direction of the panel intersects a direction of the first pivot shaft about which the panel pivots.

Abstract: A printer cleaning device cleans an image receiving surface with a surface preparation material, includes a roller having a perforated cylindrical wall surrounded by a foam material. The cylindrical wall has an interior volume for holding a fluid pumped into the interior volume by a pump. The pressurized fluid flows through the cylindrical wall into the foam material as the roller is moved into engagement with the image receiving surface. The roller is rotated in a direction opposition to a direction of movement of the image receiving surface to help the foam material to scrub the image receiving surface and apply the fluid to the surface. As the roller is moved away from the surface, the foam material expands to facilitate absorption of fluid and remove material from the image receiving surface. The foam material in one embodiment is hydrophobic.

Abstract: A printer cleaning device cleans an image receiving surface treated with a surface preparation material. The cleaning surface includes an applicator that receives fluid from a receptacle and applies a portion of the fluid onto the image receiving surface of a printer. A wiper engages the image receiving surface to remove a portion of dried aqueous ink and fluid from the image receiving surface. The applicator is rotated in a direction opposite to a direction of movement of the image receiving surface. The dried aqueous ink and fluid removed by the wiper are diverted to a conduit to enable a pump to move the dried aqueous ink and fluid through a filter before returning the filtered fluid to the receptacle so the applicator can absorb the filtered fluid.

Abstract: An ink jet printer includes a cleaning blade that cleans the surface of a transport belt that attracts a sheet of recording paper by electrostatic adsorption and transports the attracted recording paper, and a pressing roller. The width of the cleaning blade is smaller than the width of the pressing roller that is located downstream of the cleaning blade, and thus, ink, paper dust, and the like that have escapes from both ends of the cleaning blade to the outside and have not been wiped off are caught by the pressing roller.

Abstract: Examples of the method may comprise providing a print media under a printhead of the printing system, obtaining an actual height profile signal, related to a height between the printhead and the print media, based on measurements taken at a plurality of positions across the width of the media during at least one pass, comparing said actual height profile signal to an earlier height profile signal, obtained based on measurements taken at said plurality of positions across the width of the media during at least one earlier pass on the same print media, and determining a media malfunction condition based on said comparison.

Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting a liquid discharge head including an energy generation element provided on an element substrate and configured to make energy act on a liquid to discharge the liquid from an orifice, a lower protection film having an electrical insulating property and provided on the element substrate while covering the energy generation element, a wiring layer provided between the element substrate and the lower protection film and configured to supply electrical signal for driving to the energy generation element, and a conductive upper protection film provided on the lower protection film is provided. The apparatus comprises a detection circuit configured to detect a potential of the upper protection film when the energy generation element is driven; and a determination circuit configured to determine a driving state of the energy generation element from information about the potential detected by the detection circuit.

Abstract: Systems and apparatus relating to motor control (e.g., for thermal transfer printing) include, according to at least one implementation, a motor control system including: a position controller to receive a demanded position (PD) input for controlling a motor; a torque controller coupled with the position controller, the torque controller to receive a torque bias (TB) input for controlling the motor; and a feedback circuit coupled with the torque controller and the position controller; wherein the feedback circuit is configured and arranged to combine an output from the position controller, the output being generated based on the demanded position (PD) input, with the torque bias (TB) input to generate a torque demand (TD) input to the torque controller.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a printable media containing a self adhering printable compositions for digital printing and prepared by coating of the self adhering printable composition on an untreated nonwoven substrate. The printable medium of the present invention has excellent ink receptivity (printability) on a variety of ink-jet and other printing platforms and is ideally suited to be used as signage banners, commercial hoardings etc.

Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate and an ink receiving layer that includes inorganic particles and a binder. The inorganic particles include at least one type of alumina particles selected from fumed alumina particles and hydrated alumina particles. The binder includes a resin having a glass transition temperature of 20° C. or less. The content of the binder in the ink receiving layer is 25% by mass or more of the content of the inorganic particles included in the ink receiving layer.

Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate and an ink receiving layer that includes inorganic particles and a binder. The inorganic particles include fumed silica particles. The binder includes a resin having a glass transition temperature of 20° C. or less. The content of the binder in the ink receiving layer is 40% by mass or more of the content of the inorganic particles included in the ink receiving layer.

Abstract: A recording medium including a substrate and an ink receiving layer on the substrate, the ink receiving layer containing inorganic particles and a water-soluble resin. The recording medium has an HM1 of 40 N/mm2 or less and has a rate of change of HM2 to HM1 of 400% or less. HM1 is a Martens hardness when an indenter is pushed at a 500 mN load over 180 seconds from a surface of the recording medium into a 1 ?m depth in a thickness direction thereof. HM2 is a Martens hardness when the indenter is pushed up to a position where the indenter is not in contact with the surface and is then pushed at a 500 mN load over 180 seconds from a pressing starting position into a 1 ?m depth in the thickness direction at the same point as that at which the indenter is first pushed.