Abstract: A laminating apparatus and method are disclosed. The laminating device includes a first jig, a second jig facing the first jig, an auxiliary film fixing unit and a driving unit. A partially curved cover window is seated on the first jig. An auxiliary film and a panel member are seated on the second jig so as to be flat. The driving unit linearly moves at least one of the first and second jigs.

Abstract: Systems and methods for pressing a door assembly involve one or more die sections installed in a press, wherein the die sections each have a raised section that contacts and supports a recessed panel portion of a door skin of the assembly during the pressing operation to facilitate crushing of portions of a core of the door assembly that underlie the recessed panel portion of the door skin. The die sections may be made of plastic and readily changed out for different sizes or styles of doors.

Abstract: A method of applying labels to a store shelf in a retail environment. The method includes applying labels with adhesive strips applied to a bottom surface of each label and a top laminate layer with a release coating applied to the top surface of each label. The labels in the pad are sequenced according to a store's planogram.

Abstract: An acoustic liner having a honeycomb core is fabricated by forming septa in a sheet of material, and assembling the sheet of material and the core. During the assembly process, the septa are respectively inserted as a group into cells of the core.

Abstract: A method of producing a glass film includes forming an inorganic thin film on a surface of a supporting glass so that a surface of the inorganic thin film after being formed has a surface roughness Ra of 2.0 nm or less after film formation, and forming a glass film laminate by laminating a glass film having a surface roughness Ra of 2.0 nm or less on the surface of the inorganic thin film in a state of being in contact with each other. The method also includes carrying out treatment involving heating with respect to the glass film laminate, and peeling off the glass film from the supporting glass after the treatment involving heating.

Abstract: The subject invention is directed to a device and method for removing an article attached to a mounting surface by an adhesive mounting. Preferably, the device comprises a first grip, a second grip and a filament having a first end attached to the first grip and a second end attached to the second grip. The filament operates such that when placed between the mounting surface and the adhesive mounting and pulled by the first and second grip in a direction along a bonding plane, it operates to separate the adhesive mounting from the mounting surface.

Abstract: Provided is a removing unit that includes: a first conveying roller, a second conveying roller, a third conveying roller, and a take-up roller. The first conveying roller conveys a stack including first and second base members which are removably stacked with respect to each other. The second conveying roller conveys the second base member from which the first base member has been removed. The third conveying roller conveys the first base member which has been removed from the second base member, along a surface of the first conveying roller. The take-up roller takes up the first base member which has been conveyed by the third conveying roller. The second conveying roller is provided upstream from a first tangent in a conveying direction of the first base member. The third conveying roller is provided to overlap the first tangent or provided downstream from the first tangent, in the conveying direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device or method for detecting and adjusting the printing parameters in flexographic printing machines.

Abstract: A computer-implemented system for determining ink availability in one or more ink reservoirs in a print system is described. The system includes at least one ink reservoir for each color ink used in the printing system, a print unit associated with each ink reservoir configured to apply a print image including at least one color of ink to a substrate based on print image information, and an ink level monitoring system configured to determine an ink availability in each ink reservoir based on printed image count information including a number of printings of the print image and a total wet ink utilization generated based on a characterization of a print condition and further based on a measured dry ink utilization per area of coverage using the print image information and corrected by an ink usage correction multiplier.

Abstract: A first pattern and second patterns, having a plurality of sub-patterns, are formed while an ejector is moved in a forward direction, and a third pattern and fourth patterns are formed while the ejector is moved in a backward direction. The third pattern has sub-patterns deviating in sequence from the respective sub-patterns of the first pattern in the first directions by a first deviation amount. The fourth patterns each have sub-patterns deviating in sequence from the respective sub-patterns of the second patterns in the first directions by a second deviation amount. The positions of sub-patterns of a rough adjustment pattern, including the first and the third pattern, and the positions of sub-patterns of fine adjustment patterns, including the second and the fourth patterns, are associated with each other. In each fine adjustment pattern, image density periodically changes along the first directions and one or more cycles of periodic changes are included.

Abstract: An ejector is caused to eject a liquid such that first patterns are formed in a first direction on a medium while the ejector is moved outward, second patterns are formed in one-to-one correspondence with the first patterns with different first amounts of interval in the first direction from the first patterns while the ejector is moved backward, and a third pattern is formed in an end region that is at least a part of an end of the first patterns in the second direction and at least a part of an end of the second patterns in the second direction.

Abstract: An inkjet recording device and an inkjet recording method are provided to suppress occurrence of banding in an inkjet recording technology using a plurality of heads. Control is performed on two heads in which some of nozzles of one head overlap nozzles of the other head such that at least one head does not perform ejection from nozzles included in the overlapping nozzles and positioned at ends of nozzle rows.

Abstract: A droplet ejection method includes: changing the drive condition in at least one of multiple ejections so as to correct the difference between a predetermined liquid amount and the total ejection amount of the liquid ejected in the form of a droplet by driving the nozzle under a preset drive condition; and driving at least one of the nozzles under the new drive condition to redetermine the total ejection amount of liquid of when performing multiple ejections.

Abstract: A printer includes a base platform that has a support surface on which a medium is mounted, and a liquid ejecting unit, which is capable of moving relatively in a direction that runs along the support surface, and which performs a recording operation on the medium from a recording head that moves along the support surface in a direction that intersects the direction. The base platform includes a first power source device, and first control substrate that controls operation of the base platform on the basis of the first power source device, and the liquid ejecting unit includes a second power source device, and a second control substrate that controls operation of the liquid ejecting unit on the basis of the second power source device.

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a first discharge section that discharges a metallic ink, a second discharge section that discharges a pigment ink, a detection section that detects residual vibrations that occur in the first discharge section, and outputs a first detection signal, which shows a corresponding detection result, and detects residual vibrations that occur in the second discharge section, and outputs a second detection signal, which shows a corresponding detection result, and a determination section that executes a first determination, which determines whether or not the first detection signal satisfies first conditions, which should be satisfied in a case in which a discharge state of the first discharge section is normal, and executes a second determination, which determines whether or not the second detection signal satisfies second conditions, which should be satisfied in a case in which a discharge state of the second discharge section is normal.

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a first discharge section that discharges a pigment ink, a second discharge section that discharges a dye ink, a detection section that detects residual vibrations that occur in the first discharge section and outputs a first detection signal, which shows a corresponding detection result, and detects residual vibrations that occur in the second discharge section and outputs a second detection signal, which shows a corresponding detection result, and a determination section that executes a first determination, which determines whether or not the first detection signal satisfies first conditions, which should be satisfied in a case in which a discharge state of the first discharge section is normal, and executes a second determination, which determines whether or not the second detection signal satisfies second conditions, which should be satisfied in a case in which a discharge state of the second discharge section is normal.

Abstract: An inkjet print head includes data signal lines configured to supply inkjet control voltages and non-volatile memory cell random access addresses. The inkjet print head includes an inkjet nozzle array wherein each nozzle in the array is configured to communicate with a data signal line. Also a non-volatile attribute memory cell array is included in the inkjet print head wherein each memory cell in the array is accessed through a data signal line shared with the nozzle array.

Abstract: There is provided a driving circuit having a modulator which generates a modulation signal pulse-modulated from a source signal; a gate driver which generates an amplification control signal based on the modulation signal; a transistor which generates an amplification modulation signal amplified from the modulation signal based on the amplification control signal; a low pass filter which demodulates the amplification modulation signal and generates a driving signal; a first power source; and a temperature detection portion which detects temperature.

Abstract: A printer that prints printouts processed in a post-printing process such as a label application step reduces the difference between the target time for printing completion and the actual completion of printing. When a print command is acquired from a control device 2, the printer 10 calculates a required printing time Tp including a time T1 required for the print preparation operation, and acquires a target time Tt for completing the specified printing. The controller 12 supplies a trigger signal for starting printing to the print unit 11 at a time calculated back from the target time Tt. The controller 12 calculates the required printing time Tp by adding the time required for the print preparation operation according to the current status of the printer 10 to the time required for the printing operation itself.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes a flexible carrier along with a system and a method including the flexible carrier.

Abstract: A method and structure for a piezoelectric ink jet printhead. The method can include forming a piezoelectric composite from a liquid sol-gel solution. A first layer of the liquid sol-gel solution can be deposited onto a substrate using, for example, a spin coat process, wherein the substrate may be a printhead diaphragm. The first layer may be partially cured, then a second layer of the liquid sol-gel solution can be deposited onto the partially cured first layer, which is then partially cured. Any number of layers of liquid sol-gel solution can be deposited to result in a piezoelectric composite having a suitable thickness. Subsequently, all of the partially cured layers are fully cured. Printhead processing can continue to form a completed piezoelectric ink jet printhead.

Abstract: In an example, a printhead includes a die stack having a plurality of dies and a nozzle plate bonded together. A fluid passageway extends throughout the die stack to enable fluid to flow into a bottom die in the die stack, through the die stack, and out through a nozzle in the nozzle plate. The printhead includes a thin film passivation layer that coats all surfaces of the fluid passageway.

Abstract: In an example, a fluid ejection apparatus includes a printhead die embedded in a printed circuit board. Fluid may flow o the printhead die through a plunge-cut fluid feed slot in the printed circuit board and into the printhead die.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting section and a protective member. The liquid ejecting section has an aperture surface having ejection outlets that eject liquid droplets. The protective member has passage openings through which the liquid droplets pass. The protective member is disposed between a medium and the aperture surface when the liquid ejecting section ejects liquid droplets onto the medium.

Abstract: Disclosed is a printer that forms dots on a recording medium using a recording head that discharges an ink, as liquid droplets, from a nozzle formation surface, in which a nozzle opening is formed, as a result of deforming a meniscus of the ink in the nozzle using a piezoelectric element. The printer includes a liquid-repellent film that covers the nozzle formation surface, and a wiping process that wipes away a stain on the nozzle formation surface. The printer forms dots on the recording medium using a first liquid droplet discharging operation that discharges ink, which is separated from a wall surface of the nozzle and disposed on an inner side of the nozzle, as liquid droplets.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting apparatus capable of suppressing ink from remaining on a nozzle surface. A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head unit 16 capable of ejecting a liquid from a nozzle 27 provided in a nozzle surface 22a of a nozzle plate 22, an anchoring plate 17 in which the head unit 16 is anchored and that is provided with an opening region 17a that exposes the nozzle surface 22, and a wiper member 12 that wipes an anchoring plate exposed-surface 17b located on the opposite side of the head unit 16 of the anchoring plate 17 and the nozzle surface 22a. When an angle of contact between the nozzle surface 22a and the liquid is taken as ?n, an angle of contact between the anchoring plate exposed-surface 17b and the liquid is taken as ?s, and an angle of contact between the wiper member 12 and the liquid is taken as ?w, the relationship ?n>?s>?w>90° is fulfilled.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a carriage that holds an ink cartridge; a first cover that pushes a first side of the ink cartridge downward; and a second cover that pushes a second side of the ink cartridge in a direction opposite to a paper feeding direction. The first cover includes a first engaging portion, the second cover includes a second engaging portion and a pinching portion and is openable by the pinching portion in the paper feeding direction, and the first cover and the second cover push the ink cartridge when the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion are engaged and the second cover is closed.

Abstract: In a configuration in which an ink accommodating portion is provided on the outside of an apparatus main body, an appropriate control for suppressing influence of noise can be performed.

Abstract: Provided is an ink supply set configured to detach from a liquid supply apparatus and includes an ink containing portion, a connection unit, an ink guiding portion having an engaging portion, a flow path unit that guides the ink in the ink containing portion to the ink guiding portion, a circuit board, and a substrate installation portion. The liquid supply apparatus includes a liquid introduction portion into which ink is introduced via the ink guiding portion, and a movable support portion that supports the connection unit. In a state in which the engaging portion is engaged with a first engaged portion formed in the movable support portion, the circuit board comes into contact with an electrical connection portion provided in the liquid supply apparatus, and in the removed position, the circuit board is separated from the electrical connection portion.

Abstract: Provided is an ink supply set configured to detach from a liquid supply apparatus and includes an ink containing portion, an ink guiding unit including an engaging portion, a flow path unit that guides the ink in the ink containing portion to the ink guiding portion, a circuit board, and a substrate installation portion that is independent from the ink guiding unit. The liquid supply apparatus includes a liquid introduction portion and a movable support portion. In a state in which the engaging portion and the substrate installation portion are respectively engaged with a first engaged portion and a second engaged portion formed in the movable support portion, the circuit board comes into contact with an electrical connection portion provided in the liquid supply apparatus, and in the removed position, the circuit board is separated from the electrical connection portion.

Abstract: Provided is an ink supply set having an ink containing body detachable from a liquid supply apparatus, and an electrical contact unit that is independent of the ink containing body. The ink containing body includes an ink containing portion, an ink guiding portion, and a first engaging portion, the electrical contact unit includes a circuit board and a substrate installation portion, and the liquid supply apparatus includes a liquid introduction portion and a movable support portion. In a state in which the first engaging portion and the substrate installation portion are respectively engaged with the movable support portion, the movable support portion is displaced to a connected position in which the ink guiding portion and the liquid introduction portion are connected.

Abstract: A nail art printing apparatus having a receiving device for the placement of a nail or plurality of nails, the nail art printing apparatus being connectable to an electronic device. The electronic device has a user interface means being operably engagable with the nail art printing apparatus. The nail art printing apparatus being operable to apply a plurality of colours and/or designs to one or more natural and/or artificial nails.

Abstract: An alignment system for an article of apparel includes an article receptacle device for receiving an article to be printed. The alignment system also includes a receiving assembly for receiving an article receptacle device with an article to be aligned prior to printing. The alignment system can include one or more flexible sheets that can be used to help position the articles on the article receptacle device in preparation for printing.

Abstract: A tape printing device in which the closing of an open/close cover and the presence/absence of a tape cartridge can be detected simultaneously is provided. The tape printing device includes a cartridge loading section in which a tape cartridge is loaded in an unloadable manner; an open/close cover which opens/closes the cartridge loading section; a cover detection section which is provided in the cartridge loading section and detects closing of the open/close cover; and a protrusion to be detected which is provided on the open/close cover, corresponding to the cover detection section. The protrusion to be detected displaces a displacement portion of the tape cartridge loaded in the cartridge loading section, with the closing of the open/close cover. The cover detection section is actuated for detection, with the displacement of the displacement portion.

Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus that performs printing operation on a recording medium with a satisfactory image quality. An inkjet printing apparatus includes a head that reciprocates in a main scanning direction while discharging an ink onto the medium; and a left irradiator and a right irradiator having a plurality of irradiation elements that are configured to irradiate the ink with light and are mounted on one substrate, the plurality of irradiation elements being arranged in a sub scanning direction, and an array pitch of the plurality of irradiation elements is n/m (m?1), where a maximum pass width in the plurality of passes is n.

Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus and an inkjet printing method that may obtain a printed matter that excels in glossiness. An inkjet printing apparatus 1 has an irradiation controller 20. The irradiation controller 20 turns on ones of a plurality of irradiation elements corresponding to passes before and inclusive of a (n?m)th pass (m is an integer smaller than n and greater than or equal to 1), and turns off or controls ones of the plurality of irradiation elements corresponding to a last (m)th pass to have a lower illuminance than the irradiation elements corresponding to the passes before and inclusive of the (n?m)th pass.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a liquid ejecting section that is capable of ejecting a reactant liquid and an ink, and a control section that controls operation of the liquid ejecting section. The control section sets an ejection duty of the reactant liquid according to an ejection duty of the ink.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes an inkjet head configured to perform printing using ink along a main scanning direction onto a print medium by moving in the main scanning direction; a platen configured to support, from an opposite side of the inkjet head, a portion of the print medium being printed by the inkjet head by a printing portion supporting region extending in the main scanning direction; a print heater configured to heat the print medium via the printing portion supporting region; and a fan device extending in the main scanning direction, and configured to blow air out from a blower outlet for blowing the air toward a surface of the portion of the print medium supported by the printing portion supporting region.

Abstract: A recording method includes a first drying step of evaporating 50 to 85 wt % of ink adhering on a recording medium, the ink being ejected from a recording head onto a surface of the recording medium back side of which is supported on a medium-supporting unit which faces the recording head, and a second drying step of drying the recording medium, which has been subjected to the first drying step, at the downstream side of the medium-supporting unit in a feeding direction of the recording medium.

Abstract: A part feeding device of the present disclosure includes a main body; a conveyor; and a part detector. At a positon further upstream than the part detector, the transporting passage includes a guide surface for guiding the lower surface of the part feeding tape, and a ceiling surface which faces the guide surface and is positioned at a position upwardly apart from the guide surface by the dimension larger than the thickness of the part feeding tape having the maximum thickness to be used in the part feeding device. The transporting passage includes a partial guide surface which supports the lower surface of the part feeding tape, and the partial guide surface includes an approaching portion approaching a ceiling surface in a downstream direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the gilding of a substrate with the application of pressure between the zones of the substrate to be gilded and a gilding sheet comprising a gilding film and a transfer layer, characterised by the consecutive treatment of the gilded substrate, allowing the adhesion performance of the gilding sheet in relation to the substrate to be optimised while improving the visual quality of the gilding deposit on the substrate.

Abstract: According to one example, there is provided a method or system for modifying the surface topography of a substrate support.

Abstract: A detector apparatus includes a support unit having a support surface for supporting an outer circumferential surface of a roll, and a detector configured to detect a near end of the roll in response to both a change in an outer diameter or weight of the roll and a change in a relative position of an inner circumferential surface of the roll to the support surface.

Abstract: There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus including: a platen, a contact portion disposed between a pair of first ribs of the plurality of first ribs with respect to a scanning direction. A lower end of the contact portion is located lower than each upper end of the pair of first ribs. The platen includes a second rib disposed between one first rib of the pair of first ribs and the contact portion with respect to the scanning direction, and an upper end of the second rib is located lower than the upper end of the one first rib of the pair of first ribs and higher than the lower end of the contact portion.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejecting unit that includes a nozzle column configured to eject liquid, the ejecting unit being configured to reciprocate along a first direction that intersects the nozzle column; a transport unit configured to transport a medium in a second direction that intersects the first direction; and a control unit configured to control the ejecting unit and the transport unit such that first and second patterns are formed. The first and second patterns are formed such that a plurality of boundaries between the first pattern and the second pattern are formed in between boundary portions of the first pattern and boundary portions of the second pattern.

Abstract: A printer includes a first housing part, a second housing part, a printing part that prints on the first paper sheet and the second paper sheet, a conveying part that includes a holding part that is configured to hold the overlapping first paper sheet and the second paper sheet respectively pulled out from a first paper roll and a second paper roll, and conveys the first paper sheet out of the first paper sheet and the second paper sheet held by the holding part to the printing part, a first paper sheet sensor that detects the presence of the first paper sheet, and a controlling part that makes the conveying part convey the second paper sheet held by the holding part to the printing part when the first paper sheet sensor detects that there is no first paper sheet to be conveyed to the printing part.

Abstract: A printer includes a body, a lid, and a restriction member. The body includes a holder configured to accommodate a roll of a recording sheet. The lid is attached to the body to be opened and closed relative to the body. The restriction member is pivotably attached to the bottom of the holder, and includes a contact part urged toward the interior of the holder. The contact part is urged to contact the peripheral surface of the roll accommodated in the holder.

Abstract: A label printer according to an embodiment includes a support unit that supports a roll of a backless label paper; a conveying unit that conveys and reverse conveys the backless label paper along a conveying path; a printing unit positioned on the conveying path and including a print head that prints on a surface of the backless label paper; a cutting unit, positioned on the conveying path downstream of the printing unit in a conveying direction, that cuts the backless label paper; and a control unit that controls the conveying unit to reverse convey the backless label paper in a reverse conveying direction after the cutting unit cuts the backless label paper sheet so that a tip of the backless label paper is stopped at a predetermined position downstream from the print head in the conveying direction.

Abstract: A roll-up apparatus for rolling up a continuous sheet into a roll shape, comprises a tension generation unit configured to generate a changeable tension to the continuous sheet; and a control unit configured to control the tension generation unit based on a roll-up condition of the continuous sheet.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a head configured to reciprocate and having a nozzle surface provided with a nozzle for discharging a liquid; a lock configured to regulate reciprocation of the head; and a liquid saucer configured to receive the liquid, in which the nozzle surface of the head faces the liquid saucer and is separated from the liquid saucer in a state where reciprocation is regulated by the lock.