Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a tank; a recording head; a display; an operation interface; a memory; and a controller. The controller performs: an inquiry process in which a displaying and receiving process is repeatedly performed for each of ink chambers of the tank to inquire whether ink has been injected into a target ink chamber; an operation determination process to determine whether all of operations received in the inquiry process are first operations; and, in response to the determination in the operation determination process that all of the operations received in the inquiry process are first operations, a confirmation process to prompt a user to input a third operation to confirm that ink has been injected into all of the ink chambers. The controller initializes, in response to receipt of the third operation in the confirmation process, count values for all of the ink chambers.

Abstract: An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes modules to generate an input signal, apply the input signal to an ink sample to obtain an ink signal, compare the ink signal to a reference value, and identify whether the ink signal is consistent with an ink signature. A module may be contained on an inkjet printhead die.

Abstract: A method for driving a liquid injection apparatus comprising a base plate on which a pressure chamber communicating with a nozzle, a piezoelectric body arranged corresponding to the pressure chamber, and a volume variable plate arranged between the pressure chamber and the piezoelectric body and changing a volume of the pressure chamber by applying a voltage to the piezoelectric body, applying a first voltage in a rest state before the liquid is ejected from the nozzle; applying a second voltage higher than the first voltage in a standby state to contract the pressure chamber before the liquid is ejected from the nozzle; applying a third voltage lower than the second voltage to eject the liquid from the nozzle; and switching the first voltage, the second voltage and the third voltage and applying them to the piezoelectric body according to ejection data indicating whether to eject the liquid.

Abstract: A method of bonding two components includes plating a first of the components with a first silver layer, a tin layer, and a second silver layer, plating a second of the components with silver, inserting the first and second components into a pre-heated press, and applying pressure to the components causing the components to bond. A method of manufacturing a print head includes plating a piezoelectric layer with a first silver layer, a tin layer, and a second silver layer, plating a steel layer of a jet stack with silver, inserting the piezoelectric layer and the steel layer into a pre-heated press, and applying pressure to the piezoelectric layer and the steel layer causing the layers to bond.

Abstract: An inkjet printing method includes directing a printhead of an inkjet printer towards a substrate to be printed, generating ink drops in the printhead of the inkjet printer, and directing the ink drops, after they have been discharged from the nozzle of the printhead, into a zone with a locally increased temperature in such a way that the volume of the drops is actively reduced during the phase of flight to the substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a line inkjet printer capable of color printing using a simple configuration. A line inkjet printer has: a conveyance unit that, when printing, conveys at least one of a print medium and line head in a conveyance direction; and a line head having multiple nozzles that eject ink of one of N (where N is an integer of 2 or more) different colors arranged in a direction intersecting the conveyance direction, and configured to eject mutually different colors of ink from nozzles that are mutually adjacent along the direction intersecting the conveyance direction.

Abstract: Provided is a recording head recovery system, which includes a recording head and a wiper. The recording head includes an ink ejection surface provided with an ink ejection region in which ink ejection ports are formed. The recording head is disposed on a wiping direction upstream side of the ink ejection region, and a cleaning liquid supply region in which cleaning liquid supply ports for supplying cleaning liquid are formed. A height position of a lower end part of the wiper when passing the cleaning liquid supply region is lower than a height position of the lower end part of the wiper when wiping the ink ejection region.

Abstract: Provided are an image forming apparatus and a quality determination method by which the quality of each of a plurality of normal images allocated to a recording medium can be easily and appropriately determined.

Abstract: An efficiency of a liquid supply to an ejection head such as an inkjet head is improved. An ink supply apparatus is provided that supplies ink to an inkjet head of a printer which is an example of inkjet recording apparatuses. The ink supply apparatus includes a non-replaceable ink pack disposed at a position at which the ink stored inside is suppliable by a hydraulic head differential to the printer, and a replaceable pack holder that replaceably holds a replaceable ink pack provided apart from the non-replaceable ink pack. The ink to be supplied to the non-replaceable ink pack is containable in the replaceable ink pack at a position preceding the non-replaceable ink pack. The ink that the non-replaceable ink pack receives from the replaceable ink pack is supplied to the printer under a pressure generated by the hydraulic head differential.

Abstract: Convenience of an ink bottle and a bottle set is improved. An ink bottle includes: a container portion that contains ink; a guiding portion that is formed in one end portion of the container portion, and includes an outflow port from which the ink in the container portion flow out; and a cover that covers at least an end portion of the container portion on the opposite side of the guiding portion.

Abstract: The inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a heater, a first control portion, and a second control portion. The recording head is configured to eject ink toward a sheet. The heater is capable of heating the ink on a supply path for the ink leading from an ink containing portion containing the ink to the recording head. The first control portion is configured to comprehensively control the inkjet recording apparatus, and power supply to the first control portion is stopped when a predetermined power supply stop condition is satisfied. The second control portion includes: a temperature detection portion configured to detect a temperature inside the inkjet recording apparatus; and a heater driving portion configured to drive the heater when the temperature detected by the temperature detection portion has become lower than a predetermined reference temperature, and the second control portion is provided separately from the first control portion.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a tank having an ink chamber and formed with an inlet; a recording head; a display configured to display a screen; and a controller configured to control the recording head and the display. The tank has an outer wall. At least a portion of the outer wall allows the ink stored in the ink chamber to be visible from an outside. The recording head is configured to eject the ink stored in the ink chamber to record an image on a sheet. The controller is further configured to periodically execute a first notification process to control the display to display a first notification screen when the quantity of ink stored in the ink chamber is not less than a residual ink threshold. The first notification screen prompts a user to check the quantity of ink stored in the ink chamber.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a tank; a recording head; a memory: a display; an operation interface; and a controller. The memory stores an ink quantity information including: a first threshold value; and a count value. The controller is configured to perform: an inference process to infer whether ink has been injected into the ink chamber through the inlet; an inquiry process to inquire whether ink has been injected into the ink chamber up to a maximum storage quantity thereof; a first initialization process to set the ink quantity information to a first initial value with which a first difference between the first threshold value and the count value becomes maximum within the prescribed range; and a second initialization process to set the ink quantity information to a second initial value with which the first difference is smaller than the first difference with the first initial value.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a tank; a recording assembly; a cover; a memory; a display; an operation interface; and a controller. The controller performs: a first determination process to determine whether a quantity of ink in an ink chamber of the tank is less than a residual ink threshold; a second determination process to determine whether an exposing time of the cover is not less than a first time period; and an inquiry process to inquire whether ink has been injected into the ink chamber. The controller performs, based on the determination in the first determination process that the quantity of ink in the ink chamber is less than the residual ink threshold, the inquiry process without performing the second determination process; and performs, in response to receipt of a first operation in the inquiry process, an initialization process to initialize a count value for the ink chamber.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid flow path which communicates with a nozzle which ejects liquid; a vacuum degassing chamber for removing air bubbles from liquid by depressurizing a part of the liquid flow path; a gas flow path which communicates with the vacuum degassing chamber; a pressurizing chamber which communicates with the gas flow path; and a pump which communicates with the vacuum degassing chamber and the pressurizing chamber through the gas flow path, in which the pump is driven by a sequence selected from a plurality of sequences, and the plurality of sequences include a plurality of depressurizing sequences in which the vacuum degassing chamber is depressurized so that an average pressure of the vacuum degassing chamber becomes different, and a pressurizing sequence in which the pressurizing chamber is pressurized.

Abstract: In an inkjet recording apparatus, a control section forms a test chart in which a plurality of lines, each extending along the recording-medium width direction, are drawn arranged along the recording-medium conveyance direction by making the ink ejection nozzles eject ink, while gradually changing either ink ejection timing with respect to each of the ink ejection nozzles or a recording-medium conveyance speed. Furthermore, the control section checks for, and corrects, pixel deviation in the recording-medium conveyance direction based on the test chart.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid container configured to be mounted to a carriage that reciprocates in an X direction. The liquid container comprises an upper wall and a bottom wall; a liquid supply port provided in the bottom wall; a first chamber provided on a +Z direction side that is an upper wall side; a second chamber provided on a ?Z direction side that is a bottom wall side; a partition wall configured to part the first chamber from the second chamber; and a connecting hole configured to connect the first chamber with the second chamber. The second chamber is connected with the liquid supply port. The first chamber is connected with the liquid supply port via the connecting hole and the second chamber. The second chamber includes a return flow path that is turned back along the X direction. A liquid contained in the first chamber is flowed from the connecting hole through the return flow path to the liquid supply port.

Abstract: An image processing method is for generating print data to cause a printing apparatus that prints a print image based on image data to execute printing, by repeating a pass operation in which a nozzle set forms dots on a printing medium while moving in a main scanning direction, and a feed operation in which the nozzle set and the printing medium are moved in a sub-scanning direction. The image processing method includes: performing a first and second halftone processes for a same region of the image data to respectively generate a first halftone data to determine a formation state of first dots and a second halftone data to determine a formation state of second dots, the first and second dots being formed by the nozzle set that ejects a same color of ink; and allocating the first halftone data and the second halftone data to pass operations.

Abstract: A printing precision calibrating structure includes image forming assemblies, a transmission path and a linear image sensor. The image forming assemblies arranged in order generate image forming substances. The transmission path allows the image forming substances to pass. The linear image sensor is disposed downstream of the image forming assemblies. The image forming assemblies generate the image forming substances transmitted within the transmission path. The linear image sensor detects the image forming substances, provided by the image forming assemblies, for printing precision calibrating. A printing precision calibrating method is also provided.

Abstract: In a method for automatic adaptation of a quantity of a coating substance, a coating substance is inkjet printed to a printing region of the recording medium; a first color is over printed across a width of the printing region of the recording medium and atop the coating substance; a print image of a second color is over printed atop the first color; the printing region having been printed to is sensory recorded; a local bleeding behavior of the first and the second colors is analyzed based on the sensory recording; and a printed quantity of the coating substance is locally adapted, based on the analysis of the local bleeding behavior, in segments of the printing region that are affected by bleeding.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices, systems, and methods providing a ribbon sensor configured and positioned to ascertain an orientation of a printing ribbon, including devices, systems, and methods configured for detecting an improperly oriented printing ribbon, and for triggering a response in the event of an improperly installed, and/or for confirming proper installation of a printing ribbon.

Abstract: A thermal head according to the disclosure includes: a substrate; a heat generating section disposed on the substrate; an electrode disposed on the substrate so as to be electrically connected to the heat generating section; a protective layer which covers the heat generating section and part of the electrode, the protective layer being formed of an inorganic material; a cover layer disposed on the protective layer, the cover layer being formed of a resin material; and inorganic particles disposed on a surface of the protective layer so as to protrude from the surface. Moreover, the inorganic particles each comprise a first portion located inside the cover layer and a second portion located inside the protective layer.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a printing apparatus comprises a printing section, a first temperature sensor and a processor. The printing section carries out printing on a sheet through heating. The first temperature sensor measures a temperature of the sheet on which the printing section carries out the printing. The processor sets a heating amount on the basis of the temperature of the sheet and controls the printing section to carry out printing through the heating amount.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing self-adhesive labels, in particular in a self-service area, for example of a drug store, is provided. The apparatus comprises a dye-sublimation thermal printer, as a printing means for printing a printing pattern onto an adhesive film, and a cutting apparatus for cutting the adhesive film along a cutting pattern, the adhesive film being moved automatically from the printing means to the cutting apparatus. Initially, only a first moving unit of the printing means moves the adhesive film at a first speed to a second moving unit of the cutting apparatus, after which both moving units move the printed adhesive film further in the forward direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for pretreating and printing textile surfaces. For this purpose, at least one pallet (22) for accommodating and retaining a textile article (20) to be printed on a printing face, a pretreatment device (40) which allows the textile article to be pretreated, prior to it being printed, by applying a pretreatment fluid to the textile article in a pretreatment area, a printing device (60) comprising at least one printhead (61) that allows a printed image to be printed onto the textile article in the pretreatment area, a moving device (23) which allows the at least one pallet to he displaced relative to the pretreatment device and the printing device, and a programmable control device (31) which allows the printing device, the pretreatment device and/or the moving device to be controlled, are provided.

Abstract: A printing apparatus including a can body conveyance unit, an image forming unit, a light irradiation unit and one or more other can body stop locations. Light for curing an image on a can body is inhibited from reaching the image forming unit. An upstream side restricting wall (31) is positioned on the upstream side, namely, the side on which an ink jet head (240) is provided, of a can body (10) when the can body (10) is stopped at a mandrel stop location (811) or light irradiation stop location (811). The upstream side restricting wall (31) is thereby positioned between the can body (10) and the ink jet head (240), and ultraviolet light is restricted from heading toward the ink jet head (240).

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head to discharge liquid to a medium to form liquid surface on the medium, an irradiator to radiate active energy rays onto the liquid surface, a carriage mounting the liquid discharge head and the irradiator, a scanner to scan the carriage in a main scanning direction, a height adjuster to adjust an irradiation distance between the irradiator and the liquid surface by relatively moving the carriage and the medium, a conveyor to move the medium and the carriage relatively in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction, and control circuitry to control the irradiator to irradiate the liquid surface with the active energy rays while scanning the carriage in the main scanning direction.

Abstract: In a printer having first and second clamps, the deformation of a recording medium due to the web tensile force produced in the printer can be determined using the first and the second clamps. The deformation can be determined in advance of a printing process and/or during the printing operation. A print image can be adapted based on the determined deformation to compensate for the deformation of the recording medium.

Abstract: An inkjet printer comprises a transport mechanism (120) for transporting a substrate along a first axis, a print engine (160) comprising at least two inkjet print bars (165.1 . . . 8) arranged along the first axis, and a controller for controlling the ejection of ink by the at least two inkjet print bars. It further comprises at least two first encoders for the determination of at least two first positions of substrate locations along the first axis and a compensation module for processing the at least two determined first positions to generate at least one first individual compensation parameter for each of the at least two inkjet print bars (165.1 . . . 8). The first compensation parameters are transmitted to the controller to influence the ejection of ink in such a way that effects due to variations of the at least two first positions of the substrate along the first axis are compensated. The effects of positioning errors that may affect different print bars (165.1 . . .

Abstract: A printer includes: an inkjet head configured to eject ink to a medium; a vacuum platen having a platen surface and suction holes, the platen surface extending along a transverse axis that intersects the conveyance direction and that spans across a first side and a second side of the printer, and the suction holes, the suction holes including a first suction hole; and a suction unit configured to produce a negative pressure within the suction holes; the first suction hole comprising a first opening and a second opening, the width of the second opening being less than the width of the first opening, and the first opening having a center along the transverse axis, the second opening having a center along the transverse axis, the center of the second opening being offset to the first side along the transverse axis from the center of the first opening.

Abstract: In one example, a media support includes a platen and multiple suctions cups embedded in or an integral part of the platen. Some of the suction cups are arranged in a first part having a first density and some of the suction cups arrange in a second part having a second density less than the first density.

Abstract: A recording apparatus which suppresses banding which occurs on a recording surface of a medium.

Abstract: A control section of an inkjet recording apparatus forms a test chart between both ends of a recording medium in a recording-medium width direction by drawing a plurality of line sets, in each of which there are arranged a predetermined number of lines each extending in a recording-medium conveyance direction and each drawn with ink ejected from a single one of the plurality of ink ejection nozzles, by sequentially shifting the plurality of line sets by one line in the recording-medium width direction, each time the recording medium proceeds a predetermined distance in the recording-medium conveyance direction. Further, the control section detects, by using the detection section, presence/absence of ink on each of the plurality of lines drawn in the test chart, and determines presence/absence of a defective pixel, and a position of the defective pixel.

Abstract: A printer includes a transport unit that transports continuous paper, a medium support unit in which a support surface that is capable of supporting continuous paper that is transported by a transport unit, and first concave sections, which are indented from the support surface, are formed, and an image capture unit, which is disposed on a lower side of the support surface, and which captures an image of a lower surface of the continuous paper.

Abstract: A simple configuration enables easily changing the open or closed state of multiple suction holes while assuring suction. A shutter drum rotates centered on an axis of rotation extending on a transverse axis, and a suction fan that produces negative pressure inside the shutter drum. When one suction hole on the transverse axis is a first suction hole, and another suction hole adjacent on the transverse axis to the first suction hole is a second suction hole, a first communication path including a suction chamber and through-hole communicates with the first suction hole, and a second communication path including a suction chamber and through-hole communicates with the second suction hole. The shutter drum functions as a shutter that, by rotating, selectively changes the open or closed state of the first and second communication paths.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: an apparatus main body; and a display mechanism that is provided to be displaceable with respect to the apparatus main body, is provided with an antenna used to perform communication with a mobile terminal, and is configured to display information. The apparatus main body is not located in a place where the display mechanism extends upwards and downwards the display mechanism in a state in which the display mechanism is displaced with respect to the apparatus main body.

Abstract: A printing apparatus, having a cassette, an attachable section, a printer, and a controller, is provided. The controller is configured to determine whether a medium remainder in a first cassette is equal to a predetermined amount; execute a reading action to read specific data from a first-typed memory device in the first cassette and store the specific data in a second-typed memory device, delete the specific data from the first-typed memory device in the first cassette; determine whether a second cassette being another cassette attached to the attachable section after execution of the reading action is a new cassette, in which the medium remainder is greater than the predetermined amount and in which the specific data is not stored in the first-typed memory device; and execute a writing action to write the specific data stored in the second-typed memory device to the first-typed memory device in the second cassette.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a tank having an ink chamber and formed with an inlet; a recording head; a display configured to display a screen; and a controller configured to control the recording head and the display. The recording head is configured to eject the ink stored in the ink chamber to record an image on a sheet. The controller is configured to: execute a first determination process to determine whether a user is near the inkjet recording apparatus; and execute, after determination in the first determination process that the user is near the inkjet recording apparatus, a notification process to control the display to display a notification screen when the quantity of ink stored in the ink chamber is not less than a residual ink threshold. The notification screen prompts the user to check the quantity of ink stored in the ink chamber.

Abstract: An electronic device is configured to acquire image data containing a test pattern including first and second patterns intersecting with each other. Pixels corresponding to the test pattern are determined by comparing brightness of each pixel with a threshold value, and widths of an overlapped image of the first and second patterns in an orthogonal direction at a plurality of different positions in the reference direction are calculated. Intersecting positions of the first pattern and the second pattern in the test pattern is detected based on a distribution of widths at the plurality of different positions. The test pattern has a model pattern having a set width in the orthogonal direction separate from the first and second patterns. The pixels corresponding to the test pattern are determined based on a threshold value, and widths at the plurality of positions of the overlapped image in the reference direction are calculated.

Abstract: A printing plate having a recessed area to be filled with a print material to be transferred to a substrate includes at least one step situated in at least part of the recessed area and having a different depth than a bottom face of the recessed area.

Abstract: The EIP Protocol Converter System is a system that facilitates integration of laser or dot peer marking systems into factory automation networks using the standard EtherNet/lP (EIP) protocol. Built-in support for the EIP protocol greatly simplifies the PLC programming task, and lowers the cost of integrating the marking system into factory operations.

Abstract: Lustrous print media include: a lustrous metallic core substrate; a base layer disposed on the lustrous metallic core substrate; and an image-receiving layer disposed on the base layer. A method of fabricating the lustrous print media and a method for printing on the lustrous print media are also provided.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes a decolorable image forming unit that forms a decolorable image with a decolorable material. A mask control unit controls the decolorable image forming unit to form, with the decolorable material on a sheet, a mask that hides at least one portion of an image formed on the sheet with non-decolorable material.

Abstract: A process for the production of multipage information leaflets or slips, the information leaflet provided with a booklet structure including two or more pages, the process including in sequence the steps of: loading and feeding of a ream of sheets printed on one or both sides, taking of a single sheet from the ream and gluing along an edge portion of the single sheet, multiple folding of the single sheet on itself along the glued portion to define a folded sheet, cutting of the folded sheet to define the multipage information leaflet with the pages connected one to the other only at a joining area in proximity of an edge, pressing of the information leaflet at the joining area, accumulation and collection of the finished information leaflets and optional rejecting of the leaflets which do not comply with the production specifications.

Abstract: Provided is a laminated body in which a print layer is provided downstream of a laser color development layer without lowering quality. A card is provided with an offset print layer laminated on a base material, a buffer layer laminated on the offset print layer and having translucency, and a laser color development layer laminated on the buffer layer. The buffer layer minimizes scratches on the offset print layer that occur with the heat generation of the laser color development layer.

Abstract: A binding tool for paper sheets includes: a base member extending in a longitudinal direction; and a plurality of first binding members and second binding members each having a base end portion formed protruding outward in a width direction from the base member and a tip end portion integral with the base end portion and curved inward in the width direction so as to be movable between a binding position where the tip end portions contact each other and an open position where the tip end portions are separated from each other by a prescribed distance. The base end portions are positionally displaced from each other by at least an amount corresponding to a thickness TH of the base end portion in the longitudinal direction when the tip end portions positioned facing each other in the width direction are in contact with each other in the binding position.

Abstract: A paint tray and paint tray liner include a paint tray housing having a receptacle for holding paint and/or a paint liner. The housing has an upper edge that surrounds at least a first side and a second side of the perimeter of the housing. The upper edge has an edge defining a gripping portion that coincides with an approximate location of a center of gravity of a paint load in the paint tray. A tool holder is positioned on a side of the paint tray for holding a tool adjacent the receptacle for holding paint. The paint tray liner is for seating in the paint tray in close relation to the shape and size thereof.

Abstract: A combination structure of a hub and spokes is provided, including: a hub shell, having separate small and large flanges, the small and large flanges having first and second assembling holes, respectively; a plurality of first spokes, assembled to one of the first assembling holes and a wheel rim; a plurality of second spokes, including cylindrical spokes and aero bladed spokes, the cylindrical spokes and aero bladed spokes being alternatively assembled to the second assembling holes and to the wheel rim; as viewed along an axial direction of the hub shell, every two of the second spokes which are neighboring to each other intersect with each other to define an intersecting area, each first spoke extends and passes through one of the intersecting areas.

Abstract: A hybrid wheel including a functional rim, a center disc, and a wheel face insert, wherein the wheel rim and the center disc are made of a specified material, and wherein the wheel face insert is made of a dissimilar material. The wheel face insert can be secured to the center disc by at least one of screws, pins, rivets, or structural adhesive, and/or the wheel face insert can be secured to the functional rim by at least one of screws, pins, rivets, or structural adhesive.

Abstract: A bicycle rim comprises a base member, a cover member, and a spoke attachment member. The base member includes a truss structure that defines at least one opening. The cover member at least partly covers the at least one opening of the base member. The spoke attachment member is a separate member from the base member and the cover member. The spoke attachment member is non-rotatably attached to the base member.