Abstract: There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass with which the haze value of laminated glass can be lowered and the releasability of a lamination glass member from the interlayer film can be made moderately high. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention is a single-layered interlayer film provided with only a first layer or is a multi-layered interlayer film provided with a first layer and another layer, the first layer contains no magnesium or contains magnesium in a content of 50 ppm or less and the first layer contains a phosphorus compound having a polyoxyalkylene group or a silane compound having a polyoxyalkylene group, the first layer contains heat shielding particles in the case of the interlayer film provided with only the first layer, and at least one layer in the interlayer film contains heat shielding particles in the case of the interlayer film provided with the first layer and another layer.

Abstract: An item having a food contact zone made of at least one fiber reinforcing laminar element embedded within a polymer matrix. In particular, the polymer matrix includes at least one base layer made of a first polymeric material and a food grade contact surface that defines the food contact surface of the contact zone. The polymer matrix is optically transparent so as to allow a user to see the reinforcing element therethrough.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a molding made from blowing agent-containing foam comprising at least one fiber (F), wherein the at least one fiber (F) is partially introduced into the blowing agent-containing foam. The two ends of the respective fiber (F) that are not surrounded by the blowing agent-containing foam thus project from one side of the corresponding molding. The present invention also provides the molding as such. The present invention further provides a panel comprising at least one such molding, produced by the process according to the invention, and at least one further layer (S1). The present invention also provides for the production of the panels of the invention and for the use thereof, for example as a rotor blade in wind turbines.

Abstract: Provided are adhesive articles and related methods that use a foam layer including an acrylic polymer or silicone polymer and having a pair of opposing major surfaces. An adhesive surface is disposed on each of the opposing major surfaces and a plurality of channels extend across at least one adhesive surface. The adhesive surface defining the channels contains a pressure-sensitive adhesive having a rheology enabling the plurality of channels to essentially disappear over time when the adhesive article is compressed. Advantageously, the provided articles and methods enable high immediate bond and handling strength, a high degree of wet out, weatherability, and superior aesthetics when used with transparent or translucent substrates.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a door body which opens and closes a front part of an article body, and which has a front panel that constitutes the front of the door body, a frame that supports at least a part of the outside edge of the front panel, and a back panel that constitutes the back of the door body. According to at least one embodiment, the front panel includes a hard coat laminated sheet; the hard coat laminated sheet has a first hard coat, a second hard coat, and a transparent resin sheet layer in that order from the surface on the front side. The first hard coat is formed from a coating material which contains (A) 100 parts by mass of a polyfunctional(meth)acrylate, (B) 0.01-7 parts by mass of a water repellant and (C) 0.

Abstract: Disclosed are compositions, methods and uses for thin multi-layered films that may include a metallizable skin layer that include polyethylene polymer(s), wherein the metallizable skin layer may be treated one or more times. The multi-layered films include a core layer and a sealant layer, wherein each of these layers includes metallocene-catalyzed, linear, low-density polyethylene. The core layer is located between the metallizable skin layer and the sealant layer. These films may include one or more additives in any of the layers and/or include one or more tie layers. The multi-layered films may be biaxially oriented, have a haze equal to or below 5%, and have an elastic modulus equal to or below 350 N/mm2. The multi-layered films may also include a metallized layer on the metallizable skin layer, a coated layer on the metallizable skin layer, and/or be laminated to a polyethylene-based polymer, such as polyethylene terephthalate.

Abstract: A multi-layer paperboard structure may be heat sealed to form a packaging material. The paperboard structure exhibits good sealing strength and improved anti-blocking behavior. The structure may be self-sealed or sealed to plastic blister materials.

Abstract: A composite material having at least two layers of reinforcing fibers impregnated with a curable resin; an interlaminar region formed between adjacent layers of reinforcing fibers; and a combination of polymeric toughening particles and fire-retardant particles in the interlaminar region.

Abstract: An optical film includes a base material film including a (meth)acrylic resin and a first cured layer obtained by curing a first composition including a curable compound, in which the first cured layer is formed of a compatible layer and a first hardcoat layer, the compatible layer and the first hardcoat layer are provided in this order from the base material film side, and a pencil hardness of a surface of the optical film on the first cured layer side is H or more, and a peak intensity value of a power spectrum obtained by means of Fourier transformation of a reflectivity spectrum measured from the first cured layer side of the optical film by means of an optical interference-type non-contact surface shape measurement is 0.001 to 0.030. A method for manufacturing an optical film and an image display device includes the optical film.

Abstract: Multi-layer, perforated polyolefin films comprising at least one polyolefin layer having a high visible light absorbance and at least one polyolefin film having a high opacity, a support layer interposed between the first and second layers, a plurality of perforations penetrating from the first and second layers, a shore D hardness of at least (35) and wherein at least one of the first two layer has a surface tension of at least (34) dyne/cm are provided. Methods for preparation and use of the poly olefin films are also provided.

Abstract: An aseptic pillow packaging bag and a laminated resin film that can be preferably used to produce the packaging bag. The laminated resin film includes a center layer that has a first surface provided with an inner surface layer, and a second surface provided with an outer surface layer. In the laminated resin film, the inner surface layer is a first multilayer film made of linear low density polyethylene, including two or more films selected from C6L-LDPE and/or C8L-LDPE, the center layer is a nylon-based film, or a barrier nylon film, and the outer surface layer is formed by laminating a medium density polyethylene film onto a low density polyethylene film or a medium density polyethylene film with a nylon film interposed therebetween.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-layer structure having: a polyamide layer (A) comprising a composition containing an aliphatic polyamide such as a polyamide including C10-12 lactam-derived constituent units and/or C10-12 aminocarboxylic acid-derived constituent units; and a polyamide layer (B) comprising a composition containing, in a predetermined amount ratio, an aliphatic polyamide such as a polyamide including diamine units including at least 70 mol % of xylylenediamine-derived constituent units and dicarboxylic acid units including at least 70 mol % of C4-12 aliphatic dicarboxylic acid-derived constituent units, or a polyamide including a modified polyolefin and C6-12 lactam-derived constituent units and/or C6-12 aminocarboxylic acid-derived constituent units. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, this multi-layer structure has excellent flexibility as well as exceptional chemical resistance and gas barrier performance.

Abstract: A buffer material including a skinned polyurethane foam including a foam layer and a skin layer formed on the surface of the foam layer, wherein the skinned polyurethane foam essentially contains no silicone compound, the foam layer is polyurethane foam, the skin layer is a polyurethane resin layer produced by reaction of a skin-isocyanate component containing an aliphatic and/or an alicyclic polyisocyanate with a skin-active hydrogen group-containing component, the skin layer has a storage modulus at 23° C. (E?coat) of 1×107 Pa or more and 3×108 Pa or less, the foam layer has a storage modulus at 23° C. (E?foam) of 1×105 Pa or more and 5×106 Pa or less, and the ratio (E?coat/E?foam) of the storage modulus at 23° C. (E?coat) of the skin layer relative to the storage modulus at 23° C. (E?foam) of the foam layer is 10 or more and 500 or less.

Abstract: A sheet includes: a cut that is formed in a part, in a sheet thickness direction, of a bending portion, to be subjected to bending, of a sheet body; and a bonding layer that lies between a layer that is formed with the cut in the bending portion and a layer that is not with the cut in the bending portion, in a sectional view taken perpendicularly to the surfaces of the sheet.

Abstract: Membraneless laminator group (10) for making laminated panels comprising: one sealed lamination chamber (11) comprising a heated support and abutment base (12) for at least one panel; a movable cover (13) for opening and closing the chamber (11); a heated rigid plane (15) movable inside the chamber between a raised position spaced from the panel and a lowered position it presses the panel; wherein the surface of the plane (15) facing the panel is equipped with a thermal cover arranged loosely between the plane and the panel. When the plane (15) is in the raised position, the thermal cover engages the panel so as to transfer heat without acting by compression. When the plane is in the lowered position the thermal cover is in compressed configuration so that the compression is transferred against the panel and possible local thickness variations of the panel are compensated.

Abstract: A card substrate laminating device includes a transfer ribbon and a transfer roller. The transfer ribbon includes a carrier layer and a transfer layer attached to the carrier layer. The transfer roller is configured to heat and transfer a portion of the transfer layer from the carrier layer to a surface of a card substrate. The transfer roller has a circumference that is less than one-half of a length of the card substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for transferring a graphene film onto a substrate, the methods comprising applying a polymer layer to a first surface of a graphene film, wherein a second surface of the graphene film is in contact with a growth substrate; applying a thermal release polymer layer to the polymer layer; removing the growth substrate to form a transfer substrate comprising an exposed graphene surface; and contacting the exposed graphene surface with a target substrate. Transfer substrates comprising a graphene film, a thermal release polymer layer, and a polymer layer are also disclosed herein.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for activating an adhesive for composing veneers. A method for activating an adhesive for composing veneers according to an aspect of the invention comprises providing the adhesive on a surface of a veneer, and radiating the adhesive on the surface of the veneer. The method may comprise providing a reinforcing material on the adhesive; or providing an adhesive tape on the surface of the veneer, wherein the adhesive tape comprises adhesive coated or impregnated with a reinforcing material. The method may further comprise radiating the adhesive between the surface of the veneer and the reinforcing material.

Abstract: Described herein is multilayer article made by the process comprising: delivering particles comprising a silicon compound from at least one fluid jet to a metal surface to embed the metal surface with the silicon compound to form a silicon compound layer; coating the silicon compound layer with an aqueous fluoropolymer dispersion to form a fluoropolymer layer and thereby forming a multilayered article, wherein the aqueous fluoropolymer dispersion comprises (i) a modifying agent; and (ii) a fluorinated polymer, wherein the fluorinated polymer comprises at least one of (a) a partially fluorinated polymer capable of forming a carbon-carbon double bond, (b) a functionalized fluorinated polymer, and (c) combinations thereof; and sintering the multilayered article to form the release surface coated substrate.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a preform by providing a plurality of preform segments which each define a portion of a preform, positioning said preform segments in continuous contact with each other along at least one edge of said preform segments such that said plurality of preform segments define a cavity, and bonding each of said preform segments to at least one other preform segment such that said plurality of preform segments forms a continuous whole.

Abstract: A method of metallizing a surface of a structure, and in some embodiments a mirror produced by such method, by the steps of providing a composite support structure; providing a release liner including a metallic layer having a thickness between 1 and 5 microns on a surface thereof; situating the release liner against the surface of the composite support structure so that the metallic layer of the release liner is placed in direct, physical contact with the surface of the support structure; and removing the release liner so that the metallic layer remains attached to the surface of the support structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a nonstick material for use during removal of a part (11) of a substantially planar material layer (2) which is connected in a connecting step to at least on further, substantially planar material layer (9). According to the invention, the nonstick material (8) has a different polarity than the adjoining, substantially planar material layers (2, 9). The invention also relates to a method for removing a part (11) of a substantially planar material layer (2) which is connected in a connecting step to at least one further, substantially planar material layer (9), to a multilayer structure which consists of at least two substantially planar material layers (2, 9) to be interconnected, and to a use of the same, especially in a multilayer printed circuit board.

Abstract: A sheet conveyance apparatus (1) is provided in a sheet-fed offset printing press (2) including a printing unit (11). The printing unit (11) includes an impression cylinder (13) configured to hold and convey a sheet (4) and a printing device (14) configured to print the sheet (4) held by the impression cylinder (13). The sheet conveyance apparatus (1) includes a transfer cylinder (28) configured to hand over the sheet (4) to the impression cylinder (13) of the printing unit (11), and a pressing cylinder (29) configured to press the sheet (4) held by the transfer cylinder (28) against an outer surface of the transfer cylinder (28). The pressing cylinder (29) can press the sheet (4) against the transfer cylinder (28), and sufficiently stretch it.

Abstract: A foil reel mounting device (10; 40) for supporting a reel (2) of stamping foil (3) in a supporting module (1). The device is fixed to the supporting module (1). It includes a support (11; 41) having a recess (16; 46) to receive an axle (7) of the reel (2) of stamping foil (3). A retaining element (12; 42) mounted on the support (11; 41) and arranged to move between a closed position, in which the retaining element (12; 42) retains the axle (7) of the reel (2) in the recess (16; 46), and an open position, in which the retaining element (12; 42) releases the axle (7) of the reel (2) from the recess (16; 46). The retaining element (12; 42) is biased towards the closed position. Also, a supporting module (1) has at least one foil reel mounting device (10; 40) and a stamping machine (100) includes a supporting module (1) or at least one foil reel mounting device (10; 40). A method for loading and unloading a reel (2) of stamping foil (3) with such at least one foil reel mounting device (10; 40) is also disclosed.

Abstract: A printing press is provided which includes a printing unit for printing on a web. The printing unit includes a plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder, and an impression cylinder. The press further includes a web displacement bar movable between a first position in which the web displacement bar is spaced apart from a web passing between the blanket cylinder and the impression cylinder, and a second position in which the web displacement bar holds the web in contact with the impression cylinder and spaced apart from the blanket cylinder. A method of operating the press is also provided.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for printing and curing energy curable inks printed on a substrate having an onset temperature Tonset (C°). The printing systems may include a printing station and a light source. During operation, the printing station deposits energy curable ink onto a first surface of the substrate to define a printed region, and the light source directs ultraviolet light onto the first surface of the substrate to define an illumination zone on the first surface of the substrate. The substrate is advanced in a machine direction to advance the printed region through the illumination zone to cure the energy curable ink. While the printed region advances through the illumination zone, the ultraviolet light heats the substrate from an initial temperature Tin (C°) entering the illumination zone to a maximum temperature Tmax (C°), wherein Tmax (C°)?Tonset (C°).

Abstract: Satisfactory image transfer is implemented in a printing apparatus configured to nip a print medium by two rotating bodies and transfer an image to the print medium according to an embodiment of this invention. For this purpose, the printing apparatus that transfers an image to a print medium nipped by the two rotating bodies of the first rotating body on which an image is formed by a printhead and the second rotating body which conveys the print medium, and print the image is adjusted as follows. That is, a clearance between the first rotating body and the second rotating body is obtained, and based on the obtained clearance, an axis-to-axis distance between the rotating shaft of the first rotating body and the rotating shaft of the second rotating body is adjusted.

Abstract: A printing system includes a print module with printheads covering a printing width in x-direction, and a substrate holder for supporting a substrate. The substrate and print module are movable relative to each other in y-direction. Each printhead is positioned spaced at a first distance from the substrate holder in z-direction. A detection mechanism is provided for detecting obstructions on the substrate holder. A control unit is provided for stopping further relative movement in the y-direction between the substrate and the print module when an obstruction has been detected. The detection mechanism includes individually movable sub-detection elements that together cover the printing width, where those elements are designed to have a detection signal send out to the control unit when one of the elements gets moved out of a starting position by an obstruction trying to pass it.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes: an ejector including: a piezoelectric element displacing corresponding to a drive signal potential; a pressure chamber changing volume corresponding to the piezoelectric element displacement; and a nozzle communicating with the pressure chamber, and ejecting liquid from the pressure chamber; and a detector detecting residual vibrations produced by the ejector after piezoelectric element displacement. The detector detects the residual vibrations in a third period when the drive signal having a drive waveform is supplied to the piezoelectric element. The drive waveform being set to a first potential in a first period, a second potential in a second period, and a third potential in the third period. The volume of the pressure chamber in the second period is smaller than the volume in the first period. The volume of the pressure chamber in the third period is larger than in the second period.

Abstract: A flow path member includes a film, a main body that includes a recess portion that is closed by the film, a first opening and a second opening that are provided in the recess portion and used to supply and emit a liquid, and a wall which is provided in the recess portion. The film and the wall are configured to switch between contact and non-contact between the film and the main body according as the film displaces. In a first direction, the wall is provided around the first opening, the wall has a first slit in one of two portions of the wall across the first opening from each other and a second slit in the other one of the two portions, and the second opening is outside the wall. An opening area of the first slit is larger than an opening area of the second slit.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a recording element board, a support member that supports the recording element board, and includes a first surface having a plurality of first openings that communicate with a first supply port and a second supply port, a second surface contacting a supply member and having a second opening that communicates with a supply path, and a flow path through which the plurality of first openings and the second opening communicate with each other. The support member includes a beam that is provided between the plurality of first openings and extends from the first surface to middle of the flow path, and in an arrangement direction of the plurality of first openings, a length of the second opening is shorter than a sum of lengths of the plurality of first openings and a length of the beam on the first surface.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head is provided. The liquid ejection head includes at least two nozzle lines configured to have a plurality of nozzles for ejecting liquid disposed in respective lines, a plurality of individual liquid chambers configured to be in communication with corresponding nozzles of the nozzle lines, and at least two circulation channels corresponding to the nozzle lines, configured to be in communication with the individual liquid chambers. The at least two circulation channels are in communication with each other through a bridging channel disposed in a direction intersecting with the nozzle line direction, and the bridging channel and the circulation channels are disposed at different positions in a thickness direction of a member which forms the bridging channel and the circulation channels.

Abstract: A print unit has a transport path for stock. The transport path defines a direction of transport. The print unit comprises at least two suction boxes, each having inlet openings which at least partially point in the direction of the transport path provided for the stock. The inlet openings of the at least two suction boxes together extend along an inlet length in a transverse direction, 80% of which corresponds to a working width of the print unit. The at least two suction boxes are arranged next to each other in the transverse direction and these at least two suction boxes can be removed from the print unit individually and independently of each other of the at least two suction boxes that are arranged next to the respective other of the at least two suction boxes in the transverse direction. The at least two suction boxes may each be connected to the same common suction line via flow connections.

Abstract: An inkjet recording device includes a recorder which discharges ink from a plurality of recording elements disposed in each of a plurality of recording heads onto a recording medium, the ink changing a phase between a solid and a liquid; a mover which causes the recording medium and the plurality of recording heads to move relative to each other; and a hardware processor which performs record control causing each of the plurality of recording elements disposed in the plurality of recording heads of the recorder to perform an output operation of discharging or not discharging ink onto the recording medium which moves relative to the recording heads in a predetermined movement direction according to a pixel value of image data.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid discharge head includes a pressure chamber, and a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzle holes formed therein and a discharge face with an upstream side and a downstream side, the plurality of nozzle holes being in fluid communication with the pressure chamber and including a first nozzle hole on the upstream side of the discharge face, and a second nozzle hole on the downstream side of the discharge face. A liquid discharge speed from the first nozzle hole is higher than a liquid discharge speed from the second nozzle hole.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a liquid ejecting head that has a nozzle-formed surface; guide shafts that guide the liquid ejecting head in a direction in which the liquid ejecting head is lifted and lowered; a cap that is lifted and lowered in the direction and covers the nozzle-formed surface; and a restrainer that restrains the liquid ejecting head against the cap at a position shifted from the center of the cap when viewed from the direction.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a printing apparatus that satisfactorily sucks and recovers a printhead is provided. A printing apparatus that includes a transfer member, and the first and second printheads has the following arrangement. The apparatus includes the first and second suction units which suck a plurality of nozzles of the first and second printheads, a common negative-pressure generation unit which generates a negative-pressure for suction by these suction units, and a moving unit which moves these suction units from one end to the other end of each printhead. Then, the moving unit moves the first and second suction units so as to pass through concave gaps with respect to ink discharge surfaces of the first and second printheads corresponding to the first and second suction units at different timings.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording unit, a first ink storage unit, a second ink storage unit, a discharge unit, a first detection unit configured to detect that an amount of the ink stored in the first ink storage unit is below a first predetermined amount, and a second detection unit configured to detect that an amount of the ink stored in the second ink storage unit is below a second predetermined amount. The inkjet recording apparatus further includes a control unit configured to control the discharge operation after the detection by the first detection unit and the detection by the second detection unit based on a detection timing of the first detection unit and a detection timing of the second detection unit.

Abstract: A printing assembly has a frame which has two side walls, and between which, a transport path provided for the transport of printing material, at least partially extends. A transport direction is defined by the transport path provided for the transport of printing material. The printing assembly has at least three cross bars which each extend at least in a transverse direction between the side walls and which are arranged one behind the other with respect to the transport direction. The printing assembly has at least three printing heads which are arranged one behind the other with respect to the transport direction. At least one first additional device, which is different from each printing head, is arranged on each of the cross bars, which at least one first additional device is associated with at least one front printing head arranged in front of the particular cross member in the transport direction.

Abstract: Provided is a technique that makes it possible to secure a large storage amount of ink, supply ink to a printer without exposing a tube to the outside of the case of the printer, and easily perform an operation of injecting ink. A liquid ejection apparatus includes a case, a paper-feeding tray, a liquid introduction portion, and a liquid container. The liquid container includes a liquid injection port, a reservoir that stores liquid, and a liquid supply port. The liquid injection port is provided at a position on the ?Y direction side relative to the face on the ?Y direction side of the case in a mounted state where the liquid container is mounted in the container mounting portion.

Abstract: A liquid container unit includes a liquid container and a container holder. The liquid container has an injection port for a liquid, a liquid containing portion capable of containing the liquid that is injected from the injection port, and a supply port capable of connecting to a liquid supply member in communication to a liquid ejection head of a liquid ejecting apparatus. The container holder is capable of holding the liquid container. The container holder holds the liquid container in a state where a first portion of the liquid container including at least the injection port is displaceable in a relative manner with respect to the container holder.

Abstract: A liquid circulator includes an upstream tank having a first pressure sensor, an intermediate tank, a downstream tank having a second pressure sensor, a circulation route for circulating liquid through an liquid ejecting head, the downstream tank, the intermediate tank, and the upstream tank, a first pump on the circulation route between the intermediate tank and the upstream tank, a second pump on the circulation route between the downstream tank and the intermediate tank, a first drive circuit configured to apply a first driving pulse to the first pump, a second drive circuit configured to apply a second driving pulse to the second pump, a controlling unit configured to calculate a pressure fluctuation value of the circulation route based on pressure values measured by the first and second pressure sensors, and adjust a phase difference between the first and second driving pulses as to minimize the pressure fluctuation value.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid injecting apparatus equipped with a liquid injecting head, which is mounted on a carriage and moved reciprocally in a widthwise direction of a target, and a valve unit, which is mounted on the carriage to be supplied with liquid via a supply passage from a liquid retainer and to supply liquid to the liquid injecting head. The valve unit has a pressure chamber connected to the liquid retainer via the supply passage; a valve, which opens or closes the supply passage to supply liquid to the pressure chamber; and a flexible film member, which is displaced based on a negative pressure generated as liquid in the pressure chamber decreases to thereby operate the valve.

Abstract: Provided are an inkjet head and an inkjet recording apparatus which are compact and are capable of realizing high resolution, and are capable of stably ejecting liquid droplets at a high frequency while having a structure capable of circulating ink. The inkjet head includes: a plurality of nozzles which eject ink; a plurality of pressure chambers which are respectively communicate with the plurality of nozzles and are filled with ink; a plurality of pressure generation portions which apply a pressure to ink inside the plurality of pressure chamber; a circulation flow passage that is provided to be branched from an ink flow passage ranging from an inlet of the pressure chambers and an outlet of the nozzles, and is capable of discharging ink inside the plurality of pressure chambers; and a first damper and a second damper which are provided to face the circulation flow passage, and is capable of changing a volume of the circulation flow passage through elastic deformation in correspondence with a pressure.

Abstract: An ink jet method includes a dissolved gas amount control step of controlling a dissolved gas amount of a radiation curable ink jet composition by a dissolved gas amount control unit at least a part of a flow path connecting a container receiving the ink jet composition and an outlet of an ink jet head to which the ink jet composition is supplied from the container; and an ejection step of ejecting the ink jet composition from the outlet of the ink jet head. The ink jet composition contains a polymerizable compound and a polymerization initiator, the dissolved gas amount control unit includes a member formed from an adhesive, and an absolute value (|(?1)?(?2)|) of the difference between a mass average SP value (?1) of the polymerizable compound and a SP value (?2) of the adhesive, each of which is calculated by Small's formula, is 1.0 or more.

Abstract: A printer includes a liquid discharge head and a processor. The liquid discharge head includes a plurality of nozzles. The plurality of nozzles include a line of first nozzles to discharge first liquid and a line of second nozzles to discharge second liquid. The processor is configured to change a print speed in a print mode in which a preceding image is formed with at least the first liquid and a subsequent image to be superimposed on the preceding image is formed with the second liquid, in accordance with an amount of liquid applied to a recording medium to form the preceding image.

Abstract: A printer includes a first ink head that ejects a first ink, a second ink head that ejects a second ink, a first dot controller that controls a dot size after curing of the ejected first ink, and a second dot controller that controls a dot size after curing of the ejected second ink.

Abstract: A method corrects color density unevenness during a printing operation on an inkjet printing machine having printing nozzles and a computer. The computer modifies the number or size of the drops to be applied to a printing substrate to attain nominal color density values after the processing of a rasterized print image. For different actual tone values, it is determined which target tone value is required to attain a nominal coloration by measuring a test image for every printing nozzle using a color measurement device, and, based thereon, an area coverage-dependent compensation profile is determined and saved on the computer to be applied in the printing operation to calculate the number and size of the drops on the computer.

Abstract: A block configured with Nb pixels included in image data is classified into Nt groups, position information which is information indicating a position of the pixel configuring is created, a block gradation value is decided by a data amount smaller than a data amount required for representing gradation values of the Nb pixels based on the gradation value for each pixel configuring each group, for each of the Nt groups, dot arrangement which is information indicating the presence or absence of dot formation for each pixel configuring the block is temporarily decided based on the block gradation value, for each of the Nt groups as the target, the dot arrangement targeting the block is decided by using the temporarily decided dot arrangement and the position information, and it is determined whether or not the dot arrangement decided by the dot arrangement deciding unit is corrected by using an error diffusion method.

Abstract: An example system includes a print engine to print a first image on a medium. The system also includes a controller communicatively coupled with the print engine. The controller is to detect a failure in the print engine that results in a defect in the first image. The controller also is to perform an affine transformation on a second image to produce a transformed second image. The controller is to instruct the print engine to print the transformed second image.