Abstract: A binding processing apparatus includes a pair of pressing members each including a concave-convex portion configured to form a concave part and a convex part in a recording material bundle. The concave-convex portion includes protrusion portions. Aside surface of each protrusion portion is inclined so that the protrusion portion is widened from an apex of the protrusion portion. The side surfaces of the protrusion portions of a first pressing member that is one of the pressing members and the side surfaces of the protrusion portions of a second pressing member that is the other of the pressing members intersect with each other during pressing when viewed in a column direction of the protrusion portions.

Abstract: A composite material includes a honeycomb layer with top and bottom sides. The honeycomb layer includes a plurality of walls defining a plurality of cells therein. A first adhesive layer is disposed adjacent to the top side of the honeycomb layer. A second adhesive layer is disposed adjacent to the bottom side of the honeycomb layer. A third adhesive layer is disposed adjacent to the first adhesive layer on the top side of the honeycomb layer. A first composite layer is disposed adjacent to the third adhesive layer on the top side of the honeycomb layer. A second composite layer is disposed adjacent to the second adhesive layer on the bottom side of the honey comb layer. At least the third adhesive layer comprises viscous properties that discourage the creation of channels within the first composite layer when co-cured.

Abstract: Hydrophobic thermal insulation fiberglass flexible blanket using a textile grade fiberglass is produced by impregnating a hydrophobic polymer (e.g. a fluoropolymer) dispersion into a fiberglass blanket/mat, such as a needle felted fiberglass (FG) blanket/mat. The preferred FG needle felt blanket is a mechanically, rather than organically, bound glass fiber insulating blanket. The hydrophobic polymer dispersion forms a hydrophobic coating on the surface of the fiberglass filaments. Integral hydrophobicity is achieved and maintained without the need to add commonly-used hydrophobic inorganic particles, such as treated silica aerogels or fumed silica. Optionally, to enhance overall hydrophobicity and to inhibit fibrous surface lofting, a super-hydrophobic coating of fluoropolymer and inorganic particles such as silica particles may be dispersed onto one or more surfaces of the blanket.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plate with a printing layer containing a plate having a first main surface, a second main surface and an edge face, and a printing layer provided on a periphery of the first main surface, in which the plate has an outer circumferential part corresponding to an outer circumferential part of the printing layer and an inner circumferential part corresponding to an inner circumferential part of the printing layer, in which the outer circumferential part of the plate has, in at least a part of the whole circumference, an outer circumferential region, and the inner circumferential part of the plate contains an inner circumferential region corresponding to the outer circumferential region, and in which the outer circumferential region has a surface roughness R2 and the inner circumferential region has a surface roughness R1, and R2>R1 is satisfied.

Abstract: A method of using a sterilization wrap system including a permeable material having barrier properties and having a first surface and a second opposing surface, the exterior panel being substantially opaque or having a first level of translucence, and an interior panel including a permeable material having barrier properties and having a first surface and a second opposing surface, the interior panel having a level of translucence that is higher than the translucence of the exterior panel, the panels being joined together over at least a portion of their surfaces. Also disclosed is inspection of the sterilization wrap system for exterior panel breaches by looking for light passing through a panel facing the viewer.

Abstract: A simulated wood veneer product is disclosed. The simulated wood veneer product includes a paper substrate and an imprintable wood fiber material applied to one side of the paper substrate. The imprintable wood fiber material provides the paper substrate with depth and allows the paper to receive and retain an imprinted wood grain texture. Once imprinted, the veneer product is printed with a simulated wood grain pattern to create a realistic simulated veneer product which is referred to herein as a “bonded veneer”. The bonded veneer product can then be adhered to a structural or composite wood panel, such as an MDF panel, to create a simulated wood veneer panel which can be used in the construction of furniture products.

Abstract: An multi-layer coating film 12 includes: a luster coat 15 containing a luster material; a color coat 16 applied on the luster coat 15, containing a pigment 21, and having translucency; and a coloring flake 22 included in the luster coat 15 and acting as the luster material to color a surface of a luster flake with a coloring material in the same type of color as a color type of the color coat 16.

Abstract: A glueless dustless composite flooring material system providing PVC-based flooring having layers providing different qualities of hardness, wear-resistance, sound deadening, and decorative patterns, avoiding the use of moisture-susceptible compressed dust filler, with layers fused together, avoiding the manufacturing complexity and delamination risks of using glue or adhesive, with a quickly-cured, UV-cured top coating providing long-lasting high performance and shortening and simplifying the manufacturing, which can be done in a sheet-form, essentially continuous-run manner, with an ability to quickly and simply change the optional design printing and texturing produced, and having an optional underlayment layer.

Abstract: Transfer films comprising a carrier film, a sacrificial template layer deposed on the carrier film and comprising reentrant forming template features, and a thermally stable backfill layer having a first surface conforming to the reentrant forming template features and forming reentrant features and an opposing planar second surface; and methods of making transfer films are disclosed.

Abstract: A method and system for creating a continuous stream of elements of garments. With a multi-line fusing press: simultaneously and continuously, for each line of a plurality of lines, each line having a corresponding blower, a corresponding guide, and a corresponding feeder: passing a first substrate under the corresponding blower for the line and into the corresponding guide for the line; feeding, using the corresponding feeder for the line, a continuous fusible substrate into the corresponding guide for the line to position the fusible substrate above the first substrate; feeding, via the corresponding guide for the line and into the multi-line fusing press, a combination of the fusible substrate and the first substrate, the fusible substrate positioned above the first substrate; and the multi-line fusing press pressing the combination of the fusible substrate positioned above the continuous first substrate. The first substrate may be compacted by a multi-line compactor.

Abstract: Techniques or processes for providing markings on fabric articles are disclosed. In one embodiment, the articles may be fabric carrying cases for electronic devices. For example, a fabric carrying case for a particular electronic may include a fabric base layer and a plurality of thick films coupled to the fabric base layer, wherein the plurality of thick films may comprise a top thick film and an underlying thick film. Regions of the top thick film may be selectively etched through, for selectively exposing the underlying thick film. The selectively etched regions may be arranged for marking of textual or graphical indicia on the fabric carrying case for the portable electronic device.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for separating a layer from a composite structure, the structure comprising a composite stack formed from at least a support substrate, which is partially transparent at a determined wavelength, the layer to be separated and a separation layer interposed between the support substrate and the layer to be separated, the method comprising irradiation of the separation layer through the support substrate by means of incident light ray at the determined wavelength in order to induce weakening or separation by exfoliation of the separation layer, the light ray being inclined so as to form an angle of incidence ? such that ?>?min, where ?min=sin?1((n1/n0)sin(tan?1(s/2h))), n1 and n0, respectively, being the refractive index of the support substrate and the refractive index of the external medium in contact with the support substrate, from which the ray comes, S being the width of the ray and h being the thickness of the support substrate.

Abstract: A solid object shaping apparatus, which includes a head unit that ejects a liquid, and a curing unit that cures the liquid so as to form a block, shapes a solid object by using the blocks, and can cure the liquid in a plurality of curing modes including a first curing mode in which the liquid is cured so that the block with a first size is formed by a first reference amount of liquid, and a second curing mode in which the liquid is cured so that the block with a second size in which a surface area is larger than a surface area in the first size is formed by using the first reference amount of liquid.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for curing composite products. One exemplary embodiment is an edge breather for composite manufacturing. The edge breather is formed of a rigid material and includes an elongated body having a top open structure with a cross section that defines an arch. The edge breather also includes hollow passageways within the elongated body that are underneath the top structure and travel along a length of the elongated body. The top open structure defines multiple openings forming an open mesh through which air may enter.

Abstract: A dryer device for a printing press that prints in at least one printing position on a printing substrate by use of at least one printing unit, in particular a printing press for securities, includes a dryer with a drying unit formed by an array of a plurality of adjacent radiation sources. That array extends at least over the maximum width of the printing substrate and is used to supply radiation to the printing substrate in each activated state for drying the latter. A control device allows the radiation sources or some of the radiation sources to be switched on or off in a repeating cycle that comprises a sequence with at least one active and at least one inactive phase in correlation with one of a press and a printing-substrate phase position. The dryer device comprising the dryer and the control device is configured to switch on and switch off, for each cycle, only some of the radiation sources in some sections in at least four pre-definable radiation-source groups, spaced approximately equidistantly, i.

Abstract: A screen mask assembly includes: a mask frame; a screen mask on the mask frame, the screen mask having a plurality of paste openings; and a plurality of paste blocking portions on the screen mask.

Abstract: There is described an inking apparatus of a printing press, in particular an offset or letterpress printing press, comprising at least one ink duct (11, 12) with an ink supply roller (13, 14), an ink roller train (30) comprising at least one inking roller (31) which receives ink from the at least one ink duct (11, 12), and at least one vibrator roller (15, 16) interposed between the ink supply roller (13, 4) and the inking roller (31), which vibrator roller (15, 16) is swung back and forth between the ink supply roller (13, 14) and the inking roller (31) and intermittently transfers ink from the ink supply roller (13, 14) to the inking roller (31). A circumference of the vibrator roller (15, 16) exhibits an ink-transfer 10 structure (15a, 16a) which reflects a desired inking profile of a printing plate to be inked by the inking apparatus and is designed to modulate a quantity of ink transferred by the vibrator roller (15, 16).

Abstract: In an example, a print head comprises a nozzle to be activated by a delayed fire pulse that is delayed from an initial fire pulse, a sensor to measure an impedance of the nozzle, and a detector to determine a first time instant following the delayed fire pulse for registering a first impedance measurement by the sensor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of printing a print job by an image reproduction system. The print job specifies a printing step on an image receiving medium and a finishing step in or on the image receiving medium. The method comprises the steps of receiving the print job by the image reproduction system and receiving a trigger by a controller of the image reproduction system that the finishing step is not to be performed. In such a case for a digital image comprised in print job data of the print job, at least one digital finishing visualization image of a predetermined visual appearance of a result of the finishing step in or on the image receiving medium is obtained as well as a position of the digital image for merging the obtained at least one digital finishing visualization image with the digital image. The digital image is updated by merging the obtained at least one digital finishing visualization image with the digital image at the obtained position.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The device comprises discharge units each including a discharge element and a driving unit configured to drive the discharge element, and a terminal unit configured to supply power to the discharge units via a wiring line. The discharge units include a first discharge unit including a first discharge element of the discharge elements and a first driving unit of the driving units and a second discharge unit including a second discharge element of the discharge elements and a second driving unit of the driving units. A length of a current path from the terminal unit to the first discharge unit is longer than a length of a current path from the terminal unit to the second discharge unit and a resistance of the first driving unit is lower than a resistance of the second driving unit.

Abstract: A drive signal adjustment method adjusts a drive signal including a drive pulse to be supplied to a drive element of a liquid ejecting head. The liquid ejecting head includes a nozzle, a pressure generation chamber communicating with the nozzle, and the drive element generating a pressure change in a liquid inside the pressure generation chamber. The drive pulse includes an expansion element, an expansion maintenance element, a contraction element, a contraction maintenance element, and an expansion restoration element. A plurality of test patterns are printed by using adjusting drive pulses including modification values in which either one or both of a time of the contraction maintenance element and a period of the drive pulse are modified. The adjusting drive pulse corresponding to a specific test pattern selected from among the plurality of test patterns set as the drive pulse at the time of printing.

Abstract: There is provided an ink-jet printer including: a recording head; a power supply; and a controller. In a case that the controller obtains a maintenance instruction, the controller performs: boosting driving voltage to a target voltage value, in accordance with a first pattern; and applying the driving voltage to at least one of driving elements. In a case that the controller obtains an image recording instruction, the controller performs: boosting the driving voltage to the target voltage value, in accordance with a second pattern having a voltage boosting time shorter than the first pattern; and recording an image on a sheet by selectively applying the driving voltage, boosted to the target voltage value, to the driving elements.

Abstract: An inkjet printhead including an inkjet configured to eject drops of ink in response to receiving an electrical signal, a memory configured to store image data, and a processor operatively coupled to the inkjet and the memory. The processor receives the image data and determines a period of latency of the inkjet printhead. When the period of latency is within a predetermined timeframe, the processor increases a voltage of the electrical signal to a second voltage for an initial number of drops to eject the drops of ink in a pattern of printed ink drops with reference to at least a portion of the image data and reduce the voltage of the electrical signal after the initial number of drops to eject drops of ink in a pattern of printed ink drops with reference to a remaining portion of the image data, and generates the electrical signal.

Abstract: A method for controlling a liquid ejecting apparatus includes: driving a ejecting section by using each of a plurality of candidate waveforms of a minute vibration pulses in parallel with movement of a liquid ejecting head, the minute vibration pulses vibrates a liquid surface within a nozzle of the liquid ejecting head without causing liquid to be ejected from the nozzle, the candidate waveforms are different from each other; and setting a waveform of the minute vibration pulses included in a driving signal generated by the signal generating section, in accordance with an instruction accepted with an operating device.

Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for driving droplet ejection devices with multi-level waveforms. In one embodiment, a method for driving droplet ejection devices includes applying a multi-level waveform to the droplet ejection devices. The multi-level waveform includes a first section having at least one compensating edge and a second section having at least one drive pulse. The compensating edge has a compensating effect on systematic variation in droplet velocity or droplet mass across the droplet ejection devices. In another embodiment, the compensating edge has a compensating effect on cross-talk between the droplet ejection devices.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a print element substrate provided with a plurality of energy generation elements configured to apply energy for discharging a liquid, a discharge port forming member provided with a plurality of discharge ports which face the energy generation elements and are configured to discharge the liquid, and a plurality of first partitions which extend between the print element substrate and the discharge port forming member, and are configured to partition pressure chambers including the energy generation elements.

Abstract: A ink jet print head includes an actuator substrate having an ink flow path including a pressure chamber, a movable membrane forming layer including a movable membrane disposed on the pressure chamber and defining a ceiling surface portion of the pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element formed on the movable membrane and including a lower electrode, a piezoelectric film formed on the lower electrode and an upper electrode formed on the piezoelectric film, with the pressure chamber, the movable membrane and the upper electrode having a rectangular shape elongated in one direction in plan view as viewed from a direction normal to the movable membrane, the lower electrode including a main electrode section constituting the piezoelectric element and an extension section extending from the main electrode section along a surface of the movable membrane forming layer, and a dimension measuring pattern related to the pressure chamber.

Abstract: Provided are an MEMS device, a head, and a liquid jet device in which substrates are inhibited from warping, so that a primary electrode and a secondary electrode can be reliably connected to each other. Included are a primary substrate 30 provided with a bump 32 including a primary electrode 34, and a secondary substrate 10 provided with a secondary electrode 91 on a bottom surface of a recessed portion 36 formed by an adhesive layer 35. The primary substrate 10 and the secondary substrate 30 are joined together with the adhesive layer 35, the primary electrode 34 is electrically connected to the secondary electrode 91 with the bump 32 inserted into the recessed portion 36, and part of the bump 32 and the adhesive layer 35 forming the recessed portion 36 overlap each other in a direction in which the bump 32 is inserted into the recessed portion 36.

Abstract: In one example, a printhead structure includes multiple printhead dies and a printed circuit board embedded in a single monolithic molding with fully encapsulated wire bonds that electrically connect the dies to conductive routing in the printed circuit board. Fluid may pass through a slot in the molding directly to the dies.

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus, comprising: a recording head; an ink reservoir; an ink receiver; a first waste liquid reservoir comprising a first holding body; a second waste liquid reservoir comprising a second holding body; and a housing, wherein: the second waste liquid reservoir is movable between a first position where the first and second holding bodies contact and a second position; in a state where the second waste liquid reservoir is at the second position, the first holding body overlaps with the second holding body in an intersecting direction intersecting with a moving direction in which the second waste liquid reservoir moves; and in a state where the second waste liquid reservoir is disposed at the first position, the first and second holding bodies contact such that at least one of the first and second holding bodies elastically deforms to show an restoring force in the intersecting direction.

Abstract: A plate-like detection plate portion that undergoes strain due to contact with an object is used for detecting the presence of an object that can come into contact with a liquid ejecting unit with relative movement between a medium and the liquid ejecting unit, and is provided with a piezoelectric film sensor that outputs an electric signal corresponding to strain of the detection plate portion. The piezoelectric film sensor includes a detection film portion in which a piezoelectric element that causes a voltage change corresponding to the strain is arranged, and an output circuit portion that converts the voltage change of the detection film portion into an electric signal and outputs the electric signal. The output circuit portion is provided on a second plate surface, which is a rear surface of a first plate surface facing the medium, of the detection plate portion.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a pressure chamber that communicates with a nozzle which has an opening at a nozzle formation surface; a communication plate where a common liquid chamber which supplies a liquid to the pressure chamber is formed; a liquid ejecting head having a flexible film which seals the opening surface at the nozzle formation surface side of the common liquid chamber in the communication plate; and a sealing member which has a cavity-shaped sealing hollow section and can be sealed by the nozzle formation surface being confronted in the sealing hollow section. The sealing member is configured so as to be sealable by at least a portion of the flexible film being confronted in the sealing hollow section in a sealed state of the nozzle formation surface.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a pressure generating chamber which is used for discharging a liquid in the pressure generating chamber through a nozzle by driving a driving element; a manifold which supplies a liquid to the pressure generating chamber; a discharge unit which discharges a liquid in the pressure generating chamber through the nozzle. Mode 1 is a mode in which air is drawn into the pressure generating chamber through the nozzle due to the operation of the discharge unit, and Mode 2 is a mode which drives the driving element such that air is not drawn into the pressure generating chamber through the nozzle due to the driving of the driving element.

Abstract: In one example, a liquid container includes an expandable and collapsible bag having a first interior chamber and a second interior chamber separated by a barrier; a passage through the barrier for liquid to pass between the chambers; a first opening between the first chamber and an exterior of the bag; and a second opening between the second chamber and the exterior of the bag.

Abstract: A technique is provided with which the concentration in liquid to be supplied to a liquid ejection apparatus is less likely to be uneven. A liquid container for supplying a liquid having a precipitating component to a liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid container, a liquid leading portion for leading the liquid in the liquid containing portion to the liquid ejection apparatus; a liquid flow tube that has a base end connected to the liquid leading portion, the liquid flow tube extending within the liquid containing portion from the liquid leading portion toward the second end; and a spacer member that is provided in the liquid containing portion and has a spacer body forming a liquid-retaining space for retaining the liquid in the liquid containing portion. The spacer member is coupled to the liquid leading portion. The liquid flow tube is coupled to the spacer member.

Abstract: A technique of enhancing attachment of a liquid supply unit to a liquid ejection device is provided. A first ink cartridge 100a and a second ink cartridge 100b are attached to a carriage 27 of a printing device 10 via a holder structure 200. Each of the first and the second ink cartridges 100a and 100b includes a circuit substrate 130 having a plurality of terminals 151 to 159 which are electrically connected with a device-side terminal assembly 250 provided on the holder structure 200. Each of the first and the second ink cartridges 100a and 100b also includes a main engagement part 120 configured to engage with a lever member 230 of the holder structure 200 as an engaged part, such as to limit motion of the circuit substrate 130 away from the holder structure 200. The circuit substrate 130 includes a first terminal 151 and a second terminal 152 located on respective ends in an array direction of the terminals.

Abstract: A technique of enhancing attachment of a liquid supply unit to a liquid ejection device is provided. A first ink cartridge 100a and a second ink cartridge 100b are attached to a carriage 27 of a printing device 10 via a holder structure 200. Each of the first and the second ink cartridges 100a and 100b includes a circuit substrate 130 having a plurality of terminals 151 to 159 which are electrically connected with a device-side terminal assembly 250 provided on the holder structure 200. Each of the first and the second ink cartridges 100a and 100b also includes a main engagement part 120 configured to engage with a lever member 230 of the holder structure 200 as an engaged part, such as to limit motion of the circuit substrate 130 away from the holder structure 200. The circuit substrate 130 includes a first terminal 151 and a second terminal 152 located on respective ends in an array direction of the terminals.

Abstract: The liquid cartridge includes: a front surface facing in an insertion direction intersecting a gravitational direction; a rear surface spaced apart from the front surface in the insertion direction; an upper surface facing upward; a liquid supply portion disposed at the front surface; an electrical interface disposed at the upper surface; and a movable member including a detection portion. The movable member is movable between a first position and a second position. The movable member at the second position is positioned upstream in the insertion direction relative to the electrical interface. The movable member at the first position has a portion whose widthwise position is coincident with the electrical interface in a widthwise direction orthogonal to the insertion direction and the gravitational direction. The portion of the movable member at the first position is located downstream in the insertion direction or upward relative to the electrical interface.

Abstract: A printing fluid cartridge includes at least one electrical interface configured to be electrically connected to at least one contact, and a light attenuating portion configured to attenuate light.

Abstract: A transform wrapper is stored on a memory device and the memory device may be included in a printer cartridge. The transform wrapper may dynamically build a transform map for a printer based on metadata stored at the memory device. The metadata may indicate at least one of a type of depositing material, transform map, print media and printer.

Abstract: A liquid-consuming apparatus includes: a tank including a liquid chamber, an upstanding wall facing a particular direction, and an inlet formed in a surface of the tank; a liquid-consuming unit consuming liquid stored in the liquid chamber; a cover rotatable between a covering position where the upstanding wall is covered with the cover and an exposure position where the upstanding wall is exposed, around a rotation axis extending in a further direction; and a casing including an engaging target part which holds the cover in the covering position, and supporting the tank, liquid-consuming unit, and cover. The cover includes: an engaging part to engage with the engaging target part in the state that the cover is in the covering position; and a tab which is subjected to an operation for releasing an engagement between the engaging part and the engaging target part.

Abstract: Provided are a valve unit, a printing apparatus, and a printing method capable of preventing sediment arising in the valve unit from flowing toward a discharge unit. The valve unit is used in a printing apparatus including a reservoir unit that holds ink, a discharge unit configured to discharge the ink, and a flow channel that connects the reservoir unit to the discharge unit and through which the ink flows from the reservoir unit to the discharge unit. The valve unit is disposed partway along the flow channel, and includes: a first chamber that configured to communicate with the reservoir unit; a second chamber configured to communicate with the discharge unit; a switching valve that switches between allowing and cutting off a flow of ink from the first chamber to the second chamber; and an expelling unit configured to expel sediment from the second chamber by suctioning the sediment.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a first storage part, a second storage part, an ejection part, a first supply path, a regulation part, and a second supply path. The second storage part is provided higher than the first storage part. The ejection part includes an ejection port. The first supply path is used for supplying ink from the first storage part to the second storage part and has a discharge port which is provided in the second storage part at a level higher than a predetermined specific position and lower than the ejection port. The regulation part regulates a backflow of ink in the first supply path. The second supply path is used for supplying ink from the second storage part to the ejection part and has a supply port which is provided in the second storage part at a level lower than the discharge port.

Abstract: To appropriately color develop ink according to a print condition even when carrying out the printing step and the color developing step in a series of steps. A printing device includes a printing machine that discharges an ink to a print medium and a color developing machine that heats the print medium, on which the ink discharged by the printing machine is attached, to color develop the ink. The printing device includes a controller that adjusts at least one of a heating time and a heating temperature of the print medium by the color developing machine according to at least one of a transporting speed of the print medium transported from the printing machine and an amount of the ink which is discharged.

Abstract: A drive apparatus includes a light emitting device, a light receiving device configured to receive light emitted by the light emitting device, a comparison circuit configured to compare a light quantity of light detected by the light receiving device with a target value indicating a light quantity of light to be emitted by the light emitting device and generate a control signal corresponding to a comparison result, and a drive circuit configured to supply a drive signal corresponding to the control signal to the light emitting device. The drive circuit includes a gain changing switch configured to change, in accordance with the target value, a gain of the drive circuit.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge section for discharging a liquid containing agglomerate components having a polarity toward a medium and at least one ion supplying section for supplying ions having a polarity opposite to that of the agglomerate components to the liquid discharged on the medium. The liquid discharge apparatus of such a structure can suppress the unevenness caused by contact of dots of the liquid discharged on the medium. The liquid apparatus can prevent or reduce contact between dots of the liquid discharged on the medium.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reaction liquid application portion that applies reaction liquid to a recording medium, an ink application portion that applies ink which includes a color material that is coagulated using the reaction liquid onto the recording medium onto which the reaction liquid is applied, and a control portion that adjusts an amount per unit area of the reaction liquid that is applied to the recording medium from the reaction liquid application portion according to infiltration into the recording medium.

Abstract: Both stability and high glossiness of a glossy ink used for printing can be achieved. A printer is provided that performs inkjet printing for a medium. The printer includes a glossy ink head as an inkjet head that discharges droplets of a glossy ink, a heater, and an ultraviolet light source. The glossy ink includes an ultraviolet-curable resin curable by being irradiated with ultraviolet light, a glossy pigment, and a solvent added to disperse the pigment. Particles of the glossy pigment have particle sizes less than or equal to 0.5 ?m. The heater heats the medium to volatilize and strip the solvent in the ink. The ultraviolet light source irradiates dots of the glossy ink on the medium with ultraviolet light after a preset waiting time has passed subsequent to a timing of the droplets of the glossy ink landing on the medium.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tablet printing apparatus includes: a conveyor belt including a suction hole to suck a tablet; and an ink jet print head configured to perform printing on the tablet; wherein the conveyor belt further includes a plurality of protrusions formed around the suction hole and configured to support the tablet in contact with the tablet, and a recess formed between the protrusions and communicated with the suction hole, each of the protrusions has a bottom surface, an upper surface, area of which is smaller than that of the bottom surface, and a side surface having an inclined surface, the protrusions support the tablet such that a gap is formed between a surface of the tablet on conveyor belt side and the suction hole, and a suction force is applied to the gap and space of the recess through the suction hole to suck the tablet.

Abstract: A printer comprises a linerless label operation mode and a linered label operation mode as operation modes. When a cutter unit is coupled to a coupling portion, a control unit of the printer detects the operation mode of the printer based on whether the cutter unit is a cutter unit configured to cut the linerless label or a cutter unit configured to cut the linered label, and sets the operation mode of the printer to a linerless label operation mode or a linered label operation mode.