Abstract: A machine arrangement sequentially processes sheet-like substrates with multiple different processing stations each having a substrate-guiding unit and a substrate-processing unit. At least one of the processing stations has, as a substrate-processing unit, at least one non-impact printing device which prints on the substrate. The processing station with the at least one non-impact printing device has a printing cylinder. Each non-impact printing device is arranged at the circumference of the printing cylinder. The printing cylinder is triple-sized or quadruple-sized. A double-sized or a triple-sized transfer drum, or a corresponding feed cylinder, is arranged directly upstream of this printing cylinder. Alternatively, a double-sized or a triple-sized transfer drum, or a corresponding transfer cylinder, is arranged directly downstream of this printing cylinder.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for measuring the varnish film thickness of a printed article by obtaining the film thickness of varnish on a sheet (1) on which a pattern is printed on a base thereof with ink and the pattern is coated with the varnish, wherein a metal foil (1c) having a smooth surface is attached to the base of the sheet (1), and the film thickness of the varnish coated directly over the metal foil (1c) is detected with a spectral interference-type film thickness meter (81) so as to determine whether the film thickness of the varnish is acceptable or not on the basis of the results detected by the spectral interference-type film thickness meter (81).

Abstract: An inkjet recording device includes an intermediate transfer belt, a discharger, a driving belt, a supporting member, and an adhesion unit. The intermediate transfer belt is endless and supports an intermediate image. The discharger forms the intermediate image by discharging ink onto an outer face of the intermediate transfer belt. The driving belt is endless and arranged on an inner side of the intermediate transfer belt and drives the intermediate transfer belt to run. The supporting member is arranged on an inner side of the driving belt to support the intermediate transfer belt and has a plane which is parallel to the discharger and which contacts an inner face of the driving belt facing the outer face of the driving belt and covering the area of ejection by the discharger. The adhesion unit causes the intermediate transfer belt and the driving belt to adhere to one another.

Abstract: In an embodiment of the present invention, even though there is a print shift due to a gap between a nozzle in an upstream side and a nozzle in a downstream side of a printhead, a printing apparatus capable of precisely adjusting a slant of a printhead with respect to a conveyance direction in a nozzle surface of the printhead is provided. According to the embodiment, two adjustment patterns are printed at two different carriage speeds, respectively, and a print shift due to a slant of the nozzle surface of the printhead with respect to a conveyance direction of a print medium is adjusted based on these two print results.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a signal line supplied with a print data signal including first data and second data; a discharge head including a plurality of nozzles including a first nozzle and a second nozzle that discharge liquid in accordance with the print data signal; a first register that is connected to the signal line, captures the first data corresponding to the first nozzle, and holds the first data; a second register that is connected to the signal line, captures the second data corresponding to the second nozzle, and holds the second data; and a register selection circuit that exclusively selects either capturing the first data by the first register or capturing the second data by the second register based on register selection data.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes an image formation device and a control device. The image formation device ejects an ink for image formation to a fabric to form an image on the fabric. The control device generates, based on a first image data of an original image to be formed on the fabric, a second image data of a mark-applied image which is the original image additionally including a mark at a target position of a decorative member to be attached to the fabric. Then, the control device controls the image formation device based on the second image data so as to form the mark-applied image on the fabric.

Abstract: A printhead includes a printing element; a first power supply wiring configured to be electrically connected to one terminal of the printing element and supply power to the printing element; a transistor configured to be electrically connected to another terminal of the printing element and drive the printing element; a first ground wiring configured to be electrically connected to a source of the transistor; a second ground wiring configured to be electrically connected to a back gate of the transistor; and a first capacitive element configured to be electrically connected, at one terminal thereof, to the first ground wiring and electrically connected at another terminal thereof, to the second ground wiring.

Abstract: A print head includes a drive module having 600 or more piezoelectric elements aligned at a density of 300 or more per inch for ejecting liquid, and a sensor substrate on which a temperature sensor is mounted and which is attached to the drive module, in which the sensor substrate is formed by laminating a conductive metal for transmitting an output signal of the temperature sensor and a liquid crystal polymer which is a nonconductive resin.

Abstract: A first wiring supplies a first driving signal to one end of a first piezoelectric elements; a second wiring supplies a first voltage to the other end of the first piezoelectric element to allow the first voltage to maintain the other end of the first piezoelectric element to a common electric potential; a third wiring supplies a second driving signal to one end of a second piezoelectric elements; and a fourth wiring supplies a second signal to the other end of the second piezoelectric element to allow the second signal to maintain the other end of the second piezoelectric element to the common electric potential. The second wiring is arranged between the first wiring and the fourth wiring, the fourth wiring is arranged between the second wiring and the third wiring, and the second wiring and the fourth wiring are arranged between the first wiring and the third wiring.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a drive circuit in which a first voltage signal is output from an output terminal, a piezoelectric element that includes a first electrode to which the first voltage signal is supplied and a second electrode to which a second voltage signal is supplied, and a first switch element that is electrically connected to the output terminal and the first electrode. The liquid ejecting apparatus has a first mode in which a voltage value of the second voltage signal is controlled to be a first voltage, and a second mode in which the voltage value of the second voltage signal is controlled to be a second voltage lower than the first voltage, a voltage value of the first voltage signal is controlled to approximate the voltage value of the second voltage signal, and the first switch element is controlled to be turned on.

Abstract: Provided is a droplet discharging device capable of, while suppressing influence on a droplet discharge mode of a discharging head, suppressing heat generation of a head driving circuit for driving the discharging head. A printing apparatus (10) (droplet discharging device) includes a discharging head (54) configured to discharge ink, a head driving circuit (56) configured to drive the discharging head (54), a heat dissipation unit (57) configured to dissipate heat generated in the head driving circuit (56), a carriage (52) configured to move in a state of supporting the discharging head (54), the head driving circuit (56), and the heat dissipation unit (57), and at least one air blowing unit (60) disposed outside a movement region of the carriage (52) and capable of generating an airflow toward the heat dissipation unit (57) supported by the carriage (52).

Abstract: A fluid dispensing method, the method comprising steps of: providing a system comprising a reservoir, a micro-fluidic thermal inkjet print head in fluid communication with the reservoir, a controller and a power source in electrical communication with the controller and the print head, the reservoir containing a fluid, the micro-fluidic thermal inkjet print head comprising nozzles; heating the fluid in the microfluidic device to a temperature of about 40 C to 75 C in less than about 1000 ms; activating the print head to fire the nozzles about 200 fires/nozzle at a first frequency; subsequent to step c, activating the print head to fire the nozzles at a second frequency, the second frequency substantially less than the first frequency; and subsequent to step d, activating the print head to fire the nozzles at a third frequency substantially greater than the first frequency.

Abstract: The application device comprises a sensor that detects movement of the application device on an application target, a camera that obtains a captured image that is an image of a surface of the application target and is captured during the movement of the application device, a head that applies ink, and a processor, wherein the processor specifies an ink application area based on the captured image of the surface of the application target that is captured by the camera in accordance with the movement that is detected by the sensor, and controls the head to apply ink to the ink application area in accordance with the movement.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a belt, an image forming unit, a transfer unit, a heating unit, and a hardware processor. The belt is laid across at least two rollers so as to move around the rollers. The image forming unit ejects an ink to an image forming region of the belt, thereby forming a primary image. The image forming region is arranged between the rollers. The transfer unit transfers the primary image formed in the image forming region by the image forming unit to a recording medium. The heating unit heats the image forming region. The hardware processor controls a temperature of the image forming region by causing the heating unit to heat the image forming region.

Abstract: An example printing subassembly includes a frame having first and second members spaced extending in a first direction. The frame can be removably coupled to a printing device. The first and second members are spaced from each other in a second direction, which is orthogonal to the first direction. The first and second directions are also orthogonal to a third direction. A printbar is coupled to the frame. An alignment system is coupled to the frame and includes at least four alignment features cooperating to constrain translation of the printing subassembly in the third direction and rotation about axes in the first and second directions with respect to the printing device.

Abstract: A recording element board includes a discharge orifice configured to discharge liquid, a pressure chamber communicating with the discharge orifice, a recording element configured to generate thermal energy to cause bubbling of the liquid, the recording element being disposed in the pressure chamber facing the discharge orifice, and a substrate on which the recording element is formed. When the recording element is driven and the liquid of within the pressure chamber is discharged, a generated bubble communicates with the atmosphere. A discharge orifice projection region where the discharge orifice has been projected on the substrate includes a region includes a region extending beyond a heat-generating region projection region where the heat-generating region of the recording element has been projected on the substrate, the outline of the discharge orifice projection region is circumscribed by the outline of the heat-generating region projection region.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a plurality of pressurizing chambers connected to a plurality of ejection holes, a plurality of first individual flow paths connected to the plurality of pressurizing chambers, a plurality of second individual flow paths and a plurality of third individual flow paths, a first common flow path is connected in common to the plurality of first and second individual flow paths, and a second common flow path is connected in common to the plurality of third individual flow paths. The first and second individual flow paths are connected to the same pressurizing chamber, the first individual flow path is connected to the first common flow path on a side of an opening end portion, compared to the second individual flow path. The first individual flow path is located opposite to a side where the ejection hole is open outward, compared to the second individual flow path.

Abstract: A print head includes a first substrate having 600 or more piezoelectric elements aligned at a density of 300 or more per inch for ejecting liquid, a second substrate, and a flexible wiring substrate that connects the first substrate and the second substrate, in which the flexible wiring substrate is a multilayer substrate in which a conductive metal and a nonconductive resin are laminated and the nonconductive resin is pressure bonded.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a drive circuit in which a first voltage signal is output from an output terminal, a piezoelectric element that includes a first electrode to which the first voltage signal is supplied and a second electrode to which a second voltage signal is supplied and is displaced by a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode, a cavity which is filled with a liquid, a vibration plate that is provided between the cavity and the piezoelectric element, and a switch element that is electrically connected to the output terminal and the first electrode. The liquid ejecting apparatus has a mode in which the switch element is controlled to be turned off, and a voltage value of the first voltage signal is controlled to approximate a voltage value of the second voltage signal.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes an active portion of a piezoelectric layer interposed between a first electrode and a second electrode is provided independently for each of a first recessed portions, the first electrode forms an individual electrode provided independently for each of the active portions, the second electrode forms a common electrode commonly provided to a plurality of the active portions, in the piezoelectric layer, a second recessed portion which is provided outside the active portion and opens on a side opposite to a substrate is provided, and in a lamination direction of the substrate and the piezoelectric element, a vibration plate has a nitride film as an uppermost layer on the second electrode side at least in a region overlapping a bottom surface of the second recessed portion.

Abstract: An apparatus for a lead-free piezoelectric ink-jet printhead is disclosed. Piezoelectric printheads, while more expensive are favored because they use a wider variety of inks. The piezoelectric printhead includes a diaphragm, a plurality of piezoelectric actuators comprising a lead-free piezoelectric material, at least one nozzle, at least one ink chamber, a top electrode, and a drive circuit. The deflection of the diaphragm on the body chamber contributes to a pressure pulse that is used to eject a drop of liquid from the nozzle. According to an exemplary embodiment, a lead-free piezoelectric printhead operated at smaller thicknesses and significantly higher electric fields is disclosed, along with methods of making such printheads.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes in a piezoelectric layer, a recessed portion which is provided outside an active portion and opens on the side opposite to a substrate is provided, in a lamination direction of the substrate and a piezoelectric element, a first barrier layer formed of a material other than the zirconium oxide is formed in a region of a vibration plate opposite to the substrate and overlapping a bottom surface of the recessed portion, and the first barrier layer is not formed in a portion of a region overlapping the active portion in the lamination direction.

Abstract: An inkjet printhead includes: a manifold having first, second, third and fourth ink supply channels extending along the manifold and corresponding first, second, third and fourth rows of outlets defined in the manifold, wherein a first ink delivery group contains the first and second rows of outlets and a second ink delivery group contains the third and fourth rows of outlets. A first row of printhead chips is mounted to a lower surface of the manifold and a second row of printhead chips is mounted to the lower surface of the manifold. Each row of printhead chips prints two ink colors to provide a four-color printhead.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid droplet discharging unit including a liquid droplet discharging port, a liquid retaining section including the liquid droplet discharging port, two tubes disposed in communication with the liquid retaining section, and first and second liquid sucking/ejecting members coupled to the two tubes respectively, wherein while the first liquid sucking/ejecting member is in a sucking or ejecting state, the second liquid sucking/ejecting member is in a non-sucking or non-ejecting state correspondingly.

Abstract: The ink jet printing apparatus includes: an ink jet head having a nozzle row in which a plurality of nozzles for ejecting ink are arranged and a nozzle guard with an opening at a portion corresponding to the nozzle row, provided at a position via a gap with respect to an ink ejection surface of the nozzle row; a sheet shaped absorbing member having a size that covers a range of the opening of the nozzle guard; and a capping unit that presses the absorbing member onto the opening of the nozzle guard.

Abstract: A printer includes a head including an ink ejecting unit for ejecting ink from a nozzle, a waste liquid flow path that is a flow path of ink sucked from the nozzle, a suction unit that performs an ink suction operation of sucking the ink from the nozzle via the waste liquid flow path, and a cleaning operation of sucking cleaning liquid from the nozzle via the waste liquid flow path, and a control unit that controls the suction unit so as to vary a suction amount of the cleaning liquid depending on an elapsed time from when the ink suction operation is performed, when the cleaning operation is performed.

Abstract: A printer includes a head including a plurality of ink ejecting units for ejecting different types of inks from nozzles, a waste liquid flow path that is a flow path of ink sucked from the nozzles, a suction unit that performs an ink suction operation of sucking the ink from the nozzles of the ink ejecting units via the waste liquid flow path, and a cleaning operation of sucking the cleaning liquid from nozzles via the waste liquid flow path, and a control unit that controls the suction unit so as to vary a suction amount of the cleaning liquid depending on the type of the ink sucked by the ink suction operation when the cleaning operation is performed.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head including a discharge port configured to discharge liquid and a discharge port surface provided with the discharge port. A head cleaning member including a contact portion contacts the discharge port surface, and is configured to cause the contact portion to contact the discharge port surface and to move relative to the discharge port surface in order to clean adherents attached to the discharge port surface. The discharge port includes a plurality of protrusion portions extending toward a discharge port inner side. The contact portion includes a fiber, and the fiber in the contact portion includes a portion having a size greater than a minimum protrusion distance among protrusion distances between the protrusion portions.

Abstract: Inkjet recording is performed by using an inkjet recording apparatus including an ink circulation channel for circulating a first ink, an ink supply channel for supplying a second ink into the ink circulation channel, and a recording head communicating with the ink circulation channel. The apparatus is configured to eject an aqueous ink including the first ink and the second ink from the recording head, thereby recording an image on a recording medium. The content (% by mass) of water in the first ink and the content (% by mass) of water in the second ink differ from each other by 2.00% by mass or more. The first ink contains a resin, and the second ink contains a first water-soluble organic solvent having a Log P value of less than ?1.10.

Abstract: A liquid container comprises a liquid supply port provided in a bottom wall, a first chamber configured to contain a liquid, a second chamber configured to contain the liquid and to include at least one sub-chamber having a smaller dimension in the X direction than that of the first chamber, 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, and the first chamber is connected with the liquid supply port via the connecting hole and the second chamber. The liquid contained in the first chamber is flowed from the connecting hole into the second chamber and is subsequently introduced through the sub-chamber to the liquid supply port.

Abstract: The liquid container comprises: a first chamber that is surrounded by a plurality of walls and is configured to contain a liquid; a liquid inlet port for pouring the liquid into the first chamber; an air opening port that is opened to air; a liquid lead-out port that leads the liquid out of the first chamber; an air lead-in port that is formed in, out of the plurality of walls surrounding the first chamber, a first wall different from the wall constituting a top surface; and an air communication path that allows the air opening port and the air lead-in port to communicate with each other. The air lead-in port is separated from a corner portion where the first wall crosses with another wall.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid tank that can reduce the remaining amount of liquid even if a use state of the liquid tank is in an inclined state. The liquid tank includes an external wall, a liquid discharge port, and a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion that are provided inside the liquid tank and respectively protrude from a third side wall. The height of the second protruding portion from a bottom wall in a use state is higher than the height of the first protruding portion from the bottom wall. The first protruding portion has, at an upper portion thereof, a first inclined portion that is inclined to the upper part in the first direction, and the second protruding portion has, at an upper portion thereof, a second inclined portion that is inclined to the upper part in the second direction.

Abstract: A flow path member includes a first flow path for distributing liquid, and a filter section disposed in the first flow path to extend intersecting with a horizontal direction, the filter section being provided for capturing an air bubble. The filter section has a plurality of filters including a first filter disposed on a most upstream side, and a second filter disposed on a downstream side relative to the first filter and having filtration performance higher than the first filter.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of this invention, an apparatus comprises: a detachable inktank containing ink; a subtank containing the ink supplied from the inktank; a printhead configured to discharge the ink supplied from the subtank; an ink supply path connecting the subtank to the printhead; a valve arranged on the ink supply path; a supply unit configured to supply the ink from the inktank to the subtank by repeatedly opening and closing the valve; a suction unit configured to suck the ink from the printhead; and a control unit configured to control, when the inktank is attached, the supply unit to operate for a predetermined number of times to supply the ink from the inktank to the subtank, and to subsequently control the suction unit to operate to supply the ink from the subtank to the printhead.

Abstract: An ink cartridge includes a tank main body that contains ink, a transparent member that forms at least part of the tank main body and transmits light, and a reference plate that is disposed in the tank main body and in a position facing the transparent member and forms, along with the transparent member, an inflow space which is located between the transparent member and the reference plate and into which the ink flows.

Abstract: A sensing structure in an example may include at least three electrodes along an interior surface of a reservoir from a top portion of the reservoir to a bottom portion of the reservoir wherein at least one of the electrodes is closer to at least another electrode at the top portion of the reservoir than at the bottom portion of the reservoir.

Abstract: Inkjet recording is performed by using an inkjet recording apparatus including an ink circulation channel for circulating a first ink, an ink supply channel for supplying a second ink into the ink circulation channel, and a recording head communicating with the ink circulation channel. The apparatus is configured to eject an aqueous ink including the first ink and the second ink from the recording head, thereby recording an image on a recording medium. The content (% by mass) of water in the first ink and the content (% by mass) of water in the second ink differ from each other by 2.00% by mass or more. The first ink contains a pigment, and the second ink contains a first water-soluble organic solvent having a log P value of ?1.10 or more and a surfactant.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid ejecting module capable of performing stable ejection operation while circulating and supplying fresh ink to the vicinity of ejection ports arranged in high density. To achieve this, a liquid ejecting module includes an element arranged face in which a plurality of ejecting elements are arranged, a circulation flow path including a supply flow path which supplies liquid to a pressure chamber and a collection flow path which collects liquid from the pressure chamber, and a liquid delivery mechanism provided in the circulation flow path for circulating liquid in the pressure chamber. The liquid delivery mechanism is located lower than the element arranged face.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head including a supply port, a recovery port, and nozzles to discharge a liquid from the nozzles, a circulation channel connected to the supply port and the recovery port of the liquid discharge head to circulate the liquid through the liquid discharge head, and a cap to cap a nozzle surface of the liquid discharge head in which the nozzles are formed and to suck the liquid from the nozzles in a maintenance operation. The circulation channel includes an individual supply channel communicating with the supply port of the liquid discharge head, an individual recovery channel communicating with the recovery port of the liquid discharge head to circulate the liquid through the liquid discharge head, a supply-side fluid resistance variable section disposed in the individual supply channel to vary fluid a resistance of the individual supply channel.

Abstract: A liquid holding container includes a top face portion having an opening portion, a bottom face portion facing the top face portion, a first ink absorber being disposed near the opening portion and layered in a first direction from the bottom face portion to the top face portion, the first ink absorber being configured to absorb a liquid introduced from the opening portion, and a second ink absorber being disposed outside the first absorber in a second direction that intersects the first direction and layered in the second direction, the second ink absorber being configured to absorb the liquid moving from the first ink absorber.

Abstract: To perform colorful printing more appropriately, a printing apparatus (10) configured to print by inkjet includes: a plurality of inkjet heads (102), a main scanning driver (16), and a sub scanning driver (18). When a row in which one or more inkjet heads (102) are arranged side by side in a main scanning direction is defined as a head row (202), the inkjet heads (102) are arranged so as to form a plurality of the head rows (202). The printing apparatus includes, as the inkjet heads (102), inkjet heads (102) for primary colors and inkjet heads (102) for secondary colors. The printing apparatus includes a dark ink head and a light ink head for at least one of red and blue as the inkjet heads for secondary colors. For the red or the blue, the dark ink head and the light ink head are arranged in different head rows (202).

Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus including: a conveyer, a carriage moving in a scanning direction, a recording head, and a controller. When the controller has not detected that image data of a line image corresponding to one line that extends in the scanning direction is present at an upstream end in a conveyance direction of the recording area for a next recording pass, the controller makes a conveyance amount of the recording medium in the conveyance operation between a certain recording pass and the next recording pass smaller than a case in which the controller has detected that the image data of the line image is present at the upstream end in the conveyance direction of the recording area for the next recording pass, by a predefined amount.

Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions readable by an information processing apparatus. The instructions cause the information processing apparatus to: obtain a type of a printer; obtain a combination between a type of a printing medium and a color of a coloring agent for printing of a code; determine whether the obtained combination is included in a first combination or whether the obtained combination is included in a second combination; and output an alert message when the obtained combination is included in the second combination or not included in the first combination. A combination between the color and the type of the printing medium printable by the printer of the obtained type includes the first combination in which a probability of reading of the code is a first value and the second combination in which the probability is a second value less than the first value.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printer function part configured to print on a recording sheet, a power supply including a rechargeable battery, a charger configured to charge the rechargeable battery, and an input part configured to input information. The printer function part, the input part, the power supply, and the charger are arranged from a first end of the printing apparatus towards a second end opposite to the first end, in an order of the printer function part, the input part, the power supply, and the charger.

Abstract: A method comprising printing multicolored images on containers includes providing overall-image data, extracting partial-image data from the overall-image data, print-head-specific calibration-data for the print heads, using the partial-image data and the first print-head-specific calibration-data for calculating print-head image-data for each print head, and causing the print heads to print corresponding partial images on containers, each partial image corresponding to one of the colors in the multicolored images.

Abstract: A data writing device includes a roller configured to convey a label including a radio tag along a predetermined path, a reader/writer configured to wirelessly communicate with the radio tag, and a controller configured to control the roller to convey the label and control the reader/writer to acquire a plurality of radio wave intensities from the radio tag at different positions along the predetermined path as the label is conveyed, and determine one of the different positions along the predetermined path at which the radio wave intensities are equal to or greater than a threshold value as a writing position for the radio tag.

Abstract: To perform high-quality printing more appropriately, a printing apparatus (10) configured to print on a medium (50) by inkjet includes: an inkjet head (102); and a UV light source (104) as an energy ray emitting unit. The UV light source (104) emits the ultraviolet rays to the ink adhered to the medium (50), causing the ink to generate heat to evaporate at least a part of a solvent in the ink. The ink ejected by the inkjet head (102) includes a polymerizing substance that polymerizes when irradiated with the energy rays, and the solvent. The ink on the medium (50) is in a state in which planarization of the ink progresses with a lapse of time at a time point after 100 ms has elapsed since the UV light source (104) emitted the ultraviolet rays.

Abstract: A printer table for supporting a substrate during a printing operation comprises a substrate support surface comprising a plurality of apertures. The apertures are arranged such that a substrate placed on the printer table covers at least one of the apertures. The printer table comprises a plurality of ball valves arranged in fluidic connection with the apertures, where each of the ball valves has an open configuration and a closed configuration and is biased to the open configuration. The printer table also comprises a negative air pressure source configured to apply a negative air pressure through the plurality of ball valves to the plurality of apertures.

Abstract: A conveyance unit of an image printing apparatus includes a conveyance member configured to nip and convey the print medium and disposed upstream of the print head in the conveyance direction but does not include a conveyance member configured to nip and convey the print medium and disposed downstream of the print head in the conveyance direction. In a case where a trailing edge margin length indicated by the trailing edge margin information is shorter than a first length, a control unit of the image printing apparatus controls the print head and the conveyance unit such that at least one scan of the print head for printing the image is performed after a trailing edge of the print medium in the conveyance direction passes by the conveyance member disposed upstream of the print head.

Abstract: There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus including: a transporting roller; a driven roller provided opposite the transporting roller to sandwich the recording medium between the driven roller and the transporting roller, while moving in an approaching-departing direction based on a thickness of the recording medium; a first biasing member biasing the driven roller to the transporting roller; a platen; a recording portion configured to jet ink droplets from nozzles; and a cooperative portion moving along with the movement of the driven roller in the approaching-departing direction to move the platen.