Abstract: A vacuum system for film lamination, including a vacuum chamber module, a film-pressing module, a substrate susceptor module and a hot-plate heating module, is disclosed, wherein the film-pressing module includes a film-pressing platen, and the substrate susceptor module includes a substrate susceptor supported by a spring-loaded mechanism. During a film-lamination process, the film-pressing platen is actuated to move downwards to attach a laminating film onto a substrate, and the substrate susceptor is actuated to move downwards and finally rest on the hot-plate heating module. Therefore an adhesive glue disposed between the laminating film and the substrate can be thermally cured. After completing the film-lamination process, the film-pressing platen is actuated upwards so that the substrate susceptor also is actuated to move upwards to its initial position by a restoring force exerted by the spring-loaded mechanism.

Abstract: A composite sheet material includes a cover sheet, a substrate and an adhesion promoting layer. The cover sheet has a cover sheet material. The substrate has a substrate material. The adhesion promoting layer is disposed between the cover sheet and the substrate. A first side of the adhesion promoting layer disposed towards the cover sheet has an affinity to bond with the cover sheet material. A second side of the adhesion promoting layer disposed towards the substrate has an affinity to bond with the substrate material.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a self-service film sticking machine for smart mobile device; wherein the self-service film sticking machine for smart mobile device includes a case, a master controller, a fixing table, a display screen cleaning mechanism, a film sheet feeding mechanism, a film stripping mechanism, a film sticking manipulator and a three-dimensional travelling mechanism to control front-back, left-right, and up-down motions of the film sticking manipulator; beneficial effect: the present disclosure may automatically stick film on the user's smart mobile device, which may greatly reduce the cost of the manual film sticking, greatly improve the efficiency and quality of the film sticking, and meet the needs of users to stick film at any time, compared to the traditional manual film sticking, thereby, the present disclosure has strong practicability and good use effect.

Abstract: A device that is a handheld circular heating element for use in the construction industry is described. Specifically the device is useful for applying heat uniformly to a two-piece membrane for separation of the outer layer to allow the inner layer to be exposed. The device includes a handle, an electrical supply, an on/off switch and a heating element. The device uses electricity to heat the heat-emitting burner of the heating element, which is then placed next to the membrane. As the membrane is warmed, the two layers of the membrane are able to be separated, which exposes the inner membrane.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to determining a manufacturing batch. In one implementation, the manufacturing batch relates to 3D printing. A processor may determine component parts of a product that. In one implementation, a processor determines a batch of the component parts related to different products based on a comparison to other potential batches.

Abstract: An example method of making a component includes providing a digital model of a component to a software program, the software program operable to slice the digital model into digital layers and raster each digital layer into digital segments, the digital segments delineated by digital raster lines. The method further includes depositing a first layer of powdered material onto a platform, compacting the first layer of powered material into a first compacted layer, sintering the first compacted layer along lines corresponding to the digital raster lines using a laser, wherein the laser operates at a first power and a first scan speed, and sintering the first compacted layer along a perimeter of the first compacted layer using the laser to form a first unitary layer, wherein the laser operates at a second power and a second scan speed, wherein the ratio of the first power to the second power is less than about 3. An apparatus for making a component is also disclosed.

Abstract: In an example, a method includes forming, at an additive manufacturing apparatus, a first layer of build material to be processed in the generation of an object. A print agent is selectively applied onto the first layer based on a first print instruction associated with the first layer. Energy is applied to the first layer to cause fusion in a region of the first layer. The method further comprises: measuring the temperature of the first layer at a plurality of locations to form a measured temperature distribution profile; comparing the measured temperature distribution profile against a predicted temperature distribution profile to generate a difference; and correcting a temperature distribution profile of a subsequent layer of the build material following fusion of the subsequent layer based on the difference by modifying a second print instruction associated with the subsequent layer.

Abstract: A method for producing flexographic printing plates, using a photopolymerizable flexographic printing element having, arranged one atop another, a dimensionally stable support, a photopolymerizable, relief-forming layer, an elastomeric binder, an ethylenically unsaturated compound, and a photoinitiator, and optionally a rough, UV-transparent layer, a particulate substance, and digitally imagable layer. The method includes: (a) producing a mask by imaging the digitally imagable layer, (b) exposing the photopolymerizable, relief-forming layer through the mask with actinic light, and photopolymerizing the image regions of the layer, and (c) developing the photpolymerized layer by washing out the unphotopolymerized regions of the relief-forming layer with an organic solvent, or by thermal development.

Abstract: A garment printing machine is provided with a transportable platen that can be utilized to significantly decrease the delay in printing expended in loading and unloading a garment for printing in either a digitized garment printing machine or a screen garment printing machine. The platen is provided with structure that holds a print receiving area of a garment firmly in position atop a print panel support plate that forms a part of the platen. Furthermore, the invention includes a platen support structure that cooperates with the conventional couplings on existing conventional garment printing machines. A plurality of transportable platens constructed according to the invention are utilized interchangeably so that while one garment loaded on one of the platens is being printed upon in the printing machine, the prior garment just printed upon is unloaded and the next garment to be printed is loaded onto another identical platen.

Abstract: On a conveyance path of a liquid absorbing member including a porous body, a liquid absorbing unit 2 that absorbs a first liquid from a first image, a recovery liquid applying unit 3 that applies a recovery liquid to the porous body absorbing the liquid and a liquid collecting unit 4 that collects a liquid component absorbed by the porous body are arranged in this order, and a cleaning unit 5 that brings a cleaning member into contact with the conveyance path of the porous body is disposed at least between the liquid absorbing unit and the recovery liquid applying unit or between the liquid collecting unit and the liquid absorbing unit.

Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus including a carriage, a head, a velocity sensor, and a controller. The controller obtains velocity data of the carriage from the velocity sensor, determines a threshold value based on the velocity data, records an image on a recording medium, and suspends a recording pass when the controller has determined that a velocity indicated by the velocity data is lower than a velocity corresponding to the threshold value. The controller can execute a first recording mode and a second recording mode in which the velocity of the carriage is faster than that of the first recording mode. The velocity data for the first recording mode is obtained in a warm-up time after a recording command is received until recording of the image is started. The velocity data for the second recording mode is obtained in other time other than the warm-up time.

Abstract: A fluid ejection device may include fluid actuators and an actuation controller. Each fluid actuator may have an associated address. The actuation controller is to receive an address for a fluid actuator of the device to be actuated and is further to automatically transmit one of different fire pulses based upon the received address.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a plurality of individual chambers communicating with a plurality of nozzles that discharges a liquid, a common chamber formed by a frame and communicating with the plurality of individual chambers, a temperature detector to detect temperature of the liquid, and a temperature controller connected to the temperature detector, to heat or cool the liquid in the common chamber based on readings from the temperature detector. The temperature detector is disposed opposite the common chamber across the plurality of individual chambers in a direction perpendicular to a direction of liquid discharge from the plurality of nozzles.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejection unit that ejects a liquid by a piezoelectric element being driven, a drive signal generation unit that generates a drive signal for driving the piezoelectric element, a residual vibration detection unit that detects a residual vibration of the ejection unit after the drive signal is applied to the piezoelectric element, and an inspection control signal generation unit that generates an inspection control signal for instructing start of detection of the residual vibration by the residual vibration detection unit. The inspection control signal when a temperature of the ejection unit is a first temperature differs from the inspection control signal when the temperature of the ejection unit is a second temperature lower than the first temperature.

Abstract: A recording apparatus performs converting each of recording data and control data for controlling a recording head into transfer data in a command format and transmitting the transfer data to the recording head via a transmission path, and detecting, in the recording head, an error in the received transfer data, and, in the transmission after detecting the error, reconstructs next transfer data in such a manner that a command that has been included in the transfer data in which the error has occurred among commands concerning the control data and that is scheduled not to be included in the next transfer data is included in the next transfer data, and then transmits the next transfer data reconstructed.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head including recording element substrates each including ejection opening rows in which ejection openings ejecting liquid are arranged, the plurality of ejection opening rows being juxtaposed in a relative movement direction with respect to the printed medium. In the relative movement direction of the printed medium when the printed medium is viewed from the liquid ejection head, and in the plurality of ejection opening rows provided in the recording element substrate, among the plurality of recording element substrates, positioned on an upstream side in the relative movement direction, arrangement intervals of ejection openings in an end area of an ejection opening row positioned on a most upstream side in the relative movement direction are smaller than arrangement intervals of ejection openings in an end area of an ejection opening row positioned on a most downstream side in the relative movement direction.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a plurality of nozzles, a plurality of individual liquid chambers, a common liquid chamber, a deformable damper, and a damper chamber. The plurality of nozzles is arrayed in a nozzle array direction, to discharge liquid. The plurality of individual liquid chambers is communicated with the plurality of nozzles. The common liquid chamber supplies liquid to the plurality of individual liquid chambers. The deformable damper constitutes part of a wall face of the common liquid chamber. The damper chamber is disposed along the nozzle array direction with the damper interposed between the damper chamber and the common liquid chamber. The damper chamber extends to an outer area in the nozzle array direction than an individual liquid chamber of the plurality of individual liquid chambers at each end in the nozzle array direction.

Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system includes at least one physical memory device to store medium classification logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the medium classification logic to receive optical density (OD) measurement data corresponding to application of a halftone pattern using ink on a print medium in a printing system, receive ink deposition measurement data corresponding to application of the halftone pattern using the ink in a printing system, determine a set of distribution function parameters based on the OD measurement data and the ink deposition measurement data, apply the set of distribution function parameters to machine learning logic trained to classify the print medium and classify the print medium as a first of a plurality of print medium categories based on the machine learning logic.

Abstract: A liquid-discharge-head substrate includes a first covering portion covering a first heating resistance element and having electrical conductivity, a second covering portion covering a second heating resistance element and having electrical conductivity, a fuse, and a common wiring line for electrically connecting the first and second covering portions. The common wiring line is electrically connected with the first covering portion via the fuse. The common wiring line and the fuse each have a multilayer structure including a stack of a plurality of conductive layers including a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer that is less oxidizable than the first conductive layer.

Abstract: A bifurcation path and a flow path which communicates with the head main body through the bifurcation path are provided. The bifurcation path includes an upstream-side path and a downstream-side path. In a plan view of a flow-path forming surface including the bifurcation path and the flow path, the flow path is disposed in a state where an angle between a flowing direction in the flow path and a flowing direction in the downstream-side path is an acute angle. In addition, an angle between a first wall surface of the flow path, which is the wall surface located downstream from the upstream-side path, and a second wall surface of the upstream-side path, which is the wall surface connected to the first wall surface, is equal to or less than 90°. Furthermore, the second wall surface of the upstream-side path has an R shape.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes nozzles that eject a liquid, communication paths in which the respective nozzles are disposed and which are arrayed and partitioned from adjacent ones of communication paths by partition walls, pressure chambers which communicate with the respective communication paths and which are arrayed and partitioned from adjacent ones of pressure chambers by partition walls, pressure generating portions that are provided in the respective pressure chambers and that vary a pressure of the pressure chambers to cause the liquid to be ejected from the nozzles, and common flow paths through which at least one of supplying and discharging the liquid is performed to and from flow paths including the communication paths and the pressure chambers. A compliance of the partition walls of the communication paths is made larger than a compliance of the partition walls of the pressure chambers.

Abstract: Provided herein is a printing apparatus that includes a printhead assembly and a plurality of printhead pressure load modules that are adjustable on a shaft of a printhead pressure load assembly and engaged with a printhead member. The printhead pressure load module has a hollow housing, a plunger member, and a rotary cam. The plunger member and the rotary cam are movably engaged in the hollow housing. The rotary cam includes a plurality of channel members defined at an outer surface. Each channel member has a depth that is different from a depth of an adjacent channel member. A movement of the plunger member inwardly through the hollow housing defines a position of the rotary cam along the longitudinal axis with respect to the hollow housing. Position change of the rotary cam defines a force that acts on a pressure contact member and adjusts a load on the printhead assembly.

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus is provided with a first recording head including a first nozzle, a second recording head including a second nozzle, a first valve provided with a first valve body configured to open and close according to a pressure on the first recording head side, and a second valve provided with a second valve body configured to open and close according to a pressure on the second recording head side. The first and second valves have different openabilities, and a difference between dischargeabilities of a liquid from the first nozzle and dischargeabilities of a liquid from the second nozzle is smaller than the difference in a case in which the second valve is connected to the first recording head via the first flow path and the first valve is connected to the second recording head via the second flow path.

Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing a liquid discharge head including a liquid discharge head substrate and a flow path forming member, the liquid discharge head substrate having a base, a pressure generation portion provided at a front surface of the base to generate pressure for discharging a liquid, and a supply port for supplying the liquid to the pressure generation portion, and the flow path forming member forming a flow path for feeding the liquid supplied from the supply port to the pressure generation portion. The method includes removing a sacrificial layer by etching the base from a back surface of the base, in a state in which an end covering portion of a cover layer for covering the sacrificial layer is covered with the resin layer. The method suppresses formation of a crack in the end covering portion that covers the end portion of the sacrificial layer.

Abstract: A controller of an inkjet printing apparatus is configured to raise a driving voltage to a target voltage, move the cap for an inkjet head from a covering position to a spaced position, and move a carriage, from which the cap is spaced, from a first position to a second position, simultaneously. The controller is further configured to cause the inkjet head to eject the ink toward an ink receiver in response to completion of boosting of the driving voltage and moving of the cap to the spaced position, and cause the conveyer to convey the sheet and cause the inkjet head to eject the ink in accordance with the recording command, in response to receipt of a recording command which instructs recording of an image on the sheet through a communication device, and completion of flushing.

Abstract: A method of capping a nozzle face of an ink jet print head comprises the step of ejecting an amount of ink from a nozzle opening within the nozzle face, so as to form an ink body covering the nozzle opening, adheringly suspended from a surrounding portion of the nozzle face.

Abstract: An aqueous ink jet ink composition contains a pigment dispersed with a dispersant resin, resin fine particles, water, and an organic solvent. The aqueous ink jet ink composition does not contain more than 5% by mass of an organic solvent having a normal boiling point of 280° C. or more. Further, a viscosity increase rate of the aqueous ink jet ink composition is within 200% at 20° C. when 20% by mass of the water evaporates, and a difference in the SP values between the dispersant resin and a resin of the resin fine particles is within 2.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head having a plurality of nozzles ejecting a liquid toward a medium, the head includes a first region including the plurality of nozzles and a second region surrounding the first region, the first and second regions being provided in a portion of the liquid ejecting head opposed to the medium in which the second region has an inhibiting portion inhibiting a movement of the liquid.

Abstract: A method of inhibiting evaporation of water from inkjet nozzles of a printhead. The method includes the steps of: providing a wiping material infused with a liquid composition comprising an evaporation inhibitor; and wiping the wiping material over a nozzle plate of the printhead. The evaporation inhibitor is transferred to the nozzle plate during wiping and thereby inhibits evaporation of water from the inkjet nozzles.

Abstract: An inkjet printing system includes an printhead with a nozzle face having nozzles arranged along an array direction. A pressure source is configured to provide a positive or negative pressure to an ink source. A valve is fluidically connected between the ink source and the inkjet printhead. A cleaning station is configured to confront the nozzle face across a gap. The cleaning station includes a cleaning fluid dispenser for dispensing cleaning fluid onto the nozzle face. The cleaning station includes a waste fluid collector having a vacuum inlet that is displaced from the cleaning fluid dispenser in a first direction for collecting dispensed cleaning fluid. The cleaning station includes a blower that is displaced from the cleaning fluid dispenser in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The blower is configured to direct a gas stream along the nozzle face to move dispensed cleaning fluid toward the vacuum inlet.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head which includes a plurality of individual channels, each individual channel including a nozzle and a pressure chamber, an actuator, a supply channel, and a return channel. For each individual channel of the plurality of individual channels, with respect to the nozzle, the return channel and the pressure chamber are disposed at one side in the array direction, and the supply channel is disposed at the other side in the array direction. An end portion of the pressure chamber at the one side in the array direction is positioned between the nozzle and an end portion of the return channel at the one side in the array direction. A center of the return channel in the array direction is positioned between the nozzle and the outlet port.

Abstract: Various defects that occur when a water-repellent or defoaming layer is formed on a contact portion of a liquid container are reduced. A method for manufacturing a liquid container for containing a liquid includes: (a) preparing a pre-formation liquid container in which a surface layer has not been formed; (b) bringing an aqueous solution obtained by adding water to one of a defoaming agent and a water-repellent agent into contact with a surface of a contact portion with which the liquid is brought into contact, of the pre-formation liquid container; and (c) drying, after the step (b), the contact portion to form the surface layer that is formed of one of the defoaming agent and the water-repellent agent on a surface of the contact portion.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a mounting portion on which a liquid container accommodating a liquid is attachably/detachably mounted and a liquid ejecting head configured to eject the liquid supplied through an outlet port of the liquid container. The mounting portion has a locking portion locking the liquid container and a connection unit connected to the outlet port of the liquid container. The connection unit is provided to be attachable/detachable to/from the mounting portion in a state where the locking portion locks the liquid container.

Abstract: A liquid cartridge is insertable into an attachment portion of a printing device in an insertion direction and attached thereto in an upright posture. The liquid cartridge includes: a housing defining a liquid chamber; a substrate; a contact; and a memory electrically connected to the contact. The substrate in the upright posture defines a sloped surface facing upward and sloping relative to a first imaginary plane extending in the insertion direction and a widthwise direction orthogonal to the insertion direction and a gravitational direction. The contact is formed on the sloped surface. An acute angle formed between the sloped surface and the first imaginary plane is greater than an acute angle formed between the first imaginary plane and a second imaginary plane passing through: a contact point between the contact and a contact of the device; and a lower end of a wall constituting a holder of the attachment portion.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a cartridge including a first storage chamber storing liquid; a tank including a second storage chamber storing liquid; at least one nozzle; a detecting portion detecting whether a level of the liquid in the second storage chamber becomes equal to a prescribed position; a notifying portion; and a controller configured to perform: when the level of the liquid in the second storage chamber becomes equal to the prescribed position, calculating first and second volumes; and when the second volume is greater than the first volume, notify that the level of the liquid in the second storage chamber becomes equal to the prescribed position. The first volume is an amount of the liquid in the first storage chamber above the level of the second storage chamber at a time when the level of the liquid in the second storage chamber becomes equal to the prescribed position.

Abstract: A compliance for use in an inkjet printer. The compliance includes flexible bellows configured for dampening pressure fluctuations in a fluid, wherein the bellows comprise a plurality of concentric portions joined via concertinaed sidewalls.

Abstract: A fluid ejection device includes a fluid slot, a first fluid ejection chamber communicated with the fluid slot and including a first drop ejecting element, a second fluid ejection chamber including a second drop ejecting element, and a fluid circulation path including a first portion communicated with the fluid slot and the second fluid ejection chamber, and a second portion communicated with the first fluid ejection chamber and the second fluid ejection chamber, with the fluid circulation path including a fluid circulating element within the first portion.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid chamber that communicates with a nozzle, a communication flow path that communicates with the liquid chamber and that has a first opening into which a liquid flows, a discharge flow path that discharges the liquid and that has a second opening into which the liquid flows, a supply flow path capable of supplying the liquid to the communication flow path and the discharge flow path, and a first slide portion disposed between the supply flow path and the communication flow path and having a first through hole that enables the supply flow path to communicate with the communication flow path. The first slide portion, by sliding along the opening surface of the first opening, changes the position of the first through hole with respect to the communication flow path and changes the flow path resistance of the communication flow path.

Abstract: A printer that performs character printing by driving a character printing section, the printer including a character printing section driving element that electromechanically converts drive power, a switch that switches between states of whether or not to supply the drive power, a reverse voltage regeneration circuit that regenerates a reverse voltage generated by electromechanical conversion, and a circuit board on which the reverse voltage regeneration circuit and the switch are mounted, wherein the reverse voltage regeneration circuit has a first reverse voltage regeneration circuit and a second reverse voltage regeneration circuit, the first reverse voltage regeneration circuit has a first smoothing coil, and the second reverse voltage regeneration circuit has a second smoothing coil, and the switch is mounted on a board surface of the circuit board so as to be disposed between the first smoothing coil and the second smoothing coil.

Abstract: Various embodiments disclose a method for operating a printer apparatus. The method comprising monitoring a utilization rate of each heating element in a first set of heating elements defined by a print head arrangement. Further, the method comprises generating a utilization dataset based upon monitoring of the utilization rate of each heating element in the first set of heating elements print head arrangement. Furthermore, the method includes analyzing the utilization dataset to identify one or more overutilized heating elements of the first set of heating elements. Additionally, the method includes identifying a second set of heating elements defined by the print head arrangement. The second set of heating elements comprises a portion of the first set of heating elements exclusive of the one or more overutilized heating elements. The method further includes processing a print job. The processed print job utilized the second set of heating elements during printing.

Abstract: A light emitting thyristor includes a stack structure having first to fourth semiconductor layers, and the third semiconductor layer includes at least a fifth semiconductor layer in contact with the second semiconductor layer and a sixth semiconductor layer in this order from the semiconductor substrate side. The sixth semiconductor layer is a layer having the smallest bandgap in all the layers forming the stack structure, and a difference ?Eg in bandgap between the fifth semiconductor layer and the sixth semiconductor layer is greater than or equal to 0.05 eV and less than or equal to 0.15 eV.

Abstract: A method for thermosetting printed fabrics, comprising: providing a heated roller rotatable about a rotation axis and having a cylindrical outer surface, advancing a printed fabric in contact with the cylindrical outer surface of the heated roller, wherein the heated roller is rotated with a peripheral speed different from the speed of the fabric.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a technique that effects spot gloss or gloss control and/or variations on one image without requiring clear inks. This is preferably accomplished by use of a multilayer printing process in which an image is first printed using a first set of color print heads and then cured, and in which the image is again printed using a second set of color print head, but where the image remains uncured for a predetermined interval to allow the ink drops applied to the media to spread and thus introduce a gloss effect.

Abstract: A drying device includes a drier, a gas circulator, and a concentration adjuster. The drier warms a liquid composition on a drying target object. The gas circulator circulates a gas containing a volatile component of an organic solvent warmed and volatilized by the drier to reuse the gas for drying. The concentration adjuster adjusts a concentration of the volatile component reused.

Abstract: A medium transport device includes a first transport route for discharging a medium processed by a processing unit, a second transport route for discharging the medium processed by the processing unit, and a medium receiving tray that is capable of switching a state between a medium receiving state of receiving the medium that is discharged through the first transport route and a medium unreceivable state achieved by performing state switching from the medium receiving state. The first transport route comes into a non-formed state and at least a part of the medium receiving tray forms the second transport route when the medium receiving tray is in the medium unreceivable state, and the second transport route comes into the non-formed state and the first transport route is formed when the medium receiving tray comes into the medium receiving state.

Abstract: A cutter of a printer including a rectangular housing in which a paper feeding roller and a fixed blade are integrally coupled to each other. The cutter includes a movable member corresponding to a plate-shape member having a slot at the center of a body provided at an upper side of the housing corresponding to the fixed blade such that a movable blade at one side is engaged with the fixed blade while being selectively reciprocally moved. The cutter includes a motor within the housing generating a forward or reverse driving force, a gear unit including a driving gear installed in a driving shaft of the motor, a reduction gear engaged with the driving gear and an idle gear engaged with a shaft gear. The cutter includes an eccentric plate coupled to an upper surface of the driven gear for applying external force for reciprocal motion to the movable member.

Abstract: A medium transport apparatus includes a transport roller configured to transport a medium and a roller support portion configured to support the transport roller. The roller support portion includes a support member contacting an outer circumferential surface of the transport roller at two positions thereof in a circumferential direction to support the transport roller, a base member defining a position of the support member, and an intermediary member mediating the support member and the base member. The intermediary member is configured to cause separation between the support member and the base member without moving the support member and the base member.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes first and second supplying portions, a printer, and a winding unit. The first supplying portion can supply a recording medium on a conveyance route to the printer for first surface printing. The winding unit then rotates in a first direction to wind the printed recording medium. A wound recording medium edge is located at a specific location and then guided to a conveyance route opening portion if the wind direction is a second direction. After the edge is at the specific location, the recording medium is supplied through the opening portion to the printer for second surface printing. If the second supplying portion supplies the recording medium for first surface printing, then it supplies the medium for second surface printing. If a user sets a wound-in-advance recording medium to the second supplying portion, the second supplying portion supplies the set recording medium to the printer.

Abstract: An inkjet printer comprising: a carriage that carries an inkjet head and configured to scan a recording medium; a main circuit board with a controller that controls the carriage; a strap including a first cable that connects to a first circuit board disposed on the carriage and to the main circuit board, a second cable that connects to a second circuit board disposed on the carriage and to the main circuit board, and a clamp configured to bundle the first cable and the second cable; a support member configured to support the strap from vertically below; and an ink tube configured to connect to the inkjet head and to an ink tank located outside of the carriage; the ink tube disposed between the strap and the support member.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head that can eject liquid, a carriage that holds the head and can move in an intersecting direction, a support portion that can support a medium from a side opposite the side on which the head is located, a frame portion that is provided upstream of the carriage in the transport direction, the carriage being attached to the frame portion, a cover portion that covers the carriage, a first adjustment part that is attached to the frame portion, and a second adjustment part that is attached to a positioning portion. A difference between a first adjustment distance and a second adjustment distance is smaller than a difference between a first distance and a second distance.