Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes pressure chambers arranged in a first direction, supply communicating portions, a supply channel, return communicating portions and a return channel. The supply channel includes a first and a second supply portion. The return channel includes a first and a second return portion. The second return portion extends from the first return portion toward the pressure chambers in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and is located to a side of the supply channel opposite to the pressure chambers in a third direction orthogonal to both the first and the second direction. The second supply portion extends from an end portion of the first supply portion in the third direction toward the pressure chambers in the second direction. The supply communicating portions are located adjacent to the second supply portion in the third direction.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes an ejection orifice for ejecting a liquid; a flow path in which an energy generating element is disposed, generates an energy to be used for ejecting the liquid; a liquid inside the flow path; an ejection orifice part that allows the ejection orifice and the flow path to communicate with each other; a supply flow path for supplying the liquid from the outside; and a recovery flow path for recovering the liquid to the outside. The moisture content of the liquid is 65 wt % or less. The liquid inside the flow path is circulated between the inside and the outside of the flow path.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a first-valve-mechanism, a second-valve-mechanism, a nozzle plate, and a holder housing the first-valve-mechanisms and the second-valve-mechanisms. When a direction perpendicular to the nozzle plate is a first-direction, the nozzle plate extends in a second-direction and a third-direction. The first-valve-mechanism and the second-valve-mechanism arranged in the third-direction, with a space therebetween. The first-valve-mechanism includes a first-valve-element and a first-downstream-cover-member defining a first-downstream-chamber downstream of the first-valve-element. The second-valve-mechanism includes a second-valve-element and a second-downstream-cover-member defining a second-downstream-chamber downstream of the second-valve-element. The first-downstream-cover-member faces the second-downstream-cover-member. An interval between the nozzle plate and the first-valve-element is equal to an interval between the nozzle plate and the second-valve-element in the first-direction.

Abstract: A printhead assembly may include a first set of distinct parallel printhead dies in a second set of distinct parallel printhead dies. The first set of distinct parallel printhead dies may have respective major dimensions extending in a longitudinal direction and respective ends that are aligned in a transverse direction. The second set of distinct parallel printhead dies may have respective major dimensions extending in the longitudinal direction and respective ends aligned in the transverse direction. The second set of distinct parallel printhead dies may partially overlap the first set of distinct parallel printhead dies in the transverse direction.

Abstract: Provided are an inkjet printing apparatus and a recovery method capable of suppressing ink thickening in the ejection openings in the suction process for the ejection openings. A vacuum wiper is moved being in contact with the ejection opening surface of the print head to perform a vacuum wiping process for the arrayed ejection openings sequentially. Ink is circulated in flow paths including the flow paths communicating with the ejection openings for which the vacuum wiping process has been finished.

Abstract: An example service station system may include a guide bar to provide tension on web material. An example print apparatus may include a sensor mounted to a carriage and a controller to use data from the sensor to identify that the web material is incorrectly routed with reference to the guide bar.

Abstract: An ink replenish container comprises a container main body that is able to store the ink; an ink outlet formation member, attached to a front end side of the container main body, to form an ink outlet; and a cap attachable to a front end side of the ink outlet formation member. The ink outlet includes an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface located inward of the outer circumferential surface, the inner circumferential surface surrounding an opening through which the ink passes. The cap includes a first protrusion that is configured to contact with the outer circumferential surface of the ink outlet to form a first exit seal portion, and a second protrusion that is configured to contact with the inner circumferential surface of the ink outlet to form a second exit seal portion.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection unit; a liquid storage container including a replenishment port through which to replenish the liquid storage container with a liquid and an opening-closing member which closes and opens the replenishment port; and a notification unit configured to notify a user of information to be recognized by the user; and a control unit configured to control the notification unit. In a case where the time elapsed since the previous liquid ejection by the liquid ejection unit is a predetermined time or longer, the control unit causes the notification unit to notify the user of information on replenishment of the liquid storage container with a liquid.

Abstract: A printer includes a platen that supports a print medium, an ejection head that ejects a liquid as a droplet toward the supported print medium, a carriage that mounts the ejection head, a guide shaft that movably supports the carriage, a first frame, and a second frame disposed opposite to the first frame. One end portion of the guide shaft is fixed to the first frame and another end portion of the guide shaft is fixed to the second frame. One end portion of the platen in a direction along the guide shaft is fixed to the first frame and another end portion of the platen in the direction along the guide shaft is fixed to the second frame.

Abstract: A liquid supplying device includes a tank and a cartridge. The cartridge is configured to be detachably attached to the tank in an attachment-detachment direction crossing a vertical direction. The cartridge includes a first storage chamber. The tank includes a second storage chamber, a liquid passage, and a gas passage. The liquid passage has a first end, a second end, and a first extending portion. The second end is formed with a second opening open to an atmosphere. The first extending portion extends from the second opening in the attachment-detachment direction. The gas passage has a third end, a fourth end, and a second extending portion. The fourth end is formed with a fourth opening open to the atmosphere. The second extending portion extends from the fourth opening in the attachment-detachment direction. The second opening is at a position different from the fourth opening in the attachment-detachment direction.

Abstract: An example system includes an imaging device and a consumable storage unit. The imaging device includes at least one consumable used in operation of the imaging device and a controller. The consumable storage unit includes at least one cavity to store a replacement consumable therein. The replacement consumable is inaccessible for use in operation of the imaging device. The controller is communicatively coupled to the consumable storage unit to receive a signal indicative of presence or absence of replacement consumable in the consumable storage unit.

Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes: individual channels each including a nozzle; an inflow channel communicated with the individual channels; an outflow channel communicated with the individual channels; an inflow-side filter provided on the inflow channel and dividing the inflow channel into a lower inflow area and an upper inflow area; an outflow-side filter provided on the outflow channel and dividing the outflow channel into a lower outflow area and an upper outflow area; an inflow port which is provided on the upper inflow area and through which the liquid is supplied to the inflow channel from outside thereof; an outflow port which is provided on the upper outflow area and through which the liquid is discharged from the outflow channel to outside thereof; and a bypass channel connecting the upper inflow area and the upper outflow area.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes: a channel member having a nozzle surface and a back surface disposed separately from the nozzle surface, the channel member formed having nozzles arranged in the nozzle surface, individual channels connected to the nozzles, first and second common channels connected to the individual channels, a first opening that is opened in the back surface and communicates with an end of the first common channel, and a second opening that is opened in the back surface and communicates with an end of the second common channel, and a filter member disposed on the back surface and having a filter that covers the first opening. The second opening is not covered with the filter, and an area of the first opening is larger than an area of the second opening.

Abstract: An inlet seal, an outlet seal, and a piston are connected to a shaft. The inlet seal seals an ink inlet of an ink reservoir. The outlet seal seals an ink outlet of the ink reservoir. Also, the piston is within a cylinder. The inlet seal, the outlet seal, and the piston all move with the shaft. A biasing member contacts the piston to bias the piston in a first direction. Pressurized air simultaneously provided to the cylinder and to the ink reservoir biases the piston in a second direction, opposite the first direction, and pressurizes ink within the ink reservoir. Moving the shaft in the first direction does not seal the ink inlet but does seal the ink outlet. Moving the shaft in the second direction seals the ink inlet but does not seal the ink outlet, thus allowing the pressurized ink out from the ink reservoir.

Abstract: A circulation head includes an upstream port and a downstream port that are in communication with a pressure chamber, and includes three ink tanks (first to third tanks). Each of the ink tanks (the first to third tanks) includes an ink inlet/outlet port that is in communication with the upstream port and the downstream port, and an opening/closing valve that independently opens and closes the ink inlet/outlet port of each of the ink tanks (the first to third tanks) with respect to the upstream port and the downstream port.

Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet is provided, which can be produced with enhanced working efficiency and is identifiable, and a thermal transfer printing device which uses the thermal transfer sheet is also provided. The thermal transfer sheet includes a substrate, and a yellow dye layer, a magenta dye layer and a cyan dye layer disposed on the substrate. An interval between the yellow dye layer and the magenta dye layer is different from an interval between the magenta dye layer and the cyan dye layer. Alternatively, the yellow dye layer and the magenta dye layer overlap partially, and the magenta dye layer and the cyan dye layer overlap partially. The transfer printing device identifies the type of the thermal transfer sheet based on the interval between the dye layers or the widths of the overlaps.

Abstract: A handheld recording device includes a first face, a second face, a third face pair, a recorder, and a connector. The first face has an opening. The second face is disposed opposite the first face. The third face pair is different from the first face and the second face. One of the third face pair is disposed on one side in a given direction of the second face and configured to be held by a user for recording. The recorder is configured to discharge ink from the opening. The connector is configured to be connected to a cable to receive at least one of power and image data. The connector is disposed at a position closer to the second face than the first face, on another one of the third face pair disposed on another side in the given direction of the second face.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to perform printing onto a medium, a supporting unit configured to support the medium to be printed by the printing unit, a pressing unit configured to be attachable and detachable with respect to the supporting unit and to be attached to the supporting unit to press the medium supported by the supporting unit, and a retainer configured to retain the pressing unit that is removed from the supporting unit. The retainer has a first portion on which the pressing unit is placed, and a second portion positioned closer to a leading end of the retainer than the first portion and above the first portion in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A process for preparing printed matter is disclosed which comprises applying first a UV-curable ink containing photoinitiators followed by an overprint varnish and then UV curing such as the amount of photoinitiators is less than 6% by weight of the total weight of the ink. The present invention relates to a printing process by applying first a UV-curable ink followed by an overprint varnish (OPV) and curing.

Abstract: A blower includes a blowout port configured to blow air outside the blower, a channel member connected to the blowout port, the channel member configured to guide the air to the blowout port, a first heat insulation member configured to cover an inner wall of the channel member, and a second heat insulation member configured to cover an outer wall of the channel member.

Abstract: This light irradiation device is provided with: an LED substrate, on which a plurality of LED chips that emit ultraviolet light are arrayed in a first direction; and a cover capable of transmitting the ultraviolet light emitted from the LED chips. When a plane, on which an intersection point that the light emitted from the LED chips positioned at both ends in the first direction reach is positioned, said plane being parallel to an LED substrate surface, is specified as a reference plane Z1, the distance between the LED substrate surface and the reference plane Z1 is represented by D (mm), and the distance between the LED substrate surface and a cover outer surface is represented by W (mm), W satisfies formula W<D.

Abstract: A drying device includes a first-heating rotator configured to contact a sheet twice from different directions, and at least three second-heating rotators each configured to contact the sheet once. The at least three second-heating rotators are in a conveyance path configured to guide the sheet to contact the first-heating rotator again after the sheet contacts and passes the first-heating rotator.

Abstract: A print engine includes: a media support chassis having a plurality of guide rollers mounted between opposite sidewalls thereof, the plurality of guide rollers defining a curved media feed path; a plurality of spittoons, each spittoon being positioned between a neighboring pair of guide rollers and each spittoon having an upper guide portion; and a plurality of printheads, each printhead opposing a respective spittoon. The upper guide portion of each spittoon has an upstream leading edge sloped towards the media feed path and a downstream trailing edge sloped away from the media feed path.

Abstract: Provided is a photo printer including: a base for accommodating paper therein; a pick-up roller protruding from a bottom surface of the base to feed the paper accommodated in the base in a forward direction; a platen roller for discharging in the forward direction the paper; a head provided above the platen roller to apply heat to the paper; a swing bracket having a front side to which the head is coupled and a rear side rotatably coupled to the base; pressurizing means for pressurizing the swing bracket down to allow the swing bracket to come into close contact with the paper; and head supporting members provided on side walls of the base to support the front side of the swing bracket under the swing bracket and each having an eccentric portion adapted to lift the head up through rotation.

Abstract: Provided is a photo printer including: a paper supply unit for accommodating stacked sheets of paper and having a pickup roller protruding from a bottom surface thereof; a platen roller provided at a front end of the paper supply unit; a head provided above the platen roller so as to form an image on the paper fed; a motor for providing a driving force to the platen roller; deceleration gears for decreasing revolutions per minute of the motor; a gear plate provided at one side of the paper supply unit and having the deceleration gears shaft-coupled thereto; and a motor plate having an aligning hole adapted to pass the shaft of the deceleration gear therethrough and a motor hole adapted to pass a rotary shaft of the motor therethrough.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a printing system. In one example, the printing system comprises a print substrate supply mechanism and a conveyor belt. The print substrate supply mechanism is to supply print substrate to the conveyor belt and the conveyor belt is to advance the supplied print substrate. During a substrate loading operation of the printing system, the print substrate supply mechanism prevents motion of the substrate such that when the conveyor belt is activated the supplied substrate slides over the conveyor belt.

Abstract: A paper processing device includes a casing and a paper pressing mechanism. The casing includes a paper placement platform. The paper placement platform is extended externally from the casing so as to support the plural papers. The paper pressing mechanism includes a pressing bar, a driving mechanism and a linking mechanism. The pressing bar includes a pressing structure. The linking mechanism is connected between the driving mechanism and the pressing bar. While the linking mechanism is driven by the driving mechanism, the pressing bar is moved with the linking mechanism and rotated relative to the paper placement platform, so that the pressing structure is moved from an initial position to a target position. When the pressing structure is moved to the target position and contacted with the plural papers, a guiding channel is defined between the pressing structure and the paper placement platform.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reception unit that receives an instruction to place and print an image in an area of a specific shape having an aspect ratio different from an aspect ratio of a recording sheet; a print control unit performs control such that a support image is on the recording sheet, the support image supporting specification of a cut position to cut out the area of the specific shape, in which the image of which printing instruction is received by the reception unit is printed, from the recording sheet; and an output unit outputs an explanatory image that explains the cut position with respect to the support image, in a case where the reception unit receives the printing instruction.

Abstract: Printhead carriers and adapters are disclosed. An example disclosed print mechanism includes an adapter to simultaneously couple a printhead assembly to both a logic circuit of a media processing device and a power source of the media processing device; a printhead carrier coupled to the adapter; and wherein a first connection, between data input connector and the logic circuit, and a second connection, between the power input connector and the power source, are maintained when the printhead assembly is removed from the print mechanism.

Abstract: A tape printing device that is vertically long and can be operated by being handheld includes a handling portion including an operating portion on a front surface and is a part to be handheld, and a main mechanism portion connected to a tip end side of the handling portion, in which the printing mechanism portion is built, in which the handling portion is formed in a constricted shape of which an intermediate portion of a longitudinal direction is constricted.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on a recording material; a fixing device configured to fix the toner image on the recording material on which the toner image is formed by the image forming unit; a first cooling unit capable of cooling the recording material passing through the fixing device; a second cooling unit capable of cooling the recording material passing through the first cooling unit; and a control unit configured to carry out control so that during execution of an image forming job, the image forming job is stopped when both the first cooling unit and the second cooling unit are out of order and is continued when only one of the first cooling unit and the second cooling unit is out of order.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tape printing device including a cartridge installation part in which a first cartridge and a second cartridge different in shape when seen from an installation direction are alternatively installable, wherein the cartridge installation part has, when seen from the installation direction, an overlap region in which a first installation region that is an installation region for the first cartridge and a second installation region that is an installation region for the second cartridge overlap each other, and a non-overlap region composed of one of the first installation region and the second installation region.

Abstract: The present invention embraces printers such as hand-held printers and mobile/portable printer. One exemplary embodiment includes “print as you glide” (PAYG) devices. Such printers may comprise a modular print engine that is removable from the printer and may allow a user to easily access and load the ribbon in the mobile print engine. The modular print engine may comprise a modular print head and an encoder that may determine the movement of the print head relative to a stationary media. When a printer is pressed against the media, the print head's burn line may be resting on the media. When the printer is stationary relative to the media, the encoder may not trigger the printing. Once PAYG is being slid or glided across the media, the encoder may start to rotate and then send a signal to a processor, causing the printer to start printing.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method and a system for multi-object universal intelligent printing, the method includes: collecting a real-time image of an object to be printed, and displaying the real-time image of the object to be printed to the user in real time; moving a print head to a designated position according to a mobile nozzle command input after the user browses the real-time image; obtaining a print pattern input by the user; printing the print pattern onto the object to be printed through the print head.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image forming method forms a color stereoscopic image on a recording medium having a thermal expansion property. The stereoscopic image forming method includes the steps of: fixing a color image on the thermally expandable recording medium using a color material; and irradiating the fixed color image with light of a light source having a maximum emission wavelength in a wavelength range of 280 to 780 nm. This light is absorbed by a compound contained in the color material to generate heat of the compound.

Abstract: A paper for inkjet printing may have one side that is provided with an inkjet receiver coating. The inkjet receiver coating may comprise at least pigment and binder. A portion of free or unbound pigment may be less than 10 weight percent of the total amount of pigment in the inkjet receiver coating and/or the inkjet receiver coating may have a surface that is substantially free of pigment.

Abstract: A transfer paper used for a transfer printing method using sublimation textile ink, comprising a base paper and one or more coating layer(s) provided on at least one side of the base paper, wherein an outermost coating layer positioned on the outermost side with respect to the base paper contains at least a pigment, a binder, a polyacrylic acid salt and an acetylene glycol derivative, has image deterioration resistance, good color development property and excellent adhesion property.

Abstract: Lithographic printing plate precursors are prepared with a unique aluminum-containing substrate and one or more radiation-sensitive imageable layers. The aluminum-containing substrate is prepared by three separate and sequential anodizing processes to provide an inner aluminum oxide layer having an average dry thickness (Ti) of 500-1,500 nm and a multiplicity of inner pores having an average inner pore diameter (Di) larger than 0 and <15 nm. A formed middle aluminum oxide layer has a dry thickness (Tm) of 60-300 nm and a multiplicity of middle pores of average middle pore diameter (Dm) of 15-60 nm, arranged over the inner aluminum oxide layer. A formed outer aluminum oxide layer comprises a multiplicity of outer pores having an average outer pore diameter (Do) of 5-35 nm and an average dry thickness (To) of 30-150 nm, arranged over the middle aluminum oxide layer. Dm is larger than Do that is larger than Di.

Abstract: A gift card carrier for holding a gift card includes a first part having a first portion and a second portion that is formed of a transparent plastic material and includes a pair of gift card slits for releasably retaining the gift card. The gift card carrier also has a second part that has an open interior space. The second portion of the first part is sized to carry the gift card and be received within the open interior space of the second part. The first part moves between a fully retracted position in which the second portion is received within the open interior space and an extended position in which the second portion is exposed for removal of the gift card.

Abstract: A security element and a value document having such a security element in the form of a strip having a first and second polymer layer are shown, having a visually recognizable halftone printed image, which is luminescent under UV radiation, between the first and second layer, wherein the halftone printed image has an opacity and forms at least one imprint area having a boundary contour within the security element. To increase the forgery protection, it is proposed that at least one of the two polymer layers have an opacity at least in the region of the boundary contour of the imprint area and be adapted in its opacity to the opacity of the imprint area, in order to diminish the visual recognizability of the boundary contour of the imprint area of the luminescent halftone printed image on the security element.

Abstract: A writing instrument including a main body provided with a writing tip. The writing tip being supplied with ink by a free ink-type reservoir equipped with a pressure regulating device for regulating the pressure within the reservoir. The pressure regulating device includes at least one microfluidic valve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a flat bed embossing machine (1) comprising a tool plate (20) with a tool side (36) for receiving at least one embossing tool and with a tool plate rear side (35) which lies opposite the tool side (36), further a base plate (10) with a tool plate side (12) which faces the tool plate rear side (35) and with a base plate rear side (11) which is lies opposite the tool plate side (12), for transmitting an embossing force which is exerted upon the tool plate (20), between the tool plate side (12) and the base plate rear side (11), as well as an induction heating appliance (3) for heating the at least one embossing tool (23).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a decorative panel.

Abstract: A stand for holding a cylindrical receptacle at an angle including a first support, a second support positioned at an angle X in relation to first support and associated with first support at a vertex and a base, the base uniting the first support and the second support.

Abstract: The paint can caddy is a holder and carrier for paint cans, as well as associated painting items, such as paint brushes and cleaning rags. The paint can caddy includes a receptacle having a cylindrical sidewall, an open upper end and a closed lower end. A brush holder is mounted on the cylindrical sidewall, adjacent the open upper end of the receptacle. The brush holder extends radially outwardly from the cylindrical sidewall and is angled with respect to the plane of the open upper end of the receptacle. At least one magnet is secured to the brush holder, allowing a paint brush with a magnetic or paramagnetic material embedded in its handle to be releasably secured to the brush holder. A handle is secured to an exterior surface of the cylindrical sidewall, allowing the receptacle to be easily carried and moved.

Abstract: A wheel rim guard includes a body having an outer surface and an inner surface each radiating from a central point and the outer surface and the inner surface each co-terminating and defining a circumferential peripheral edge. The guard also includes a returnably-resilient seal disposed along the circumferential peripheral edge, the seal engaging a wheel rim berm. The guard also includes a handle depending from the outer surface of the body.

Abstract: A wheel bearing arrangement for a motor vehicle with a wheel hub and a wheel bearing for the rotatable bearing of the wheel hub at a wheel mount. The wheel bearing has an outer ring and an inner ring, which is rotatable with respect to the outer ring around an axis of rotation and is connected to the wheel hub. A wheel flange extends from the wheel hub and, as viewed in the axial direction, has a brake disk mount, which is open in the direction facing away from the outer ring and which, as viewed in longitudinal section with respect to the axis of rotation, is formed by a recess of the wheel flange, and has a support surface for a brake disk.

Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes a support structure for supporting a load from a vehicle. The support structure includes an inner annular portion, an outer annular portion concentrically provided on an outer side of the inner annular portion, and a plurality of connecting portions which connect the inner annular portion and the outer annular portion to each other and are provided in a tire circumferential direction independently of one another, the plurality of connecting portions are configured such that elongated plate-like first connecting portions and elongated plate-like second connecting portions are arrayed along the tire circumferential direction, an angle ? and an angle ?, the angles being formed by an inner circumferential surface of the outer annular portion and both side surfaces of each of the connecting portions, both surfaces facing the tire circumferential direction, are 75° or more and 120° or less.

Abstract: The pneumatic tire of the present technology includes: a tread portion; sidewall portions; and bead portions. A pattern of grooves is formed on the tread portion, and a strip-shaped sound-absorbing member is bonded along the tire circumferential direction to a region of the tire inner surface corresponding to the tread portion via an adhesive layer. A first ground contact region is defined between the tire ground contact edge on one side in the tire width direction and the tire equatorial plane, and a second ground contact region is defined between the tire ground contact edge on the other side in the tire width direction and the tire equatorial plane. The sound-absorbing member is offset with respect to the tire width direction so that the centroid of a cross-section of the sound-absorbing member in a plane that includes a tire axis is located within the first ground contact region.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a band-shaped sound absorbing member bonded along a tire circumferential direction to the tire inner surface in a tread portion; at least one full cover layer covering the entire width of belt layers on the outer circumferential side of the belt layers; and a center cover layer disposed on the outer circumferential side of the full cover layer, the center cover layer locally covering the tire lateral direction center region of the belt layers; a width SW of the band-shaped sound absorbing member and a width BW of the belt layers satisfying a relationship SW/BW=0.3 to 0.8, and a width CW of the center cover layer and the width SW of the band-shaped sound absorbing member satisfying the relationship CW/SW=0.05 to 0.35.