Abstract: A method for preparing an abradable panel for a rub strip of a fan case of a gas turbine engine includes forming an abradable material into a plurality of panels each comprising an abradable structure; curing the abradable material in the plurality of panels; and installing the plurality of panels into the fan case. The panels can be cured and assembled into a fully assembled rubstrip, and then the assembled rubstrip can be installed into the fan case.

Abstract: A decorator (10) for printing onto cylindrical structures (18) has a plurality of inkers (12). Each inker (12) has a pair of opposing frame plates (40, 48). A printing plate (204) is affixed to a printing plate cylinder (200) carried by a rotational printing plate cylinder shaft (202). The printing plate shaft (202) is disposed between the opposing frame plates (40, 48). A main shaft (38) supports the inker (12) on the decorator (10) such that the pair of opposing frame plates (40, 48) are slidable along a length of the main shaft (38). A lateral adjustment servomotor (220) acts on a corresponding inker (212) to impart a movement by the inker (12) along the length of the main shaft (38).

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a conveyer configured to convey a medium in a conveyance direction; a carriage configured to move in a reciprocating direction intersecting the conveyance direction at a position facing the medium conveyed in the conveyance direction; and a head provided on the carriage and including at least one nozzle configured to eject liquid to the medium, in which the head ejects the liquid in a continuous flow, converts the continuous flow into a plurality of droplets and causes the a plurality of droplets to collide with the medium.

Abstract: According to an example, a method for performing maintenance routines in a plurality of actuators comprises firing a set of actuators at different energies, determining turn on energy values for the set of actuators based on measurements measured via chamber sensors associated with the set of actuators at the different energies, determining turn on energy differences for the set of actuators based on the turn on energy values determined for the set of actuators and threshold turn on energy values associated with the set of actuators, and performing maintenance routines corresponding to the determined turn on energy differences.

Abstract: A printing apparatus is configured to execute first and second printing operations including forming a first layer by ejecting a first liquid to first and second regions, and forming a second layer by ejecting a second liquid on the first layer in the second region. In the first printing operation, the first liquid in a first predetermined amount is ejected to the first region and the first liquid in a second predetermined amount is ejected to the second region. In the second printing operation, the first liquid in a third predetermined amount is ejected to the first region and the first liquid in a fourth predetermined amount is ejected to the second region such that an absolute value of a difference between the fourth predetermined amount and the third predetermined amount is larger than that of a difference between the second predetermined amount and the first predetermined amount.

Abstract: A drive waveform generated by a processor includes, within one drive period, a jetting pulse group for jetting a liquid droplet from a nozzle, and a voltage swing for preventing the liquid droplet from being jetted from the nozzle, three or more voltage swings are disposed after a first jetting pulse which is a last jetting pulse in the jetting pulse group, a start end of a first voltage swing immediately after the first jetting pulse is disposed at a position separated from a start end of the first jetting pulse by about a resonance pulse period, and a start end of a second voltage swing immediately after the first voltage swing is disposed at a position separated from the start end of the first voltage swing by about a resonance pulse width.

Abstract: A nozzle according to an embodiment includes: a metal portion, which defines a penetration hole therein; and a ceramic portion, which surrounds the metal portion, where the metal portion includes a first region and a second region having a narrower diameter than the first region, the ceramic portion surrounds the second region, and an end of the metal portion close to a discharging end of the nozzle is spaced apart from an end of the ceramic portion close to the discharging end.

Abstract: A heating device includes a tube, a container, a heater, and heat medium. The tube through which liquid flows is spirally formed. The container has a cylindrical part whose axial direction is along a spiral direction of the tube and stores the tube. The heater is provided in the cylindrical part. The heat medium is in liquid form and fills the container.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid ejection head, includes a piezoelectric member having grooves extending lengthwise in a first direction. The grooves separate the piezoelectric member into piezoelectric elements spaced from each other in a second direction. A connection portion of the piezoelectric member is under a portion of the grooves in a third direction and connects the piezoelectric elements to each other. Individual electrodes are on a first surface of the piezoelectric member on a first side. A common electrode is on a second surface of the piezoelectric member on a second side. Each groove has a depth on the first side that is deeper than a depth in an end portion on the second side. The depth of each groove in the end portion on the first side reaches through the piezoelectric member to a substrate.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a piezoelectric member formed of a piezoelectric material. The piezoelectric member has grooves extending lengthwise in a first direction. The grooves separate portions of the piezoelectric member into a plurality of piezoelectric elements spaced from each other in a second direction. A connection portion of the piezoelectric member is under at least a portion of the grooves in a third direction. The connection portion connects the piezoelectric elements to each other. Individual electrodes are on first lateral surfaces of the piezoelectric elements on a first side of the piezoelectric member. A common (shared) electrode is on second lateral surfaces of the piezoelectric elements on a second side of the piezoelectric member. Each groove has a depth in an end portion of the groove on the first side that is deeper than a depth in an end portion of the groove on the second side.

Abstract: A liquid discharging head includes: a nozzle plate formed with a nozzle; a pressure chamber plate formed with a pressure chamber; and at least three connecting plates stacked in a stacking direction between the nozzle plate and the pressure chamber plate, the at least three connecting plates being formed with at least three holes which construct a connecting channel connecting the pressure chamber and the nozzle. The connecting channel has an enlarged diameter part in which a diameter of the connecting channel is enlarged from the pressure chamber toward the nozzle, the enlarged diameter part is constructed of the at least three holes formed in the at least three connecting plates, and diameters of the at least three holes are enlarged in an order from the pressure chamber toward the nozzle.

Abstract: An object is to provide a channel-forming substrate capable of suppressing protrusion of a bonding adhesive while maintaining rigidity. The channel-forming substrate includes a first substrate in which a hollow portion to be a liquid channel is formed and a second substrate bonded to the first substrate with a bonding adhesive, in the first substrate, a plurality of first grooves are intermittently formed in a bonding surface bonded to the second substrate, in the second substrate, a plurality of second grooves are intermittently formed in a bonding surface bonded to the first substrate, and in a case where the channel-forming substrate is viewed from above, the first grooves and the second grooves are arranged alternately so as to surround the hollow portion.

Abstract: An actuator includes a substrate, a vibration film, and a piezoelectric element. The substrate has a void space having a first width, defined by opposed inner walls, in a width direction. The vibration film is disposed over the substrate in a lamination direction perpendicular to the width direction. The vibration film serves as a part of a wall of the void space. The piezoelectric element is disposed over the vibration film in the lamination direction. The piezoelectric element is opposed to the void space of the substrate via the vibration film. The piezoelectric element has a second width smaller than the first width in the width direction. The piezoelectric element has outer ends, defining the second width, within the opposed inner walls of the void space in the width direction.

Abstract: An inkjet printhead for printing redundantly in four colors. The printhead includes: an ink manifold having first, second, third and fourth ink reservoirs for supplying first, second, third and fourth inks, respectively; and first and second parallel printhead chips mounted on the ink manifold. The ink manifold has ink feed slots configured for supplying the first and second inks to the first printhead chip and for supplying the third and fourth inks to the second printhead chip.

Abstract: A substrate joint body includes a first substrate that has a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface and has an opening in the second surface, and a second substrate joined to the second surface with an adhesive agent, and the opening is covered with the second substrate, wherein a recessed portion extending from a position exposed to the opening toward a position facing an opening edge of the opening on the second surface is formed in a third surface of the second substrate such that an adhesive agent protruding from a joint portion between the first substrate and the second substrate reaches a third surface of the second substrate that faces the opening.

Abstract: A liquid ejection device includes an ejection section having multiple nozzle surfaces aligned in one direction and configured to eject liquid from nozzles that are opened on each of the multiple nozzle surfaces, and a wiping section that wipes the multiple nozzle surfaces, wherein the wiping section further including an absorbing member that absorbs the liquid clinging to the multiple nozzle surfaces by contacting the multiple nozzle surfaces, multiple pressing members that press the absorbing member against the multiple nozzle surfaces, and multiple elastic members that press each of the multiple pressing members toward the ejection section.

Abstract: An inkjet printer includes one or more printhead maintenance stations. Each station is positioned within the print zone of the inkjet printer and includes at least one printhead cleaning module. The at least one printhead cleaning module is configured to move from a first position that is not between the media transport and the at least one printhead to a second position where the at least one printhead cleaning module is between the at least one printhead and the media transport.

Abstract: To prevent a failure of an ink jet printer due to ink clogging in a hollow needle and the vicinity thereof. A continuous ink jet printer includes: an ink tank that stores ink and a solvent as a printing ink; a printing head that performs printing with the printing ink; an ink hollow needle that accesses the ink in an ink cartridge when an ink reservoir receives the ink cartridge; a first ink tube that causes the ink to flow from the ink hollow needle to the ink tank; and a supply control section that executes suction control to generate a flow from the ink hollow needle toward the first ink tube when the ink is taken out from the ink cartridge received in the ink reservoir, and executes blowing control to generate a flow from the first ink tube toward the ink hollow needle when reverse-flow cleaning is performed.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharger, a liquid storage, a stirrer, a plate, and a magnetic force applicator. The liquid discharger discharges a liquid. The liquid storage stores the liquid. The stirrer is rotatable in a stirring region in the liquid storage to stir the liquid in the liquid storage. The stirrer has a magnetism. The plate is secured to the liquid storage to define the stirring region. The magnetic force applicator applies a magnetic force to the stirrer from an outside of the liquid storage to rotate the stirrer.

Abstract: A cartridge includes a first operation surface that receives a first load for moving the cartridge in an inserting direction, a main surface that constitutes a top surface positioned on a side of an upward direction in a direction of gravity in an inserted posture, a second operation surface that constitutes the top surface in an inserted posture and is positioned on a side of a downward direction in the direction of gravity with respect to the main surface and that receives a second load for moving the cartridge in a rotational-attachment direction, in which an angle formed by the second operation surface and the inserting direction is smaller than an angle formed by the first operation surface and the inserting direction.

Abstract: There is provided with a printing apparatus. An ink tank holds ink to be supplied to a print head. Ink can be replenished in the ink tank by a plurality of types of ink bottle of different ink capacities for the same color of ink. A management unit manages information for an ink consumption amount which is an amount of ink consumed in the ink tank. An updating unit updates the information for the ink consumption amount based on an ink capacity corresponding to an ink bottle used to replenish ink among the plurality of types of ink bottle.

Abstract: An ink jet printing method includes an ejection step of ejecting an ink jet ink composition containing a sublimation dye from a recording head so as to be adhered to an intermediate transfer medium A; and a transfer step of transferring the sublimation dye adhered to the intermediate transfer medium A by sublimation to a cloth B. In the ink jet printing method described above, an affinity parameter Ln (gamma) at 25° C. calculated by a COSMO-RS method between the sublimation dye and a member of a surface of the cloth B to which the sublimation transfer is performed is 5 or less.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes two or more line recording heads and inks each accommodated in a corresponding one of the line recording heads. The line recording heads perform ink ejection onto a recording medium in a specific order at a regular ejection interval T. The ejection interval T is at least 300 milliseconds and no greater than 530 milliseconds. The line recording heads include at least a first line recording head that performs ink ejection onto the recording medium first and a second line recording medium that performs ink ejection onto the recording medium next to the first line recording head. Each of the inks contains a pigment, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water. The water-soluble organic solvent includes a glycol ether compound.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods may provide for technology that calibrates a printer alignment. Such calibration includes determining a tilt value for individual columns. A difference is determined between a first set of alignment values of nozzles of a first column of the trench and a second set of alignment values of nozzles of a second column of the trench. A dot offset value is determined based on the difference between the first and second set of alignment values of nozzles of the first and second columns. A top nozzle alignment value of the second column adjusted based on a difference compared against the first set of alignment values of nozzles of the first column and based on the dot offset value.

Abstract: A heat transfer roller apparatus is disclosed and configured for transferring an at least one design onto a substrate. In at least one embodiment, with the substrate sandwiched between a support frame and a support base of the apparatus, and a heat transfer compatible transfer sheet containing the at least one design positioned on the substrate within a frame boundary defined by the support frame, an at least one heat roller traverses across the transfer sheet—from a first end of the support frame to an opposing second end of the support frame—at a predetermined temperature, pressure and traversal time as set by a controller of the apparatus, so as to cause the at least one design on the transfer sheet to bond to the substrate, with a carrier of the apparatus subsequently separating the transfer sheet from the substrate while the transfer sheet is still hot.

Abstract: A system includes: a reception unit that receives print settings; a production unit that causes a production device to form an image on a three-dimensional medium and produce printed matter based on the print settings; and a test unit that performs a test in which the image is applied to the medium or a test medium corresponding to the medium based on the print settings before forming the image on the medium to make a user determine whether or not the print settings are appropriate.

Abstract: An apparatus for digital printing on closing components for containers, includes a loading container with a hopper containing the closing components from which a conveyor line originates, with the closing components being positioned on the conveyor line by means of a withdrawing device provided with a bowl. A digital printing station situated along the conveyor line includes a digital printing device with ink-jet nozzles provided to reproduce images and/or text on each metal closing component with the help of a position sensor provided to detect the position of the closing components on the conveyor line. The digital printing device is controlled by a command and control unit, to which the position sensor is connected.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a printed matter includes: providing, on a medium, a plurality of uneven portions for water repellent, or providing a plurality of the uneven portions for water repellent and provided at an image layer formed at the medium, in which a distance between protruding portions adjacent at the plurality of uneven portions falls in a range of not less than 10 ?m and not more than 100 ?m, and a height of a protruding portion at the uneven portion falls in a range of not less than 10 ?m and not more than 100 ?m.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a printer prints on labels attached to rolled paper at predetermined intervals. The printer includes a sensor that outputs a detection signal where a diameter of the rolled paper is a predetermined value or less. The printer detects, on the basis of the detection signal output from the sensor, a near-end state during an issuing operation of one label. Further, the printer determines, where the near-end state has been detected continuously for a predetermined number or more of labels, that a remaining amount of the rolled paper has been a predetermined amount.

Abstract: A thermal printer includes: a housing including a roll sheet receiving portion; a cover which is pivotably attached to the housing, and is configured to open and close the roll sheet receiving portion; a platen roller which is rotatably supported on the cover via a bearing portion; and a thermal head which is to be brought into press contact with an outer peripheral surface of the platen roller. The cover includes a cover main body and a base member which is fixed to the cover main body. Directions orthogonal to an axial direction of the platen roller and also orthogonal to each other are defined as a first direction and a second direction, respectively. The cover main body includes a first holding portion which supports the bearing portion from one side in the first direction. The base member includes a second holding portion which supports the bearing portion from the other side in the first direction.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a printer according to the embodiment includes: a holder of a rolled print medium. The holder includes a moving member that is provided to be slidable on a shaft member to be inserted through a support hole of the rolled print medium in an axial direction and includes a guide member that can stand and fall with respect to the shaft member. Further, the holder includes an adjustment member that makes a pressure contact force of a biasing member that presses the shaft member and the moving member together to restrain sliding movement of the moving member with respect to the shaft member larger in a standing state of the guide member than in a fallen state of the guide member.

Abstract: A technique capable of inhibiting a decrease in work efficiency at the time of replacing a roll sheet is to be provided. The present invention includes: a supply unit configured to support, in a rotatable manner, the roll sheet to which a shaft member is attached and supply a sheet unwound from the roll sheet; a base part arranged above the supply unit and configured to be capable of supporting the roll sheet; and a guide part configured to guide the roll sheet to which the shaft member is attached to the supply unit via the shaft member, wherein the shaft member is inserted into the guide part by moving the roll sheet to which the shaft member is attached from the base part.

Abstract: A roll paper printer includes an accommodation section that is configured to accommodate roll paper wound with paper, a platen that pulls out the paper from the roll paper, and transports the paper in a transport direction, a cover that opens and closes the accommodation section, a sensor that is mounted on the accommodation section, is configured to come into contact with an outer circumference of the roll paper at a contacting point, and is configured to detect a remaining amount of the roll paper, and a contact member that is configured to be disposed at a position facing a position of the contacting point with the roll paper interposed therebetween, is configured to come into contact with the outer circumference of the roll paper and rotate, and is configured to move.

Abstract: A roll paper printer includes a case that includes an accommodation section configured to accommodate roll paper, a cover that rotates about a cover hinge located below the case, and opens and closes the accommodation section, in which the cover includes a cover guide configured to guide the roll paper, the cover guide includes a first cover guide, a second cover guide, and a third cover guide disposed toward the cover hinge, the first cover guide and the second cover guide are configured to come into contact with the roll paper having a first diameter, whereas the third cover guide does not come into contact with the roll paper having the first diameter, when the cover is closed, and the third cover guide is inclined downward toward the accommodation section, and is configured to guide the roll paper to the accommodation section, when the cover is opened.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to perform printing on a medium having an elongated shape, a holding unit including an insertion portion to be inserted into a winding core from an outside in an extending direction of the winding core, the winding core being any one of a first winding core of the medium being wound or a second winding core for winding the medium, a support unit being configured to support the holding unit and having a rail shape for causing the holding unit to move in a moving direction, and a regulation unit configured to regulate movement of the holding unit in the moving direction with respect to the support unit. The regulation unit includes an operation unit and a braking unit configured to sandwich the support unit in a direction intersecting with the moving direction by operating the operation unit.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention includes a media processing device comprising: a housing; a media bay within the housing, the media bay configured to receive media; a media centering assembly within the media bay, the media centering assembly comprising: a first support; and a first strut attached to the first support, wherein the first strut is configured to stabilize the first support via contact between a ground strip and the first strut.

Abstract: An example printing device comprises at least one moving module, which includes a profile assembly and a slider assembly. The profile assembly includes two guiding members that are spaced from each other, and the two guiding members respectively have a first guiding groove and a second guiding groove arranged in a preset direction. The slider assembly includes a slider body and an elastic member, where the slider body is in contact with the groove wall of the first guiding groove and is slidably connected in the preset direction; and the elastic member is fixedly connected with the slider body and is in contact with the groove wall of the second guiding groove and is slidably connected in the preset direction. The elastic member can deform to make the slider body press tightly against the corresponding guiding member, so that the printing device can improve its printing quality.

Abstract: A printer includes upper and lower modules that are pivotably attached to each other. A first lock portion includes a first fastener on the lower module and a first holding portion on the upper module with a first fastener holding position and a first fastener release position. A second lock portion includes a second fastener on the upper module and a second holding portion on the lower module with a second fastener holding position and a second fastener release position. A link lever is on the upper module and reciprocates back-and-forth. When moved backwards, the link lever moves the first and second holding portions to the respective release positions.

Abstract: A device and a method for digital print image-connecting continuous printing according to an embodiment of the present invention comprise: an un-winder roll for un-winding printing fabric; a re-winder roll for winding the printing fabric on which printing has been completed; a printing engine provided between the un-winder roll and the re-winder roll, and including a blanket rotating while being in contact with a photo imaging plate and a print roller rotating while being in contact with the blanket; and a fabric direction switching mechanism for switching a transfer direction of the printing fabric passing between the blanket and the print roller into a forward direction or a reverse direction, wherein the printing engine prints a first divided image including a first overlapping area on a first fabric of the printing fabric when the transfer direction is the forward direction, locates only the first overlapping area printed on the first fabric under a second fabric of the printing fabric when the transfer d

Abstract: A method and system for producing a motif (7) on a substrate (1; 4), the method, successively, providing a base layer (2) at least partially covering the substrate (1; 4), applying a plurality of drops in or on the base layer (2) and transferring at least part of a liquid (3) that has the drops or is at least partially determined by them to a transfer surface (S), by adhesion of the liquid (3) to the transfer surface (S) when the transfer surface (S) makes contact with the liquid (3) without sliding on the base layer (2), in order to at least partially reveal the motif (7).

Abstract: A laser marking system for marking a product includes a marking head having an electromagnetic radiation steering mechanism configured to steer electromagnetic radiation to address a specific location within a two-dimensional field of view. The electromagnetic radiation steering mechanism comprises a first optical element having an associated first actuator configured to rotate the first optical element about a first rotational axis to change a first coordinate of a first steering axis in the two-dimensional field of view and a second optical element having an associated second actuator configured to rotate the second optical element about a second rotational axis to change a second coordinate of a second steering axis in the two-dimensional field of view.

Abstract: Provided is a heat-sensitive recording material that can provide clear and high print image quality with less printing omission, and that has high sensitivity and is excellent in recording density in halftone printing.

Abstract: A method for producing a security element for security papers, valuable documents or the like, includes a carrier having on its top side micro-imaging elements and on its underside structures which, together with the microimaging elements, image a motif in front of the top side of the carrier; the position of the motif being is dependent on the viewing angle.

Abstract: A method for continuously or semi-continuously numbering, QR coding and/or barcoding of banknotes comprises the following steps: i) providing a substrate in form of a sheet of (security) paper or of a sheet of (security) polymer foil or a (security) composite comprising at least one security paper layer and at least one security polymer foil, ii) printing onto each of the two surfaces of the substrate sheet each one or more printing ink layers so as to generate a plurality of banknotes on the substrate sheet, wherein each printing ink layer extends over a part or the whole of the surface area of the substrate sheet, and wherein the printing ink of at least one of the printing ink layers comprises at least one pigment and/or at least one dye, which changes its color upon exposition to laser radiation, iii) curing the printing ink layers, iv) exposing the printed and cured (dried) substrate sheet to laser radiation so as to create one or more features selected from the group consisting of individual numbers eac

Abstract: A foldable clipboard includes at least two folding panels in which each of the folding panels cooperate to form a single planar surface when in an extended position, and each of the folding panels are configured to pivotally move to form a folded position, such that the foldable clipboard is folded into a size to fit in a pocket of a garment, or other carrying devise.

Abstract: The anti-stress pen is designed in a way that its body is divided into two equal parts or proportional to the hand in two unequal parts and is capable of stimulating the nerves of the palm. By moving the pocket head clamp downwards, the lower part of the pen body, which has a small tooth, is moved by transfer and rotation. The pen is designed focusing on a population of pen users who are accustomed to playing with the pen body. The nerves in the fleshy part of the palm were considered. When we work with the pen pocket head clamp, the lower part of it massages the palm. Scientifically, the palmar nerves are related to digestive glands which reduce stress; then, by producing the pen, we can improve digestive function and reduce stress via stimulating the nerves. A graphical abstract is also presented in drawings file.

Abstract: Provided is a space pen refill for an extravehicular activity, including a ball, a refill body, a fiber rod and a fiber ink-storage tube; the ball is rotatably connected in one end of the refill body, a segment of the ball is exposed outside the refill body, the fiber ink-storage tube is connected to an inside of the refill body, one end of the fiber rod is inserted into the fiber ink-storage tube, an other end of the fiber rod close to the ball is used to supply ink for the ball, an end face of an other end of the refill body is connected with first and second one-way valves, the first and second one-way valves are unidirectionally communicated with the inside and the outside of the refill body, and gas flow directions in the first and second one-way valves are opposite.

Abstract: A multi-posture bedside writing pen includes a pen shell, a pen tip holder, a fiber rod and a fiber ink storage tube. The fiber ink storage tube is connected with the pen shell and located in the pen shell. The pen tip holder is connected with one end of the pen shell. The pen tip holder is axially provided with a through hole. The fiber rod is inserted into the through hole, one end of the fiber rod is exposed outside the pen tip holder, and an other end of the fiber rod is inserted into the fiber ink storage tube. A first gap is provided between the pen tip holder and the fiber ink storage tube.

Abstract: A blackboard eraser cleaning device is provided and includes an outer shell (1). A cover (2) is arranged at the upper part of the outer shell (1), an inner shell (3) is arranged inside the outer shell (1). A clamping mechanism (19) is arranged at the upper end of the inner shell (3). A leaning station (8) is defined inside the clamping mechanism (19). A cylinder (9) is arranged around the clamping mechanism (19). A height adjustment mechanism (10) is arranged inside the outer shell (1). The height adjustment mechanism (10) includes a servo (101) arranged inside the outer shell (1) and located on a side of the inner shell (3). According to the present application, a variety of cleaning modes may be achieved to meet the actual usage of the blackboard eraser.

Abstract: An envelope processing apparatus for enclosing an enclosure in an envelope includes an envelope conveyance path, an enclosure supplier, an envelope supplier, a flap opener, and an envelope stacker. The envelope conveyance path extends in a substantially vertical direction to convey the envelope. The enclosure supplier supplies the enclosure to the envelope via the envelope conveyance path. The envelope supplier supplies the envelope to the envelope conveyance path, The flap opener opens a flap portion of the envelope between the envelope supplier and the envelope conveyance path. The envelope stacker stacks the envelope ejected from the envelope conveyance path.