Abstract: A system and method for adjusting a transport path length of a continuous web of recording media in a printing system printing duplex images. The method includes detecting alignment marks, for instance top of form (TOF) marks, on the continuous web of print media and adjusting the path length to provide substantially accurate registration of first and second images on opposite sides of the web for duplex imaging. The system to adjust path length includes idler rollers movable with respect to turnbar rollers.

Abstract: A nail print apparatus, including: a print head which performs printing on a nail region on the basis of image data including a first design and a second design that is a background of the first design; and an image data processing unit which has a second image data processing unit that processes the image data so that the second design covers an entire nail region.

Abstract: Methods of leveling ink on substrates and apparatuses useful in printing are provided. An exemplary embodiment of the methods includes irradiating ink disposed on a surface of a porous substrate with radiation emitted by at least one radiant energy source. The radiation heats the ink to at least a viscosity threshold temperature of the ink to allow the ink to flow laterally on the surface to produce leveling of the ink. The ink is heated sufficiently rapidly that heat transfer from the ink to the substrate is sufficiently small during the leveling that ink at the substrate interface is cooled to a temperature below the viscosity threshold temperature thereby preventing any significant ink permeation into the substrate.

Abstract: A recording device includes a conveying part, a recording part, a suction part and a control part. The conveying part is configured and arranged to convey a medium. The recording part is configured and arranged to record on the medium. The suction part is configured and arranged to suction the medium on a flat surface. The control part is configured to perform a suction action by a suction part to eliminate wrinkles that form in the medium after a conveying action by the conveying part and before a recording action by the recording part, and to vary a period of the suction action by the suction part.

Abstract: When tacking print media to a print media transport belt in a printer, a tack module having a pair of nips is employed to control charge migration in across the print media in order to tolerate lead edge curl while ensuring uniform printing. An upstream nip is formed by a first bias transfer roll and a first backup roll, and a downstream nip is formed by a second bias transfer roll and a second backup roll. The respective backup rolls are offset slightly upstream of the respective bias transfer rolls. Charge of opposite polarities is applied to the first backup roll and the second bias transfer roll to facilitate taking of the print media to the print media transport belt.

Abstract: Disclosed are a multicolor overprint control method and device applicable to an intermittent printing apparatus. According to the operating characteristic of the intermittent printing apparatus, the method solves the problems of overlap and inaccurate overprint of various colors during intermittent printing by controlling the relationship between the distance between adjacent color group modules of different colors and the motion distance between uniform segments of the intermittent printing apparatus. In addition, the method also sets different inkjet printing modes in accordance with whether the detected inkjet printing of the same color group module is in a first period, thereby solving the problems of printing media waste and discontinuous printing data. The method achieves multicolor digital inkjet printing by combining the unique motion mode of the printing media thereof, and makes printing contents flexible and changeable on the basis of guaranteeing printing efficiency.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a transport roller that transports a medium in a transport direction; a head that moves in a direction orthogonal to the transport direction, and ejects liquid to the medium; a cutter that moves in the transport direction and the orthogonal direction and cuts a part of the medium positioned in a predetermined range from a first position to a second position in the transport direction; and a controller that performs a first process of forming an image on the medium by controlling the transport roller to transport the medium in the transport direction and controlling the head moving in the orthogonal direction to eject the liquid, and performs a second process of forming a cutting line on the medium by controlling the cutter to cut the part of the medium over the predetermined range during the first process.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a head, a receiving device, a holding portion, and a path. The head includes ejection ports that eject a recording liquid onto a recording medium. The receiving device is disposed below the head along a substantially vertical direction and receives recording liquid ejected from the ejection ports. The holding portion is disposed above the receiving device along the substantially vertical direction and holds a recording medium on which the head ejected recording liquid from the ejection ports. The holding portion includes a wall surface. The wall surface includes an opening formed therein. The path guides liquid on the wall surface of the holding portion from the opening in the wall surface of the holding portion to the receiving device. The substantially vertical direction is substantially opposite to a direction of gravity.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet using a first colorant to be heat-fixed on the sheet; a second image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheet using a second colorant that is erasable by heating; and a fixing device arranged further on a downstream side in a sheet conveying direction than the first image forming unit and further on an upstream side in the sheet conveying direction than the second image forming unit and capable of executing fixing processing for heat-fixing the image, which is formed on the sheet by the first image forming unit, on the sheet and executing erasing processing for heating the sheet, on which the image is formed with the second colorant, to erasing temperature to thereby erase the second colorant on the sheet.

Abstract: An ink leveling device for controlling a temperature difference across a substrate having ink disposed on the upper surface, the device including a cooling device cooling a bottom of a substrate to a first temperature that is lower than a viscosity threshold temperature of the ink, a heating device heating the upper surface of the ink layer to a second temperature that is greater than the viscosity threshold temperature of the ink and a device applying shear force across the upper surface of the ink layer.

Abstract: A duplex printer system includes a double-sided label web and a duplex printer operable to print both sides of the label web. The label includes exposed adhesive on a first side thereof. The duplex printer includes a printer frame and first and second print heads arranged to print respective sides of the label web. The first print head is shiftably mounted relative to the printer frame for movement into and out of a printing position, in which the first print head is operable to print within a printable region of the first side. The first print head is selectively shifted out of the printing position so as to avoid contact with exposed adhesive during label web advancement. The first print head includes a printer interface positioned in printing engagement with the label web when the first print head is shifted to the printing position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit forming an image on a recording medium; and a feeding unit feeding the recording medium in first and second directions opposite to each other relative to the image forming unit. Further when the recording medium is supplied from a first or second side of the feeding unit, while the feeding unit feeds the recording medium in the first or second feeding direction, the image forming unit forms an image on the recording medium, and the feeding unit further feeds the recording medium to the second or first side, respectively, of the feeding unit.

Abstract: Problems related to being unable to convey recording paper in a printer due to the tension guide that guides the recording paper while tensioning the paper are eliminated. A removable guide 40 can be removably installed to the tension guide 26 of the printer 1. The removable guide 40 has a second guide surface that is defined by a pair of rollers 45, 46. When printing on recording paper 25A that has a high friction coefficient for making wrist bands, the removable guide 40 is installed to the tension guide 26, the recording paper 25A is passed over the rollers 45, 46, and the recording paper 25A is guided to the paper feed roller 30 while tension is maintained. The recording paper 25A can be reliably conveyed because the paper feed load of the removable guide 40 pressed to the recording paper 25A by the tension guide 26 is small.

Abstract: A coating composition for an image transfer member in an aqueous ink imaging system is disclosed that comprises a hydrophilic composition and a surfactant. The hydrophilic composition can be a starch-based composition.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for handling a time based error condition in an imaging apparatus. The method includes transporting a first media sheet from the media input tray towards the transfer nip of the imaging apparatus; and determining, when the first media sheet reaches a predetermined point in the media path, whether the print engine of the imaging apparatus is ready to transfer a first image of the plurality of images to the media sheet at the transfer nip. Upon a determination that the print engine is not ready, the first media sheet is transported through the transfer nip without transferring the first image thereto, until the first media sheet is placed in the output area, and a second media sheet is transported to the transfer nip, a first image is transferred to the second media sheet and the second media sheet is transported to the output area.

Abstract: A recording medium after printing which is discharged from a main body of a printer is guided from the main body to a support surface of a discharge support portion extending to a lower anterior side, and is wound as a roll body by a winding unit in a path that passes a tension roller. A tape-shaped elastic member is fixed on an end portion of a downstream side in a transport direction of the discharge support portion so as to extend in a width direction. An elastic friction surface is formed on the end portion of the downstream side in the transport direction of the support surface. A friction coefficient between the elastic friction surface and the recording medium is higher than the friction coefficient between a portion at an upstream side in the transport direction from the elastic friction surface in the support surface and the recording medium.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing section that forms a plurality of unit images on a print medium and forms marks that are references for specifying positions of the unit images on the print medium, in which the marks include a different-color image capable of being visually recognized of which a color is different from a background color of the marks.

Abstract: A printing control apparatus configured to execute printing using continuous sheets stored in a plurality of storage portions includes a determination unit configured to determine a continuous sheet usable by each print job in a print queue, and a decision unit configured to decide a use order of the continuous sheets stored in the plurality of storage portions based on a result of determination by the determination unit, wherein the decision unit decides the use order so that a continuous sheet with a smaller remaining amount is used preferentially.

Abstract: A method for printing images on a substrate with an ink jet printer includes providing a liquid ink composition. The liquid ink composition includes an organic solvent, a binder, and a colorant. Droplets of the ink jet ink composition are directed to a plastic film substrate. The droplets are allowed to dry, thereby printing a durable graphic image on the substrate.

Abstract: A drying unit that dries a printed paper sheet is disposed at a position downstream to a liquid ejecting head in a transportation direction. The drying unit includes a heater having a heating surface that also serves as a transportation surface of the paper sheet, an upstream roller that is disposed at a position opposite the heating surface, and a downstream roller that is disposed at a position downstream to the upstream roller in the transportation direction and opposite the heating surface. A distance between the upstream roller and the heating surface is longer than a distance between the downstream roller and the heating surface.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit that ejects ink onto paper, a first removal roller that rotates in a direction opposite to a transportation direction of the paper at a first contact position in a state of being contact with a first surface of the paper that is transported at the first contact position so as to remove adhering objects which have adhered to the paper, and a second removal roller that rotates in a direction opposite to the transportation direction of the paper at a second contact position in a state of being contact with a second surface of the paper that is transported at the second contact position so as to remove adhering objects which have adhered to the paper.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a system and method for printing a cancellation mark on a ticket using inks having thermo-reactive properties. One embodiment of the present method for printing a cancellation mark onto a ticket involves the following. A ticket, which has a security mark printed thereon, is received into a slot of a housing of a device which contains therein an inkjet printhead. The received ticket portion comes into proximity with an inkjet printhead configured to print a cancellation mark on the ticket using the thermo-reactive ink. The cancellation mark is printed to at least partially overlap the security mark. In one embodiment, a user activates a switch which causes the inkjet printhead to print the cancellation mark on the ticket upon the ticket having been inserted into the slot. Various embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a moveable platen cart for handling sheets of substrate media in a printing system. The platen cart includes a cart frame, a media platen, a vacuum port and a valve. The cart frame is configured to translate along a process track. The media platen is secured to the cart frame. The media platen has a foraminous upper surface for receiving a substrate media sheet thereon. The media platen has a subsurface cavity in fluid communication with the foraminous upper surface. The vacuum port is for evacuating air from the cavity. The valve is for selectively closing and opening the vacuum port.

Abstract: A method of increasing the optical density of a printed image includes treating a first layer of deposited ink with a corona discharge. An apparatus for increasing the optical density of a printed image includes a print head for depositing a first layer of ink; and at least one electrode in proximity to the print head for treating the first layer of ink with a corona discharge.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a print medium, a conveyance unit, art image forming unit, a cutter unit, a holding unit, a sensor, and a controller. The print medium has an adhesive face with no separation sheet. The cutter unit cuts the medium having an image formed into a print medium piece. The holding unit is configured to hold the piece in a state in which the piece is drawable from outside of the body. The holding unit has a surface separatable from an adhesive face of the piece to hold the adhesive face of the piece. The sensor detects presence or absence of the piece held by the holding unit. After the sensor detects that the piece is drawn out, the controller controls the conveyance unit to convey the medium to the holding unit and controls the holding unit to hold the medium.

Abstract: An inkjet recording device includes a tray receives a recording medium. A tray guide is movable between a first position and a second position. A first sensor outputs a first signal indicative of the position of the tray guide. A recording portion records an image on the recording medium. A cleaning mechanism cleans the recording portion. A first conveyor portion conveys the tray. A first drive source rotates in a forward direction of rotation and a reverse direction of rotation. A power transmitting portion transmits a force generated by the first drive source to both the cleaning mechanism and the first conveyor portion. A control section drives the first drive source in the forward direction of rotation using a first predetermined amount if the control section determined that the first sensor has detected that the tray guide is not in the second position under the cleaning operation.

Abstract: A printer for inkjet printing on a flexible substrate. It has a print-head for printing on the flexible substrate in a printing area, and a transport and tensioning mechanism for transporting the flexible substrate in a feed direction relative to the printing area and applying tension to it. The tension applied to the flexible substrate causes a substrate elongation. The printer is arranged to measure the substrate elongation caused by the tension applied to the flexible substrate and compensate for the substrate elongation by at least one of modifying the defined transport of the flexible substrate, and translating the print-head relative to the printing area.

Abstract: An image formation device of the present invention has: a recording medium supplying section that supplies a recording medium; a conveying section that conveys the recording medium supplied from the recording medium supplying section; an image formation section that ejects droplets and forms an image on the recording medium that is being conveyed; an image conversion section that converts an inputted image into dot data; a printing processing section that, from inputted print information, outputs continuously printed number of sheets information that causes the image formation section to continuously print output images, and prints the recording media corresponding to the continuously printed number of sheets, and, thereafter, carries out processing that temporarily stops printing of the output images; and a control section that, during a stoppage time of the printing, stops at least formation of images at the image formation section, and continues to drive the conveying section.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a tray including a loading portion for holding a recording medium. The tray has first and second openings. A recording portion is positioned in spaced relation to a platen supporting member having a platen and defining a transportation path therebetween. A transportation portion transports the tray along the transportation path to a position between the platen and the recording portion. A sensor is part of the recording portion and opposes the platen. The sensor outputting a signal based on a detection result obtained using a light emitting portion and a light receiving portion. A control section controls the transportation portion and the sensor to perform detection using the light emitting and light receiving portions. A determination section that determines whether the recording medium is loaded in the loading portion of the tray in accordance with a first output value, and a second output value.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a printed matter in which a printed matter is manufactured by print images with consecutive numbers on a medium includes a recording base material, and a separating base material which is provided at a side opposite to the recording base material, and has a joint portion formed on both the recording base material and the separating base material, and the method includes arranging the print image on both the joint portion and non-joint portion in numerical order to be aligned, printing the same image as the image recorded on the joint portion on the unrecorded non-joint portion, cutting a portion of the recording base material from the separating base material, separating the separating base material to which a portion of the recording base material corresponding to the image recorded in the joint portion is adhered.

Abstract: The invention relates to a printing machine, wherein the printing machine has at least one first printing unit and at least one first dryer, wherein the at least one first printing unit has at least one inkjet print head, at least one first central cylinder, and an integral first drive motor dedicated to the at least one first central cylinder, and wherein the at least one first dryer is embodied as a radiation dryer, and wherein the at least one first dryer has at least one ventilating device, which has at least one air infeed line and at least one air removal line, and wherein at least one first cooling unit is arranged downstream of the at least one first dryer along a transport path of a printing material through the printing machine.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a first belt transport section having a first transport belt, a recording section, a second belt transport section having a second transport belt, and a guide mechanism provided in an upstream-side end part of the second belt transport section. The guide mechanism includes a guide support member and a biasing member. The guide support member has formed therein a guide portion to pass the recording medium held by attraction on the first transport belt to the second transport belt and a positioning portion to keep a fixed gap between the guide portion and the transport surface of the first belt transport section, and is arranged to be swingable in a movement direction of the first belt transport section. The biasing member biases the guide support member in a direction approaching the first belt transport section.

Abstract: A multifunctional apparatus includes a first functional part and a second functional part in a housing of the multifunctional apparatus when the multifunctional apparatus is operated. In the multifunctional apparatus, the first functional part is configured to be movable by a movement unit such that the first functional part is located at a defined maintenance position on the outside of the housing when maintenance is performed on the first functional part and the second functional part is configured to be detachably attached to the housing of the multifunctional apparatus. Further, a movement path on which the first functional part is moved from the operation position to the maintenance position by the movement unit is present on at least a portion of an occupied space region occupied by the second functional part in the housing when the second functional part is attached to the multifunctional apparatus.

Abstract: An ink for inkjet recording, which is used for recording on a paper having a concentration of an eluted Ca ion of from 1.0×10?4 to 5.0×10?4 g/g when dipped in pure water. The ink includes at least a pigment, a pigment dispersant, a water-soluble organic solvent and water. The pigment dispersant is a copolymer synthesized using at least (1) unsaturated ethylene monomer having a phosphoric acid group or a phosphonic acid group and (2) unsaturated ethylene monomer having an alkyl group having 12 to 22 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A platen, which supports the recording paper to be transported, includes a first portion having an upper surface on which an ink discharged from nozzles disposed thereover can be landed, first ribs which are provided to extend in a transport direction in an area of the upper surface and which support the recording paper on an upper side beyond the upper surface, and a second portion which is provided on at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side of the first portion.

Abstract: A tray unit includes a first tray, a second tray, and a cover. The first tray includes a first holding surface for holding thereon a first sheet. The second tray includes a second holding surface for holding thereon a second sheet and is configured to slide above and along the first holding surface from a second position to a first position in a first sliding direction and from the first position to the second position in a second sliding direction opposite to the first sliding direction. The cover is configured to cover from above at least a part of the second tray when the second tray is in the second position.

Abstract: A pigment ink includes an acetylene glycol or 2-ethyl-1,3-hexanediol, and an unsaturated fatty acid, an amino acid, an alkali metal hydroxide and an amine.

Abstract: Print media moisturizing unit, comprising a first print media guidance member and a second print media guidance member, said first print media guidance member and second print media guidance member defining a print media transport path for transporting subsequent print media sheets at a distance from each other, further comprising a first substantially planar spray assembly for supplying a spray in a first plane and a second substantially planar spray assembly for supplying a spray in a second plane, wherein the first substantially planar spray assembly and the second substantially planar spray assembly are configured such that the first plane and the second plane intersect outside the print media transport path.

Abstract: An inkjet printer and a method of operating an inkjet printer provide a luminescent background for facilitating viewing of indicia printed on porous media in no-light or low-light conditions. The printer and method apply a first enhancement material to a surface of porous media to which ink has been applied to form indicia and a second enhancement material to a back side of porous media. The two enhancement materials combine through the porous media to provide a luminescent background for the indicia printed on the media. The two surfaces of the porous media can be covered with laminating material to protect the enhancement materials.

Abstract: A recording apparatus is provided and in one exemplary embodiment includes a tray, a first roller, a second roller opposing the first roller, a recording part, and an urging member. The tray can have a tip part, which can include a first tip portion and a second tip portion. The second tip portion can be disposed at an upstream position relative to the first tip portion in a first direction. The recording part can be configured to record on the medium mounted on the tray, and the urging member can be configured to urge the second roller towards the first roller to transfer the tray in the first direction. In some embodiments, a width of the first tip portion can be narrower than a width of the second tip portion. The first and second tip portions can each include tapered portions that have thicknesses that decrease in the first direction.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a printing apparatus includes a plasma treatment unit configured to acidify at least a surface of a print medium by applying plasma treatment to the surface of the print medium, a first primer applying unit configured to apply primer treatment by applying treatment liquid to the surface of the print medium having undergone the plasma treatment, and a first recording unit configured to perform recording by inkjet recording on the print medium having undergone the primer treatment.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes conveyance roller pair disposed on the upstream side of a recording unit. An image formation operation is forbidden once the trailing edge of a recording medium has passed the conveyance roller pair, to reduce margin amount at the trailing edge of the recording medium. In a case where determination is made that the distance from the trailing edge of the recording medium to the conveyance roller pair is smaller than a first conveyance amount, the recording medium is conveyed by a second conveyance amount which is smaller than the first conveyance amount, so that the trailing edge of the recording medium is on the upstream side of the conveyance roller pair and that the distance from the trailing edge of the recording medium to the conveyance roller pair is smaller than a predetermined distance.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes compositions, methods, and systems having an ink-jet ink including a liquid vehicle, a colorant dispersed or dissolved in the liquid vehicle, inter-crosslinkable latex particles dispersed in the liquid vehicle, and an inter-particle crosslinker. The inter-crosslinkable latex particles can have at least one hydrophobic monomer; at least one acidic monomer; at least one inter-crosslinkable monomer including at least one keto group; the inter-crosslinkable monomer having the structure described in Formula 1. Additionally, the inter-crosslinkable latex particles can be intra-crosslinked forming an inter-particle crosslinked latex polymer film after printing and upon at least partial depletion of the liquid vehicle or liquid vehicle component.

Abstract: A printing apparatus is provided which can prevent foreign matters such as ink adhering to the surface of the conveying belt from getting transferred to other constitutional components. When the conveying belt is rotating in one direction, the foreign matters adhering to the surface of the conveying belt is removed by the wiper. When the conveying belt rotates a predetermined distance in the opposite direction, the pinch roller, the electric charge removing roller and the electric charge supply roller that are in contact with the belt surface are disengaged from the surface of the conveying belt. The predetermined distance is set equal to a rotating distance that the conveying belt rotates until a portion of the surface of the conveying belt, which was in contact with the wiper, comes into contact with the pinch roller, the electric charge removing roller and the electric charge supply roller.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a heater, an irradiation unit, and a contact unit. The irradiation unit irradiates a sheet with heat rays from the heater to heat the sheet by radiant heat. The contact unit includes a member that heats a region of the sheet by coming into contact with the radiant heated sheet on a downstream side of the irradiation unit. A part of the heat rays output from the heater is radiated onto a part of a structure constituting the contact unit to raise a temperature of the member.

Abstract: An ink jet printer bed in which a printing object placed on a bed is stably fixed by means of air suction and is printed, is disclosed, which comprises a plurality of upper plates having a plurality of air suction ports on their front surfaces; an intermediate plate which is formed of a guide space of which intermediate portion is open via its upper lower sides, the intermediate plate being assembled to a lower side of the upper plate; a lower plate which is assembled to a lower side of the intermediate portion and is formed of at least one air passage; a connection part which is assembled to each air passage of the lower plate and is connected with a suction pump; and a sensor which detects an air pressure in the interior of the bed and transmits a result of the detection to a controller which controls the operation of the suction pump, so the air pressure of the interior of the bed by the suction pump can be adjusted.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a recording portion; a medium-supply portion; a support member for supporting a recording medium while facing the recording portion; a conveyor mechanism including a conveyance guide and a conveyor roller; a first housing accommodating the recording portion; and a second housing accommodating the medium-supply portion, the support member, and the conveyor mechanism. The first housing is pivotable about a pivot shaft with respect to the second housing. The conveyance guide includes a guide portion disposed downstream of the conveyor roller and upstream of the recording portion and having an inclined guide face. The guide portion is opposed to the recording portion in the second direction with a clearance therebetween. The recording portion is configured to pass through a space corresponding to the clearance when the first housing is pivoted between the ejection position and the distant position.

Abstract: An apparatus for printing and activating an adhesive upon labels with fluid activatable adhesive having a print head and a path along which a label travels to the print head for printing on a front surface of the label. The path after printing reverses the orientation of the label to present the back surface of the label to the print head for applying a fluid for activating a layer of adhesive material on back surface of the label prior to the label exiting the apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming device which includes a first nozzle group, a second nozzle group, and are arranged by being deviated from the first nozzle group to one side in a predetermined direction, a light irradiation unit which is extended at least in the predetermined direction, a control unit which repeats an ejection operation in which the photo-curable ink is ejected from the nozzle while moving the nozzle group and the light irradiation unit in a direction intersecting the predetermined direction, and a transport operation of the medium in a state where a non-ejection region where the ink is not ejected is provided between the first nozzle group and the second nozzle group in a predetermined direction, and overlappingly forms a main image using the first photo-curable ink, and a background image using the second photo-curable ink.

Abstract: A treatment agent liquid application device for an ink jet printer includes a supply pan including a liquid chamber that stores treatment agent liquid; an application roller that applies the treatment agent liquid on a record surface of a recording medium; a squeeze roller that rotates to draw up a part of the treatment agent liquid in which a part of the squeeze roller is immersed in the supply pan and to supply the treatment agent liquid to a pressure contact part between the application roller and the squeeze roller; and a partition member arranged outside the squeeze roller and along a circumferential direction of the squeeze roller in the supply pan, the partition member dividing the liquid chamber in the supply pan into a liquid chamber on a squeeze roller side and an external liquid chamber outside the liquid chamber on the squeeze roller side.