Abstract: A hardware circuit (403) outputs different output signals between a case where an operation of an operating switch (402) is continued for longer than a threshold time and the other cases. An operation detecting CPU (404) outputs different output signals between a case of having detected the operation of the operating switch (402) and the other case.

Abstract: A method of controlling an inkjet printer including the steps of reciprocating the printhead repeatedly across the print medium in a plurality of passes, repeatedly firing the nozzles during each printhead pass so that each pass results in printing of a print swath across the print medium, alternately disabling upper and lower portions of the one or more nozzle arrays from swath to swath so that the swaths are reduced in height and for each reduced-height swath, reducing print density at the leading and trailing edge portions of the reduced-height swath as compared to print density at a central portion of the reduced-height swath.

Abstract: A method of programming an RFID tag in an image-forming device is disclosed. The RFID tag is programmed while media is paused in a duplex media path. The RFID tag is programmed using an antenna located between a simplex media path and the duplex media path. Other methods and systems are disclosed.

Abstract: A printer has a print head check unit that performs an ink ejection check to confirm whether or not ink is being ejected normally from nozzles, the printer sets a flag F to 1 so as to start an ink ejection check and starts a paper feed process. When the processes has been terminated, the printer starts printing. Accordingly, ink ejection check takes place concurrently with the paper feed process, the overall time required for the processes can be reduced. In this way, the overall time required for the processes of the ejection check of the print recording liquid and an image forming process can be reduced. Further, the ink ejection check may be performed in parallel with or partly overlapping with a process of receiving print data, a process of conversion into print data, a process of ejecting paper after printing, or a flashing process.

Abstract: A heating device includes a heating member having an opening formed at an end thereof along a direction of a rotary shaft, a heating element for heating the heating member from inside, a heating element support member having a heating element support portion at one end thereof for supporting an end of the heating element, and a tube opening at the other end, the tubular heating element support member being inserted into the heating member through the opening, and a coolant supplier for supplying a coolant from the tube opening for cooling the heating element support portion. The heating element support member includes coolant blowout holes formed between a portion thereof corresponding to a bearing supporting the rotary shaft and the heating element support portion for blowing the coolant out into the rotary shaft.

Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate and an ink-receiving layer, wherein the ink-receiving layer contains an inorganic particle and a binder, and does not contain any water-soluble resin or contains a water-soluble resin such that a ratio of the content of the water-soluble resin to the content of the binder in the ink-receiving layer is 20% by mass or less, the binder contains at least one component selected from the group consisting of acrylic resins, polycarbonate-modified urethane resins, and polyether-modified urethane resins, and, for the recording medium, a ratio of a total pore volume in a pore radius range of 7 nm or more and 20 nm or less to a total pore volume in a pore radius range of 0 nm or more and 20 nm or less is 25% by volume or less.

Abstract: A printer includes a transportation unit that transports roll paper, a winding unit that winds up the transported roll paper, and a controller that controls the transportation unit and the winding unit. The controller switches between thresholds for a torque limit of the winding unit on the basis of inertia of the winding unit and a speed at which the roll paper is transported when the winding unit winds up the roll paper in synchronization with a transportation operation of the transportation unit.

Abstract: In an inkjet printer, a controller is configured to calculate, during movement of a carriage in a scanning direction, a signal level difference between a first detection signal in a mountain peak zone including an assumed mountain peak position and the first detection signal in a valley bottom zone including an assumed valley bottom position identified, based on information stored in a storage, and alternately execute, during the movement of the carriage, an ejection process of ejecting ink drops, and a conveying process of conveying the sheet by a predetermined line feed width. In the printing process, the printing head and the conveyor are driven according to a first condition when the signal level difference is equal to or larger than a threshold value, while driven according to a second condition when the signal level difference is less than the threshold value.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a plasma processor, a recording unit, and a heating unit. The plasma processor performs plasma processing on a processing target matter. The recording unit discharges ink and records dots onto the processing target matter on which the plasma processing has been performed. The heating unit heats an ink discharge region of the processing target matter.

Abstract: A position correction apparatus that corrects a position of a liquid ejection unit ejecting liquid toward a conveyed object includes a position detection unit configured to detect a position of the conveyed object in a width direction of the conveyed object, a moving unit configured to move the liquid ejection unit in the width direction, a moving amount determination unit configured to determine a moving amount of the liquid ejection unit in the width direction based on a position of the conveyed object in the width direction, a moving speed determination unit configured to determine a moving speed of the liquid ejection unit in accordance with a conveyance speed of the conveyed object, and a move control unit configured to control the moving unit so as to move the liquid ejection unit at the moving speed and by the moving amount in the width direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a drier, and a heater temperature control. The image forming unit includes nozzles to discharge droplets onto a web medium to form an image on the web medium. The drier includes a plurality of heaters over which the web medium is stretched to form an arc-shaped feed path. The heater temperature control is configured to control a temperature of an upstream heater of the plurality of heaters on the feed path to be higher than a temperature of a downstream heater of the plurality of heaters on the feed path.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a paper floating detecting unit which detects floating of a paper sheet at a first position; an ink jet recording unit which records an image on the paper sheet at a second position on a downstream side of the first position; and an image reader which reads the image on the paper sheet at a third position on the downstream side of the second position. When the floating is detected by the paper floating detecting unit, the image in a fixed front and rear range of the paper sheet is read by the image reader with a position where the floating is detected as a reference. The read image is displayed on a display device. An operator confirms the image displayed on the display device, and discriminates the type of the generated floating.

Abstract: A terminal receives contents to be written on a note by a user, a server stores and manages print data generated by a plurality of users and outputs the print data to an image forming apparatus which outputs the print data in the form of an adhesive note. The image forming apparatus includes a de-curl unit for correcting the curl of a recording medium and causes the recording medium on which printing is performed to be popped out through an outlet. The server communicates with a plurality of terminals and includes a control unit which generates a virtual conference space by assigning a storage address to the virtual conference space when a request of generating a virtual conference space and identification information on an image forming apparatus to be used in the virtual conference space from among the plurality of terminals is received.

Abstract: A system to calculate line feed error in labels on a printer includes a holder assembly under the label line feed and before the printer burn line; a first sensor and a second sensor on the holder assembly, a fixed distance, L, between them; and a processor. The first sensor senses a first position of a label edge, L1A. The second sensor senses a second position of the label edge, L1B. The processor calculates the distance, L1AB, between the first position and the second position and calculates the line feed error over the fixed distance, L, by taking the difference (L?L1AB). The processor calculates the feed correction to be done to the label, given by [(L?L1AB)/L]×D, where D is a distance between the first sensor and the burn line of the printer. The processor instructs the printer line feed to implement the calculated feed correction.

Abstract: The production method for a liquid ejection head is provided, in which a first head module is set, a second candidate head module is selected, a first representative value of the first head module is acquired, a second representative value of the second candidate head module is acquired, an average value of the first representative value and the second representative value is derived, and the second candidate head module by which the derived average value is 0.76-fold or more and 1.24-fold or less of an average ejection volume target value is set as a second head module.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus according to this invention analyzes image data to be printed, and generates sequence information for defining the moving range of each scanning motion of a recording head and the conveyance amount of a recording medium. The apparatus divides a recording area defined by the generated sequence information into areas so that the processing amounts of a plurality of processing units capable of parallelly executing processes are equal to each other, distributes data of the divided areas to the processing units, and causes each of the processing units to generate recording image data. The apparatus performs recording by controlling driving and a scanning motion of the recording head and conveyance of the recording medium based on the recording image data obtained by the processing units.

Abstract: A motor controller includes a drive control portion. The drive control portion is configured to: execute feedback control of a drive current to be supplied to a drive motor, by using an inputted control signal indicating a target rotation speed for the drive motor and a detection signal of a rotation speed detection portion configured to detect a rotation speed of the drive motor; control the drive current in a first control period in which the target rotation speed is changed, such that the drive current is equal to or less than a predetermined first upper limit; and control the drive current in a second control period in which the target rotation speed is constant, such that the drive current is equal to or less than a predetermined second upper limit less than the first upper limit.

Abstract: A circuit for steering charges generated from ionization radiation away from a latch includes charge steering transistors operating in strong inversion. The charge steering transistors are electrically coupled to other transistors in stacked inverters within the latch. During normal operation, the charge steering transistors are turned on when the other transistors being coupled to are turned off. The charge steering transistors may reduce the negative impact of ionization radiation on the operation of the latch.

Abstract: A flatbed printer and a method for printing with a flatbed printer are disclosed. The flatbed printer includes a flatbed surface for placing media to be printed upon, a controller configured to control the printing of digital images on the media, a camera-projector system connected to the controller and situated above the flatbed surface, and a print head for ejecting recording material on the media. The method includes detecting an arbitrary position, an arbitrary shape, an arbitrary size and/or an arbitrary thickness of a media on the flatbed surface with a camera of the camera-projector system, projecting a digital image on the media with a projector of the camera-projector system, and printing the digital image on the media according to the projection by moving the print head over the flatbed surface.

Abstract: A processing object modifying apparatus includes a conveying unit that conveys a processing object; a plasma processing unit that performs plasma processing onto a surface of the processing object while the processing object is being conveyed by the conveying unit; a measuring unit that measures a pH value of the processing object to which the plasma processing has been applied; and a controlling unit that controls the conveying unit to change a conveying speed of the processing object on the basis of a measurement result of the measuring unit, the processing object to which the plasma processing is being applied.

Abstract: A printing system facilitates the registration of printheads in the system. The system includes a plurality of printheads, a planar member having at least three pins along a first edge of the planar member and a plurality of pins on a second edge of the planar member that is orthogonal to the first edge, a plurality of actuators, an optical imaging device, and a controller. The controller operates one of the printheads to form a registration target on the media sheet and processes image data of the planar member and the media sheet received from the optical imaging device to identify positions for the registration target and at least two of the three pins on the planar member. Error distances are identified from the positions for the registration target and the at least two pins on the edge of the planar member and are used to register the printheads.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium by discharging liquid droplets onto the medium; and a media heater to heat the medium by contacting a rear surface of the medium opposite a surface of the medium on which the image is formed, in which the media heater includes a contact member with a contact surface having a predetermined curvature that the medium contacts, the contact member is a roller member, and the medium closely contacts the contact surface of the contact member across an entire width of the medium in a direction perpendicular to the media conveyance direction.

Abstract: A print data generating device generates print data printable by a tape printer including a feeding mechanism which feeds a print tape in a scanning direction, a print head which performs print processing on the print tape fed in the scanning direction, and a tape cutter which is arranged downstream of the print head in the scanning direction and cuts the print tape. In the print data generating device, a print direction of a print image is changed in such a way that an image arrangement area on the print image of the print data, and a print area where the print processing is carried out by the print head in a paper feed acceleration/deceleration zone at the time of cutting the print tape, do not overlap with each other.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejecting unit that is capable of ejecting a liquid; and a tension adjusting unit that is rotatable about a rotational shaft and that is capable of applying a tension to a medium by coming into contact with the medium onto which the liquid is ejected. The tension adjusting unit is capable of applying the tension to the medium at a balancing position at which the tension adjusting unit is balanced by a weight of the tension adjusting unit.

Abstract: Transporting apparatus includes a transporting section configured to transport continuous-form paper, an imaging apparatus including a light applying section for emitting light toward the continuous-form paper, and an imaging element for taking images of continuous-form paper based on the light from the light applying section, a transportation amount computing section configured to compute the transportation amount of the continuous-form paper based on the images of the continuous-form paper, and a transporting control section configured to control the transporting section based on the transportation amount. The imaging element includes a valid pixel area including a plurality of pixels where electric charge can be accumulated in accordance with the light reflected on the continuous-form paper, and a shading area including a plurality of pixels where the reflected light can be shaded. The light applying section emits light within a duration of reading a pixel signal of the shading area.

Abstract: A needed job is quickly performed even if a recovery operation for a print head performed by a recovery mechanism needs a long time as a result of sharing of the same drive source between a discharge roller and the recovery mechanism. To achieve this, a recovery operation for the print head is suspended when a print job is received while the recovery operation is being performed, on a condition that a printing apparatus is in a state where the printing apparatus permits the print job to be performed.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a feeding section that feeds a rolled continuous paper into an apparatus body, a recording section disposed in the apparatus body, the recording section performing recording onto the continuous paper fed from the feeding section in the apparatus body, a first transport path along which the continuous paper is transported during the recording performed on the medium by the recording section, and a second transport path along which the continuous paper is transported to be rewound onto the feeding section. The second transport path is different from the first transport path.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, including: an output image processing section which performs, on image data, predetermined image processing according to image formation; an output section that outputs processed image data, on which the image processing is performed, in accordance with an operation timing according to the image formation by an image forming section; a correction section which corrects setting of the image processing on the image data; an image processing control section which controls an operation of the output image processing section, stores the processed image data in an external storage section and controls the correction section to perform correction depending on a predetermined correction condition; and an output control section which reads out the processed image data from the external storage section and inputs the processed image data to the output section.

Abstract: The recording device includes an adhesive belt extending across a plurality of rotating bodies configured to support and convey a recording medium, a first sensor configured to detect that the recording medium is separated relative to the adhesive belt in a first range, a second sensor configured to detect that the recording medium P is separated relative to the adhesive belt in a second range within the first range, a take-up unit configured to take up the recording medium, and a control unit configured to control the take-up unit so as to take up the recording medium when the first sensor detects that a separation position of the recording medium is within the first range, and control the rotating body to stop movement of the adhesive belt when the second sensor detects that the separation position of the recording medium is within the second range.

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a discharging unit that includes a nozzle row that discharges a liquid, and that is able to reciprocate in a first direction that intersects the nozzle row; a transport unit that transports a medium in a second direction that intersects the first direction; and a reading unit that reads the liquid discharged from the discharging unit to the medium. The liquid discharging apparatus is configured to execute an adjustment pattern forming operation for forming a first adjustment pattern for adjusting a landing position of the liquid discharged from the discharging unit in the first direction and a second adjustment pattern for adjusting the landing position of the liquid discharged from the discharging unit in the second direction on the medium, and an adjustment pattern reading operation for reading the first and second adjustment pattern with the reading unit according to a single command.

Abstract: A printing device includes a device main body that has a feeding unit to feed a recording medium and a printing section to print by ejecting ink from a head onto the recording medium, and a heating unit disposed on a downstream side in a feed direction of the recording medium with respect to the device main body. The heating unit has a medium passage to pass the recording medium after printing therethrough, a heat generator disposed between the medium passage and the air passage in a sectional view of the heating unit to heat the recording medium after printing, and an air passage having an air aspirating port connected with the medium passage to aspirate air and an air discharging port to discharge air. The air aspirating port is located on an upstream side in a feed direction of the recording medium with respect to the air discharging port.

Abstract: A printer of the present invention includes a first image pickup device that picks up an image of one side of an object, a first checking section that checks the one side of the object based on the image picked up by the first image pickup device, a first printing device that is disposed at a downstream side of the first image pickup device and that performs printing on the one side of the object while being conveyed, a second image pickup device that picks up an image of the other side of the object while being conveyed, a second checking section that checks the other side of the object based on the image picked up by the second image pickup device, and a second printing device that is disposed at a downstream side of the second image pickup device and that performs printing on the other side of the object while being conveyed.

Abstract: A recording apparatus has a controller that controls a conveying roller and a discharge roller for conveying a recording medium. The controller controls the rotation phases of the conveying roller and the discharge roller when the recording medium leaves the conveying roller before the recording medium enters the conveying roller.

Abstract: A recording device includes a medium support unit for supporting a recording target medium, a recording unit capable of carrying out recording on the recording target medium, a moving unit configured to relatively reciprocate the recording target medium and the recording unit, a pressing member that is provided at a position capable of opposing the recording unit and that is capable of pressing the recording target medium supported by the medium support unit, an information acquisition unit capable of acquiring information related to the pressing member, and a controller configured to output the information acquired by the information acquisition unit.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a plasma processing unit that processes a surface of a processing object by using plasma; a recording unit that performs ink jet recording on the surface of the processing object, which has been plasma-processed by the plasma processing unit; a setting unit that sets a print mode of an image to be recorded by the recording unit, the print mode corresponding to the processing object; and a control unit that controls the plasma processing unit to plasma-process the processing object with a plasma energy amount based on the print mode set by the setting unit.

Abstract: In an inkjet printer, a controller is configured to calculate, during movement of a carriage in a scanning direction, a signal level difference between a first detection signal in a mountain peak zone including an assumed mountain peak position and the first detection signal in a valley bottom zone including an assumed valley bottom position identified, based on information stored in a storage, and alternately execute, during the movement of the carriage, an ejection process of ejecting ink drops, and a conveying process of conveying the sheet by a predetermined line feed width. In the printing process, the printing head and the conveyor are driven according to a first condition when the signal level difference is equal to or larger than a threshold value, while driven according to a second condition when the signal level difference is less than the threshold value.

Abstract: There is provided a compact simplex and duplex printer which can be produced easily at a low cost. The simplex and duplex printer includes: a thermal head for performing printing on a substrate; a rolled substrate supply section for supplying a continuous substrate, which is to be printed on one side, to the thermal head; and a sheet-like substrate supply section, provided below the rolled substrate supply section, for sequentially supplying sheet-like substrates, which are to be printed on both sides, to the thermal head. A reversing mechanism for reversing a sheet-like substrate which has been returned from the thermal head is disposed between the thermal head and the sheet-like substrate supply section. The reversing mechanism is disposed just below the rolled substrate supply section.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a transportation unit that transports a recording target medium; a recording unit that performs recording on the recording target medium transported by the transportation unit; a sonic distance sensor; a vibration sensor that detects vibrations of the distance sensor; and a movement unit that moves in an intersecting direction, which intersects with a transportation direction of the recording target medium. The recording apparatus having this structure can reduce problems caused by a rise in the recording target medium.

Abstract: A plant for the surface decoration of elongate items includes an inlet section and an outlet section for one or more items having an external peripheral surface to be decorated, a support system for the elongated objects on a predetermined lying plane, a system for continuously forwarding the items from the inlet section to the outlet section along a longitudinal feeding direction, with the items substantially parallel to the same longitudinal direction, and a decorating system for the external surface of the items. The decorating system includes a plurality of jet devices arranged along the longitudinal direction, at least one of which is oriented to direct a jet of a pigmented substance on a portion of the external surface of the items at least partially different from another surface portion designed to be decorated by another device. A method for decorating elongate objects is also described.

Abstract: A method for generating custom postscript printer description files, the method including obtaining paper type information, obtaining an original postscript printer description file, converting the paper type information into a postscript printer description format, inserting the converted paper type information into the original postscript printer description file to create a custom postscript printer description file, and storing the custom postscript printer definition file.

Abstract: A media height detection system is used in connection with an inkjet printer. A filament is disposed above the process path and transverse to the process direction. A displacement sensor mounted adjacent the process path has a connecting member extending outward. The filament is attached to the connecting member and anchored to the printer. A transducer in the displacement sensor generates an electrical signal in response to a force on the filament. The filament contacts the lead edge of the sheet in the event of sheet curl in excess of a predetermined curl range. This will cause the force in the filament, which is conveyed to the displacement sensor to generate the signal. The print head can be elevated in response to the signal, so that the sheet does not impact the print heads, causing damage. Alternately, the sheet can be discarded.

Abstract: For each of a plurality of areas in at least one of a sheet width direction and a sheet conveying direction included in a sheet trailing edge area during printing on a first surface, information regarding an ink application amount to the area is acquired. According to a combination of acquired pieces of information regarding the ink application amounts to the plurality of areas, waiting time until a printing start on a second surface from an end of printing in the sheet trailing edge area is determined.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a recording section that is capable of recording on a medium transferred in a transporting direction; a first unit that is capable of sending the medium from the upstream side of the transporting direction to a recording area in the recording section; and a second unit that is capable of collecting the medium sent from the recording area to the downstream side of the transporting direction, in which the first unit is capable of being moved to the downstream side of the transporting direction while the second unit is capable of being moved to the upstream side of the transporting direction, and the second unit is capable of sending the medium from the upstream side of the transporting direction to the recording area while the first unit is capable of collecting the medium sent from the recording area to the downstream side of the transporting direction.

Abstract: A printing device includes a housing unit configured to be withdrawn from a device main unit and mounted in the device main unit, a specification operating unit provided on the housing unit and operated so as to specify a type of a medium, and a control device configured to implement control according to the type of the medium specified by the specification operating unit. The control device implements a warning process when the type of the medium specified by the specification operating unit when the housing unit is withdrawn from the device main unit is the same as the type of the medium specified by the specification operating unit when the housing unit is mounted in the device main unit after that.

Abstract: When a medium is located immediately under a distance sensor in printing, a controller of a printer acquires a distance from the medium to a first irradiator and a second irradiator in a direction orthogonal to a relative movement direction in which the medium moves relative to a liquid ejecting head, on the basis of a detection signal from the distance sensor. On the basis of the distance, the controller changes relative positions of irradiation ranges irradiated with light from the first irradiator and the second irradiator on the medium so as to define relative positions of the irradiation ranges such that the degree of overlapping between the irradiation ranges and the distance between the irradiation ranges do not increase significantly.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head; a conveying mechanism; a holding mechanism for holding at least one recording medium between its first and second surfaces; a moving mechanism for moving the first surface; a reception tray disposed under the holding mechanism; and a controller. The controller is configured to: separate recording media to be recorded throughout one recording job, into recording-medium groups; control the conveying mechanism to convey the recording medium to a space between the first and second surfaces in each recording-medium group; acquire a waiting time in which each recording-medium group is to wait in the holding mechanism; and control the moving mechanism to move the first surface from a support position to a non-support position when a time elapsed from a timing when each recording-medium group has been conveyed to the holding mechanism reaches the waiting time.

Abstract: In one example, a platen for supporting a print substrate includes multiple support surfaces that together define the full extent of a substrate support area of the platen. Each support surface is oriented parallel to other support surfaces along a line that is oblique to a direction the print substrate is to pass over the support surfaces when the platen is in use in a printer or other liquid dispenser.

Abstract: A recording device (conveyance device) includes a recording section configured to perform recording on a recording medium (conveyance medium), a medium supporting section configured to be in a state feeding and pulling back the recording medium and support the recording medium, a detecting portion configured to detect a first arrangement state of the recording medium after being fed from the medium supporting section and before being pulled back and a second arrangement state of the recording medium after being pulled back and fed from the medium supporting section, and an adjusting section configured to select whether or not to process for adjusting an arrangement of the recording medium based on the first arrangement state and the second arrangement state.

Abstract: In a method or device to determine a lift state of a recording medium from a surface of a heating saddle of an inkjet printing system, the recording medium being directed past the surface for drying, an index for power consumption of the heating saddle is determined including a determination of a time curve of the electrical power consumed by the heating saddle. The power consumption of the heating saddle depends on a desired temperature of the heating saddle. The lift state of the recording medium is determined based on the index for the power consumption.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are described herein for controlling a printing device. In an example embodiment, a print line is divided into frames and frame dot states are determined based on neighboring frame dot states. Maximum motor speeds of the printing device may be adjusted so that actual motor speeds change gradually during printing. The print engine may detect a printhead type by sending a signal to the printhead and receiving a response. Motor torque is dynamically controlled based on type of media and/or labels present on the media.