Abstract: A method for forming a tactile printed image on a receiver medium to convey information to a visually-impaired person from image data having an array image pixels with binary pixel values. The tactile printed image by depositing tactile marking material onto the receiver medium, wherein no tactile marking material is deposited onto portions of the receiver medium corresponding to image pixels having a first state, and tactile marking material is deposited onto portions of the receiver medium corresponding to image pixels having the second state. The receiver medium has a first coefficient of friction, and the portions of the tactile printed image having deposited tactile marking material are raised by at least 20 microns relative to the surface of the receiver medium and have a second coefficient of friction which differs from the first coefficient of friction by at least 0.06.

Abstract: Printed matter, in which an image is recorded on a clear film with a white ink containing a white coloring material and at least one urethane resin as a resin fixative and having a degree of white shielding of 50 or more.

Abstract: A mixing method and device are disclosed. The mixing method includes providing a drop generating device including a first drop ejector, a second drop ejector and a collector. The mixing method also includes ejecting a plurality of drops of a first reactant from the first drop ejector and ejecting a plurality of drops of a second reactant from the second drop ejector and collecting the drops with the collector.

Abstract: There is described a method for depositing at least one biological fluid onto a surface of a substrate, the method comprising the steps of (i) providing at least one thermal bubble jet printhead loaded with at least one biological fluid, (ii) positioning the printhead next to the substrate, and (iii) supplying the printhead with energy thereby depositing the biological fluid onto the surface. The printhead is supplied with an energy E such that E>1.6*Eth where Eth is the threshold energy of the printhead. There are also described an apparatus for depositing at least one biological fluid onto a surface of a substrate and a microarray obtained by carrying out the depositing method.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a housing and a movement region of a carriage including a liquid ejecting head, an ink tank positioned at the outer side of the movement region of the carriage, an ink supply tubes connecting the ink tank and an adapter on the carriage, and a fixing portion fixing a portion of the ink supply tubes. In the housing, a containing unit of a sheet feeding cassette is formed to project to a discharge direction of a sheet and an operation panel unit is configured to have a housing portion having an inclined surface whose lower side further projects to the discharge direction than the upper side. The ink supply tubes have a deformable moving unit performing a movement of the carriage on a portion of a liquid ejecting head side rather than a fixing portion using a fixing tool.

Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes a channel unit in which a liquid channel including a nozzle for jetting a liquid is formed, and a piezoelectric actuator provided on the channel unit and configured to apply jetting energy to the liquid inside the liquid channel. The piezoelectric actuator has a piezoelectric element and a wiring substrate in which a first electrode and a wire electrically connected to the first electrode are formed and which is joined to one surface of the piezoelectric element. The first electrode is configured to make contact with the piezoelectric element.

Abstract: An ink for inkjet recording includes a colorant; an organic solvent; a surfactant; and water. The organic solvent includes a polyol having a solubility parameter (SP value) of from 11.8 to 14.0 (components A) or an oxetane compound having the following formula (I) (components B): wherein R? represents an alkyl group having 1 to 2 carbon atoms. The content of at least one member of the components A or the components B is from 30 to 70% by weight per 100% by weight of the ink. The colorant is a hydrodispersible pigment having a functional group selected from the group consisting of —COOM, —SO3M, —PO3HM, —PO3M2, —CONM2, —SO3NM2, —NH—C6H4—COOM, —NH—C6H4—SO3M, —NH—C6H4—PO3HM, —NH—C6H4—PO3M2, —NH—C6H4—CONM2 and —NH—C6H4—SO3NM2, wherein M is a quaternary ammonium ion.

Abstract: A method of heat transfer printing using quantum dots is described. The method can be used to form an image using quantum dots on a substrate that is not easily printed using conventional printing techniques. Also described is a quantum dot ink formulation for heat transfer printing. The methods and materials can be used for anti-counterfeiting applications.

Abstract: In some aspects of the present application, a printhead assembly is disclosed that comprise a plurality of functional plates stacked together; an adhesive confinement structure comprising an adhesive-coated mesh substrate arranged between adjacent functional plates to provide bonding between the plates.

Abstract: An image-recording method includes applying an ink to a recording medium and applying a liquid composition to the recording medium. The ink contains a pigment, and the liquid composition disturbs the dispersion state of the pigment in the ink. The applied liquid composition at least partially overlaps the area where the ink is applied. The ink contains a resin particle, a water-soluble resin, and at least one surfactant selected from fluorinated surfactants and silicone surfactants. The surfactant content of the ink is 2% by mass or more based on the total mass of the ink, and the mass ratio of the water-soluble resin content to the surfactant content of the ink is 0.3 or more and 3.0 or less.

Abstract: A printable recording material containing an opaque supporting substrate; a resin barrier layer; an ink vehicle-receiving layer having a first structure with inorganic particles and, at least, a binder and a second structure with nano-porous particles and, at least, a binder; and an ink colorant-receiving layer. Also disclosed are the method for making such material and the method for producing printed images using said printable recording material.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a print element substrate, comprising preparing a substrate, including a first region and a second region, in which a printing portion is formed on the first region, and a wiring pattern connected to the printing portion is formed on the first region and the second region, forming an insulating film covering the printing portion and the wiring pattern, and forming a conductive cavitation-resistant film on the insulating film, wherein in the forming the insulating film, the insulating film is formed such that a side surface of a portion of the insulating film, which is formed on the second region, includes an inclined face.

Abstract: The invention provides a photosensitive negative resin composition containing (a) an epoxy-group-containing compound, (b) a first onium salt containing a cation portion structure represented by (b1) and an anion portion structure represented by (b2), and (c) a second onium salt containing a cation portion structure represented by (c1) and an anion portion structure represented by (c2).

Abstract: A printing apparatus prints by discharging inks from respective nozzle arrays, the printhead having a plurality of nozzle arrays including at least a first nozzle array, a second nozzle array, and a third nozzle array, and the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array being arrayed to be shifted in a nozzle arrayed direction. The printing apparatus controls the first and second nozzle arrays to discharge inks to form a plurality of first patterns. The printing apparatus controls the third nozzle array to discharge inks to form second patterns while changing a shift amount in a direction which intersects with the nozzle arrayed direction with respect to the plurality of first patterns. The printing apparatus calculates an adjustment value required to adjust relative printing positions between the first nozzle array and the third nozzle array in the intersecting direction using the first patterns and the second patterns.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for marking and/or scanning an object comprising a head, in particular a marking head or a scanning head, having a plurality of regular operating elements for marking and/or scanning the object, and comprising a driving mechanism for providing a relative movement of the object relative to the head in an advance direction during a working operation, at least a part of the regular operating elements being arranged in a rectangular pattern of rows and columns.

Abstract: An ink jet ink composition includes one or more types selected from a group consisting of water, polymer fine particles, a siloxane-based surfactant, and a fluorine-based surfactant, and an acryl-based surfactant.

Abstract: An uncoated recording medium includes a blend of hardwood fibers and softwood fibers. The total fiber content is at least 80 wt % of a total wt % of the uncoated recording medium. A filler is present in the uncoated recording medium in an amount ranging from about 3 wt % to about 10.2 wt % of the total wt % of the uncoated recording medium. The uncoated recording medium has i) a weight ranging from about 50 g/m2 to about 70 g/m2, and ii) a machine direction Lorentezen & Wetter 5 degree bending stiffness ranging from about 0.19 mNm to about 0.27 mNm and a cross direction Lorentezen & Wetter 5 degree bending stiffness ranging from about 0.09 mNm to about 0.12 mNm, and iii) an ISO brightness of at least 86.

Abstract: The invention provides an inkjet ink composition, including at least: a water-soluble polymer which has a number average molecular weight of 1,000 or more; particles which have a polymerizable group; a colorant; and water, a ratio of a content of the particles to a content of the water-soluble polymer in terms of mass being from 0.6 to 3.5, and a viscosity of the inkjet ink composition at 30° C. being from 10 mPa·s to 14 mPa·s. The invention further provides an image recording method, including at least imparting the inkjet ink composition onto a recording medium by jetting, from an inkjet head, the inkjet ink composition at a droplet volume of from 10 pL to 120 pL. The invention further provides an image-recorded material, including at least an image recorded, on a recording medium, by the image recording method.

Abstract: A printing device that forms a background by a first ink and images on the background by a second ink includes a head having first and second nozzle lines that eject, respectively, the first and second inks. The inks are ejected as the head moves, with respect to a medium, in a main scanning direction intersecting the first and second nozzle lines. A transport section transports the medium in a sub-scanning direction along the first and second nozzle lines. In an ejecting operation, the first and second inks are ejected in the relative movement in the main scanning direction and the relative transportation in the sub-scanning direction is performed. In the sub-scanning direction, first and second nozzle line used areas are set where the first and second inks, respectively, are ejected from the first and second nozzle lines. A nozzle unused area is defined therebetween.

Abstract: A method of producing a set of blinds with a custom printed graphic image disclosed. The set of blinds have slats which are not connected and thus the set of blinds can be assembled easily after having been printed on.

Abstract: An ink jet textile printing apparatus includes a textile printing head having a nozzle line for discharging a coating solution containing an abrasion resistance-improving resin in a content of A and a textile printing head having a nozzle line for discharging an ink containing the abrasion resistance-improving resin in a content of B, wherein the content A and the content B satisfy a relationship of A>B.

Abstract: A liquid containing chamber that supplies liquid to a liquid ejecting apparatus includes a first liquid container that is capable of containing the liquid and has a vertically long shape in a mounted position when mounted in the liquid ejecting apparatus, a first projection provided in the first liquid container and a first stirring member supported by the first projection, wherein when the first liquid container in the mounted position is divided into an upper container which is located above the first projection and a lower container which is located below the upper container, the lower container contains the liquid and the upper container contains the liquid and a predetermined amount of air.

Abstract: An ink set includes a reaction liquid containing coagulant; a first ink containing a color material; and a second ink containing a color material. The ink set is used for recording on a non-absorptive recording medium or a low-absorptive recording medium and for imparting the reaction liquid, the first ink, and the second ink to the recording medium in a superimposed manner in this order.

Abstract: An ink for inkjet recording includes water; a hydrosoluble solvent, a pigment, and a copolymer including a salt of a diphosphonic acid group. The copolymer including a salt of a diphosphonic acid group includes structural units having the following formulae (1) and (2): X represents an alkylene group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, each of R1 and R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, M+ represents an alkali metal ion, an organic ammonium ion or a proton and Z1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 6 to 22 carbon atoms. The alkali metal ion or the organic ammonium ion and the proton may be mixed, and half or more of the M+ are alkali metal ions or the organic ammonium ions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a latex ink composition, the latex ink composition comprising a water soluble resin. The invention further relates to a water soluble resin suitable for a latex ink composition, the water soluble resin comprising a backbone and a stabilizing group, wherein the stabilizing group is capable of forming hydrogen bonds. The invention further relates to the use of a water soluble resin in a latex ink composition.

Abstract: Ink containing a pigment, an alcohol alkoxylate-based surfactant, a water-soluble organic solvent, water, and a dispersion agent represented by the following chemical structure 1, wherein the ink has a dynamic surface tension of 36 mN/m or less when the life of foam at 25° C. as measured by the maximum bubble pressure technique is 15 msec: where R1 represents an alkyl group having one to four carbon atoms, an aryl group, and an aralkyl group having one to eight carbon atoms, L represents zero or an integer of from 1 to 7, and n represents an integer of from 20 to 80.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that rotates; and an exposure unit that includes multiple light emitters, a holding unit, and first contact portions, the multiple light emitters being arranged along a rotation axis direction of the image carrier, the holding unit holding the multiple light emitters, the first contact portions being positioned on the holding unit so as to sandwich the multiple light emitters therebetween, the exposure unit exposing the image carrier to light. While the image carrier is being mounted on an apparatus body, the exposure unit is moved away from the image carrier in an optical axis direction of the exposure unit as a result of the first contact portions coming into contact with the image carrier, and the exposure unit and the image carrier are positioned as a result of the first contact portions coming into contact with the image carrier.

Abstract: A print-head module for a single-pass inkjet printer is specified, which print-head module includes a housing, a hangar part which is fastened to the housing for hanging in a manner which is oriented in the direction of gravity, and a number of print heads which are arranged on the housing along a transverse direction which is perpendicular with respect to a running direction, wherein the print heads are positionally adjusted at least at one reference position. The print-head module can be exchanged simply and rapidly. Complicated re-adjustment on the single-pass inkjet printer can be dispensed with.

Abstract: A relief print master is created by a printhead that moves in a slow scan direction. The nozzles of the printhead jet droplets of a polymerisable liquid on a rotating drum. The different nozzles jet droplets simultaneously on different layers that have different diameters. As a result, the droplets jetted by different nozzles travel over different distances before landing. The effect of this is that the droplets undergo different position lag as they land on the different layers. By rotating the printhead in a plane that is orthogonal to the jetting direction this effect can be compensated for.

Abstract: The invention provides lightweight coated paper having good offset printability. The invention provides lightweight coated paper having good printability in commercial printing utilizing the ink jet recording system. The lightweight coated paper of the invention includes base paper, and one or more coating layers disposed on at least one side of the base paper. The coating layer includes a pigment and a binder. The total coating weight of the coating layer(s) is not more than 7.5 g/m2 per side of the base paper. The coating layer contains a polycondensate of an aliphatic monoamine or an aliphatic polyamine and an epihalohydrin compound, and a water-soluble polyvalent cation salt. The content of the water-soluble polyvalent cation salt in the coating layer is 0.3 g/m2 to 1.0 g/m2 per side of the base paper.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a substrate that carries thereon a plurality of ejection energy generating elements arranged in rows to generate energy necessary for ejecting liquid and an ejection port plate that is laid on the substrate and has a plurality of ejection ports formed therein and arranged vis-a-vis the respective ejection energy generating elements. The ejection port plate has a groove, or an oblong recess, formed on the surface thereof where the plurality of ejection ports are formed such that the groove surrounds the region where the ejection ports are formed and has a corrugated inner lateral surface and a flat outer lateral surface arranged oppositely relative to the inner lateral surface.

Abstract: A liquid adhesive is applied onto a surface of a base plate having flow channels formed as recesses or through-grooves, by transferring the liquid adhesive from a rotating cylinder coated with it to the surface of the base plate. The base plate is then bonded to a cover plate having ejection energy generating elements via the applied adhesive to be made into a liquid ejection head. For evenly applying the liquid adhesive onto the surface having the recesses or through-grooves as flow channels, the surface is additionally provided with dummy recesses for compensating for variance of contact length orthogonal to the transfer direction due to uneven or asymmetrical arrangement of the recesses or through-grooves.

Abstract: A liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes a flow passage structural body having a nozzle and a pressure chamber communicated with the nozzle, and a piezoelectric actuator provided on the flow passage structural body to apply jetting energy to a liquid inside the pressure chamber. The piezoelectric actuator has a piezoelectric layer arranged to face the pressure chamber, a low-potential electrode provided on the piezoelectric layer, and a high-potential electrode provided on the piezoelectric layer and to which a higher potential is applied than to the low-potential electrode. The high-potential electrode has a first electrode layer arranged to contact with the piezoelectric layer and formed of gold, and a second electrode layer stacked on the first electrode layer to extend in a predetermined direction, having a width shorter than that of the first electrode layer, and formed of a conductive material more likely to cause migration than gold.

Abstract: A recording medium includes a protective layer and a porous ink receiving layer. The protective layer includes a first binder and a first set of polymeric beads. The first set of polymeric beads has an average volume-based particle size equal to or greater than ten microns. The protective layer has a coat weight equal to or less than three grams per square meter. The recording medium also includes a porous ink receiving layer including a first set of pigments and a second binder.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printer engine, a storage unit, a print data interpreting unit, and a print control unit. The print data interpreting unit interprets print data and identifies both a first job type and a second job type. The first job type specifies any one of a special print job using special toner and a normal job using normal toner, and the second job type specifies a print function to be used. The print control unit makes a decision to permit or prohibit accumulation of print data in view of security based on the first job type and the second job type, accumulates the print data in the storage unit when the decision to permit the accumulation of the print data is made, and prohibits the accumulation of the print data when the decision to prohibits the accumulation of the print data is made.

Abstract: An ink set includes a first ink that contains a white material and a first resin; and a second ink that contains a color material other than the white material and a second resin, wherein the first resin includes a component (A) causing cracks when resin of 0.5 g is dropped onto a slide glass and is dried at a temperature of 50° C. and a humidity of 0% RH for 10 minutes, and wherein the second resin includes a component (B) of at least one of polyolefin wax and ethylene vinyl acetate resin.

Abstract: A machine for printing an object includes: a chassis, at least four inkjet printing heads respectively suitable for orienting jets of ink toward the object in at least four printing directions, and a system for maintaining and moving printing heads fastened on the chassis and suitable for moving the printing heads between a number of positions relative to the chassis. The system is suitable so that, in each of the number of positions, the printing directions are separate from one another and pass through a same central axis (C). The central axes correspond to the number of positions respectively situated at a number of distances (D) from the chassis.

Abstract: A colorant, lactone having a content in a range of 5% by mass to 40% by mass, a first solvent having a water vapor pressure of 2 hPa or more and a content in a range of 5% by mass to 18% by mass at 20° C., and a second solvent having a water vapor pressure of 0.9 hPa or more and a content in a range of 2% by mass to 80% by mass at 20° C. are contained, a sum of the content of the first solvent and the content of the second solvent is 20% by mass or more, and the second solvent is at least one solvent selected from a group consisting of (poly)alkylene glycol monoalkyl ether and (poly)alkylene glycol dialkyl ether.

Abstract: An inkjet recording method including applying stimuli to inkjet recording ink to make the ink jet onto recording medium, wherein the recording medium includes support, and surface layer provided on at least one surface of the support, where transfer amount of pure water with contact time of 100 ms determined by measuring the surface of the recording medium to which the surface layer is provided by dynamic scanning absorptometer is 1 to 10 mL/m2, the recording medium is surface-treated through corona discharge or plasma treatment, the ink contains water-dispersible colorant, organic solvent, surfactant, and water, the organic solvent contains at least one polyhydric alcohol having equilibrium moisture content of 30% by mass or greater at 23° C. and 80% RH, and dynamic surface tension of the ink, as measured by maximum bubble pressure method with surface lifetime of 15 ms, is 35 mN/m or lower at 25° C.

Abstract: An ink comprising an encapsulated particulate solid and a liquid vehicle wherein: I) the encapsulated particulate solid comprises a particulate solid encapsulated with a cross-linked dispersant shell; and II) the ink comprises the components: a.from 0.1 to 20 parts of the encapsulated particulate solid; b.from 20 to 40 parts of glycerol; c.from 1 to 30 parts of ethylene glycol; d.from 0 to 20 parts of 2-pyrrolidone; e.from 0.01 to 3 parts of surfactant; f.from 0 to 10 parts of water-soluble polymer; g.from 0 to 20 parts of polymer particles; h.from 0 to 2 parts of biocide; i.from 20 to 75 parts of water; wherein all the parts are by weight and the sum of the components a. to i. is 100 parts.

Abstract: A print head comprising a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles extending therethrough, a piezoelectric bending mode actuator associated with each nozzle and connected with the respective nozzle so as to provide a plurality of independently actuatable nozzles, and a mount for, in use, connecting the nozzle plate to a liquid printer, wherein, in use, each nozzle can be driven at its resonant frequency such that motion of the driven nozzle causes liquid to be ejected only from the driven nozzle.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a liquid ejection substrate having an ejection port surface, a support substrate for supporting the liquid ejection substrate, having two first positioning portions being in contact with an attaching portion, to which the liquid ejection head is attached, to determine the position of the liquid ejection head with respect to the attaching portion in a predetermined direction, and a housing for supporting the support substrate, having a second positioning portion being in contact with the attaching portion to determine the position of the liquid ejection head with respect to the attaching portion in the predetermined direction. A surface perpendicular to the ejection port surface and extending along the predetermined direction, having the second positioning portion, is disposed between two surfaces perpendicular to the ejection port surface and extending along the predetermined direction, each having one of the first positioning portions.

Abstract: An ink set includes a metallic ink composition containing a metal pigment and at least one curable ink composition selected from the group consisting of a chromatic ink composition, a black ink composition, and a white ink composition.

Abstract: An ink set for an inkjet printer. The ink set includes an aqueous first ink comprising a first colorant and absent any potassium ions; and an aqueous second ink comprising a second colorant and potassium ions. The second aqueous ink comprises an AI(III) additive in an amount greater than the first ink.

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: To provide an inkjet ink composition that has excellent discharge stability and gives an ink image film having excellent substrate adhesion and film hardness, and an inkjet recording method employing the inkjet ink composition. An inkjet ink composition comprises (Component A) a dendritic polymer compound having a weight-average molecular weight of 3,000 to 100,000 and having a constituent repeating unit represented by Formula (I); (Component B) a polymerization initiator; and (Component C) a radically polymerizable compound. (In Formula (I), R1 and R2 independently denote a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbons, R3 denotes an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbons, and R2 and R3 may be bonded to form a ring structure.

Abstract: A multipurpose printer and techniques for operating the printer are presented. A printer includes first and second print elements. During a first mode of operation for the printer, both the first and second print elements are configured to image both first and second sides of print media passing through the printer. During a second mode of operation, the first print element is prevented from interfacing with at least portions of the first side of the media that include adhesive materials affixed thereto.

Abstract: An ink for aqueous inkjet recording contains: water; a hydrosoluble organic solvent; a pigment; and polycarbonate-based urethane resin particles, wherein the pigment contains a geminalbis phosphonic acid group and/or a geminalbis phosphonate group.

Abstract: A water-based inkjet ink for tampering prevention which readily allows detection of evidence of tampering by visual inspection using a variety of organic solvents on the written content of a printed article for financial securities or the like, a method for inkjet printing using the same, and a printed article. The water-based inkjet ink for tampering detection contains at least one type of disperse or oil-soluble dye which includes no cyano groups or azo groups, at least one type of dispersing agent, at least one type of water-soluble organic solvent and water.

Abstract: The current document discloses an inkjet ink that is characterized by exceptionally low sedimentation rate of glass frit and pigment particles. Practically, the ink reversibly gels upon extended standing, thus preventing sedimentation entirely.