Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a conveying belt, a recording head, and a flushing controller. The conveying belt includes the plurality of openings formed as a plurality of rows of openings, each row composed of openings arranged at predetermined intervals in a widthwise direction of the conveying belt. The openings of each of the plurality of rows of openings include overlapped portions at which the openings are over-lapped with the openings of any other of the plurality of rows of openings along a widthwise direction of the conveying belt. The flushing controller allows the recording head to do flushing by allowing each of all the nozzles inclusive of the nozzles facing the overlapped portions to eject ink a predetermined number of times.

Abstract: A method is provided for printing onto a décor paper and/or foil that may be suitable for being used in decorative panels. The method may involve providing a printable substrate. A pattern may be printed on the printable substrate by ejecting droplets of ink by means of at least one inkjet printing head that may include one or more nozzles. After a first predetermined time period, the printing operation may be interrupted for a second predetermined time period and/or a controlling frequency of the printhead may be changed for a second predetermined time period.

Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for selecting a print head of a 3D printing machine to apply 3D printing material at one or more positions in a printed 3D object. Embodiments of the present invention may include, in the selection process one or more elements pertaining for example to: geometry of the received 3D model; colorization of the received 3D model; transparency of the received 3D model; properties of the 3D printing material; and constraints of the 3D printing machine.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a white ink jet head, a non-white ink jet head, and a control section that controls performing recording by performing a main scan a plurality of times in which, while a position of an ink jet head relative to the recording medium is moved, an ink composition is ejected from the ink jet head and is applied to the recording medium. The control section performs recording in a first recording mode in which the white ink composition and the non-white ink composition are applied to the same scan region of the recording medium by the same main scan and recording in a second recording mode in which the white ink composition and the non-white ink composition are applied to the same scan region of the recording medium by different main scans.

Abstract: A printing method and a printing device are provided. The printing method includes: determining, according to layer printing data of an object to be printed, a trip starting point and/or a trip ending point in a scanning direction for each trip of multiple trips required for a print head to print a preset layer, where the trip starting point and/or a trip ending point of at least one trip matches a contour of the object to be printed in the trip (S101); and performing layer printing for the preset layer according to the trips (S102).

Abstract: A method of printing on a polymeric article includes applying a decoration-forming deposit on a transfer blanket. The method further includes transferring the decoration-forming deposit from the transfer unit to the polymeric article to provide a decoration on the polymeric article.

Abstract: An arm-type assistance device includes a pillar, a first support portion, a first arm, a second support portion, a second arm, a third arm, an operating unit, and a cargo holding unit. The first arm includes a first member, a first air cylinder, and a second member. The first support portion, the first member, the second support portion, and the second member form a parallel linkage. The parallel linkage is assisted by the first air cylinder. The arm-type assistance device further includes a controller that is configured to control pressure of first air cylinder. The third arm includes a second air cylinder. The controller controls pressure of the second air cylinder. A dimension in an axial direction of the second arm is greater than a dimension in an axial direction of the first arm.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage, a tank, and a flow passage. The carriage includes a liquid ejecting recording head and reciprocates in first and second directions. The flow passage supplies liquid from the tank to the recording head, and includes a fixed flow passage, a first flow passage, and a second flow passage. The fixed flow passage is connected to the tank and does not to follow a movement of the carriage. The first flow passage is branched off from the fixed flow passage, is connected to the recording head in the first direction, and follows the carriage movement. The second flow passage is branched off from the fixed flow passage, is connected to the recording head in the second direction, and follows the carriage movement. After the carriage moves in the first direction, stops, and moves in the second direction, liquid is sucked from the recording head.

Abstract: A method includes providing a printhead for printing an image on a surface from two different printhead positions relative to the surface, the two different printhead positions at first and second orientations, wherein the at least one printhead and the surface move relative to each other along a print path having two potentially overlapping swathes, determining an overlap area on the surface for the two overlapping swathes wherein the overlap area is to be printed on from either of the two different printhead positions, determining for each position in the overlap area at which an inkjet drop may be printed the angle of incidence at the surface of that drop, and selecting a stitch point or region in the overlap area wherein the difference between the angles of incidence at the surface of drops from the two printhead positions is kept within an acceptable limit.

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

Abstract: A material ejection system, a print head, a 3D printer, and a method for material ejection is provided. The material ejection system comprises: a housing; a plate provided in the housing and dividing the housing in an upper space and a lower space, wherein the lower space is configured to hold a material for ejection; a controller unit; one or more material ejection units each comprising: a membrane formed by two essentially parallel slits in the plate, a first electrode provided above the membrane in the upper space, a piezoelectric element provided on the first electrode, a second electrode provided on the piezoelectric element, wherein the first and second electrodes are each electrically connected to the controller unit for providing a voltage to the piezoelectric element, and an extension member provided underneath the membrane extending into the lower space.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharging apparatus including: a liquid discharging head having a nozzle; an electrode; a voltage supplier; a first output part configured to output a first signal corresponding to an electric change, of the electrode or the liquid discharging head, caused in a case that the liquid discharging head performs inspection driving for discharging a liquid from the nozzle toward the electrode; a second output part connected to the electrode; a high pass filter; a third output part connected to the electrode via the high pass filter; and a controller. The controller is configured to: determine whether the liquid is normally discharged based on the first signal; and determine whether a short circuit is formed between the liquid discharging head and the electrode based on a second signal outputted from the second output part and a third signal outputted from the third output part.

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

Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus capable of performing appropriate processing under a predetermined usage agreement. To this end, the information processing apparatus receives information on an agreement period of a predetermined agreement from a server. Then, the information processing apparatus sets itself to a first state or a second state based on a current time and date and the agreement period received from the server, the first state being a state in which a predetermined service based on the predetermined agreement is unavailable, the second state being a state in which the service is available.

Abstract: A method including: a conveying step of conveying a continuous sheet to be a component of a disposable worn article in a longitudinal direction; a printing step of repeatedly printing a predetermined pattern by spraying ink from a first group of nozzles of an inkjet print head onto a surface of the continuous sheet; and a flushing step of performing a flushing operation of spraying ink from at least a second group of nozzles of the head onto the surface of the continuous sheet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a color conversion panel which may include a first pixel area, a second pixel area, a third pixel area, and a non-pixel area positioned between the first pixel area, the second pixel area, and the third pixel area; a substrate; a light blocking layer in a non-pixel area on a substrate, a color filter layer including a first color filter, a second color filter, and a third color filter; a color conversion layer including a first color conversion pattern on the first color filter, a second color conversion pattern on the second color filter, and a light transmission pattern on third color filter; a transmission bank between the first color conversion pattern, the second color conversion pattern, and the light transmission pattern; an opening in the transmission bank; and a reflection bank in the opening of the transmission bank.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to advanced image signal processing technology including encoded signals and digital watermarking.

Abstract: Present invention comprise sensor label, printer assembly, method and system for production and initializing the sensor label, and a method for monitoring the temperature chain of a transport session with goods under transport and/or storage.

Abstract: A plurality of nozzle rows include a first nozzle row including first nozzles, a second nozzle row including second nozzles, and a third nozzle row including third nozzles. The third nozzle row is provided between the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row in a relative movement direction. When the first ink from the first nozzle is replaced at least by the second ink from the second nozzle and the third ink from the third nozzle, an edge portion of an output image to be formed is formed in such a manner that a first use rate is lower than a second use rate, the first use rate being a use rate of the second nozzle for the edge portion of the output image, the second use rate being a use rate of the second nozzle for a non-edge portion of the output image.

Abstract: An illumination control method of LED lamps for ink-jet printers including a recording head in which ink discharge printing ranges are formed in a printing direction and an LED lamp in which light emitting diodes are arranged at a rear side of the recording head with respect to the printing direction. In an ink-jet printer in which the light-emitting diodes are divided into plural areas and the light amount for each area can be individually controlled by a controller, and among the light-emitting diodes, the light amount of the light-emitting diode that first scans a glossy printed surface is set to a light amount that does not cause ink curing. The light amount of the light-emitting diode of the area that first scans is set so the total light amount on the glossy printed surface is less than or equal to the critical exposure amount of the integrated illuminance.

Abstract: A method of driving an inkjet head having a nozzle and a pressure generator, a plurality of droplets of the ink discharged in response to a series of the drive signals being caused to hit a recording medium to form a single pixel. The method includes, applying, to the pressure generator, the series of the drive signals including a first one of the drive signals that has a first voltage amplitude and a second one of the drive signals that has a second voltage amplitude larger than the first voltage amplitude. A last drive signal in the series of the drive signals is the second one of the drive signals. The first voltage amplitude and the second voltage amplitude are determined such that a ratio of (first voltage amplitude)/(second voltage amplitude) has a value corresponding to a specific gravity of the ink to be discharged.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid discharging apparatus including a drive signal output circuit that displaces between a first potential and a second potential, and a discharging portion discharging liquid, in which the drive signal output circuit includes a modulation circuit, an amplification circuit, and a demodulation circuit that includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor and outputs a drive signal, the first potential is 25 V or higher, the first capacitor and the second capacitor are coupled to each other in parallel, a change rate of an electrostatic capacitance of the first capacitor when a direct-current voltage is supplied to the first capacitor is smaller than a change rate of an electrostatic capacitance of the second capacitor when the direct-current voltage is supplied to the second capacitor, and an equivalent series resistance component of the second capacitor is smaller than an equivalent series resistance component of the first capacitor.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid discharging apparatus including a drive signal output circuit outputting a drive signal that displaces between a first potential and a second potential, and a discharging portion including a piezoelectric element that is driven based on the drive signal and discharging liquid, in which the drive signal output circuit includes a modulation circuit that outputs a modulation signal obtained by modulating a base drive signal that is a base of the drive signal, an amplification circuit that outputs an amplified modulation signal obtained by amplifying the modulation signal, and a demodulation circuit that includes a capacitor and outputs the drive signal obtained by demodulating the amplified modulation signal, the first potential is 25 V or higher, and the capacitor is a surface mounting component including a laminated portion in which a resin thin film layer and a metal thin film layer are laminated.

Abstract: A method that is for manufacturing a timepiece provided with a personalized decoration, visible in particular when the timepiece is worn, includes constructing the timepiece and producing the personalized decoration on all or part of a body of the timepiece. Producing the personalized decoration includes selecting from a human-machine interface of an electronic device a single portion of a reference digital graphical representation, in particular of an ephemeral reference digital graphic representation, and applying a coating of decorative material on all or part of the body of the timepiece as a function of the descriptive characteristics of the selected single portion.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object printing method includes first operation of concurrently performing ejection of liquid toward a workpiece by a head, emission of energy toward the workpiece by an energy emitter, and movement of the head and the energy emitter with respect to the workpiece by a moving mechanism, and second operation of concurrently performing emission of energy toward the workpiece by the energy emitter and movement of the head and the energy emitter with respect to the workpiece by the moving mechanism, without performing ejection of liquid by the head. A first irradiation distance, which is a distance between the workpiece and an emission face during execution of the first operation, and a second irradiation distance, which is a distance between the workpiece and the emission face during execution of the second operation, are different from each other.

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes a printhead in which a plurality of ejection ports that eject ink are formed, a carriage mounted with the printhead and reciprocated in a predetermined direction, a conveyance unit to convey a print medium, a platen to support, at a printing position, the conveyed print medium, and an obtaining unit to obtain information regarding a distance from an ejection port surface of the printhead to the print medium at positions in the predetermined direction. The apparatus controls an ink ejection timing in accordance with the information regarding the obtained distance and information corresponding to the number of passes of printing, which is the number of times of moving the carriage to print the image in a unit area of the print medium.

Abstract: A device outputs a first low voltage to a first terminal at a first timing in a period in which a voltage input to a second terminal is a high voltage. After outputting the first low voltage, the device outputs a second high voltage to the first terminal at a second timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a low voltage. After outputting the second high voltage, the device outputs a second low voltage to the first terminal at a third timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a high voltage.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a control section that causes a display section to display a first screen, and a reception section, the first screen includes an operation screen operated by a user, and the operation screen includes i. a first individual selection screen as an individual selection screen for the user to individually select a first formation candidate which is a formation candidate to be formed on a first forming surface of a three-dimensional object, ii. a second individual selection screen as the individual selection screen for the user to individually select a second formation candidate which is the formation candidate to be formed on a second forming surface different from the first forming surface of the three-dimensional object, and iii. a combination selection screen for the user to select a combination of the formation candidate including the first formation candidate and the second formation candidate.

Abstract: A producing method for a print by a printing system including a printing device that is manually moved with respect to a medium to perform printing on the medium, the producing method including the printing system determining whether a print plan size of a print image is a one-pass printable size, which is a size printable in one pass by the printing device, and, when it is determined that the print plan size is not the one-pass printable size, the printing device printing the print image in the one pass.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a head that discharges ink droplets, and a control unit that performs discharge control of the head. When printing a boundary region formed by an end portion of a first image and an end portion of a second image that is lighter than the first image, in discharge control of a specific ink, among a plurality of inks for printing the end portion of the first image, that exhibits lightness, when forming the end portion of the first image, lower than lightness of the end portion of the second image by a predetermined value or more, the control unit performs specific ink discharge control to cause a number of dots per unit area constituting the end portion of the first image to be smaller than a number of dots per unit area constituting a normal portion, of the first image, that is adjacent to the end portion of the first image.

Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a channel unit having a nozzle and an individual channel; an actuator applying pressure to liquid in the individual channel to discharge the liquid from the nozzle; a driving circuit electrically connected to the actuator and supplying driving signal to the actuator; and a controller. In a case of determining that a single-sided recording is to be executed, the controller supplies the driving signal corresponding to each of gradation values for each of pixels when discharging the liquid toward one of a first surface and a second surface of a recording medium; in a case of determining that the double-sided recording is to be executed, the controller supplies the driving signal corresponding to each of the gradation values for each of the pixels when discharging the liquid toward the first surface and when discharging the liquid toward the second surface.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a control unit configured to execute image processing including a division and a combination of image data, and a printing unit configured to perform printing on a printing medium based on image data after the image processing, wherein the control unit acquires image data as a target of the n-th image processing, generates an upper image whose lower side is horizontal, and a lower image whose upper side is horizontal by dividing the image data by a horizontal line, generates combined image data whose upper side and lower side are horizontal by combining a lower image whose upper side is horizontal and that is generated by the division in the image processing at the (n?1)-th time, on the upper side of the upper image, and causes the printing unit to execute printing based on the combined image data.

Abstract: There is provided with printing apparatus. A printing unit prints an image on a printing medium and is able to move. A cutter unit is able to connect with or separate from the printing unit, and, by following a movement of the printing unit, cuts the printing medium. A control unit, in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied after the printing medium is cut by the cutter unit, causes the printing unit to perform printing on a succeeding printing medium, while moving the printing unit in a state in which the cutter unit is connected with the printing unit.

Abstract: For a multi-pass printing, an image of a unit area is printed by M printing scans of M print regions of first and second nozzle arrays. Each of N pieces of column data is printed by a different printing scan. Ejection data for the first nozzle array is generated using a first mask pattern and ejection data for the second nozzle array is generated using a second mask pattern different from the first mask pattern, for each of the N pieces of column data. On that basis, the first mask pattern and the second mask pattern have a complementary relationship in each of the M print regions. Further, in each of the first mask pattern and the second mask pattern, a combination of print regions, of the M print regions, for printing dots at the same position on the print medium has a mutually complementary relationship.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to advanced image signal processing technology including encoded signals and digital watermarking. One claim is directed to a container comprising: a 3004 or 3003 aluminum alloy shell, the 3004 or 3003 aluminum alloy shell comprising an outer surface and an inner surface; a 5182 aluminum alloy lid attached to the 3004 or 3003 aluminum alloy shell; and an opaque ink printed on the outer surface in a 2-dimensional pattern according to a machine-readable signal. The outer surface and the opaque ink printed on the outer surface comprise a spectral reflectance difference at a machine-vision wavelength in a range of 8%-30%, and the machine-readable signal is detectable from imagery representing the opaque ink printed on the outer surface. Of course, other containers, technology, methods, packages, objects, systems and apparatus are described in this disclosure.

Abstract: There is provided a simulation method of predicting a behavior of a curable composition in a process of bringing a plurality of droplets of the curable composition arranged on one of a first member and a second member into contact with an other of the first member and the second member and forming a film of the curable composition on the first member. The method includes generating a link by connecting two adjacent representative points of the plurality of droplets, generating a cell as a closed region formed by a plurality of links, and determining, based on the presence/absence of merging of droplets corresponding to each link forming the cell, whether a bubble is formed in the cell.

Abstract: A recording device includes an endless transporting belt that transports a recording medium in a normal transport direction and a reverse transport direction, a recording head, a cleaning liquid attaching unit that attaches a cleaning liquid to a front surface of the transporting belt, a first blade that comes into contact with the front surface to remove the cleaning liquid attached to the front surface, and a blade moving unit that moves the first blade in approaching and separating directions with respect to the front surface. The blade moving unit causes the first blade to come into contact with the front surface when the transporting belt is rotating in a reverse rotation direction, and causes the first blade to be separated from the front surface when the transporting belt is rotating in a normal rotation direction.

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

Abstract: This disclosure relates to advanced image signal processing technology including encoded signals and digital watermarking.

Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for selecting a print head of a 3D printing machine to apply 3D printing material at one or more positions in a printed 3D object. Embodiments of the present invention may include, in the selection process one or more elements pertaining for example to: geometry of the received 3D model; colorization of the received 3D model; transparency of the received 3D model; properties of the 3D printing material; and constraints of the 3D printing machine.

Abstract: An object is to achieve both good washing fastness and texture by combining a urethane resin of high fracture elongation with a small quantity of crosslinking agent. As a means for achieving the object, a white inkjet ink composition for textile printing is provided that contains a white pigment, a water-dispersible urethane resin having reactivity to cationic compounds, a crosslinking agent, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water; wherein the crosslinking agent is contained by 0.02 to 0.15 parts by mass relative to 1 part by mass of the water-dispersible urethane resin, and as the water-soluble organic solvent, a glycol ether that dissolves by 1 to 60 g in 100 g of water is contained.

Abstract: Example implementations provide a controller for controlling printing of a printer, the controller comprising: an input interface for accessing an image to be printed; an image processor to identify at least one selected feature within the image; and circuitry: a. to control printing of said at least one selected feature using a respective print operation; and b. to control printing of said image, other said at least one selected feature, using a further respective print operation; c. said respective print operation being different to said further respective print operation.

Abstract: An integrated vertical inkjet printer for printing on a vertical substrate, comprising: a controller; a main trolley carrying a main trolley body; and a printing assembly, comprising: a plurality of inkjet printing head assemblies mounted on a platform; a vertical telescopic tandem beam system comprising: a first printing beam, wherein said platform is slidable along said first printing beam; and a second printing beam detachably insertable between said first printing beam and said main trolley body, a first motor configured to drive said platform vertically; and a second motor configured to drive said first printing beam along said second printing beam.

Abstract: An actuator drive circuit of a liquid discharge apparatus includes a discharge waveform generating circuit, a sleep waveform generating circuit, and a wake waveform generating circuit. The discharge waveform generating circuit is configured to generate a plurality of drive waveforms to be applied to actuators of the liquid discharge apparatus for liquid discharge. The drive waveforms correspond to gradation values of gradation scale data. The sleep waveform generating circuit is configured to generate a sleep waveform to be applied to the actuators. The sleep waveform causes a voltage of the actuators to transition to a first voltage without liquid discharge. The wake waveform generating circuit is configured to generate a wake waveform to be applied to the actuators. The wake waveform causes the voltage of the actuators to transition to a second voltage higher than the first voltage without liquid discharge.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a printing portion and a control portion. The printing portion executes a printing operation including ejecting a liquid from a nozzle onto a medium. The control portion executes an initial operation upon supply of power and executes the printing operation in accordance with a print instruction. The initial operation and the printing operation include a common printing operation that is common to the initial operation and the printing operation. When the control portion does not receive the print instruction during execution of the initial operation, the control portion executes the initial operation including the common printing operation. When the control portion receives the print instruction during execution of the initial operation, the control portion omits the common printing operation from the initial operation.

Abstract: To obtain a printing inspection device that an optimum binarization threshold value in the printing inspection device that captures an image including a two-dimensional code printed by a general-purpose printer such as an ink jet printer, as a multi-level image, creates a binary image from the multi-level image with a predetermined binarization threshold value, and then performs decoding. Before a practical printing inspection is performed, a read test is performed. The read test is performed on one or more inspection samples by binarizing a multi-level image with brightness values for all gradations as a threshold value. A range (maximum value and minimum value) of readable brightness values is obtained, and then a median value between the minimum value and the maximum value is used as a binarization threshold value for a two-dimensional code image in a practical printing inspection.

Abstract: An inkjet image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a transfer body by discharging an ink droplet from an inkjet head; and a hardware processor that detects a landing state of the ink droplet that has been discharged and landed on the transfer body and changes an image forming condition when the image is formed so that a detected landing state approaches a target landing state.

Abstract: An integrated circuit to drive a plurality of fluid actuation devices includes a fire line, a plurality of memory elements, a first switch, and a plurality of second switches. The first switch is electrically coupled between the fire line and a first side of each memory element of the plurality of memory elements. Each second switch is electrically coupled to a second side of a respective memory element of the plurality of memory elements.

Abstract: A medium transport device includes a transport section transporting a medium in a contact manner, an electrode detecting static electricity charged on the medium, and a static electricity detection circuit. The static electricity detection circuit includes a voltage clamp circuit clamping a detection signal input from the electrode to a predetermined voltage, an amplifier circuit amplifying an output signal of the voltage clamp circuit, a rectifier circuit rectifying an output signal of the amplifier circuit, and a comparator circuit serving as a determination circuit determining whether the medium exists based on an output signal of the rectifier circuit.

Abstract: A driving method enables a liquid feeding apparatus using a driving element in the form of a membrane to feed a liquid at high liquid feeding accuracy. To this end, a voltage applied to the driving element is controlled in such a way as to repeat a first period in which the voltage is changed from a first voltage to a second voltage and a second period which is a longer period than the first period and in which the voltage is changed from the second voltage to the first voltage, and such that an inflection point is provided in each predetermined interval during the first period based on a Helmholtz vibration period unique to the liquid feeding apparatus.