MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160107375 | LAYERED-BODY PRODUCTION METHOD - This invention is directed to favorable transfer of a transfer layer to a three-dimensionally layered ink and improvements in transfer efficiency. To this end, a layered-body production method is provided. The method includes a three-dimensional layer forming step of applying an ink on a base material ( | 04-21-2016 |
20150336388 | PRINTER HEAD CLEANING DEVICE AND INKJET PRINTING DEVICE - The object is to reliably remove dirt and/or stains on the nozzle surface of a printer head. To accomplish the object, an inkjet printing device ( | 11-26-2015 |
20150321480 | INK SUPPLY DEVICE - An ink supply device is provided for supplying ink ( | 11-12-2015 |
20150290951 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTED PRODUCT - The object is to obtain a printed product excellent in fastness to washing. To achieve the object, a printing method is provided. The printing method includes a forming step of forming a solvent UV ink layer ( | 10-15-2015 |
20150273836 | INK JET RECORDING DEVICE - It is an object of the invention to provide an inkjet recording device that can clean a blade of a wiper to which ink had adhered, whereby nozzle clogging in an inkjet head and ink color mixing are prevented to enable recording with high image quality. As a solution, an inkjet recording device ( | 10-01-2015 |
20150258797 | INK JET RECORDING DEVICE, LIQUID SUPPLYING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INK JET RECORDING DEVICE - A problem is aimed to provide a liquid supplying technique that can efficiently perform liquid filling by a compact configuration, and an ink jet recording technique that uses this technique. As a solution thereto, in a liquid supplying device ( | 09-17-2015 |
20150240091 | INK COMPOSITION - An ink composition is provided and attains a more stable dischargeability without adversely affecting the drying property of a print object. As the solution, the ink composition contains water, a disperse dye, glycols, and an alcoholamine. | 08-27-2015 |
20150224765 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - It aims to provide an inkjet printer and a printing method that appropriately performs printing with high accuracy on print objects having various shapes. As a solution therefor, an inkjet printer is configured to perform printing using an inkjet scheme on a print object and includes an inkjet head that discharges ink droplets, a guide rail that retains the inkjet head by making the inkjet head face the print object and that is a Y direction extending member extending in a predeterminedly set Y direction, and an X direction driving section that moves the guide rail in an X direction and upon printing, the inkjet head moves along the guide rail and discharges ink droplets toward the print object, and the X direction driving section includes a ball screw and moves the guide rail in the X direction in accordance with a rotation amount of the ball screw. | 08-13-2015 |
20150217563 | PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device that can continuously print on a plurality of recording media even if a user is not beside the printing device over a long period of time is provided. The printing device includes a tray storing container ( | 08-06-2015 |
20150183157 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device and method for performing high image quality printing on a three-dimensional object at low cost is provided. The method includes a discharging step that discharges ink onto a recording medium | 07-02-2015 |
20150130123 | MEDIUM-MACHINING DEVICE AND MEDIUM-MACHINING METHOD - Provided are a medium-machining device and medium-machining method capable of improving conveying precision when a medium to be machined is conveyed and thereby machining the medium with high precision. As a solution, the medium-machining device | 05-14-2015 |
20150022601 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording apparatus is provided and includes: a carriage on which a recording head for discharging ink droplets onto the recording medium is mounted and that moves relative to the recording medium; a platen that supports the recording medium at a predetermined position; and heating means for heating the recording medium, in which heating means includes a platen heater that is mounted on the platen and heats the recording medium from a lower side of the recording medium, a carriage heater that is mounted on the carriage and heats the recording medium from an upper side of the recording medium, and an upper heater that is disposed on a downstream side of the carriage in a moving direction of the recording medium and heats the recording medium from the upper side of the recording medium. | 01-22-2015 |
20140375734 | INK JET PRINTING METHOD AND INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS - A printed material having excellent smoothness is provided even when a resin ink is used. An ink jet printing method uses an ink jet printing apparatus | 12-25-2014 |
20140354744 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - The invention provides ways of appropriately performing image transfer printing. A printing apparatus for performing image transfer printing is provided that includes: a transfer belt provided as a transfer image forming member on which a transfer image is created; an inkjet head that creates the transfer image on the transfer belt; a counter heater provided as a heating member that heats the transfer belt; a transfer roller provided as a transfer member that transfers the transfer image to a medium; and a strong UV irradiator provided as an image fixing unit that fixes to the medium the image transferred to the medium. The inkjet head ejects ink droplets of an ink containing a solvent that is removed by heating with the counter heater. The ink has a viscosity of 50 mPa·sec or more after the solvent is removed by heating with the counter heater. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354743 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is an ink-jet printer including a printer head which ejects ink onto a medium while moving relative to the medium in a main-scanning direction, an LED module which exposes the ink ejected onto the medium to light while moving in the main-scanning direction together with the printer head so as to cure the ink, and LED light sources which are provided to the LED module at a position near the medium, which are plurally arranged at least in the main-scanning direction, and which are divided into a plurality of areas in accordance with an arrangement position with respect to the LED module to adjust an amount of light during light emission for each area. | 12-04-2014 |
20140349031 | COLORED ALUMINUM ARTICLE PRODUCING METHOD, COLORING METHOD, AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - This invention is to appropriately color aluminum materials. A method for producing a colored aluminum article by coloring an aluminum material includes: a mask forming step S | 11-27-2014 |
20140347423 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - To appropriately perform textile printing by an ink jet method on a media of fabric. A printing apparatus for performing printing of a design represented by a preset target color on a medium of fabric by an ink jet method includes a plurality of the ink jet heads, each of the ink jet heads discharges an ink droplet of each of target color inks which is adjusted to present its corresponding target color on the medium. The printing apparatus performs printing of a design represented by a plurality of the target colors that are different from each other on the medium. Each of the ink jet heads discharges an ink droplet of each of target color inks which is adjusted to present its corresponding target color on the medium. | 11-27-2014 |
20140347421 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND INK SET - The present disclosure provides ways to more appropriately perform high-quality printing with gradation inks. The disclosure provides a printing apparatus for printing using an inkjet scheme. The apparatus includes a plurality of inkjet heads that eject ink droplets of a first-color ink of at least one color selected from a plurality of colors. The plurality of inkjet heads respectively eject ink droplets of different concentrations of the first-color ink (magenta or cyan). At least one of the plurality of inkjet heads ejects ink droplets of a resin dispersed ink, and the resin dispersed ink is a ink in which dispersing particles of a colored binder resin as a dispersoid is dispersed in a dispersion medium. | 11-27-2014 |
20140313253 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - To provide an ink jet recording apparatus in which the residual vibration of any ink can be prevented to avoid the spread of the ink at an opening portion and to perform the continuous discharge of the ink stably. An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a recording head including a pressure chamber and a nozzle, the pressure chamber containing ink, the nozzle communicating with the pressure chamber and having an opening portion formed therein to discharge the ink, a piezoelectric element forming part of the pressure chamber, and a driving signal producing section producing a driving signal to be input to the piezoelectric element to change the volume of the pressure chamber. | 10-23-2014 |
20140247298 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PRINTING USING AN INK JET METHOD WITH RESPECT TO A MEDIUM - A printing apparatus in which printing is performed using an ink jet method includes a first ink jet head that discharges ink droplets of ink of a first color which is a color of the same color type as an expression color that is set in advance, a second ink jet head that discharges ink droplets of ink of a second color which is a color of the same color type as the expression color and is different from the first color, and a control unit which makes the first and the second ink jet head perform printing with the expression color on a medium by setting a ratio of a discharge amount of ink of the first color by the first ink jet head to a discharge amount of ink of the second color by the second ink jet head to a discharge rate which is calculated in advance. | 09-04-2014 |
20140220254 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing method according to the present invention includes an applying step of applying a curable resin-containing ink onto a transfer sheet ( | 08-07-2014 |
20140132679 | INK PACK - Ultraviolet curable ink contained in an ink pack is prevented from curing during storage. The second resin layer, the metal layer, and the protective layer in the upper film of the surface portion of the ink pack extend from the base layer (extended portion). The metal layer has a light-shielding property, and the extended portion is folded back and attached to the surface of the lower film of the side-surface portion. The metal layer having a light-shielding property thus covers the base layers exposed at the end surface of the joint portion, and can prevent external ultraviolet rays from reaching the ink through the base layers. | 05-15-2014 |
20140132665 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS, CLOGGED NOZZLE RECOVERING METHOD AND CLOGGED NOZZLE RECOVERY PROGRAM - An inkjet printing apparatus, a clogged nozzle recovering method, and a clogged nozzle recovery program are provided. The inkjet printing apparatus includes a head, a tank, a first pump, a cap, a second pump and a control means. The head is provided with a nozzle face and a plurality of nozzles. The tank is connected with the head through a tube. The first pump is connected with the tank and maintains the tank at a constant negative pressure. The cap for suction covers a part of the nozzles on the nozzle face of the head. The second pump is connected with the cap for sucking an inside of the cap. The control means controls to lower the negative pressure of the tank that is maintained by the first pump when the inside of the cap is sucked by the second pump. | 05-15-2014 |
20140132664 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND CLOGGED NOZZLE RECOVERING METHOD - The present invention provides an inkjet printing apparatus in which aggregate or the like clogged in a nozzle is sucked to recover the clogged nozzle and provides a clogged nozzle recovering method. The inkjet printing apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a cap which is structured to cover some of plural nozzles formed in a nozzle face of a head of an inkjet printer, a pressure sensor which acquires a pressure in an inside of the cap in a state that the some of the plural nozzles are covered by the cap, a suction means which sucks the inside of the cap with a pressure lower than a negative pressure at which a meniscus of a nozzle that is not covered with the cap is broken, and a nozzle recovery judgment means which judges recovery of a nozzle by comparing a reference pressure value, which is obtained when nozzles without being clogged are covered by the cap and sucked and is stored beforehand, with a pressure value which is outputted from the pressure sensor. | 05-15-2014 |
20140125746 | TRANSFER PRINTING INK AND TRANSFER PRINTING METHOD - Provided are a transfer printing ink and a transfer printing method which are advantageous in that an increased number of types of transfer media can be employed. The transfer printing ink of the present invention contains a solvent, a sublimation dye, and a binder resin, wherein the binder resin is dispersed, emulsified, or suspended in the solvent, and the binder resin has a melting point which is higher than the lowest temperature at which the sublimation dye sublimates. | 05-08-2014 |
20140125745 | DAMPER APPARATUS AND INK JET PRINTER - A sub tank configured to supply ink supplied from a main tank to a print head while suppressing a pressure fluctuation is formed with an ink storage chamber in which the ink is stored, and includes a filter configured to allow passage of the ink while suppressing passage of the fine particles when the fine particles of the ink are precipitated, an ink introducing portion configured to introduce the ink supplied from the outside into the ink storage chamber, and an ink discharging portion configured to discharge the ink in the ink storage chamber to the outside. The filter divides the ink storage chamber into an introducing-side storage chamber communicating with the ink introducing portion, and a discharging-side storage chamber communicating with the ink discharging portion, and the discharging-side storage chamber is arranged on an upper side of the introducing-side storage chamber in the perpendicular direction. | 05-08-2014 |
20140118453 | INK JET PRINTER, OBJECT-TO-BE-PRINTED HOLDING MEMBER, AND PRINTING METHOD - When printing on 3-dimensional objects such as covers for handheld terminals, generation of stray light may be adequately suppressed. There is provided an ink jet printer including an ink jet head, an ultraviolet irradiating portions, and an object-to-be-printed holding member, wherein the object-to-be-printed holding member includes a 3-dimensional object holding portion configured to hold a 3-dimensional object, and a light-shielding portion, the 3-dimensional object holding portion changes an orientation of the 3-dimensional object to bring a first surface to be printed and a second surface to be printed respectively to oppose the ink jet head, the light-shielding portion is provided so as to be capable of advancing and retracting in a direction of discharge at least at some position, and changes a shielding area that shields ultraviolet rays in a direction orthogonal to the direction of discharge. | 05-01-2014 |
20140113082 | INK-JET PRINTING INK AND PRINTING METHOD - Not only the applied ink has improved weathering resistance after the printing, but also the ink can be advantageously cured during the printing. A printing method having: an ink application step for applying an ultraviolet curing ink onto a recording medium, wherein the ultraviolet curing ink contains an ultraviolet light absorber having a transmittance with respect to an ultraviolet light having a wavelength of 360 nm or more, which is higher than a transmittance with respect to an ultraviolet light having a wavelength of less than 360 nm; and an ultraviolet light irradiation step for irradiating the ink on the recording medium with an ultraviolet light having a wavelength of from 365 to 410 nm from an LED. | 04-24-2014 |
20140111585 | PRINTER, INK SUPPLY DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - To properly perform deaeration of ink in an ink-jet printer. An ink supply portion includes an ink tank, a deaeration portion, an upstream-side ink flow path and a downstream side ink flow path, in which the deaeration portion includes an ink branching portion, plural deaeration modules arranged in parallel in an ink flow path, plural pumps, and an ink converging portion. Respective plural deaeration modules are arranged between the ink branching portion and the ink converging portion in corresponding branch flow paths, and respective pumps are arranged in series to corresponding deaeration modules in the branch flow paths, allowing ink to flow in corresponding deaeration modules. | 04-24-2014 |
20140043418 | INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - Provided is an inkjet printing apparatus that can dry a medium immediately after printing or bleed-through ink while preventing the medium or bleed-through ink from being in contact with a dryer. In an inkjet printing apparatus including an inkjet head ( | 02-13-2014 |
20140015908 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing method includes applying a curable resin-containing ink onto an inked surface of a transfer sheet, heating the ink applied on the inked surface of the transfer sheet to increase viscosity of the ink, transferring the heated ink on the inked surface of transfer sheet to a printing object directly or indirectly, and curing the ink transferred to the printing object. | 01-16-2014 |
20140013908 | CUTTING APPARATUS, CUTTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A cutting apparatus includes a blade relatively movable with respect to a media to cut the media along a cutting line. The blade is so constructed to pre-cut the media along the cutting line to leave non-cutting portions and to cut the non-cutting portions after pre-cutting the media. | 01-16-2014 |
20140002560 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20130314470 | METHOD FOR PRINTING METAL-TONE PRINTED MATTER AND METAL-TONE PRINTED MATTER - In a method for printing a metal-tone printed matter, a metallic ink which includes metal particles dispersed in a solvent is applied onto a smooth printing surface of a printing medium to provide a metallic ink layer containing a metal layer having the metal particles accumulated on a printing surface side closer to the smooth printing surface in the metallic ink layer. The printing medium is reversed to transfer the metallic ink layer onto a material to be transferred while making a smooth surface of the metal layer as a display surface. | 11-28-2013 |
20130293609 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus | 11-07-2013 |
20130278663 | PRINTER, CONTROL DEVICE, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A printer that restarts printing from a desired print position after an emergency stop is provided. A printer according to the present disclosure includes a head printing on a work, a driving motor moving at least one of the head and the work in order to change a print position on the work, a rotary encoder and an encoder counter determining a position of the head relative to the work, a control device supplying electric power to the encoder after excitation of the driving motor is turned off during printing and enabling the encoder counter to continue counting. | 10-24-2013 |
20130271541 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus | 10-17-2013 |
20130269569 | WATER-BASED INK - Water-based ink having characteristics of a metal nanoparcile or metal ion and substantially reduced aggregation is provided. The water-based ink includes a metal compound in which an organic ligand is coordinated to a metal nanoparticle and/or a metal ion, and a coloring pigment and/or a coloring dye. | 10-17-2013 |
20130265367 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - In order to prevent banding between bands printed by an inkjet printer, a print head | 10-10-2013 |
20130010037 | LIQUID CIRCULATION SYSTEM - A liquid circulation system includes an inkjet head formed with a common ink flow passage, an ink cartridge, a supply flow passage through which ink is supplied from the ink cartridge to an inlet of the common ink flow passage, a return flow passage through which the ink is returned from the outlet of the common ink flow passage to the ink cartridge, a tube pump sending the ink in the supply flow passage, a tube pump sending the ink in the return flow passage, a pressurization bellows unit pressurizing the ink in the supply flow passage, a pressure reduction bellows unit depressurizing the ink in the return flow passage, a pressurization regulator maintaining the inlet being a center value “+α” of a designated head value, and a differential pressure regulator by which a differential pressure of the ink between the inlet and the outlet is maintained to be “2α”. | 01-10-2013 |
20130002748 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - A control method is provided for an ink jet recording apparatus | 01-03-2013 |
20120327147 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING IMAGE - An ultraviolet curing ink can be sufficiently leveled, and attachment of, for example, dust can be prevented. In an ink-jet printer, a carriage capable of reciprocating in a scanning direction is mounted with an ink-jet head for ejecting a color ink and a clear ink and ultraviolet irradiation devices for emitting ultraviolet rays. A control unit performs control so that in the forward movement of the carriage, a color ink is ejected and applied to a medium, and in the backward movement of the carriage, ultraviolet rays are irradiated to the color ink deposited on the medium and the color ink is cured. Subsequently, the medium is fed in a feed direction, and the clear ink is ejected and applied to the surface of the cured color ink in the forward movement of the carriage. In the backward movement of the carriage, the clear ink applied to the medium is irradiated by ultraviolet rays and is cured. | 12-27-2012 |
20120313319 | MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE - To provide a device that can execute both of two kinds of processes, at least, for a target medium inexpensively with high accuracy. A plotter | 12-13-2012 |
20120312854 | CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE AND PROCESSING APPARATUS - The control circuit controls the plotter provided with the feeding means for feeding out a roll paper and the processing means for processing the roll paper which is fed out by the feeding means. The control circuit includes the feeding control section which controls the feeding means so that, before the processing means starts processing on one page of the roll paper, a plurality of pages including the one page is fed out in advance and then, the page having been fed out in advance is pulled back and retreated at a position on an upstream side with respect to a processing position of the processing means, and the processing control section which controls the processing means so that processing of the one page is started when an elapsed time of the one page having been fed out in advance has reached a predetermined stand-by time. | 12-13-2012 |
20120312228 | MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE - An object of the invention is to provide a medium processing device which carries out a plurality of processes, such as plotting and cutting, on a medium, such as paper, wherein there is no need to attach and detach units which carry out the plurality of processes, thus simplifying the structure of the device. A medium processing device, which carries out two kinds of processes on paper with a pen and a cutter, includes a carriage including a pen holder which holds the pen, a cutter holder which holds the cutter, and a changeover unit which, in a condition in which the pen holder is holding the pen and the cutter holder is holding the cutter, reduces and increases the distance between one of the pen and cutter and the paper in comparison with the distance between the other and the paper. | 12-13-2012 |
20120306975 | DAMPER APPARATUS, DAMPER TUBE ASSEMBLY, AND INK JET PRINTER - The invention provides a damper apparatus including a housing having a valve chamber and reciprocally moving integrally with a carriage, an inlet port communicating an ink flow channel on the upstream side and the valve chamber, an outlet port communicating the ink flow channel on the downstream side and the valve chamber, and a spherical valve body stored so as to be movable in the valve chamber, wherein the valve body moves relatively to a position for closing the inlet port or the outlet port upon reception of the inertial force in association with the acceleration and deceleration to close the ink flow channel when the carriage is accelerated or decelerated, and the valve body moves relatively to a position for opening the inlet port and the outlet port under its own weight to open the ink flow channel when the carriage is not accelerated and decelerated. | 12-06-2012 |
20120281048 | PATTERN FORMING APPARATUS - To provide a pattern forming apparatus whose operation is restrained in minimum and whose space saving and energy saving can be attained. The printer | 11-08-2012 |
20120270984 | INK - An ink is provided that does not easily cause an offset or blocking upon winding a print, even when the ink contains a lactic acid ester or a lactone solvent. In order to solve such a problem, the ink of the present invention includes: a color; and a ketone compound of the following general formula (1), | 10-25-2012 |
20120262525 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing method and a printing system are provided in which a fast printing speed is achieved, a variety of ultraviolet curable inks can be used, and excellent transfer properties to a printing object can be achieved. First, print processing is performed, thereby printing an image on a transfer pad, next, provisional curing processing is performed, thereby provisionally curing an ultraviolet curable ink applied to the transfer pad, next, transfer processing is performed, thereby transferring the ultraviolet curable ink landed on the transfer pad to a printing object, and next, final curing processing is performed, thereby performing final curing of the ultraviolet curable ink transferred to the printing object. In this way, transfer printing of an image to the printing object can be performed by a single transfer. In addition, if the transfer printing is finished, cleaning processing is performed, thereby cleaning the transfer pad. | 10-18-2012 |
20120249658 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD USING THE SAME - Including either a platen or a flat bed, and a printer head; the printing device is configured in such a way as to print by making a combination of a reciprocating motion of the printer head and an operation of discharging ink toward a white medium. Meanwhile, the printer head includes a plurality of heads individually corresponding to each color. The printing device includes a control unit for setting a test pattern for testing each color, and pattern print areas where the test pattern is printed. The control unit makes a setting in such a way that, for the pattern print area where a test pattern is printed by discharging white ink of a nearly-identical color as a color of the white medium, the test pattern is printed with the white ink on a primer print prepared with black ink. | 10-04-2012 |
20120236328 | PRINT DATA CREATING DEVICE, PRINT DATA CREATING METHOD AND PRINT DATA CREATING PROGRAM - A printer data generating device which is a raster image processor is provided. The raster image processor (RIP) includes, a dot displaced quantity detecting section detecting a displaced quantity of a hitting position of ink, a contour detecting section detecting one pixel corresponding to the contour, a dot size setting section setting a dot size of each pixel to be larger than a resolution pitch based on the displaced quantity detected in the dot displaced quantity detecting section and the pixel corresponding to the contour detected in the contour detecting section. | 09-20-2012 |
20120219717 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FABRIC FOR TEXTILE PRINTING, TEXTILE PRINTING METHOD, AND PROCESSING SOLUTION - Disclosed is a method for producing a method for producing a fabric for textile printing, which is characterized by comprising an impregnation step in which a fabric to be processed is impregnated with a processing solution that contains a solvent and an organic acid having two or more carboxy groups, and a removal step in which the solvent is removed from the fabric to be processed that has been impregnated with the processing solution. | 08-30-2012 |
20120206549 | WASTEWATER PURIFYING SYSTEM, WASHING DEVICE, AND INKJET PRINTER SYSTEM - A wastewater purifying system includes: a wastewater tank which stores wastewater discharged from a washing device which washes a textile subjected to printing by using an inkjet printer; an enzyme/microorganism feeding device which feeds an enzyme and a microorganism which degrade a dye into the wastewater tank; a pH adjusting agent feeding device which feeds a pH adjusting agent into the wastewater tank; a stirring device which stirs the wastewater in the wastewater tank; a heat insulating device which keeps the wastewater tank warm; a filtering device which filters the wastewater by cross-flow filtering using an RO membrane; a pump which pumps the wastewater to the filtering device from the wastewater tank; an ion removing device which removes ions by bringing the filtered water into contact with an ion exchange resin; and a decoloring device which decolors the filtered water by bringing the filtered water into contact with activated carbon. | 08-16-2012 |
20120200649 | LIQUID CIRCULATION SYSTEM AND INK-JET PRINTER - An ink circulation system includes: an ink-jet head in which a shared ink flowing route is formed, an ink tank, a supply flowing route for supplying ink from the ink tank to the shared ink flowing route, a reflux flowing rout for refluxing the ink from the shared ink flowing route to the ink tank, and a differential pressure generating unit for generating a differential pressure in the ink tank. The differential pressure generating unit is equipped with an impeller placed inside the ink tank, and a drive unit placed outside the ink tank. Then, the drive unit operates to turn the impeller, by means of remote driving, for generating a differential pressure between a supply port of the supply flowing route and a reflux port of the reflux flowing route so as to circulate the ink through the ink flowing route. | 08-09-2012 |
20120188303 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL INKJET PRINTER - To reduce unevenness in print density. A three-dimensional inkjet printer has a medium holding portion | 07-26-2012 |
20120188299 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL INKJET PRINTER - To reduce unevenness in print density. A controller of a three-dimensional inkjet printer superimposes noise on a control signal which drive controls an A drive motor | 07-26-2012 |
20120182586 | PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A computer-readble medium stored with a program causing a computer to quantize a gray level causes the computer to perform a pixel selecting process; determining a noise use rate indicating the degree to which a dither matrix noise has an influence on the quantization and an error use rate indicating the degree to which an accumulated error has an influence on the quantization and determining the noise use rate and the error use rate corresponding to the corresponding pixel depending on the gray levels of the pixels sequentially selected in the pixel selecting process; and performing the quantization on the gray levels of the pixels sequentially selected in the pixel selecting process and performing the quantization using the dither matrix noise based on the noise use rate corresponding to the corresponding pixel and using the accumulated error based on the error use rate corresponding to the corresponding pixel. | 07-19-2012 |
20120182340 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - To more appropriately carry out generation of a drive waveform signal used in an actuator drive in an inkjet head. An inkjet printer ( | 07-19-2012 |
20120182336 | PRINTER AND PRINTER CONTROL METHOD - A printer is provided to improve the conveying accuracy of a Y-bar, thus improving printed image quality. The printer includes the Y-bar that extends in a first direction above a flatbed on which a medium is mounted, holds an ink droplet ejecting head unit so that the head unit is movable in the first direction, and is held so as to be movable with respect to the flatbed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The printer includes a drive mechanism that conveys the Y-bar in the second direction, a drive control device that carries out a drive control of the drive mechanism, and a measuring device that directly measures an amount of movement of the Y-bar with respect to the flatbed. The drive control device corrects controlled variables of the drive mechanism based on the amount of movement of the Y-bar measured by the measuring device. | 07-19-2012 |
20120176439 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer includes a platen, a printing head, a feeding device, a pre-heater and a print heater. The printing head is configured to move in a right-left direction above the platen and to eject solvent ink from nozzles of the printing head on a printing surface of a medium at a printing position. The feeding device is configured to feed the medium on the platen in a forward direction substantially perpendicular to the right-left direction. The temperature controller is configured to control a pre-heater heating temperature of the pre-heater and a print heater heating temperature of the print heater such that a surface temperature of the printing surface of the medium at the printing position becomes within a range of from 30° C. to 70° C. | 07-12-2012 |
20120169804 | PRINTER APPARATUS AND ROLLER ASSEMBLY - To provide a printer apparatus which is capable of suitably clamping a printing medium of various types of material/thickness, for example, a sheet-like medium and a plate-like medium with a simple structure and is capable of feeding the printing medium accurately. A printer apparatus in the present invention includes a feeding mechanism having a feed roller provided at substantially the same height as an upper face of a medium support means and a plurality of roller assemblies having a pinch roller disposed above the feed roller and a printing medium placed on the medium support means is pinched between the feed roller and the pinch roller to be fed in the front and rear direction. The roller assembly is structured of an assembly main body and a roller member which includes the pinch roller and is attachable/detachable with respect to the assembly main body, and a clamp state can be changed by exchanging the roller member depending on material and/or thickness of the printing medium. | 07-05-2012 |
20120148326 | CUTTING DEVICE AND CUTTING METHOD THEREOF - A cutting device includes a guide rail opposing a platen, a printer head that prints an image and Trim marks on a sheet member, a cutter blade that performs a cutting process on the sheet member, a medium feeding mechanism that feeds the sheet member from front and back, a Trim mark detection portion that detects positions of the reference marks, and a controller that sets a cutting process position to correspond to a printing position of the image, prints the image and Trim marks while feeding the sheet member forward, detects the positions of the Trim marks with the Trim mark detection portion, and performs the cutting process with the cutter blade in the cutting process position set by the controller. | 06-14-2012 |
20120147109 | INKJET PRINTER AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - Disclosed is a printing method whereby a glossy image free of running can be printed by an inkjet printer. An inkjet head ( | 06-14-2012 |
20120147080 | INKJET PRINTER - Disclosed is an inkjet printer. The inkjet printer comprises a carriage that has a print head that discharges ink; a carriage-moving mechanism that moves the carriage relatively along the surface to be printed of the printing medium that is supported by a platen; a print heater that heats the platen to adjust the heat of the printing medium; a non-contact temperature sensor that is attached to the carriage opposite the surface to be printed and that, along with the relative motion due to the carriage, detects the surface temperature of the printing medium along the direction of the abovementioned relative motion; and a temperature control unit of a control unit and an SSR that perform adjustment control of the surface temperature of the printing medium to a predetermined set temperature by means of driving the print heater on the basis of the detected temperature from the non-contact temperature sensor. | 06-14-2012 |
20120147074 | DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE AND DROPLET DISCHARGE METHOD - A printer comprises: a vacuum table for supporting a jig which holds a medium; a printer head for discharging droplets; and a relative movement means for moving the printer head relative to the medium; a registration mark detection unit and barcode detection unit for acquiring holding platform information and support position information for the jig; and a controller for controlling the movement of the printer head by the relative movement means and controlling the discharge of droplets from the printer head on the basis of the holding platform information, the support position information and information pertaining to the desired pattern. As a result of this configuration, it is possible to generate image data without aligning the jig with a reference position on the vacuum table. | 06-14-2012 |
20120121308 | PRINTER CUTTER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTER CUTTER - A printer cutter includes a head device, a cutter device, a cutting controller, and a print controller. The head device is to print an image on a medium. The head device is relatively movable with respect to the medium. The cutter device is to cut the medium. The cutter device is relatively movable with respect to the medium. The cutting controller is configured to cut a printing region of the medium on which the image is to be printed by using the cutter device before the image is printed in the printing region. The print controller is configured to print the image in the printing region by using the head device after the printing region has been cut by the cutting controller. | 05-17-2012 |
20120113187 | FLUSHING APPARATUS FOR INKJET PRINTER - A flushing apparatus includes a suction mechanism and an ink mist collecting mechanism. The suction mechanism is to suck ink mist. The ink mist collecting mechanism is to collect the ink mist by a suction force of the suction mechanism. The ink mist collecting mechanism includes an upper face part and a droplet forming member. The ink ejected from the nozzle is dropped on the upper face part. The upper face part includes a plurality of suction holes through which the ink mist is sucked into an inside of the ink mist collecting mechanism by the suction force of the suction mechanism. The droplet forming member is provided at a position corresponding to the plurality of the suction holes to provide droplets from the ink mist sucked through the plurality of the suction holes. | 05-10-2012 |
20120103154 | CUTTING PLOTTER - A cutting plotter includes a medium supporter, a first guide rail, a second guide rail, a carriage, a work tool, a working controller, and a second direction displacement detector. The second direction displacement detector is configured to measure a second guide rail displacement amount. The second guide rail displacement amount indicates a magnitude of displacement of a moving path of the carriage from a predetermined moving path with respect to the second guide rail in a direction perpendicular to a second direction when the carriage is moved in the second direction along the second guide rail. The working controller is configured to execute a control in which a movement control of the second guide rail on the first guide rail is added so that the second guide rail displacement amount is corrected in a movement control of the carriage on the second guide rail. | 05-03-2012 |
20120075394 | INK, INKJET PRINTER, AND METHOD FOR PRINTING - An ink includes a volatile organic solvent and a UV curable ink. The ink has a viscosity greater than or equal to 3 mPa·sec and less than or equal to 18 mPa·sec (at 25° C.). The UV curable ink has a viscosity of greater than or equal to 20 mPa·sec (at 25° C.). The UV curable ink comprises a pigment, an ultraviolet curable resin curable by an ultraviolet light, and a photopolymerization initiator. | 03-29-2012 |
20120062660 | INK FILLING METHOD - In an ink filling method according to the present invention, a suction arrangement having a pump is air-tightly coupled to a head unit having a plurality of ink supply ports, and sucking is performed by using the pump, thereby supplying an ink stored in an ink supply source to a plurality of the ink supply ports via a flow channel arrangement including one ink flow channel that communicates with the ink supply source and a plurality of branched flow channels that branch out from the ink flow channel and communicate with corresponding ones of the ink supply ports. The sucking is stopped from a time point when one of the branched flow channels is entirely filled with the ink until air in the flow channel arrangement moves in a branching portion, and the sucking is resumed when the air has moved in the branching portion. | 03-15-2012 |
20120026254 | INK SUPPLY DEVICE OF INKJET PRINTER AND BACKFLOW SHUTOFF MECHANISM OF THE SAME - An ink supply device for an inkjet printer is provided with a backflow shutoff mechanism ( | 02-02-2012 |
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20120001991 | ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION UNIT - An ultraviolet irradiation unit ( | 01-05-2012 |
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20110310204 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - To provide a printing method that enhances bonding between a colored-ink layer and an overprint layer, flatten a surface of the overprint layer, and make it possible to print glossy images or decorative colors when performing overprinting on a colored ink print using an inkjet printer. | 12-22-2011 |
20110310179 | INKJET PRINTER, INKJET HEAD, AND PRINTING METHOD - To suitably use a metallic ink or a pearl-colored ink in an inkjet printer. Furthermore, to suitably use an ink containing a large-sized pigment in the inkjet printer. | 12-22-2011 |
20110304868 | INKJET PRINTER, INKJET HEAD, AND PRINTING METHOD - To appropriately suppress an impact of an air resistance encountered by ink droplets discharged from nozzles of an inkjet head. | 12-15-2011 |
20110304670 | PRINTER DEVICE AND MAINTENANCE METHOD THEREOF - A printer device which can, using a relatively simple structure, remove foreign matter within a printer head. A printer device ( | 12-15-2011 |
20110285801 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer (P) is provided with a platen ( | 11-24-2011 |
20110285799 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer includes a platen having a placing face, a printing device, and a printing medium feeding device. A guide is provided on a feeding-out side via which a printing medium is to be fed out from the platen. The guide has a guide face. A printing medium temperature raising device is to heat the guide face so as to raise a temperature of the printing medium placed on the guide face. A temperature raising preventing device is provided between the guide face of the guide and a portion of the placing face facing a printing target region. The temperature raising preventing device is configured to prevent an extended portion of the printing medium from being heated by the printing medium temperature raising device. The extended portion corresponds an area which is extended to the feeding-out side by a predetermined length from the printing target region. | 11-24-2011 |
20110283849 | CUTTING PLOTTER AND CUTTING METHOD THEREOF - A cutting plotter ( | 11-24-2011 |
20110279867 | INKJET PRINTER - In an inkjet printer, a feeding side tension applying means is provided with a feeding side tension adjustment mechanism, which is structured of a feeding side ballast arm that is extended toward a winding side tension applying means and vertically swingable around a rotation shaft perpendicular to a feeding direction of a printing medium and a feeding side ballast member that is attached to a tip end of the feeding side ballast arm, and a winding side tension applying means is provided with a winding side tension adjustment mechanism which is structured of a winding side ballast arm that is extended toward the feeding side tension applying means and vertically swingable around a rotation shaft perpendicular to the feeding direction of the printing medium “M” and a winding side ballast member that is attached to a tip end of the winding side ballast arm. | 11-17-2011 |
20110224117 | INK CLEANING LIQUID - An ink cleaning liquid includes ethylene glycol monobutyl ether acetate and a surfactant. | 09-15-2011 |
20110221839 | COATING AGENT FOR UV CURABLE INKJET PRINTING - A coating agent for use in UV curable inkjet printing using nonaqueous UV ink. The coating agent includes a main component that is an organic-inorganic nanocomposite, and the coating agent is configured to form an undercoat before the inkjet printing or to form a finishing coat after the inkjet printing and UV curing. | 09-15-2011 |
20110221836 | BULK INK SUPPLY SYSTEM - A bulk ink supply system of an inkjet printer includes a connector, an ink flow path, and an on-off valve. The connector is attachable to and detachable from an ink container. The connector includes an ink guiding path formed in the connector. The ink flow path connects the ink guiding path and an inkjet head of the inkjet printer to supply an ink from the ink guiding path to the inkjet head. The on-off valve allows communication between the ink guiding path and the ink flow path when the ink container is attached to the connector and hinders communication between the ink guiding path and the ink flow path when the ink container is detached from the connector. | 09-15-2011 |
20110221835 | PRESSURE REGULATING VALVE FOR INKJET PRINTER - A pressure regulating valve for an inkjet printer includes a negative pressure generator including a negative pressure chamber, a pressure receiving member, and a pressure device. A sealing valve includes a pressure chamber, a valve element, and a valve element pressing device. A linkage mechanism includes a communication flow chamber and an operating lever swingably provided in the communication flow chamber and including an arm section, a first engagement section, and a second engagement section. A first length of the arm section is greater than a second length of the arm section. The first engagement section is pressed against the pressure receiving member to swing the operating lever and the second engagement section moves the valve element to open the sealing valve when the pressure receiving member is moved inwardly with respect to the negative pressure chamber against a force applied by the pressure device. | 09-15-2011 |
20110221818 | INKJET PRINTER AND METHOD FOR PRINTING - An inkjet printer includes a guide rail that faces a medium support member and extends in a scanning direction. A head device includes a carriage movable in the scanning direction along the guide rail. A printer head is mounted on the carriage and is configured to discharge an ink toward a printing medium. An ultraviolet radiation device is mounted on the carriage and is configured to output an ultraviolet radiation toward the printing medium thereby curing the ink that has adhered onto the printing medium after being discharged from the printer head. The ultraviolet radiation device is arranged in the carriage on a side of the printer head in the scanning direction. An intensity controller is configured to control an intensity of the ultraviolet radiation output from the ultraviolet radiation device depending on a direction of movement of the carriage. | 09-15-2011 |
20110221803 | INK SUPPLY APPARATUS - An ink supply apparatus includes a sub tank connected to a printer head and having an ink reservoir chamber to store a liquid ink. A fluid level detector is configured to detect a fluid level of the liquid ink stored in the ink reservoir chamber. The fluid level detector has a light emitting device, a light receiving device, and a casing having a section through which a light is to pass and which has an outer surface that is to contact the liquid ink. The light emitting device is capable of emitting the light toward the outer surface through the section. The light receiving device is to receive reflected light reflected at the outer surface. A storage amount determining device is configured to determine whether a predetermined amount of the liquid ink is stored in the ink reservoir chamber based on detection results of the fluid level detector. | 09-15-2011 |
20110221799 | PRINTING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE DATA, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREON PROGRAM FOR ALLOWING COMPUTER TO PERFORM IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A printing system includes inkjet printing apparatuses to print a same image based on output image data having been adjusted depending on color reproduction characteristic with respect to each of the inkjet printing apparatuses. An image processing apparatus includes an output image generating device configured to convert printing data to the output image data representing image with a color depending on color reproduction characteristic of ink. The output image generating device includes a rasterizer and an apparatus common color convertor configured to execute common color conversion for the inkjet printing apparatuses using one ICC profile common to the inkjet printing apparatuses. An adjuster is configured to reduce variation of the color reproduction characteristic with respect to each of the inkjet printing apparatuses using calibration information prepared for each of the inkjet printing apparatuses depending on the color reproduction characteristic with respect to each of the inkjet printing apparatuses. | 09-15-2011 |
20110187792 | PRINTER-PLOTTER APPARATUS - To improve printing speed and cutting speed. | 08-04-2011 |
20110187782 | PRINTER APPARATUS - A printer apparatus includes a medium supporter to support a printing medium. A carriage holds a printer head provided with a nozzle from which ink is to be ejected onto a printing surface of the printing medium. A carriage moving mechanism moves the carriage along the printing surface of the printing medium supported by the medium supporter. An acceleration detector is configured to detect acceleration of vibration generated in the carriage. A determining device is configured to determine whether a magnitude of the acceleration detected by the acceleration detector exceeds a predetermined threshold value. A controller is configured to control the carriage moving mechanism to restrict relative movement of the carriage when the determining device determines that the magnitude of the acceleration detected by the acceleration detector exceeds the predetermined threshold value. | 08-04-2011 |
20110115849 | 3D INKJET PRINTER - A 3D inkjet printer includes an inkjet head and a medium holder configured to hold a medium having a three-dimensional shape. A Y-axial driving mechanism is capable of moving the inkjet head along a Y-axial. A Z-axial supporting mechanism supports the medium holder so as to be movable along a Z-axial direction. An X-axial driving mechanism is capable of moving the Z-axial supporting mechanism along an X-axial direction. A Z-axial driving mechanism is capable of moving the medium holder along the Z-axial direction. The medium holder includes an A-axial driving mechanism capable of swinging the medium along an A-axial direction. The A-axial direction is a rotational direction about a shaft disposed along the Y-axial direction. A B-axial driving mechanism is capable of rotating the medium along a B-axial direction. The B-axial direction is a rotational direction about a shaft disposed perpendicular to the Y-axial direction. | 05-19-2011 |
20110111187 | PRINTED MATERIAL AND WATER-BASED COATING AGENT - A printed material includes a cloth medium, a printed layer, and a coating layer. The cloth medium is washable. The printed layer is printed on the cloth medium with a water-based pigment ink including an anionic resin by using an inkjet printing method. The coating layer is provided on at least one of an upper side and a lower side of the printed layer by applying a water-based coating agent including anionic water-based resin particles. | 05-12-2011 |
20110109711 | PRINTER APPARATUS - A printer apparatus includes a guide rail, a first device including a first head, a second device including a second head, and a hauling device including a driving member movable between the first device and the second device. A first holding mechanism is provided on one side with respect to a medium supporter. A second holding mechanism is provided on another side with respect to the medium supporter. When ink is to be ejected from the first head, the second holding mechanism holds the second device separated from the driving member, and a first connecting mechanism connects the first device to the driving member. When ink is to be ejected from the second head, the first holding mechanism holds the first device separated from the driving member, and a second connecting mechanism connects the second device to the driving member. | 05-12-2011 |
20110109693 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer includes a media supporter, a head device, and an ink mist removal mechanism. The media supporter is configured to support a printing medium. The head device includes an inkjet head from which ink is configured to be discharged to print on the printing medium supported by the media supporter while the head device relatively moves with respect to the printing medium. The ink mist removal mechanism is arranged in the head device and faces the printing medium. The ink mist removal mechanism is configured to generate an air current that flows through a space between the head device and the printing medium. The ink mist removal mechanism is configured to discharge the air current to outside thereby removing ink mist generated due to ink discharge from the inkjet heads. | 05-12-2011 |
20110104460 | PRINTED MATERIAL AND WATER-BASED COATING AGENT - A printed material includes a cloth medium, a printed layer, and a coating layer. The cloth medium is washable. The printed layer is printed on the cloth medium with a water-based pigment ink including an anionic resin by using an inkjet printing method. The coating layer is provided on at least one of an upper side and a lower side of the printed layer by applying a water-based coating agent including non-ionic water-based resin particles. | 05-05-2011 |
20110103870 | PRINTER APPARATUS - A printer apparatus includes a first device and a second device. The first device includes a first carriage movable in a scanning direction along a guide rail and a first working device to perform a first predetermined work on an object medium. The second device includes a second carriage movable in the scanning direction along the guide rail and a second working device to perform a second predetermined work on the object medium. A first device holding mechanism is capable of holding the first device. A second device holding mechanism is capable of holding the second device. A vertically retreat mechanism is configured to move the second device holding mechanism and the second device along a vertical direction to be located below a medium supporter to support the object medium when the first working device is moved in the scanning direction to perform the first predetermined work. | 05-05-2011 |
20110074864 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer includes an ejector, a waveguide, an electromagnetic wave supplier, a rotating reflector, and a ventilator. The ejector ejects ink onto a medium. Through the waveguide, the medium onto which the ink was ejected passes. The waveguide has a starting end part and a terminal end part. The electromagnetic wave supplier is provided at the starting end part of the waveguide to supply an electromagnetic wave to the waveguide. The rotating reflector is provided at the terminal end part of the waveguide and rotatable to reflect the electromagnetic wave supplied by the electromagnetic wave supplier. The ventilator ventilates an inside of the waveguide. | 03-31-2011 |
20110074853 | PRINT DENSITY ADJUSTING DEVICE, PRINT DENSITY ADJUSTING METHOD AND PRINT DENSITY ADJUSTING PROGRAM - A print density adjusting device of print image information includes a print image information acquirer configured to acquire the print image information. A forming information acquirer is configured to acquire forming information of a medium on which an inkjet printer prints and which is to be bent. A vertex detector is configured to detect a vertex of a bent part which is to be bent based on the forming information. A bending angle detector is configured to detect a bending angle of the bent part based on the forming information. A print density adjuster is configured to adjust a print density of the print image information acquired by the print image information acquirer based on the vertex detected by the vertex detector and based on the bending angle detected by the bending angle detector. | 03-31-2011 |
20100302318 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer includes an ejector, a wave guide, an electromagnetic wave supplier, and a reflector. The ejector is configured to eject ink toward a medium. Through the wave guide, the medium with the ink ejected by the ejector is inserted. The electromagnetic wave supplier is disposed at a start end of the wave guide to supply electromagnetic waves to the wave guide. The reflector is disposed at a terminal end of the wave guide to reflect the electromagnetic waves supplied by the electromagnetic wave supplier. | 12-02-2010 |
20100302299 | INK-JET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - An ink-jet printer includes a first printing head that is configured to print an image on a transparent medium, and a second printing head that is configured to print a ground-color-layer on the image printed on the transparent medium. | 12-02-2010 |
20100295905 | INK SUPPLY DEVICE FOR INKJET PRINTER AND INKJET PRINTER - An ink supply device for an inkjet printer includes a sub-tank and a main tank. The sub-tank has an ink chamber to store liquid ink and is connected to a print head configured to eject the liquid ink via a head-side supply passage. The sub-tank has a plurality of supply holes which connect the ink chamber and the head-side supply passage. At least two of the plurality of supply holes have their openings on the ink chamber side formed at different heights. The main tank is connected to the sub-tank and contains the liquid ink to be supplied to the ink chamber. | 11-25-2010 |
20100289860 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD USING THE SAME - An ink jet printer includes a medium supporter to support a print medium. A print head is configured to eject ink droplets toward the print medium. An ultraviolet light irradiation device is configured to irradiate the print medium with ultraviolet light to cure ink deposited on the print medium. On a carriage, the print head and the ultraviolet light irradiation device are mounted to face the medium supporter. The carriage is reciprocally movable relative to the print medium in a first direction and movable relative to the print medium in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The ultraviolet light irradiation device is arranged on a side in the first direction of the print head. The print head is arranged to project toward an upstream side of a feeding direction in the second direction by a predetermined length relative to the ultraviolet light irradiation device. | 11-18-2010 |
20100265294 | INK COMPOSITION FOR INKJET TEXTILE PRINTING AND METHOD OF INKJET TEXTILE PRINTING - A method of inkjet textile printing using an aqueous ink includes ejecting an aqueous ink to a textile medium. The aqueous ink includes water, an anionic dye including an acid dye or a reactive dye, and a compound to promote fixing of coloring agent in the ink to the textile medium when the textile medium is irradiated with microwaves. Microwaves are irradiated to the textile medium to which the aqueous ink was ejected. | 10-21-2010 |
20100201773 | INK JET PRINTER USING UV INK - An ink jet printer includes a platen configured to receive a print media, an ink jet head, and at least one UVLED. The ink jet head is relatively movable with respect to a surface of the print media received on the platen and configured to shoot an ink drop at the surface of the print media. The at least one UVLED is configured to irradiate the ink drop on the surface of the print media with UV rays to cure the ink drop on the surface of the print media. | 08-12-2010 |
20100194816 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer includes a printing head configured to eject solvent ink from nozzles of the printing head on a medium at a printing position. A medium is made of a polyvinyl chloride film. The solvent ink includes an organic pigment of from 3 to 7 weight %, a resin of 15 weight % or less, and solvents. A print heater is configured to heat the medium at the printing position. The print heater is arranged separately from a pre-heater. A temperature controller is configured to control a pre-heater heating temperature of the pre-heater and a print heater heating temperature of the print heater such that a surface temperature of the medium at the printing position becomes within a range of from 30° C. to 70° C. | 08-05-2010 |
20100020129 | PRINTER WITH A FIRST DRIVE SUB-ASSEMBLY AND A DETACHABLE SECOND DRIVE SUB-ASSEMBLY AND PRINTER ASSEMBLY INCLUDING THE FIRST AND SECOND SUB-ASSEMBLIES - A printer includes a first drive sub-assembly and a second drive sub-assembly detachably provided on the first drive sub-assembly. The first drive sub-assembly includes a bed configured to support a material to be printed, a first engaging member, and a front-rear direction moving mechanism provided on one side of the bed and configured to move the first engaging member along a front-rear direction. The second drive sub-assembly includes a guide bar having a longitudinal direction substantially perpendicular to the front-rear direction, a right-left direction moving mechanism configured to move a printer head along the longitudinal direction of the guide bar, and a second engaging member engaging with the first engaging member to move the guide bar along the front-rear direction. | 01-28-2010 |
20100002038 | INKJET PRINTER, PRINTING METHOD AND INK DRYER - An inkjet printer includes an inkjet head, a wave guide, an electromagnetic-wave supplier, and a detector. The inkjet head is configured to eject an ink onto a surface of a recording medium. The recording medium onto which the ink has been ejected is to pass through the wave guide. The electromagnetic-wave supplier is configured to supply electromagnetic waves into the wave guide. The detector is configured to detect a parameter relating to a dryness of the recording medium which has passed through the wave guide. The controller is configured to control the electromagnetic-wave supplier to control an intensity of the electromagnetic waves according to the parameter relating to the dryness of the recording medium. | 01-07-2010 |
20090322843 | INKJET PRINTER AND INK DRYER - An inkjet printer includes a plurality of guide walls and a plurality of choke portions. Each of the plurality of guide walls is arranged substantially in parallel with a feeding direction of a medium to provide a guide wall clearance between the plurality of guide walls. The wave guide has a first internal space connected to the guide wall clearance and an electromagnetic-wave supplier and configured to apply the electromagnetic wave to the medium which is introduced into the first internal space. Each of the plurality of choke portions includes a second internal space adjacent to each guide wall and an opening from the second internal space to the guide wall clearance. The second internal space is connected to the first internal space via the guide wall clearance. The second internal space has a length of λ/4 relative to wavelength λ of the electromagnetic wave in the feeding direction. | 12-31-2009 |
20090322841 | INKJET PRINTER, PRINTING METHOD AND INK DRYER - An inkjet printer includes an inkjet head, an electromagnetic-wave supplier, a wave guide, and a ventilator. The inkjet head is configured to eject ink onto a surface of a medium. The electromagnetic-wave supplier is configured to generate electromagnetic waves. The wave guide has an internal space into which the medium is to be fed. The wave guide is connected to the electromagnetic-wave supplier to apply the electromagnetic waves to the medium. The ventilator is configured to flow a gas in the internal space of the wave guide. | 12-31-2009 |
20090315927 | PRINTER AND METHOD FOR PRINTING - A printer includes first and second ink cartridges, a print head having first and second nozzle arrays, first and second ink supply passages having first and second valves, and a connecting passages having a third valve. The first passage connects the first cartridge to the first nozzle array. The second passage connects the second cartridge to the second nozzle array. The connecting passage connects the first and second passages at first and second connecting portions, respectively. The first valve is provided in the first passage between the first cartridge and the first connecting portion. The second valve is provided in the second passage between the second cartridge and the second connecting portion. Both the first and second valves are open and the third valve being closed in a first state. The third valve and either one of the first and second valves are open in a second state. | 12-24-2009 |
20090262153 | INKJET PRINTER SYSTEM AND INK SUPPLY APPARATUS - An inkjet printer system includes a print head, a sub tank, and a sensor. The print head is configured to eject ink. The sub tank includes an ink supply chamber and an ink detection chamber. The ink supply chamber has an ink inlet hole and an ink outlet hole connected to the print head. Ink is supplied to the sub tank through the ink inlet hole. Ink is supplied to the print head from the sub tank through the ink outlet hole. The ink detection chamber communicates with the ink supply chamber. The sensor is configured to detect an amount of ink contained in the sub tank and includes a float member provided in the ink detection chamber to float in the ink. | 10-22-2009 |
20090262152 | INKJET PRINTER SYSTEM AND INK SUPPLY APPARATUS - An inkjet printer system includes a print head and a sub tank. The print head is configured to eject ink. The sub tank is provided above the print head and connected to the print head via a head-side supply passage. The sub tank has a first supplying hole and a second supplying hole which are connected to the head-side supply passage. A position of the first supplying hole is higher than a position of the second supplying hole. | 10-22-2009 |
20090262151 | INKJET PRINTER SYSTEM AND INK SUPPLY APPARATUS - An inkjet printer system includes a print head, a sub tank, a pressure controller, and a check valve. The print head is configured to eject ink. The sub tank is connected to the print head and has a pressure control hole. The pressure controller is connected to the pressure control hole to control an inner pressure of the sub tank. The check valve is provided at the pressure control hole to prevent ink in the sub tank from flowing into the pressure control hole from the sub tank. | 10-22-2009 |
20090256880 | PRINTING SYSTEM, INKJET PRINTER AND METHOD FOR PRINTING - A printing system includes an inkjet head, a medium supporting portion and a decompressor. The inkjet head has nozzles configured to eject ink to a print surface of a medium. The nozzles have a nozzle surface on which openings of the nozzles exist. The medium supporting portion has a supporting surface configured to support the medium at a back surface of the medium opposite to the print surface. The print surface faces the nozzles of the inkjet head. A distance between the nozzle face and the supporting surface of the medium supporting portion is about 5 mm or more. The decompressor is configured to reduce a pressure in an area between the medium and the nozzles to be a pressure value lower than atmospheric pressure. | 10-15-2009 |
20090251506 | INK JET PRINTER, INK SUPPLY MECHANISM FOR THE INK JET PRINTER, AND INK SUPPLY METHOD - An ink jet printer system includes an ink jet head, a plurality of ink supplying cartridges, an ink flow channel and a control device. The ink flow channel connects the ink jet head and the plurality of ink supplying cartridges to supply ink from the plurality of ink supplying cartridges to the ink jet head. The control device is configured to sequentially supply ink from each of the plurality of ink supplying cartridges to the ink jet head. | 10-08-2009 |
20090244230 | ULTRAVIOLET CURING INKJET PRINTER, PRINTING METHOD USED IN ULTRAVIOLET CURING INKJET PRINTER, AND HEAD - An ultraviolet curing inkjet printer includes a first ejecting device, a first ultraviolet light irradiation device, and a second ultraviolet light irradiation device. The first ultraviolet light irradiation device is configured to emit ultraviolet light of a first light quantity for temporarily curing the ultraviolet curable inks ejected from the first ejecting device. The first ultraviolet light irradiation device is disposed posterior to the first ejecting device in a first direction as a scanning direction. The second ultraviolet light irradiation device is configured to emit ultraviolet light of a second light quantity for finally curing the ultraviolet curable inks temporarily cured by the first ultraviolet light irradiation device. The second ultraviolet light irradiation device is disposed anterior to the first ejecting device in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the first direction and is a moving direction of a recording medium relative to the first ejecting device. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244157 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printer including an inkjet head unit having inkjet heads for ejecting UV inks, an UVLED unit having a UVLED for emitting ultraviolet light, and a control unit for controlling the inkjet head unit and the UVLED unit. The control unit controls the inkjet head unit and the UVLED unit to move in the scanning direction, controls the inkjet heads to eject UV inks, and controls the UVLED to emit ultraviolet light of a first light quantity. After that, the control unit controls the inkjet head unit and the UVLED unit to move in the direction opposite to the scanning direction and controls the UVLED to emit ultraviolet light of a second light quantity. | 10-01-2009 |
20090231370 | PRINTING SYSTEM, INKJET PRINTER, AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing system includes an inkjet head and a decompressor. The inkjet head has nozzles configured to eject ink to a concavo-convex print surface a medium. The decompressor is configured to reduce a pressure in an area between the medium and the nozzles to be a pressure value lower than atmospheric pressure. | 09-17-2009 |
20090219342 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer including a UVLED unit which emits ultraviolet light to a print medium supported on a supporting table to cure UV ink droplets deposited on the print medium. The inkjet printer further includes a controller which adjust the light quantity of ultraviolet light, emitted from the UVLED unit to the UV ink droplets deposited on the print medium, from a light quantity for temporary curing to a light quantity for final curing, and a control unit capable of selecting between a two-stage curing mode in which UV ink droplets deposited on the print medium are temporarily cured ant are then finally cured and a single-stage curing mode in which UV ink droplets are finally cured by an irradiation with ultraviolet light at one time by means of the UVLED unit and the controller. | 09-03-2009 |
20090195626 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printer using solvent ink containing an organic solvent and a colorant. The inkjet printer includes an inkjet head configured to eject the solvent ink to a medium, and a microwave irradiation unit configured to irradiate the medium, to which the solvent ink was ejected, with microwaves. | 08-06-2009 |
20090174740 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printer includes a printing head having nozzle units, a main scanning control unit, a sub scanning control unit, and a printing pass setting unit. Each nozzle unit includes a nozzle array where the nozzles are arranged in a nozzle array direction. The main scanning control unit makes the printing head to scan in a main scanning direction while the nozzle units discharge ink drops. The sub scanning control unit relatively moves the printing head with respect to the medium in a sub scanning direction. The printing pass setting unit correlates each of the nozzles with each of multiple printing passes to be printed at once by a scanning of the printing head in the main scanning direction, and sets discharging nozzles among the nozzles to discharge ink drops to the printing passes not to overlap boundaries of the printing passes with boundaries of the nozzle units. | 07-09-2009 |
20090160903 | INK RECEIVING UNIT AND INKJET PRINTER INCLUDING THE SAME - An ink receiving unit for an inkjet printer includes an ink receiver and an ink removing device. The inkjet printer has an inkjet head configured to eject ink onto a first surface of a medium. The ink receiver is provided to face the inkjet head via the medium. The ink receiver is configured to receive ink dripping from a second surface opposite to the first surface of the medium during printing. The ink removing device is configured to remove the ink from the ink receiver. The ink receiver unit is detachably mounted to a main body to which the inkjet head is mounted. | 06-25-2009 |
20090160902 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus for printing on a medium through which ink ejected onto the surface of the medium is allowed to seep to the back side of the medium. The printing apparatus includes an inkjet head for ejecting ink in accordance with an inkjet method, an ink receiver that is arranged at a position facing the inkjet head across the medium during printing to receive the ink dripping from the back of the medium, and a wiper member as an ink removing device for removing the ink in the ink receiver from the ink receiver. | 06-25-2009 |
20090143509 | INKJET INK - An inkjet ink is provided containing a colorant and using vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin, and characterized in that a stabilizer for preventing the vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin in the inkjet ink from being degraded with age is added. An inkjet ink is provided using VCVAC resin which is capable of preventing the VCVAC resin from being degraded and thus preventing increase in viscosity thereof. | 06-04-2009 |
20090139432 | INKJET INK - An inkjet ink containing a colorant, where an amine compound is added as a pH adjuster. The ink is capable of preventing the pH of the ink from being shifted to the acidity side due to corrosive substances (e.g., acid substances) generated by deterioration of ink, adverse effects due to water absorption and moisture absorption, or degradation of resin (e.g., degradation of vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin), thus preventing erosion of a head nozzle member. | 06-04-2009 |
20090139431 | INKJET INK - A non-water-based inkjet ink containing a colorant, is characterized in that a mixed solvent having a solubility parameter value of from about 8 to about 10 is used as a solvent. The ink is an inkjet ink of which solvent hardly erodes a head member so as to allow long term stable printing and also hardly penetrates the material of media so as to improve the printing quality. | 06-04-2009 |
20090073200 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - A printer includes a holding unit, a printer head, a driving unit, a movement controller and a printing controller. The holding unit is configured to hold a print substrate having a surface to be printed. The driving unit is configured to move at least one of the holding unit and the printer head. The movement controller is configured to control the driving unit to move the holding unit and the printer head relatively so that a distance between the at least one ink nozzle and the surface to be printed is kept at a predetermined distance and so that the ink ejected from the at least one ink nozzle collides with the surface substantially perpendicularly. The printing controller is configured to control ejection of the ink from the printer head according to a distance between the at least one ink nozzle and the surface to be printed. | 03-19-2009 |
20090060696 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus including a pallet configured to receive a print substrate, a conveyer system configured to convey the pallet, and a plurality of work mechanisms arranged along a pallet conveying direction of the conveyer system. The work mechanisms are configured to conduct processing operations to the print substrate. The conveyer system includes an upper conveyer mechanism configured to sequentially convey the pallet to respective working positions of the work mechanisms, and a lower conveyer mechanism arranged below and along the upper conveyer mechanism. The lower conveyer mechanism is configured to convey the pallet in a direction opposite to the pallet conveying direction of the upper conveyer mechanism so that the conveyer system is structured to have an upper stage and a lower stage. | 03-05-2009 |
20090058972 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus including a conveyer system configured to convey a pallet having a print substrate thereon, anteroposterior moving mechanisms, fitting members disposed on the moving mechanisms, a guide bar member that extends in a lateral direction mounted on the fitting members, and a head device that is movably disposed along the guide bar member and has a plurality of inkjet nozzles. The printing apparatus is adapted to conduct printing by ejecting ink droplets from the inkjet nozzles to the print substrate on the pallet which is secured above an upper conveying passage and which is conveyed by the conveyer system while moving the head device. | 03-05-2009 |
20090056569 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus including a pallet configured to receive a print substrate, a conveyer mechanism configured to convey the pallet, and a working device configured to conduct a processing operation for printing on the print substrate on the pallet. The printing apparatus further includes a locating mechanism configured to stop the pallet at a first holding position and a first holding mechanism configured to hold the pallet, stopped at the first holding position by the first locating mechanism, to be spaced apart from the conveying mechanism. After the pallet being conveyed by the conveying mechanism is stopped by the first locating mechanism, the pallet is held to be spaced apart from the conveying mechanism by the first holding mechanism and the processing operation is conducted by the working device relative to the print substrate on the pallet thus held. | 03-05-2009 |
20090056567 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus for printing on a print substrate by sequentially conducting a plurality of processing operations. The printing apparatus includes a pallet configured to receive the print substrate, and work station units each comprising a conveyer mechanism configured to convey the pallet and a work mechanism configured to conduct a predetermined processing operation to the print substrate on the pallet. A plurality of the work station units are aligned adjacent to each other, and the work station units are configured to be replaceable or rearrangeable to change the sequence of the plurality of processing operations. | 03-05-2009 |
20090055560 | DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONDUCTING CONNECTION TEST, AND METHOD FOR TESTING CONNECTION IN THE DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS - A data transfer apparatus is manufactured by assembling a USB host controller, a USB host port, a USB device controller, a USB device port, a storage unit, and a control unit, and by testing connection between the USB host and the USB device. The test includes connecting the USB host port and the USB device port by a USB cable, storing test data into the storage unit, reading out the test data from the storage unit as first transfer data, transferring the first transfer data from a first port of the USB host port and the USB device port to a second port thereof, and transferring the data received by the second port from the second port to the first port. The control unit checks the connection by comparing the data received by the first port at the second transfer step with the test data stored in the storage unit. | 02-26-2009 |
20090037615 | DATA TRANSFER DEVICE, REQUEST ISSUING UNIT, AND REQUEST ISSUE METHOD - A request issuing unit for issuing a request signal for requesting data transfer by direct memory access. The request issuing unit including a data presence determination section configured to determine whether or not transfer data, as an object of the data transfer, is present, and a signal outputting section configured to output a request signal for data transfer of a predetermined amount of data to be transferred at one time when the data presence determination section determines that the transfer data is present. The request issuing unit further including a determination timing control section configured to wait for a predetermined waiting period of time, required for completing the data transfer of at least the amount of data to be transferred at one time, after the signal outputting section outputs the request signal, and then makes the data presence determination section determine again whether or not transfer data is present. | 02-05-2009 |
20090029049 | ANTIPENETRATING AGENT, SOLVENT INK FOR INKJET PRINTING AND PRINTING METHOD - An antipenetrating agent is to be added to a solvent ink for preventing penetration of the solvent ink into a medium to be printed. The antipenetrating agent includes inorganic fine particles and a resin soluble in an organic solvent. | 01-29-2009 |
20090011200 | PRINTING METHOD, PRINTED MATTER, AND PRINTER - A printing method for printing on a washable fabric medium by an inkjet system, where the method includes printing on the medium by the inkjet system using a water-based pigment ink containing an anionic resin. The method further includes applying a water-based coating agent containing water-soluble cationic resin particles to the medium before and/or after the printing on the medium. | 01-08-2009 |
20080297563 | NOZZLE PLATE FOR INKJET HEAD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND TREATMENT LIQUID FOR INKJET HEAD - A nozzle plate for an inkjet head including a substrate and ink ejecting holes formed in the substrate. An ink-repellent layer is formed on an ink ejecting side surface of the nozzle plate, and portions of the ink-repellant layer around the ink ejecting holes are selectively removed so that portions of the nozzle plate around the ink ejecting holes are exposed. Also, a method of producing a nozzle plate for an inkjet head is provided that includes preparing a nozzle plate which includes a substrate and ink ejecting holes formed in the substrate and has an ink-repellent layer formed on an ink ejecting side surface of the nozzle plate, and selectively removing portions of the ink-repellant layer around the ink ejecting holes to expose portions of the nozzle plate around the ink ejecting holes. | 12-04-2008 |
20080284805 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - A printer including a feeding unit configured to perform repeated feeding of a medium for a predetermined feeding distance in a predetermined feeding direction, a print head configured to print on a printing surface of the medium in a printing zone set each time the feeding unit performs a feeding of the medium for the feeding distance, and a printing pass setting unit configured to set the printing zone containing a plurality of printing passes. The printing pass setting unit sets the printing passes such that boundaries between the printing passes extend diagonally relative to a width direction of the medium that is perpendicular to the feeding direction. The printing pass setting unit can set the printing passes such that the boundaries between the printing passes extend in waveform in the width direction with oscillation of the waveform being in the feeding direction. | 11-20-2008 |
20080281043 | PENETRATION INHIBITOR, METHOD FOR PREVENTING PENETRATION OF SOLVENT INK, SOLVENT INK FOR INJKET PRINTER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SOLVENT INK - A penetration inhibitor includes a rosin-series resin having weight-average molecular weight of at least about 16,000 and at most about 50,000. The penetration inhibitor is to be added to a solvent ink for an inkjet printer. | 11-13-2008 |
20080278531 | INKJET PRINTER, INKJET PRINTER CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer includes a first printer head configured to eject ink to a first printing area on a surface of a print medium to form first ink dots in the first printing area, and a second printer head configured to eject ink to a second printing area on the surface of the print medium to form second ink dots in the second printing area. A detector is configured to detect first and second printing states in the first and second printing areas, respectively. A comparing unit is configured to compare the first and second printing states. An ejection controller is configured to control ejection from the first and second printer heads. A printing state compensator is configured to compensate ejection control performed by the ejection controller according to a comparison result output by the comparing unit so that the first and second printing states are substantially equal. | 11-13-2008 |
20080259117 | PRINTER - A printer including a medium supporting member that supports a print medium in a state placed thereon, a print head that has nozzles for ejecting ink droplets downward and freely reciprocates above the medium supporting member, and a maintenance device. The maintenance device is disposed to face the lower surface of the print head when the print head is in a standby position and receives residual ink in the nozzles which is ejected from the nozzles when the print head is in the standby position. The maintenance device has an ink receiving chamber that opens upward for receiving the residual ink ejected from the nozzles and a liquid injection member that injects liquid into the ink receiving chamber when the print head is away from a position where the print head faces the ink receiving chamber in the vertical direction. | 10-23-2008 |
20080253823 | PRINTER AND FEEDING APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - A printer includes a supporting member, a print head and a guide member. The supporting member is configured to support a sheet print medium on an upper surface of the supporting member. The print head is provided to print on the sheet print medium fed onto the upper surface of the supporting member. The guide member is configured to guide the sheet print medium to feed the sheet print medium onto the upper surface of the supporting member. The guide member includes at least one guide collar around which the sheet print medium is wound and a guide bar provided in the at least one guide collar so that the at least one guide collar is rotatable around the guide bar. | 10-16-2008 |
20080250967 | DYE DISCHARGING INK FOR INKJET PRINTING - A dye discharging ink for inkjet printing including at least a reducing agent and an amine compound. Embodiments of the dye discharging ink include, as the reducing agent, a sulphur reducing agent such as Rongalite, and, as the amine compound, an alcohol amine compound such as triethanolamine. Embodiments of the dye discharging ink also include a surface active surfactant and/or an antirust agent, and a pH in a range from 9.5 to 11.0. The dye discharging ink for inkjet printing can prevent corrosion of head nozzles due to acidic substances produced by decomposition of a reducing agent, so as to decrease inhibition of linear advancing property of ejected ink, and can prevent decrease in discharging capability due to hydrolysis of the reducing agent. | 10-16-2008 |
20080240834 | MEDIUM TRANSPORT APPARATUS, PRINTER, PLOTTER AND COMBINATION OF PRINTER AND PLOTTER - A medium transport apparatus includes a feeding roller configured to rotate around a rotational axis. A guide rail extends along the rotational axis. A slider is supported by the guide rail and movable along the rotational axis. A rotatable pinch roller is configured to clamp medium between the feeding roller and the pinch roller to move the medium. A lever is connected to the pinch roller and movable to change a clamping state with respect to the medium between the feeding roller and the pinch roller. An arm is connected to the slider and configured to take an engaging position where the arm moves the lever to change the clamping state when the slider moves along the rotational axis and a standby position where the arm is not engaged with the lever when the slider moves along the rotational axis. | 10-02-2008 |
20080239332 | PRINTER-PLOTTER - A printer-plotter includes a guide rail, a first head, a second head, a driving device, a first connecting mechanism and a second connecting mechanism. The guide rail extends in a longitudinal direction. The first head is supported by the guide rail and movable along the longitudinal direction. The second head is supported by the guide rail and movable independently of the first head along the longitudinal direction. The driving device includes a driving force transmitting member and a driving mechanism configured to move the driving force transmitting member. The first connecting mechanism is configured to detachably connect the first head to the driving force transmitting member. The second connecting mechanism is configured to detachably connect the second head to the driving force transmitting member. | 10-02-2008 |
20080238996 | PRINTER-PLOTTER AND METHOD FOR PRINTING AND CUTTING - A printer-plotter includes first and second heads which are supported by a guide rail and are movable along a longitudinal direction of the guide rail, independently. A driving member is supported by the guide rail and configured to move along the longitudinal direction between the first head and the second head. A first connecting mechanism is configured to connect the first head to the driving member detachably. A second connecting mechanism is configured to connect the second head to the driving member detachably. The first head is connected to the driving member by the first connecting mechanism and the second head is separated from the driving member in order to make the first head operate. The second head is connected to the driving member by the second connecting mechanism and the first head is separated from the driving member in order to make the second head operate. | 10-02-2008 |
20080218542 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - A printer includes a holding unit, a printer head, a movement controller and a printing controller. The holding unit is configured to hold a print substrate having a surface to be printed. The printer head is configured to eject ink from a plurality of ejection nozzles to the surface. The movement controller is configured to move the holding unit and the printer head relative to each other. The printing controller is configured to control ejection of the ink from the printer head according to a surface curvature of the surface and a relative position of the holding unit and the printer head. | 09-11-2008 |
20080218541 | PRINTER - A printer includes a holding unit, a printer head, a supporting device, a movement controller and a printing controller. The holding unit is configured to hold a print substrate having a surface to be printed. The axes X and Y pass through the print substrate. The movement controller is configured to move the holding unit and the printer head relative to each other in the directions of the axes X, Y and Z which are substantially perpendicular to each other and configured to rotate the holding unit about the axes X and Y relative to the printer head. The printing controller is configured to control ejection of the ink from the printer head according to a relative position of the holding unit and the printer head. | 09-11-2008 |