Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100238211 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - An apparatus for printing an image on a transparent medium based on a selected mode, the apparatus includes: a head that ejects ink droplets from nozzles, wherein when a first mode is selected, the head prints a first image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the first image, and prints a second image which is different from the first image on the background image, and wherein when a second mode is selected, the head prints a second image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the second image, and prints a first image on the background image. | 09-23-2010 |
20100245440 | PRINTING APPARATUS - Provided is a printing apparatus for printing an image on a medium, which is transported in a transport direction, by forming dots by ejecting ink from a plurality of nozzles while moving the nozzles in an intersecting direction that intersects the transport direction. The printing apparatus has a first printing mode for printing a mirror image of a predetermined image as the image on the medium and a second printing mode for printing a positive image of a predetermined image as the image on the medium, the medium being a transparent medium. The first printing mode is different from the second printing mode in at least one of a transportation operation of transporting the medium and a dot-forming operation of forming the dots by ejecting ink while moving the nozzles. | 09-30-2010 |
20110018917 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing device that forms a background by a first ink and images on the background by a second ink includes a head having first and second nozzle lines that eject, respectively, the first and second inks. The inks are ejected as the head moves, with respect to a medium, in a main scanning direction intersecting the first and second nozzle lines. A transport section transports the medium in a sub-scanning direction along the first and second nozzle lines. In an ejecting operation, the first and second inks are ejected in the relative movement in the main scanning direction and the relative transportation in the sub-scanning direction is performed. In the sub-scanning direction, first and second nozzle line used areas are set where the first and second inks, respectively, are ejected from the first and second nozzle lines. A nozzle unused area is defined therebetween. | 01-27-2011 |
20110018921 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing device that forms a background by a first ink and images on the background by a second ink includes a head having first and second nozzle lines that eject, respectively, the first and second inks. The inks are ejected as the head moves, with respect to a medium, in a main scanning direction intersecting the first and second nozzle lines. A transport section transports the medium in a sub-scanning direction along the first and second nozzle lines. In an ejecting operation, the first and second inks are ejected in the relative movement in the main scanning direction and the relative transportation is performed. In the ejecting operation, more nozzles are used in the second nozzle line than in the first nozzle line, and more ejections are performed from the second nozzle line than from the first nozzle line, thereby filling a predetermined width in the sub-scanning direction. | 01-27-2011 |
20110109673 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - The printing device including: a first setting unit configured to set printing mode of a main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image on the medium and then printing the main image on the background image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the main image on the medium and then printing the background image on the main image; and a second setting unit configured to set a printing mode of an additional image printed in association with the printing of the main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image for the additional image on the medium and then printing the additional image on the background image for the additional image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the additional image on the medium and then printing the background image for the additional image on the additional image. | 05-12-2011 |
20110141173 | FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND FLUID EJECTING METHOD - An apparatus includes: a first nozzles for ejecting a first fluid are lined up in a predetermined direction; a second nozzles for ejecting a second fluid are lined up in the predetermined direction; and a control unit performs an ejecting operation of ejecting fluid from the nozzles, wherein the control unit forms an image on a medium in one of a first mode of forming a main image with the first fluid and a second mode of forming the main image and a background image with the second fluid to be overlapped, forms the main image using a certain nozzle group in the first nozzles when the main image is formed in the first mode, and forms the main image using the same nozzle group as the certain nozzle group when the main image is formed in the second mode. | 06-16-2011 |
20110141174 | FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND FLUID EJECTING METHOD - An apparatus includes: a first nozzles for ejecting first fluid are lined up in a predetermined direction; a second nozzles for ejecting second fluid are lined up in a movement direction; and a control unit which sets a first method of when formation of a main image with the first fluid by a nozzle group of a part of the first nozzle row and formation of a background image with the second fluid by a nozzle group of a part of the second nozzles are performed to overlap the main image and the background image with each other on the medium, in a case where one of the nozzle group of the part of the first nozzles and the nozzle group of the part of the second nozzles is positioned closer to the other direction side of the predetermined direction than the other nozzle group to perform the image formation on a predetermined area of the medium in advance of the other nozzle group. | 06-16-2011 |
20120127249 | RECORDING METHOD, LIGHT CURABLE TYPE INK SET, AND RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is a recording method using a light-curable-type ink set including a light-curable-type color-ink composition containing a polymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, and a coloring material and a light-curable-type clear-ink composition containing a polymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the light-curable-type color-ink composition contains (1) an acylphosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator and (2) at least one of a thioxanthone-based photopolymerization initiator and/or an α aminoalkylphenone-based photopolymerization initiator which is in a range of 0.5 to 4 mass % with respect to the total mass of the color ink composition, wherein the light-curable-type clear-ink composition contains an acylphosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator which is in a range of 5 to 12 mass % with respect to the total mass of the clear-ink composition, and wherein illumination energy when a coated film made from the ink set is cured through light illumination from a light source is in a range of 100 to 800 mJ/cm | 05-24-2012 |
20130215170 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - An apparatus for printing an image on a transparent medium based on a selected mode, the apparatus includes: a head that ejects ink droplets from nozzles, wherein when a first mode is selected, the head prints a first image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the first image, and prints a second image which is different from the first image on the background image, and wherein when a second mode is selected, the head prints a second image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the second image, and prints a first image on the background image. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215171 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - An apparatus for printing an image on a transparent medium based on a selected mode, the apparatus includes: a head that ejects ink droplets from nozzles, wherein when a first mode is selected, the head prints a first image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the first image, and prints a second image which is different from the first image on the background image, and wherein when a second mode is selected, the head prints a second image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the second image, and prints a first image on the background image. | 08-22-2013 |
20130258018 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD, ULTRAVIOLET CURABLE INK, AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is an ink jet recording method including: discharging first ultraviolet curable ink of a radical polymerization reaction type which contains a radical photopolymerization initiator and a radical polymerization compound and in which transmittance at a wavelength of 395 nm is equal to or less than 1%, onto a recording medium; and curing the first ultraviolet curable ink which is landed on the recording medium by irradiating the ink with ultraviolet light, in which a light source which initially emits the ultraviolet light in the curing of the ink is an ultraviolet light emitting diode in which peak intensity of the irradiated ultraviolet light is equal to or more than 800 mW/cm | 10-03-2013 |
20130265356 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing device that forms a background by a first ink and images on the background by a second ink includes a head having first and second nozzle lines that eject, respectively, the first and second inks. The inks are ejected as the head moves, with respect to a medium, in a main scanning direction intersecting the first and second nozzle lines. A transport section transports the medium in a sub-scanning direction along the first and second nozzle lines. In an ejecting operation, the first and second inks are ejected in the relative movement in the main scanning direction and the relative transportation in the sub-scanning direction is performed. In the sub-scanning direction, first and second nozzle line used areas are set where the first and second inks, respectively, are ejected from the first and second nozzle lines. A nozzle unused area is defined therebetween. | 10-10-2013 |
20130286120 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD, ULTRAVIOLET-RAY CURABLE INK, AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording method includes ejecting an ultraviolet-ray curable ink of which a viscosity at 28° C. is 8 mPa·s or more from a head to a recording medium, and curing the ultraviolet-ray curable ink attached to the recording medium, wherein, in the ejecting of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink, the ultraviolet-ray curable ink is heated such that a temperature of the ejected ultraviolet-ray curable ink becomes 28° C. to 40° C., and a viscosity of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink at the temperature is 15 mPa·s or less. | 10-31-2013 |
20130300783 | PRINTING APPARATUS - Provided is a printing apparatus for printing an image on a medium, which is transported in a transport direction, by forming dots by ejecting ink from a plurality of nozzles while moving the nozzles in an intersecting direction that intersects the transport direction. The printing apparatus has a first printing mode for printing a mirror image of a predetermined image as the image on the medium and a second printing mode for printing a positive image of a predetermined image as the image on the medium, the medium being a transparent medium. The first printing mode is different from the second printing mode in at least one of a transportation operation of transporting the medium and a dot-forming operation of forming the dots by ejecting ink while moving the nozzles. | 11-14-2013 |
20130321520 | INK JET INK COMPOSITION, INK ACCOMMODATION BODY AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ultraviolet curing ink jet ink composition includes a trifunctional or tetrafunctional (meth)acrylate having a pentaerythritol skeleton; and inorganic metal-based fine particles as a color material, in which the viscosity is 8 to 22 mPa·s at 20° C. | 12-05-2013 |
20140292962 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording method includes delivering a non-aqueous light-curable ink composition stored in an ink container from the ink container to a head via an ink delivery path and discharging the ink composition from the head toward a recording medium. The non-aqueous light-curable ink composition contains a radically-polymerizable compound and has a surface tension of 25 mN/m or less. The non-aqueous light-curable ink composition stored in the ink container has a dissolved air content of 7 ppm or more. The non-aqueous light-curable ink composition has a dissolved air content of 30 ppm or less at delivery from the ink delivery path to the head. | 10-02-2014 |
20140354718 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE - Provided is a printing device including: nozzles which discharge a first aqueous ink for printing a main image; nozzles which discharge a second aqueous ink for printing a background image; and a control unit which controls printing of an image on a medium having an aqueous ink absorption property based on one selected from a first mode for printing the main image using the first aqueous ink and a second mode for superposing and printing the main image using the first aqueous ink and the background image using the second aqueous ink, wherein the amount of first aqueous ink dischargeable per unit area of the medium when the main image is printed on the medium in the second mode is less than that when the main image is printed on the medium in the first mode. | 12-04-2014 |
20140368569 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - The printing device including: a first setting unit configured to set printing mode of a main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image on the medium and then printing the main image on the background image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the main image on the medium and then printing the background image on the main image; and a second setting unit configured to set a printing mode of an additional image printed in association with the printing of the main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image for the additional image on the medium and then printing the additional image on the background image for the additional image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the additional image on the medium and then printing the background image for the additional image on the additional image. | 12-18-2014 |