An ink set including two types of inkjet inks having different thixotropic indices calculated by the following formula: thixotropic index=[Viscosity of inkjet ink measured at 23° C. and at a shear rate of 53.6 s−1]/[Viscosity of inkjet ink measured at 23° C. and at a shear rate of 1000 s−1], wherein the two types of inks each include a colorant, a dispersant, and an organic solvent; a ratio of a thixotropic index of an ink (B) (TB) having a higher thixotropic index to a thixotropic index of an ink (A) (TA) having a lower thixotropic index [(TB)/(TA)] is 1.04 or more; and the ink (B) is applied to a print medium to be overlayed on at least a part of an application region of the ink (A) after applying the ink (A) to the print medium.
Disclosed is an inkjet printing device comprising an inkjet head that jets ink to attach the ink to a non-absorbent or low-absorbent printing medium, a heating unit that heats the printing medium for drying the ink attached to the printing medium, and an air sending unit that blows air onto the printing medium for drying the ink attached to the printing medium, wherein the ink contains a predetermined amount of water and an organic solvent S including a predetermined organic solvent A, the heating unit heats the printing medium so that a surface temperature of the printing media is 40 to 43° C., and the air sending unit blows air at an air velocity of 0.2 to 1.5 m/sec onto the printing medium.
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
B41M 7/00 - After-treatment of printed works, e.g. heating, irradiating
[Problem] To provide a fragrance spraying device that can blend and spray a fragrance desired by a user. [Solution] A fragrance spraying device comprising: fragrance dripping nozzles 11-15 for dripping and supplying a plurality of types of fragrances; a fragrance blending pool 17 for mixing the plurality of types of fragrances supplied by the fragrance dripping nozzles 11-15; and a spraying element 18 for atomizing and spraying the fragrance mixed in the fragrance blending pool 17.
B05B 17/06 - Apparatus for spraying or atomising liquids or other fluent materials, not covered by any other group of this subclass operating with special methods using ultrasonic vibrations
An inkjet printer includes an inkjet head, a conveyor, and abutment mechanisms. The conveyor is arranged below the inkjet head and configured to convey a print medium. The abutment mechanisms include abutment shafts having lower ends configured to abut against the conveyor. The abutment mechanisms are configured to adjust height positions of the abutment shafts individually and steplessly.
A liquid ejection control apparatus includes: a head in which a plurality of ejection heads having nozzles that eject droplets perpendicularly onto a printing surface which is inclined with respect to the horizontal plane, the plurality of ejection heads being arranged in an array direction of the nozzles; a drive voltage correcting unit that applies a drive voltage to each of the ejection heads and corrects the drive voltages for ejection heads which are adjacent to each other in the array direction of the nozzles based on a density difference between the adjacent ejection heads; and a driven nozzle determining unit that determines a nozzle to be driven in each ejection head in an overlap region between the adjacent ejection heads. The determination of the nozzle to be driven by the driven nozzle determining unit is performed after correction of the drive voltage by the drive voltage correcting unit.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
INK SET FOR THERMAL TRANSFER SHEET, THERMAL TRANSFER SHEET, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THERMAL TRANSFER SHEET, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TRANSFER PRINTED MATTER
An ink set for a thermal transfer sheet, comprising: a white ink; and a color ink having a color other than white, wherein the white ink contains a water-dispersible resin (A) and water, and the water-dispersible resin (A) has a thermal melting temperature of 100° C. or lower.
C09D 11/324 - Pigment inks containing carbon black
C09D 11/54 - Inks based on two liquids, one liquid being the ink, the other liquid being a reaction solution, a fixer or a treatment solution for the ink
A conveyance apparatus includes: a pair of rollers configured to convey a medium while nipping the medium; a nip guide configured to hold one roller between the pair of rollers and guide the medium toward the pair of rollers; and an elastic body configured to bias the nip guide and the one roller such that the one roller is pressed against the other roller between the pair of rollers, wherein the nip guide includes a guide plate that spreads in a width direction of the medium and a conveyance direction of the medium and guides the medium toward the pair of rollers.
METHOD, APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING SIGN LANGUAGE VIDEO INFORMATION, AND METHOD, APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING SIGN LANGUAGE INFORMATION
A sign language video information collecting apparatus includes a registration word candidate determining unit that determines registration candidate words for which a sign language registrant is requested to register sign language and outputs the determined registration candidate words to a terminal device of the sign language registrant, a sign language video information obtaining unit that obtains sign language video information corresponding to a registration candidate word which is output from the terminal device of the sign language registrant in response to input of the registration candidate words, and a sign language video information storage unit 14 that stores the sign language video information corresponding to the registration candidate word correlated with the registration candidate word.
An appointment management apparatus includes: an appointment slot setting unit in which a plurality of appointment slots prepared by a host are set in advance; a guest attribute information storage unit that stores attribute information of a plurality of guests who make appointments from among the plurality of appointment slots; a desired appointment slot receiving unit that receives a desired appointment slot selected by each guest from among the candidate appointment slots for each guest; and an assigning unit that assigns an appointment for each guest from among the plurality of appointment slots based on the desired appointment slot of each guest and the attribute information of each guest.
The disclosure relates to a printing device including a pretreatment liquid jetting section which jets a pretreatment liquid that causes ink coagulation, an ink jetting section which jets an ink, and a control section which performs control such that the pretreatment liquid jetting section jets the pretreatment liquid onto a fabric, and the ink jetting section jets the ink onto the fabric onto which the pretreatment liquid has been jetted, thereby printing a main image and an additional image.
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
An appointment management apparatus includes: an appointment slot setting unit in which a plurality of appointment slots prepared by a host are set in advance; a guest attribute information storage unit that stores attribute information of a plurality of guests who make appointments from among the plurality of appointment slots; a candidate appointment slot identifying unit that identifies candidate appointment slots for each guest based on the attribute information of each guest and outputs the candidate appointment slots to a terminal device of each guest; a desired appointment slot receiving unit that receives a desired appointment slot selected by each guest from among the candidate appointment slots for each guest; and an assigning unit that assigns an appointment for each guest from among the plurality of appointment slots based on the desired appointment slot of each guest and the attribute information of each guest.
Provided is an ink set for a thermal transfer sheet including: a color ink having a color other than white; at least one selected from the group consisting of a white ink and a transparent ink; and an ink aggregation liquid.
C09D 11/54 - Inks based on two liquids, one liquid being the ink, the other liquid being a reaction solution, a fixer or a treatment solution for the ink
B41M 5/025 - Duplicating or marking methodsSheet materials for use therein by transferring ink from the master sheet
A sheet conveyance device comprises: a skew detector that detects a skewed amount with respect to a conveyance direction of a sheet to be conveyed; and a skew corrector that corrects skew feeding of the sheet, and the skew corrector includes a guide member that supports the sheet along a width direction, and displaces the guide member so as to rotate a region in the width direction of the sheet supported by the guide member about an axis parallel to a conveyance direction according to a skewed amount of the sheet.
B65H 9/00 - Registering, e.g. orientating, articlesDevices therefor
B41J 11/44 - Controlling by devices, e.g. programme tape or contact wheel, moved in correspondence with movement of paper-feeding devices, e.g. platen rotation
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from pilesFeeding articles to machines by rollers
B65H 7/06 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
B65H 9/20 - Assisting by photoelectric, sonic, or pneumatic indicators
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A TRANSFER MEDIUM, AND TRANSFER MEDIUM
A transfer medium producing apparatus includes a printing unit that receives image data representing a printed image and prints a printed image on a release sheet based on the image data, an adhesive applying unit that applies an adhesive to the release sheet on which the printed image is printed, and a control apparatus which controls the printing unit and the adhesive applying unit. The control apparatus controls the printing unit to add a printed image expansion area that expands outside the periphery of the printed image, and controls the adhesive applying unit such that an adhesive application area is larger than the printed image and smaller than the printed image expansion area.
Disclosed is an inkjet ink including: a pigment; a pigment dispersant; a binder resin; water; and an organic solvent S, in which the amount of the water is in a range from 3.0 to 10.0% by mass, relative to the total amount of the ink, the pigment dispersant has an acid value of 5 to 25 mgKOH/g and an amine value of 10 to 30 mgKOH/g, and the pigment dispersant is soluble in water and in the organic solvent S.
Provided is an inkjet ink including: a colorant; a binder resin; water, and an organic solvent S, in which the amount of the water is in a range from 3.0% by mass to 10.0% by mass, relative to the total amount of the ink, and the organic solvent S includes an organic solvent A with a boiling point of 150° C. or higher and lower than 200° C., in an amount of 90.0% by mass or more, relative to the total amount of the organic solvent S. An ink set is also provided.
C09D 11/54 - Inks based on two liquids, one liquid being the ink, the other liquid being a reaction solution, a fixer or a treatment solution for the ink
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SHEET FEEDING METHOD, SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS, SHEET FEEDING PROGRAM, AND LEARNING MODEL
A sheet feeding apparatus, includes: a loading table on which a plurality of sheets are loaded; a flotation air supply unit that causes the sheets to float by supplying air toward the edge surfaces of the plurality of sheets which are loaded on the loading table; a suction conveying unit that suctions and conveys the topmost sheet among the plurality of sheets which are caused to float by the supply of air; an image capturing unit that captures an image of a flotation state of the plurality of sheets which are caused to float by the supply of air; a control parameter adjusting unit that adjusts control parameters of the flotation air supply unit based on information on the flotation state obtained from the image captured by the image capturing unit; and a control unit that controls the flotation air supply unit based on the control parameters.
B65H 7/16 - Controlling air-supply to pneumatic separators
B65H 3/12 - Suction bands, belts, or tables moving relatively to the pile
B65H 3/48 - Air blast acting on edges of, or under, articles
B65H 7/06 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
A communication system includes: a message management server device that accepts communication data sent from a school terminal device, transmits the communication data to a guardian terminal device, and accepts communication data sent from a guardian terminal device, and a bulletin board management server device that accepts communication data sent from the school terminal device, enables the guardian terminal device to view the communication data, but does not accept communication data from the guardian terminal device. It is possible to switch between sending communication data from the school terminal device to the message management server device and from the school terminal device to the message board management server device.
G06F 15/16 - Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs
H04L 51/23 - Reliability checks, e.g. acknowledgments or fault reporting
H04L 51/58 - Message adaptation for wireless communication
Provided is an ink set for textile printing including a white inkjet ink that includes a white pigment, resin particles A which have a film elongation of 1,000% or more, and resin particles B which have a film elongation of less than 1,000% and are ionic resin particles having an average particle size of 150 nm or less; and a non-white inkjet ink that includes a non-white pigment and resin particles C which have a film elongation of 500% or more and a resin skeleton different from those of the resin particles A and the resin particles B.
C09D 11/40 - Ink-sets specially adapted for multi-colour inkjet printing
C09D 11/102 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions other than those only involving unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds
C09D 11/107 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds from unsaturated acids or derivatives thereof
D06P 1/52 - General processes of dyeing or printing textiles or general processes of dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments or auxiliary substances employed using insoluble pigments or auxiliary substances, e.g. binders using compositions containing synthetic macromolecular substances
A document evaluation apparatus includes: a document data acquisition unit that acquires document data including at least text objects; a preliminary processing unit that performs a preliminary process on the document data acquired by the document data acquisition unit; an information volume evaluation unit that evaluates an amount of information in the document data based on the preliminarily processed document data; a character evaluation unit that evaluates the legibility of text based on the preliminarily processed document data; and a color evaluation unit that evaluates the relationships among adjacent colors in the document data based on the preliminarily processed document data.
A method for producing an aqueous dispersion is disclosed, the method including: obtaining an aqueous titanium oxide dispersion containing titanium oxide particles, a dispersant, and water; and obtaining titanium oxide composite particles by adding a polymerizable monomer and a polymerization initiator to the aqueous titanium oxide dispersion to polymerize the polymerizable monomer, in which the obtaining of the titanium oxide composite particles includes adding the polymerizable monomer at a mass ratio of 1/5 or more relative to the total amount of the titanium oxide particle at one time, and the polymerizable monomer contains a polymerizable monomer A of which solubility in water is 0.5 g/100 ml or less at 23° C. An aqueous dispersion and an aqueous ink are also disclosed.
A conveyance device includes a processor that adjusts a conveyance condition including at least one of a feed start time of a medium by a feeder and a conveyance speed of the medium by a conveyor in a conveyance path including a processing path and a circulation path, based on a length of the medium in the conveyance direction. The processor adjusts the conveyance condition on the basis of a fact that a length of the succeeding medium conveyed to the circulation path in the conveyance direction is longer than that of the preceding medium conveyed to the circulation path, and maintains the conveyance condition of the preceding medium on the basis of a fact that the length of the succeeding medium in the conveyance direction is shorter than that of the preceding medium.
A textile printing apparatus includes a base forming ink head that discharges a base forming ink onto a base material to which a pretreatment liquid has been applied, a leveler that levels the base forming ink discharged on the base material, and an image forming ink head that discharges an image forming ink onto the base material on which the base forming ink has been leveled.
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methodsSheet materials for use therein
D06P 5/00 - Other features in dyeing or printing textiles or dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form
A drive control device includes: a processor, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include: calculating a duty ratio of a PWM signal based on a rotation speed of a motor driven by a PWM control and a target rotation speed; and obtaining an estimate value of a torque of the motor based on the rotation speed of the motor and the calculated duty ratio.
H02P 7/29 - Arrangements for regulating or controlling the speed or torque of electric DC motors for regulating or controlling an individual DC dynamo-electric motor by varying field or armature current by master control with auxiliary power using discharge tubes or semiconductor devices using semiconductor devices controlling armature supply only using pulse modulation
H02P 6/08 - Arrangements for controlling the speed or torque of a single motor
B65H 31/38 - Apparatus for vibrating or knocking the pile during piling
B65H 43/04 - Use of control, checking, or safety devices, e.g. automatic devices comprising an element for sensing a variable detecting, or responding to, presence of faulty articles
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Delivery item information management system, method, apparatus, and program for managing delivery item information, and printing apparatus
A delivery information management system includes: a printing apparatus that prints unique identification information related to a delivery item, a memory unit that stores identification information and information related to delivery associated with each other, a plurality of reading units that read the identification information at a plurality of locations during a delivery process, and a control unit that displays information related to delivery when the identification information is read by the reading units at each of the plurality of locations, based on the attributes of a worker who handles the delivery item at each of the plurality of locations.
A system includes a video information receiving unit that receives video information of an unspecified person, an abnormal status detecting unit that detects an abnormality related to a person based on the video information, and an abnormal status video generating and storing unit that controls processing for the video information of persons in the video information based on the detection of the abnormality.
An image processing apparatus includes a processor being configured to extract a correlation from a correlation table that indicates the correlation between a type of printing medium used for printing that uses pretreatment liquid, base ink, and color ink, an amount of the pretreatment liquid, and an amount of the base ink, and image quality and characteristic information of a printed material, and to generate a first print image based on the type of printing medium and input values of the amount of the pretreatment liquid and the amount of the base ink that have been input, and a second print image based on correction values that improve at least one of the image quality and the characteristic information more than the input values and that are the amount of the pretreatment liquid and the amount of the base ink obtained from the correlation.
An advertisement information management system includes an advertisement information delivery apparatus that delivers advertisement information to a user who is aboard or is scheduled to board a means of transportation, and an advertiser terminal device that obtains purchase information in the case that the user views the advertisement information and purchases a subject of advertising.
An image processing apparatus includes a processor being configured to extract characteristic information of a printed material corresponding to a base material used for printing using pretreatment liquid, base ink, and color ink and a printing condition of the printing, and to generate a characteristic information image representing the extracted characteristic information.
A privilege providing system includes a first processor to recognize a prescribed act; a second processor to grant a privilege to at least a subject other than a performer of the prescribed act upon the act being recognized by the first processor, and a storage configured to store the privilege granted by the second processor to at least the subject other than the performer of the prescribed act.
16 - Paper, cardboard and goods made from these materials
Goods & Services
Mimeographing inks; paints for painting pictures Paper and cardboard; stationery
35.
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing information processing program
An information processing apparatus includes: a determiner configured to determine whether a combination of adjacent two colors in inputted image data is a combination in which a person with color blindness is likely to confuse the two colors; and a decider configured to decide, as a proposed change of the combination of the two colors, for the combination determined to be the combination in which the person with color blindness is likely to confuse the two colors by the determiner, a combination in which at least one of the two colors is changed such that the person with color blindness is capable of distinguishing the two colors and in which a degree of change of the at least one changed color of the two colors is minimized for a person with normal color vision.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Ink cartridges, filled, for printers; pigments; printing ink; metals in foil and powder form for use in painting, decorating, printing and art; ink for printers Printing machines for commercial or industrial use; structural parts for printing machines; structural attachments for printers, namely, paper feeders for use with printing machines; bookbinding machines for industrial purposes; collating machines for industrial use; industrial paper cutting machines; stacking machines for sorting paper and product piles; industrial paper cutting machines and structural parts therefor; paper reeling machines; printheads for industrial inkjet printing machines; printheads for industrial or commercial printing machines Electronic components for computers and computer printers, namely, touch panels; inkjet printers for use with computers; empty toner and ink cartridges for printers and copying machines; computer printers for printing documents for use with computers; scanner for capturing images for analysis for use in the life science research field; image scanners for computers; scanners being data processing equipment; digital color photocopiers; electronic tags for goods; computer peripherals and parts therefor; computer peripherals; computer keyboards; covers for computer keyboards; integrated circuit cards and components therefor; radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags; print quality examination scanners for pictures; automatic testing and measuring electronic sensors with camera for detecting defects and flaws on the surface of pictures; CMOS imaging cameras; digital cameras for color tone monitoring devices; multifunction electronic devices for use in copying, printing, scanning, video capturing and/or transmitting documents and images; central processing units for processing images; downloadable computer programs for setting preferences and controls of computer printers; downloadable computer software for setting preferences and controls of computer printers; downloadable computer applications software for setting preferences and controls of computer printers; recorded computer applications software for setting preferences and controls of computer printers; computer hardware; computer hardware and recorded software for processing digital music files sold as a unit; print heads for document printers; print heads for plotters; printed circuits; printed circuit boards
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Roller pair for conveying sheets and printing apparatus
A roller pair for conveying sheets is equipped with a first roller and a second roller that sandwich and convey sheet members. At least one of the first roller and the second roller has a concave-convex portion on the surface thereof, and the at least one of the rollers having the concave-convex portion on the surface thereof further has flange portions and at both ends in the axial direction thereof.
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from pilesFeeding articles to machines by rollers
B65H 27/00 - Special constructions, e.g. surface features, of feed or guide rollers for webs
B65H 29/12 - Delivering or advancing articles from machinesAdvancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands
B65H 29/20 - Delivering or advancing articles from machinesAdvancing articles to or into piles by contact with rotating friction members, e.g. rollers, brushes, or cylinders
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
High capacity ink cartridges, filled, for inkjet printers; ink for inkjet printers; ink cartridges, filled, for printers; ink cartridges for inkjet printers; ink for inkjet printing machines; ink cartridges for printing machines; filled inkjet cartridges; ink cartridges for computer printers; ink for computer printers; pigments for use in the preparation of inks; pigment; zinc oxide being pigment; printing ink; metallic printing inks; metals in foil and powder form for use in painting, decorating, printing and art; pigments for printing ink; ink for printers. Color printing machines; digital printing machines; printing machines; parts and fittings for printing machines; industrial inkjet printing machines; inkjet printing machines; paper feeders [printing]; inkjet printing devices; printing or bookbinding machines and apparatus; printing machines and apparatus with paper inserting and sealing function; printing machines and apparatus with inkjet mechanisms; collating machines for industrial use; paper cutting machines; devices for printing machines in the nature of stacking and sorting printed paper; web paper cutting devices and their parts and fittings therefor; printing machines and apparatus, computer-controlled; printing machines and apparatus; printing or bookbinding sorting machines for organizing pages of printed paper; paper reeling machines. Inkjet printers; inkjet printers and their parts; inkjet color printers; ink cartridges, unfilled, for computer printers; printers for use with computers; image scanners; scanners for computers; scanners being data processing equipment; digital color photocopiers; electronic tags; ink cartridges, unfilled, for printers and photocopiers; computer peripherals, namely trackballs, mousepads, computer keyboards; keyboard covers, integrated circuit cards; radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags; print quality examination devices for pictures; automatic testing and measuring devices with camera for detecting defects and flaws on the surface; CMOS cameras; RF tags; digital cameras for color tone monitoring devices; image reproducing apparatus and parts and fittings therefor; image processing devices; computer programs for preference settings and controls of computer printers; computer software for printers; computer application software; computer software including those recorded; computer hardware and software; print heads for printers; print heads for plotters; printed circuits; printed circuit boards; print heads for ink-jet printers.
Disclosed is a method for producing a printed textile item including: applying a pretreatment liquid to a fabric, and applying a white ink using an inkjet method to the fabric to which the pretreatment liquid has been applied, wherein the pretreatment liquid contains a polyvalent metal salt, a surfactant, and water, and the white ink contains a white inorganic pigment, resin particles, a surfactant, and water.
D06P 1/52 - General processes of dyeing or printing textiles or general processes of dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments or auxiliary substances employed using insoluble pigments or auxiliary substances, e.g. binders using compositions containing synthetic macromolecular substances
40.
Method and apparatus for producing transfer medium
A transfer medium producing apparatus is equipped with an ink ejection unit 20 that ejects ink onto a peelable sheet, an adhesive solution application unit 30 that applies an adhesive solution onto the peelable sheet onto which the ink has been ejected, and a control unit 2 that controls the ejection of ink and the application of the adhesive solution to be performed by a wet on wet method.
Disclosed is an ink set including: an inkjet pretreatment liquid containing an aggregating agent; an inkjet ink; and a cleaning liquid that contains water, a water-soluble organic solvent, a surfactant with an HLB value of 10 or more, and a metal salt A, and has a conductivity of 0.10 to 3.0 mS/cm at 5° C. A method for producing a printed textile item is also disclosed.
C09D 11/40 - Ink-sets specially adapted for multi-colour inkjet printing
C09D 7/00 - Features of coating compositions, not provided for in group Processes for incorporating ingredients in coating compositions
C09D 11/54 - Inks based on two liquids, one liquid being the ink, the other liquid being a reaction solution, a fixer or a treatment solution for the ink
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SERVER DEVICE, PRINTING DEVICE, PACKAGING MATERIAL REUSE SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND REUSE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD
A server device (100) is provided with: a management unit (111) that uses an information code (Pa) for identifying a packaging material (P) to manage at least one of the usage time of this packaging material P from the start of use and the distance traveled by the packaging material (P); and a determination unit (112) that determines whether or not the packaging material (P) can be reused, on the basis of at least one of the usage time and the traveled distance.
Provided is a delivery information management system or the like which can ensure confidentiality when displaying information pertaining to a package in a delivery process of the package such as courier baggage. The present invention comprises: a printing device (45) which prints management code information on a package in which content is packed and sealed; a storage unit (11) which associates the management code information with information pertaining to the package and stores the associated information; a plurality of reading units (24), (44), (54), (64) which respectively read the management code information at a plurality of base points in the package delivery process; and a control unit (12) which, when the management code information is read at each of the base points, displays the information pertaining to the package associated with the management code information, wherein the control unit 12 restricts the display of the information pertaining to the package on the basis of the property of the information pertaining to the package.
Provided is an aqueous ink for textile inkjet printing including a pigment, a binder resin, and water, wherein the binder resin contains a water-dispersible (meth)acrylic resin, a water-dispersible urethane resin, and a water-dispersible polyester resin, and a mass ratio of the water-dispersible polyester resin relative to the water-dispersible urethane resin is at least 0.2. A method for producing a printed textile item is also provided.
C09D 11/102 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions other than those only involving unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds
C09D 11/107 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds from unsaturated acids or derivatives thereof
C09D 11/40 - Ink-sets specially adapted for multi-colour inkjet printing
C09D 11/54 - Inks based on two liquids, one liquid being the ink, the other liquid being a reaction solution, a fixer or a treatment solution for the ink
D06P 1/52 - General processes of dyeing or printing textiles or general processes of dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments or auxiliary substances employed using insoluble pigments or auxiliary substances, e.g. binders using compositions containing synthetic macromolecular substances
A droplet ejection control apparatus includes a head unit in which a plurality of vertically arranged nozzle groups in which a plurality of nozzles for ejecting droplets onto a predetermined target of ejection are arranged in the vertical direction; and a control unit for controlling ejection of the droplets from the nozzles. The control unit controls ejection of the droplets for vertically adjacent nozzle groups such that an amount of ejection from at least one nozzle of a vertically upper nozzle group at a joint portion between nozzle groups is reduced, and an amount of ejection from at least one nozzle at the joint portion between the nozzle groups of a vertically lower nozzle group is increased.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
B41J 2/155 - Arrangement thereof for line printing
An inkjet printer includes: an inkjet head configured to eject ink to a print medium being conveyed; a mist collector including at least a suction port configured to suck air from a side of the inkjet head on which the print medium passes; and a controller configured to control the mist collector. A space on the side of the inkjet head on which the print medium passes is an open space in which nothing but the print medium passing is arranged within a prescribed distance from the inkjet head. The controller is configured to control the mist collector to perform a mist collection operation of sucking air containing ink mist via the suction port in a state where the print medium and the inkjet head are facing each other.
A liquid supply apparatus includes: a liquid container; branch paths branching from a path connected to the liquid container, the branch paths being connected to tanks arranged at height positions different from one another and lower than the liquid container; supply valves arranged in the branch paths respectively; and a controller configured to control the supply valves to supply a liquid from the liquid container to each of the tanks. The controller is configured to control the supply valves to temporally separately perform supply of the liquid to tanks of the tanks having a height difference equal to or more than a prescribed value therebetween.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
An inkjet printer includes nozzle arrays and a controller. Each of the nozzle arrays includes nozzles arranged in a row along a nozzle array direction. The nozzle arrays are arranged in parallel with each other in a direction perpendicular to the nozzle array direction. The controller is configured to perform such control that in a case where the nozzle arrays include a first nozzle array including a non-ejection nozzle, a defect in a printed image due to the non-ejection nozzle is interpolated by using ejection of an ink by a first nozzle and at least one second nozzle in a second nozzle array different from the first nozzle array among the nozzle arrays, the first nozzle being at a position corresponding to a pixel onto which the non-ejection nozzle is intended to eject an ink, the at least one second nozzle being adjacent to the first nozzle.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
49.
Method for producing transfer sheet, and aqueous adhesive liquid
A method for producing a transfer sheet is provided that yields excellent fastness properties in the transferred product for the image transferred from the transfer sheet. The method for producing a transfer sheet includes: forming an image by jetting an aqueous ink by an inkjet method onto a releasable support, and jetting an aqueous adhesive liquid by an inkjet method so as to at least partially overlap the image, wherein the aqueous adhesive liquid contains a resin A, and a resin B having a glass transition temperature that is at least 80° C. higher than that of the resin A.
B32B 3/10 - Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shapeLayered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by a discontinuous layer, i.e. apertured or formed of separate pieces of material
B41M 3/12 - Transfer pictures or the like, e.g. decalcomanias
B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methodsSheet materials for use therein
B41M 7/00 - After-treatment of printed works, e.g. heating, irradiating
50.
METHOD FOR PRODUCING TRANSFER SHEET, AQUEOUS ADHESIVE LIQUID, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TRANSFERRED PRODUCT
A method for producing a transfer sheet is provided that yields excellent fastness properties for the image transferred from the transfer sheet to the transferred product. The method for producing a transfer sheet includes: forming an image by jetting an aqueous ink by an inkjet method onto a releasable support, and jetting an aqueous adhesive liquid by an inkjet method so as to at least partially overlap the image, wherein the aqueous adhesive liquid contains a resin and a crosslinking agent, and the resin exhibits reactivity relative to the crosslinking agent.
Disclosed is an ink set for textile printing including: a pretreatment liquid that contains a polyvalent metal salt, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a surfactant; a white inkjet ink that contains a white pigment, resin particles, and a water-soluble organic solvent; and a non-white inkjet ink that contains a non-white pigment, resin particles, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a surfactant. Also disclosed is a method for producing a printed textile item.
C09D 11/40 - Ink-sets specially adapted for multi-colour inkjet printing
C09D 11/54 - Inks based on two liquids, one liquid being the ink, the other liquid being a reaction solution, a fixer or a treatment solution for the ink
C09D 11/037 - Printing inks characterised by features other than the chemical nature of the binder characterised by the pigment
C09D 11/102 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions other than those only involving unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds
C09D 11/107 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds from unsaturated acids or derivatives thereof
D06P 5/00 - Other features in dyeing or printing textiles or dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form
D06P 1/92 - General processes of dyeing or printing textiles or general processes of dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments or auxiliary substances employed using dyes dissolved in organic solvents or aqueous emulsions thereof in organic solvents
D06P 1/52 - General processes of dyeing or printing textiles or general processes of dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments or auxiliary substances employed using insoluble pigments or auxiliary substances, e.g. binders using compositions containing synthetic macromolecular substances
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
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AQUEOUS PIGMENT INK FOR TEXTILE INKJET PRINTING, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINTED TEXTILE ITEM
Provided is an aqueous pigment ink for textile inkjet printing, including a pigment, a water-dispersible resin, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent, wherein an ink film made by drying the aqueous pigment ink for textile inkjet printing has a weight change ratio of 20% or less between before and after immersion in warm water at 50° C., and has a film elongation of 50% to 300% after immersion in warm water at 50° C. Also provided is a method for producing a printed textile item.
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
53.
Inkjet printer, flow path resistance adjustment method, and printing method
An inkjet printer includes: an inkjet head having a nozzle row in which nozzles configured to eject ink are arranged, the inkjet head being configured to perform printing by ejecting ink from the nozzles in a state where a row direction of the nozzles in the nozzle row is a non-horizontal direction; an ink tank configured to receive a pressure for delivering ink to the inkjet head or for recovering ink from the inkjet head; and an ink path connecting the ink tank with the inkjet head. The printing is performed in a state where a parameter related to a flow path resistance of the ink path is set such that a nozzle pressure of each of the nozzles at a time of printing is within a prescribed range enabling ink to be stably ejected and ink flows at a flow rate required for the inkjet head.
A medium feeding device includes a feeder that feeds a medium, a medium detection sensor that detects the medium fed by the feeder, and a processor that changes feed settings of the feeder based on a detection result of the medium detection sensor, wherein the processor switches a feed setting to be changed among a plurality of the feed settings of the feeder based on the detection result of the medium detection sensor.
B65H 7/06 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
Provided is an ink set including: an inkjet aqueous pretreatment liquid containing water and a polyvalent metal salt A; an aqueous inkjet ink; and a cleaning liquid containing water, a water-soluble organic solvent B with an SP value of at least 11 (cal/cm3)1/2, and a monovalent metal salt C, in which the monovalent metal salt C contains a metal with a higher ionization tendency than a metal of the polyvalent metal salt A.
C09D 11/54 - Inks based on two liquids, one liquid being the ink, the other liquid being a reaction solution, a fixer or a treatment solution for the ink
C09D 11/38 - Inkjet printing inks characterised by non-macromolecular additives other than solvents, pigments or dyes
C09D 11/102 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions other than those only involving unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds
56.
AQUEOUS WHITE INKJET INK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINTED TEXTILE ITEM
Provided is an aqueous white inkjet ink including: a white pigment; a water-dispersible urethane resin; an amine compound with a molecular weight of 110 to 150; and water, in which an amount of the amine compound with a molecular weight of 110 to 150 relative to a total amount of the ink is 0.2 to 1.3% by mass, and a mass ratio of the amine compound with a molecular weight of 110 to 150 relative to the water-dispersible urethane resin satisfies (a mass of the amine compound with a molecular weight of 110 to 150)/(a mass of the water-dispersible urethane resin)=0.02 to 0.08.
C09D 11/102 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions other than those only involving unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds
C09D 11/037 - Printing inks characterised by features other than the chemical nature of the binder characterised by the pigment
57.
AQUEOUS INKJET INK FOR TEXTILE PRINTING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINTED TEXTILE ITEM
An aqueous inkjet ink for textile printing is disclosed which contains water, a water-soluble organic solvent, an amino alcohol, a water-dispersible resin, and a pigment, and in which an amount of a solid fraction of the ink relative to a total mass of the ink is at least 20% by mass; and the water-soluble organic solvent contains a water-soluble organic solvent (A) which has a boiling point of at least 250° C. and is one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of polyalkylene glycols, polyalkylene glycol derivatives, and trihydric alcohols. A method for producing a printed textile item is also disclosed.
An apparatus for producing a transfer medium is equipped with: a printing unit that receives image data that represents an image to be printed and prints a print image onto a peelable sheet based on the image data; an adhesive liquid coating unit that coats an adhesive liquid on the peelable sheet on which the print image has been printed; and a control unit that controls the adhesive liquid coating unit such that an adhesive liquid is coated onto a printed image within a transfer region, from between the transfer region to be transferred onto a target medium for transfer and a non-transfer region not to be transferred onto the target medium for transfer, which are included in the printed image.
B41M 3/12 - Transfer pictures or the like, e.g. decalcomanias
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
A conveying device which is disposed so as to face an image forming unit that performs image formation on a medium and which conveys the medium while sucking the medium, the conveying device including: a conveying surface having a suction region that sucks the medium, wherein the suction region includes a first suction region including a region that faces an entirety of the image forming unit along a conveying direction of the medium, and a second suction region located on an upstream side of the first suction region in a conveying direction, the second suction region sucking the medium with a stronger sucking force than the first suction region.
Provided is a white inkjet ink for textile printing including: a white inorganic pigment, resin particles A, resin particles B, and water, in which a film elongation of the resin particles A is at least 1000%, the resin particles B are ionic resin particles with an average particle size of not more than 150 nm, and an average particle size of the resin particles A is twice or more than the average particle size of the resin particles B. An ink set and a method for producing a printed textile item are also provided.
C09D 11/38 - Inkjet printing inks characterised by non-macromolecular additives other than solvents, pigments or dyes
C09D 11/033 - Printing inks characterised by features other than the chemical nature of the binder characterised by the solvent
C09D 11/037 - Printing inks characterised by features other than the chemical nature of the binder characterised by the pigment
C09D 11/102 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions other than those only involving unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds
C09D 11/40 - Ink-sets specially adapted for multi-colour inkjet printing
C09D 11/54 - Inks based on two liquids, one liquid being the ink, the other liquid being a reaction solution, a fixer or a treatment solution for the ink
D06P 5/00 - Other features in dyeing or printing textiles or dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form
D06P 1/52 - General processes of dyeing or printing textiles or general processes of dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments or auxiliary substances employed using insoluble pigments or auxiliary substances, e.g. binders using compositions containing synthetic macromolecular substances
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
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Printing apparatus and method for forming printed images having glossiness
A printing apparatus includes: a gloss forming unit that forms at least two regions having different gloss levels on a print medium; and a print image forming unit that forms a print image on the at least two regions having different gloss levels of the print medium after the gloss forming unit forms the at least two regions.
A method for producing a printed textile item, the method including applying a treatment liquid containing an aggregating agent to a fabric using an inkjet method, applying a white ink having a charge density of at least 30 μeq/g, using a step of using an inkjet method and a wet-on-wet method, to the fabric to which the treatment liquid has been applied, applying a color ink for which the Young's modulus of the dried coating film is not more than 3.0 MPa, using an inkjet method and a wet-on-wet method, to the fabric to which the white ink has been applied.
C09D 11/54 - Inks based on two liquids, one liquid being the ink, the other liquid being a reaction solution, a fixer or a treatment solution for the ink
D06P 1/54 - Substances with reactive groups together with crosslinking agents
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Downloadable computer software for use in the evaluation and analysis of a wide variety of information, namely, volume, typography and color arrangement of documents; Downloadable computer software for processing information, namely, collection, editing, organizing, modifying, book marking, transmission, storage, and sharing of data and information derived from documents; downloadable computer software for use in the evaluation and analysis of data utilizing computational linguistics; downloadable computer software for commercial and government entities to perform text and content mining and utilization and organization of unstructured data and intelligence; Downloadable computer software and downloadable computer programs for use in webpage designing, designing the layout of webpages, and publishing webpages; downloadable computer software and downloadable computer programs for use in color correction, grading and color management of digital images; downloadable file management computer software for opening and converting photographic, digital, and graphic images, data, text, documents, audio, video, multimedia works, and recorded information to various file formats; downloadable computer software and downloadable computer programs for enabling users to search, preview and track changes in electronic documents or files; downloadable computer software for proofreading; downloadable computer software using artificial intelligence for analysis of volume, typography and color arrangement of documents; operating and user instructions for computer software stored on digital storage media; downloadable computer software for determining if a document's design is legible and easy to read; downloadable computer software for evaluation and analysis of volume, typography and color arrangement of documents; downloadable computer software programs for evaluation and analysis of volume, typography and color arrangement of documents Graphic design; testing the functionality of machines; Technological research in the field of computer hardware systems; rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software for use in the evaluation and analysis of a wide variety of information, namely, volume, typography and color arrangement of documents; Rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software for processing document information, namely, collection, editing, organizing, modifying, book marking, transmission, storage, and sharing of data and information derived from documents; rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software for use in the evaluation and analysis of data utilizing computational linguistics; rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software for commercial and government entities to perform text and content mining and utilization and organization of unstructured data and intelligence; rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software and computer programs for use in webpage designing, designing the layout of webpages, and publishing webpages; rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software and computer programs for use in color correction, grading and color management of digital images; rental and provision of online non-downloadable file management software for opening and converting photographic, digital, and graphic images, data, text, documents, audio, video, multimedia works, and recorded information to various file formats; rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software and computer programs to search, preview and track changes in electronic documents or files; rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software for proofreading; rental and provision of online non-downloadable software using artificial intelligence for analysis of volume, typography and color arrangement of documents; Application service provider (ASP) featuring software for analyzing and evaluating the design of documents, leaflets, presentation materials; Analysis and evaluation of product designs of others, all in the nature of product failure analysis services and product quality evaluation; computer programming services for commercial analysis and reporting; programming of computer software for evaluation and calculation of data for others; design and development of computer software for evaluation and calculation of data; software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for determining if a document's design is legible and easy to read; 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providing online non-downloadable computer software and online non-downloadable computer programs for use in webpage designing, designing the layout of webpages, and publishing webpages; providing online non-downloadable computer software and online non-downloadable computer programs for use in color correction, grading and color management of digital images; providing online non-downloadable file management computer software for opening and converting photographic, digital, and graphic images, data, text, documents, audio, video, multimedia works, and recorded information to various file formats; providing online non-downloadable computer software and online non-downloadable computer programs to search, preview and track changes in electronic documents or files; providing online non-downloadable computer software for proofreading; providing on-line non-downloadable software using artificial intelligence for analysis of volume, typography and color arrangement of documents; providing on-line non-downloadable computer software for use in evaluation and analysis of volume, typography and color arrangement of documents
A printing apparatus includes: a printing section; a print conveyor conveying a medium in the printing section; a constant-speed conveyor conveying the medium at a variable constant conveying speed in a circulation route for duplex printing; a registration roller pair against which the medium to be conveyed to the printing section is caused to abut; and a processor determining a conveyance schedule for the medium based on at least one of a first conveyance route length between a downstream end portion in a conveying direction of the print conveyor and an upstream end portion in the conveying direction of the constant-speed conveyor and a second conveyance route length between a downstream end portion in the conveying direction of the constant-speed conveyor and the registration roller pair, and a medium length in the conveying direction of the medium.
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Computer software for use in the evaluation and analysis of a wide variety of information; Computer software for processing information; Software for use in the evaluation and analysis of data utilizing computational linguistics; Downloadable computer software for commercial and government entities to perform text and content mining and utilization and organization of unstructured data and intelligence; Computer software and computer programs for use in page designing, layout and publishing; Computer software and computer programs for use in color correction, grading and color management of digital images; File management software for opening and converting photographic, digital, and graphic images, data, text, documents, audio, video, multimedia works, and recorded information to various file formats; Computer software and computer programs to search, preview and track changes in electronic documents or files; Computer software for proofreading; Artificial intelligence software for analysis; Operating and user instructions for computer software stored in digital form; Application software; Downloadable application software; Computer software; Downloadable computer software programs. Graphic design; Testing or research on machines, apparatus and instruments; Rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software for use in the evaluation and analysis of a wide variety of information; Rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software for processing information; Rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software for use in the evaluation and analysis of data utilizing computational linguistics; Rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software for commercial and government entities to perform text and content mining and utilization and organization of unstructured data and intelligence; Rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software and computer programs for use in page designing, layout and publishing; Rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software and computer programs for use in color correction, grading and color management of digital images; Rental and provision of online non-downloadable file management software for opening and converting photographic, digital, and graphic images, data, text, documents, audio, video, multimedia works, and recorded information to various file formats; Rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software and computer programs to search, preview and track changes in electronic documents or files; Rental and provision of online non-downloadable computer software for proofreading; Rental and provision of online non-downloadable artificial intelligence software for analysis; Application service provider (ASP), namely, featuring software for analysing and evaluating the design of documents, leaflets, presentation materials; Analysis and evaluation of product design; Computer programming services for commercial analysis and reporting; Programming of computer software for evaluation and calculation of data; Design and development of computer software for evaluation and calculation of data; Quality assessment services; Hosting of computerized data, files, applications and information; Research and development of computer programs relating to digital data analysis and disclosure of analysis results; Research and development of computer programs relating to classification, extraction, conversion and processing of digital data.
68.
Treatment liquid, inkjet ink set, and method for producing printed matter
A treatment liquid which is applied to a substrate by an inkjet system, and includes water, a coagulant, and a surfactant, in which the coagulant contains a polycondensate of an aliphatic amine and an epihalohydrin, and a diallyldialkylammonium halide-based polymer, at a mass ratio of 20:80 to 90:10, and the surfactant contains a fluorine-based surfactant and a silicone-based surfactant.
An electronic apparatus includes: a chassis formed of a conductive member and including an opening; a radiation source arranged in the chassis and radiating noise electric waves; and a conductor formed of a conductive member and arranged on a same side of the radiation source as the opening with at least a part of the conductor overlapping the opening in a plan view of the opening. The conductor has one end electrically connected to the chassis and the other end as an electrically open end.
H05K 7/04 - Arrangements of circuit components or wiring on supporting structure on conductive chassis
B41J 2/44 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by selective application of radiation to a printing material or impression-transfer material using single radiation source, e.g. lighting beams or shutter arrangements
H05K 9/00 - Screening of apparatus or components against electric or magnetic fields
A method for producing a printed textile item is disclosed, the method including applying a pretreatment liquid containing a coagulant, water and a surfactant to a fabric, and, after the application of the pretreatment liquid, applying a white ink containing a white pigment and water to the fabric by an inkjet method, wherein a surface tension of the white ink at 0.05 Hz is within a range from 33 to 39 mN/m, a surface tension of the white ink at 10 Hz is 40 mN/m or greater, a specific gravity of the pretreatment liquid is greater than a specific gravity of the white ink, and the application of the white ink is performed within 100 seconds from the application of the pretreatment liquid and by a wet-on-wet method.
B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methodsSheet materials for use therein
D06P 1/44 - General processes of dyeing or printing textiles or general processes of dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments or auxiliary substances employed using insoluble pigments or auxiliary substances, e.g. binders
D06P 1/00 - General processes of dyeing or printing textiles or general processes of dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments or auxiliary substances employed
An inkjet printing apparatus includes: a first and a third head that ejects ink onto a print medium to form a printed image; a second head that coats the print medium with a treatment agent that contains a coagulant that coagulates ink; and a control unit that performs a two step ink ejection control process to control the first through third heads such that ink is ejected onto the print medium until a printing rate in a predetermined region of the print medium reaches a threshold value which is set in advance, coats the treatment agent thereafter, and then ejects ink according to a remaining printing rate after the treatment agent is coated.
A conveyance device includes a conveyance path having a curved portion and a pair of conveyers which are disposed in the conveyance path and convey a medium while nipping it, wherein the medium enters the pair of conveyers in a state of being at least partially curved in the curved portion, and the conveyance path guides the medium toward one of the pair of conveyers.
A printing system, including a first printing part, a second printing part that is disposed downstream of the first printing part in the conveying direction of a medium, and a conveyance mechanism that conveys the medium The conveyance mechanism includes a passage detection sensor, a conveyor roller, and a resist roller that is disposed downstream in the conveying direction from the passage detection sensor and the conveyor roller, that is butted by the medium, and that conveys the medium slackened due to the butting. The printing system further includes a controller configured to control the conveyor roller so that the slack amount of the subsequent medium is constant based on the conveyance status of the preceding medium and the detection time of the leading edge of the subsequent medium detected by the passage detection sensor.
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41J 3/54 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed with two or more sets of type or printing elements
B41J 13/00 - Devices or arrangements specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
A sheet discharger includes: an accommodator configured to accommodate sheets; a conveyor configured to convey and discharge a sheet to the accommodator; a detector configured to detect whether a jam of a sheet has occurred in the accommodator and a state of the jam; and a controller configured to control the conveyor to continue sheet discharge upon detection by the detector of the jam in a state where sheet discharge of a jammed sheet is possible.
B65H 29/62 - Article switches or diverters diverting faulty articles from the main stream
B65H 43/04 - Use of control, checking, or safety devices, e.g. automatic devices comprising an element for sensing a variable detecting, or responding to, presence of faulty articles
G03G 15/00 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern
B65H 7/06 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
A controller, upon occurrence of a sheet jam in a downstream conveyor, discharges a sheet in an upstream conveyor from a discharge port by controlling an operation of a switchback roller depending on an operation status of the switchback roller at a time of the occurrence of the sheet jam and then stops sheet conveyance by a conveyor.
B65H 29/62 - Article switches or diverters diverting faulty articles from the main stream
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from pilesFeeding articles to machines by rollers
B65H 7/06 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed
A medium feeding mechanism includes: a feeder that feeds a medium; a transport path that is coupled to the feeder; a transporter that transports the medium through the transport path; a transport drive that drives the transporter; an entry detection sensor that detects when the medium fed from the feeder has entered the transport path; a take-in transporter that takes in the medium transported by the transporter; and a transport controller that controls the feeder and the take-in transporter, wherein when the entry detection sensor detects entry of the medium at a time that falls within a first range set in advance, the controller controls the take-in transporter so as to take in the medium, and when the entry detection sensor detects entry of the medium at a time that falls within a second range following the first range.
B65H 7/02 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors
B65H 1/04 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile
B65H 3/08 - Separating articles from piles using pneumatic force
B65H 5/26 - Duplicate, alternate, selective, or coacting feeds
B65H 7/16 - Controlling air-supply to pneumatic separators
B65H 7/18 - Modifying or stopping actuation of separators
B65H 3/12 - Suction bands, belts, or tables moving relatively to the pile
A paper supply device is equipped with a paper supply unit that sequentially supplies a plurality of print media, and a control unit that controls the paper supply unit. During sequential supply of a plurality of print media at a paper supply interval, in the case that it is necessary to secure a paper supply interval which is set in advance and is longer than the paper supply interval, a reference paper supply interval, based on a point in time which is a natural number multiple of the paper supply interval, and a post print process paper supply interval are compared. Print media are supplied at the post print process paper supply interval in the case that the post print process paper supply interval and the reference paper supply interval are different.
B65H 7/18 - Modifying or stopping actuation of separators
B41J 3/60 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for printing on both faces of the printing material
B41J 13/00 - Devices or arrangements specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
B65H 7/02 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors
78.
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MANAGER DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAM
A communication system (2100) comprises a manager device (2006), and at least one user terminal (2002) that is connected to the manager device (2006) via a network (2004). The manager device (2006) comprises: a manager terminal (2001) that comprises a message information acquisition unit (2311) acquiring message information that the user terminal (2002) is to be notified of, and a communication control unit (2313) that transmits the message information to the user terminal (2002); and a printing device (2005) that prints the message information.
A controller controls a floating unit and a conveyor to convey a sheet to a supply destination, and performs a following control of acquiring a detection value of a detector which detects an output signal acquired due to an input to a side of a sheet stack, during floating of sheets floated by the floating unit each time a sheet is conveyed by the conveyor and lifting a stacking tray upon the acquired detection value being less than a threshold value. The controller controls the floating unit and the conveyor to perform a feeding retry upon an occurrence of empty feeding in the conveyor, and determines the threshold value such that a target position for a height position of an upper surface of the sheet stack in the following control is a position where empty feeding is more likely to occur than multiple sheet feeding in the conveyor.
B65H 3/48 - Air blast acting on edges of, or under, articles
B65H 1/18 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for advancing the pile to present the articles to a separating device controlled by height of pile
B65H 7/14 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors by photoelectric feelers or detectors
80.
Information processing apparatus, information processing method and storage medium
An information processing apparatus including a controller configured to receive selection of a medium feeder corresponding to a page number from among a plurality of medium feeders that feed a medium; and to regard a page range of the page numbers that have been received as a cycle pattern and to repeatedly apply the cycle pattern to page numbers beyond the page range, to set, as the medium feeders corresponding the page numbers beyond the page range, the medium feeders corresponding to the page numbers in the cycle pattern.
A conveying apparatus includes a conveyor and a conveyed object receptor. The conveyor includes a conveyance surface facing downward and configured to convey a conveyed object having a sheet-like shape. The conveyed object receptor is arranged below the conveyor and configured to receive the conveyed object having fallen from the conveyor.
B65H 5/22 - Feeding articles separated from pilesFeeding articles to machines by air-blast or suction device
B65H 5/02 - Feeding articles separated from pilesFeeding articles to machines by belts or chains
B65H 29/24 - Delivering or advancing articles from machinesAdvancing articles to or into piles by air-blast or suction apparatus
B65H 7/12 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to presence of faulty articles or incorrect separation or feed responsive to double feed or separation
B65H 7/16 - Controlling air-supply to pneumatic separators
An oil-based inkjet ink is disclosed, that contains a pigment, a fatty acid ester-based solvent (A) having a viscosity of 5.0 mPa·s or lower and a boiling point of 300° C. or higher but lower than 400° C., and a fatty acid ester-based solvent (B) having a viscosity of 10.0 mPa·s or higher and a boiling point of 400° C. or higher.
A sheet feed device includes: a conveyor configured to convey a top sheet of sheets floated from a sheet stack; a blower configured to blow air in an obliquely upward direction from a position lower than the conveyor toward the sheet stack; and a direction converter configured to convert a direction of the air blown by the blower to a direction which is downward more than a direction of the air at a position where the air is blown from the blower and let the air flow in between the top sheet and a second sheet subsequent to the top sheet of the sheets floated from the sheet stack.
A medium feeding mechanism includes a feeder that feeds a medium, a transportation path that is coupled to the feeder and includes a bent portion, a transporter that transports the medium on the transportation path, and a transportation control unit that controls the transporter, wherein the transportation control unit adjusts a transportation velocity of the medium transported by the transporter on the basis of medium information of the medium and a transportation route shape for the medium.
B65H 7/02 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors
B65H 5/06 - Feeding articles separated from pilesFeeding articles to machines by rollers
B65H 5/26 - Duplicate, alternate, selective, or coacting feeds
A treatment liquid for a screen printing plate is disclosed that contains a resin, water, a surfactant A, and a surfactant B having a solubility in water lower than a solubility of the surfactant A in water. A method for treating a screen printing plate is also disclosed.
C09D 11/102 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions other than those only involving unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds
C09D 11/107 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds from unsaturated acids or derivatives thereof
C09D 133/08 - Homopolymers or copolymers of acrylic acid esters
C09D 127/06 - Homopolymers or copolymers of vinyl chloride
C09D 133/10 - Homopolymers or copolymers of methacrylic acid esters
An image processing apparatus is equipped with: an image data receiving unit that receives image data; and a print data generating unit that generates multiple value data as print data by performing a halftone process on the image data and converting the image data into at least three values. The print data generating unit administers a halftone process that includes a density fluctuation suppressing process that results in the print data always including a zero value except for a case in which all of the pixels that constitute the image data are converted into a maximum value.
G06K 15/02 - Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data using printers
G06K 15/10 - Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data using printers by matrix printers
H04N 1/407 - Control or modification of tonal gradation or of extreme levels, e.g. background level
H04N 1/405 - Halftoning, i.e. converting the picture signal of a continuous-tone original into a corresponding signal showing only two levels
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
A controller drives a floating unit and a conveyor to perform a sheet feed operation, during the sheet feed operation, acquires an amount of received light at a detector during floating of sheets floated by the floating unit each time each sheet is conveyed by the conveyor, and perform a following control of lifting a stacking tray upon the acquired amount of received light being less than a threshold value. The controller, after start of the sheet feed operation, samples amounts of received light at the detector during floating of the sheets floated by the floating unit, performs a threshold value determination process of determining the threshold value by using the sampled amounts of received light, and starts the following control upon determining the threshold value.
B65H 3/48 - Air blast acting on edges of, or under, articles
B65H 1/18 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for advancing the pile to present the articles to a separating device controlled by height of pile
B65H 5/22 - Feeding articles separated from pilesFeeding articles to machines by air-blast or suction device
B65H 1/04 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated adapted to support articles substantially horizontally, e.g. for separation from top of pile
B65H 3/12 - Suction bands, belts, or tables moving relatively to the pile
B65H 7/14 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors by photoelectric feelers or detectors
B65H 7/16 - Controlling air-supply to pneumatic separators
B65H 1/14 - Supports or magazines for piles from which articles are to be separated with means for advancing the pile to present the articles to a separating device comprising positively-acting mechanical devices
A medium feeding apparatus includes: a placement mount on which a plurality of media are placed; a transportation mechanism that transports an uppermost medium of the plurality of media placed on the placement mount; a floating-air blowout mechanism that blows out air to float at least the uppermost medium; a suction mechanism that sucks air to cause the uppermost medium floated by the floating-air blowout mechanism blowing out air to be attracted to the transportation mechanism; and a floating-air control unit that causes the floating-air blowout mechanism to start to blow out air while the uppermost medium is being attracted to the transportation mechanism after starting to be transported by the transportation mechanism, so as to float at least a second medium located below the uppermost medium, and causes the floating-air blowout mechanism to stop blowing out air before the second medium starts to be transported by the transportation mechanism.
B65H 3/48 - Air blast acting on edges of, or under, articles
B65H 7/04 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors responsive to absence of articles, e.g. exhaustion of pile
B65H 3/12 - Suction bands, belts, or tables moving relatively to the pile
A head holder has an opening through which a space between the head holder and a conveyer communicates with an inside of the head holder. Ahead cooler includes a blower configured to blow air into the head holder from an outside of the head holder with a flow rate of blow air and a suction unit configured to suction air from the head holder with a flow rate of suction air. The head cooler generates cooling air for cooling an ink-jet head inside the head holder by the blower and the suction unit. A controller controls the flow rate of blow air and the flow rate of suction air such that air containing ink mist is suctioned into the head holder through the opening.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
A medium ejection apparatus including: a placement mount on which media are placed; a medium-leading-edge position restriction part that moves between a restriction position at which the restriction part restricts a position of a leading edge portion of a medium ejected toward the placement mount with reference to an ejection direction of the medium and a retracted position retracted from the restriction position; and a medium position control unit that controls the medium-leading-edge position restriction part such that the medium-leading-edge position restriction part performs a leading-edge restriction operation of moving from the retracted position to the restriction position and moving from the restriction position to the retracted position when the medium-leading-edge position restriction part and an upper surface of a medium are not in contact with each other.
B65H 31/38 - Apparatus for vibrating or knocking the pile during piling
B65H 31/10 - Pile receivers with movable end support arranged to recede as pile accumulates the articles being piled one above another and applied at the top of the pile
B65H 7/02 - Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of incorrect feeding, absence of articles, or presence of faulty articles by feelers or detectors
91.
ADHESIVE, HEAT-SENSITIVE SCREEN MASTER, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING HEAT-SENSITIVE SCREEN MASTER
An adhesive containing at least one selected from the group consisting of a urethane prepolymer and a polyol, a polyisocyanate, a polymerizable (meth)acrylate compound, and a photopolymerization initiator is disclosed. A heat-sensitive screen master and a method for producing a heat-sensitive screen master are also disclosed.
B32B 5/02 - Layered products characterised by the non-homogeneity or physical structure of a layer characterised by structural features of a layer comprising fibres or filaments
B32B 7/12 - Interconnection of layers using interposed adhesives or interposed materials with bonding properties
B32B 27/12 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin next to a fibrous or filamentary layer
A transportation apparatus includes a plurality of transportation members that are arranged in a transportation direction for a medium and transport the medium, a plurality of actuators that drive the plurality of transportation members, and a processor that controls the plurality of actuators in such a manner as to increase transportation velocities of the plurality of actuators in order from actuators for driving transportation members on a downstream side in the transportation direction to actuators for driving transportation members on an upstream side in the transportation direction.
A printing system includes: a first printing device, which has a first print processing unit that performs print processing and a first display unit that displays a setting input screen that receives a predetermined input of settings; a second printing device, which is provided on the downstream side of the first printing device, has a second print processing unit that performs print processing and a second display unit that displays a setting input screen that receives a predetermined input of settings; and a control unit that controls the first printing device and the second printing device. The control unit enables a setting to be input via the setting input screen of only one of first display unit and the second display unit in the case that input of settings having the same content is to be received by the first printing device and the second printing device.
A medium ejection apparatus includes a placement mount on which media are placed, a restriction part that moves between a restriction position at which the restriction part restricts media ejected toward the placement mount and a retracted position retracted from the restriction position, and a processor that controls the restriction part by adjusting a restriction frequency on the basis of at least either an amount of movement of the restriction part from the retracted position to the restriction position or ejection intervals at which the media are ejected toward the placement mount, the restriction frequency being a frequency with which the restriction part performs a restriction operation for the media.
B65H 31/34 - Apparatus for squaring-up piled articles
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
A wiping device is equipped with a wiping blade that wipes an ink ejection surface of a nozzle row of an ink jet head, a cleansing tank that stores a cleansing solution and in which the wiping blade is immersed, and a shower unit that sprays the cleansing solution onto the wiping blade.
A wiper that extends toward an inkjet head and wipes a nozzle surface of the inkjet head includes: a base section extending in an extension direction of the wiper, an inclined surface continuous with the base section and having, in a direction in which the wiper travels during wiping, a thickness that gradually decreases toward the extension direction; and a leading-end projecting section thinner than the base section and provided at a leading end of the wiper in such a manner as to be continuous with the inclined surface and project in the extension direction.
A print data generating apparatus includes a machine learning unit that has a learned model which is obtained by inputting and conducting machine teaming of the relationships among data size of document data of a plurality of print jobs, print setting conditions, RIP setting conditions and printing speeds when the document data are printed by a printing unit; a printing speed predicting unit that predicts the printing speed of a print job to be printed by inputting the data size of the document data of the print job to be printed, the print setting conditions, and arbitrary RIP setting conditions into the learned model; and an optimized RIP setting condition determining unit that determines optimized RIP setting conditions that result in the printing speed which is predicted by the printing speed predicting unit approaching or becoming greater than or equal to a processing seed of the printing unit.
A desired image is printed in a non-contact state on a print object surface with a flyable printer in which a printing device is mounted in a flying object. The printer includes a flying object having a body part, a controller, and a drive part; and a print head, mounted in the flying object, to print a desired image in a non-contact state, on a print object which the flying object has approached. The print head is driven while a gap is maintained at a predetermined value by bringing a gap adjustment part attached to the body part of the flying object into contact with the print object or by accurate control of the drive part. It is possible to print a desired image in good image quality regardless of the state of the surface of the print object.
B41J 25/308 - Bodily-movable mechanisms for print heads or carriages movable towards or from paper surface with print gap adjustment mechanisms
B41J 3/44 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms having dual functions or combined with, or coupled to, apparatus performing other functions
B64C 39/02 - Aircraft not otherwise provided for characterised by special use
B41J 3/28 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for printing downwardly on flat surfaces, e.g. of books, drawings, boxes
B41J 21/16 - Column, tabular or like printing arrangementsMeans for centralising short lines controlled by the sensing of marks or formations on the paper being typed, an undersheet, or the platen
An image forming apparatus includes a conveyer belt that transports sheets, a platen plate that supports the conveyer belt to be slidable, a head holding unit that holds inkjet heads ejecting ink to sheets transported on the conveyer belt and being arrayed in a direction orthogonal to a transport direction of the conveyer belt, and a pair of gap adjustment units that have ends on one side being respectively attached to both ends of a lower surface of the head holding unit and ends on the other side being attached to an upper surface of the platen plate to adjust a gap between the lower surface of the head holding unit and the upper surface of the platen plate.
A medium supply apparatus includes: a placement mount on which a plurality of media are placed; a transportation mechanism that transports an uppermost medium of the plurality of media placed on the placement mount; and an aspiration mechanism that aspirates air to attract the uppermost medium to the transportation mechanism, wherein the aspiration mechanism includes a blocking means for blocking air aspiration performed by the aspiration mechanism, in such a manner as to prevent another medium of the plurality of media that is located below the uppermost medium from being attracted to the transportation mechanism.
