A printing apparatus 10 includes a head unit 12, a primary scanning drive unit 18, an optical sensor 106 that is an optical detection mechanism, and a control unit 30. The head unit has a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array. Regarding an adjustment pattern including a first pattern corresponding to the first nozzle array and a second pattern corresponding to the second nozzle array, the control unit causes nozzles in the first nozzle array to discharge a first ink to discharge positions associated with the first pattern, and after the first ink is fixed to a medium 50, causes nozzles in the second nozzle array to discharge a second ink to discharge positions associated with the second pattern, and causes the optical sensor to detect reflected light after migration of the second ink that occurs due to the liquid state second ink contacting the first pattern.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
Provided is a photocurable ink composition which includes a decorative component and suppresses yellowness after curing. The ink composition includes a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator. The photopolymerization initiator has a predetermined light absorption spectrum in a wavelength region of 360 nm or more and less than 410 nm, and is contained in an amount of 1% by weight or more and less than 15% by weight relative to the total weight of the ink composition.
The present invention performs printing on a transfer medium in a more appropriate manner. This printing device 12, which performs printing by an inkjet method on a transfer medium 50 which is a medium for a transfer film, comprises: a head unit 102 which discharges ink to the transfer medium 50; a main scanning drive unit 108 which causes the head unit 102 to perform a main scanning operation; and a sub-scanning drive unit 110 which causes the head unit 102 to perform a sub-scanning operation. The head unit 102 includes a color head 202 which is a first inkjet head for discharging color ink, and a white ink head 204 which is a second inkjet head arranged with the position thereof in the sub-scanning direction shifted relative to the color head 202.
B41J 2/005 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
Ink on a nozzle surface is appropriately wiped out. A wiper unit includes a wiping portion that wipes a nozzle surface of an ejecting head having a nozzle surface on which a nozzle for ejecting ink is formed, and a driving unit that moves the wiping portion in a wiping direction along the nozzle surface. The wiping portion includes two wiping members arranged side by side in the wiping direction and having different hardnesses, and a holding portion that integrally holds the two wiping members.
A printing device 10 includes an inkjet head 102, a main scanning drive portion 18, a sub-scanning drive portion 20, and a control portion 30. In at least some of the main scanning operations, the main scanning drive portion 18 causes the inkjet head 102 to discharge ink to a region other than the image region on the media 50, and as the main scanning operations that cause the inkjet head 102 to discharge ink to a region other than the image region, at least: a first main scanning operation that causes the inkjet head 102 to draw a nozzle state confirmation pattern on a region other than the image region and a second main scanning operation that causes an amount of ink discharged to a region other than the image region different from the first main scanning operation are caused to be performed by the inkjet head 102.
A food item fabrication system and a method for fabricating a food item are provided to accurately fabricate a fabricated food item. The food item fabrication system includes a discharge head, a data generation unit and a discharge control unit. The discharge head intermittently discharges a fabrication material for fabricating a fabricated food item, the fabrication material having a fluidity at a time of discharge. The data generation unit generates a slice data for fabricating the fabricated food item. The discharge control unit controls a discharge of the fabrication material by the discharge head based on the slice data generated by the data generation unit.
The present invention realizes appropriate transfer printing. A transport roller 61 rotates in contact with a film layer of a transfer sheet 500 including a receiving layer that receives the transfer ink, a peeling layer that joins the receiving layer and a film layer in a peelable manner, and the film layer that supports the receiving layer via the peeling layer. A pinch roller 62 clamps the transfer sheet 500 together with the transport roller 61, and rotates in contact with the receiving layer of the transfer sheet 500. A portion of the pinch roller 62 that contacts the receiving layer is formed of a low-adhesion material that is less likely to adhere to the receiving layer than the peeling layer is.
B41J 2/005 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
There are provided an inkjet printer that can appropriately prevent a printing defect by reducing adhesion of minute ink to a nozzle surface, and a method for controlling a jetting head. The inkjet printer includes: a jetting head that performs ink jetting from a plurality of nozzle holes formed in a nozzle surface; a cap that is attachable on the nozzle surface of the jetting head; a head driving mechanism that moves the jetting head to a standby position where the cap is detachable and a printing position where printing is performed by acquiring print data; and a flushing control part that sequentially executes, for each group, a flushing operation of ink jetting to the cap from all of a plurality of the nozzle holes belonging to groups grouped in advance in a case where the jetting head moves to the standby position.
An inkjet printer includes a head unit having an inkjet head that discharges ink; a carriage to which the head unit is detachably attached; a carriage drive mechanism that reciprocally moves the carriage in a main scanning direction orthogonal to an up-down direction; and an ink tank that contains ink supplied to the inkjet head. The head unit includes a plurality of ink inflow parts in which ink inlets are formed. The carriage includes a connection part that is connected to the ink tank and in which ink outlets are formed, and that is connectable to the plurality of ink inflow parts. A plurality of the outlets are formed in the connection part. The connection part includes a check valve that prevents ink leakage from each of the plurality of outlets in the case of the ink inflow parts and the connection part being separated from each other.
An inkjet printer includes a platen on which a medium is placed, a main body frame configured to support the platen from a lower side, and supporting legs to which the main body frame is fixed. The main body frame includes a fixed portion formed in a flat plate shape elongated in a Y direction, which is a width direction of the medium, and fixed on the supporting legs, and a main frame portion elongated in the Y direction and formed in a groove steel shape in which both sides and a lower side in the Y direction are opened. The width of the fixed portion in an X direction orthogonal to an up-down direction and the Y direction is wider than a width of the main frame portion in the X direction, and the main frame portion is fixed to an upper surface of the fixed portion.
An ink cartridge includes: an ink pack unit having a bag member and a rib member, the bag member housing ink and shrinking in volume housing the ink as a remaining amount of the ink decreases, the rib member having a flat plate shape and being fixed to the bag member so as to move along with shrinkage of the bag member; a head unit coupled to the ink pack unit and connected to a printing apparatus; and a case unit that houses the ink pack unit and the head unit such that a part of the head unit is exposed, in which the ink pack unit has a surface fixed to an inner surface of the case unit, the surface being opposite to a portion to which the rib member is fixed of the bag member, the case unit has a through hole, and the rib member has a projection.
A cutting device, a cutting method and a printing device are provided. The cutting device performs cutting on a post-printing medium after printing an image data, and includes: a medium transport mechanism configured to transport the post-printing medium in a longitudinal direction thereof; a detection mechanism, configured to detect a cutting position by a first mark and multiple second marks on the post-printing medium, the first mark is for specifying at least one cut position in a transport direction, the second marks are for specifying two cut ranges of the post-printing medium in a width direction, the width direction is orthogonal to the transport direction, and each cut range is shown by two positions corresponding from one end to the other end of the post-printing medium; and a cutting mechanism, configured to cut the post-printing medium in the width direction and in the transport direction of the post-printing medium.
A control unit of an image processing apparatus performs a preview screen display process of causing a display unit to display an output setting screen, and a mark adding process of adding a crop mark to a printing area of image data in accordance with a user's operation input on the output setting screen. The output setting screen includes a preview area and a setting input unit into which an addition setting for a crop mark can be input. In a setting field, the setting input unit can set whether the crop mark is to be added to the entire printing area or to each object within the printing area. In the mark adding process, the control unit causes the crop mark in accordance with addition setting in the setting input unit to be displayed in the preview area.
A tilt of a head is discerned. Regions of a test pattern include a base line formed in a Y direction with inks ejected from nozzle portions of heads, and blocks formed with inks ejected from nozzle portions provided at intervals from first nozzle portions of the heads in the Y direction. The block is formed on an X1 side of the base line in an X direction orthogonal to the Y direction, and the block is formed on an X2 side.
B41J 25/316 - Bodily-movable mechanisms for print heads or carriages movable towards or from paper surface with tilting motion mechanisms relative to paper surface
G06K 15/02 - Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data using printers
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IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
A control unit of an image processing apparatus executes a preview screen display process of causing a display unit to display a design editing screen (a preview screen for image data). The design editing screen includes a preview area, an object list, and a processing input unit. The preview area displays a preview of objects constituting the image data. The object list displays information on each of the objects in a list format. Input processing content can be input into the processing input unit for each of the objects.
A control unit of an image processing apparatus executes a home screen display process of displaying a home screen on a display unit. The home screen displays, in respective display fields, a design that can be used for image data, a form with which the design can be combined, and a design placement form obtained by combining the design and the form. The home screen displays the respective display fields for the design, the form, and the design placement form side by side in the vertical direction (first direction), and displays the design placement form display field between the design display field and the form display field in the vertical direction.
A printing system includes a controller that controls printing by a printing apparatus and textile printing processing by a heat treatment apparatus. The controller includes a print data generation unit, a print control unit that prints information on a medium based on the print data, and a textile printing parameter setting unit that sets at least a heating temperature and a heating time of the medium in the processing. Each of the inks included in an ink set contains a sublimable dye as a color development component, and the dye contained in a magenta ink is a disperse red. The textile printing parameter setting unit sets a heating temperature in the processing to a first temperature higher than a heating temperature and sets a heating time in the processing to a first time longer than a heating time when the dye contained in the magenta ink is a disperse red.
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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SHAPED OBJECT PRODUCING METHOD AND SHAPED OBJECT PRODUCING APPARATUS
To reduce labor and cost in producing a shaped object. A method for producing a shaped object 7 to produce the three-dimensional shaped object 7 includes an ejecting step of ejecting ink from a head unit 2 to a liquid 6 stored in a liquid storage unit 5, and a curing step of curing the ink ejected to the liquid 6 by an ultraviolet curing unit 4.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
B29C 64/129 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using layers of liquid which are selectively solidified characterised by the energy source therefor, e.g. by global irradiation combined with a mask
Provided are a printing device and a printing method. A printing device 10 includes an ink ejection head 40 that ejects a photocurable ink onto a medium 22 while relatively moving with respect to the medium 22 in a main scanning direction Y, and an irradiation unit 32 that irradiates the medium 22 with light while relatively moving together with the ink ejection head 40. The irradiation unit 32 includes a plurality of LEDs 34 arranged in a sub-scanning direction X intersecting with the main scanning direction Y. The printing device 10 further includes an irradiation control unit 60 that controls the irradiation unit 32 such that turning-on and turning-off of irradiation with the plurality of LEDs 34 are repeatedly performed in a predetermined order during one cycle in which the ink ejection head 40 and the irradiation unit 32 relatively move in the main scanning direction Y.
A shaped-object manufacturing device 1 that shapes a three-dimensional shaped object 7 includes: a liquid storage 5 that retains a liquid 6; a head unit 2 that ejects an ink to the liquid 6; and a roller 301 that comes into contact with the ink retained by a liquid surface 60 of the liquid 6.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
Various designs are appropriately expressed by a printed matter. A printed matter 52 in which a plurality of ink layers overlap each other includes an image layer 202 and a transmission rate control layer 204, and as the transmission rate control layer 204 has a low-transmission region 302 and a high-transmission region 306, light is transmitted through the printed matter 52 such that a pattern corresponding to a shape of the high-transmission region 306 is visually recognized from an observation-surface side when irradiated with rear-surface light, and the pattern corresponding to the shape of the high-transmission region 306 becomes inconspicuous when not irradiated with the rear-surface light, for an observer observing the image layer 202 from the observation-surface side.
A new profile is appropriately created, for example, when a new medium is used. A profile creation method of creating device profiles used in a process of creating print data indicating an image printed by a printing apparatus, the profile creation method includes: a search step of performing search based on a search condition from known profiles that are known device profiles; and a profile creation step of creating a new device profile based on the known profiles selected based on a search result in the search step. The printing apparatus is an apparatus that performs color printing using inks of a plurality of colors. In the search step, a smeared ink amount indicating an amount of ink in which smearing of ink has occurred on the medium is used as the search condition.
There is provided a method for manufacturing printed matter having a print layer that can be removed from a base material but does not easily peel off from the base material. A method for manufacturing printed matter includes: a base layer forming step; a print layer forming step; a print quality checking step; and a post-processing step. In the base layer forming step, a base layer which is removable from a base material is formed on a front surface of the base material. In the print layer forming step, a print layer is formed on a surface of the base layer on a side opposite to the base material. In the print quality checking step, a quality of the print layer is checked. In the post-processing step, a coating layer that coats the print layer is formed or the print layer is removed together with the base layer from the base material depending on the quality of the print layer.
A program causes a controller to generate print data and to perform input processing, plate data generation processing, and print data generation processing. The data input processing includes inputting, as input data for performing inserting-component printing, non-variable data corresponding to a shared portion and variable data indicating a variable portion. The plate data generation processing includes plate data for color layer generation processing for generating a plate data for color layer associated with a color layer and plate data for single-color layer generation processing for generating a plate data for single-color layer associated with a single-color layer. The plate data for color layer generation processing includes generating a plate data for color layer by reflecting the variable portion in the variable data. The plate data for single-color layer generation processing includes generating a plate data for single-color layer by reflecting the variable portion in the variable data.
A printing apparatus includes a plurality of heads that eject ink, and a control unit that includes a storage unit that stores setting information related to settings of the plurality of heads, and causes the plurality of heads to perform an ejection operation that ejects the ink based on the setting information stored in the storage unit, in which the setting information includes void information related to a setting for setting at least one of the plurality of heads as a void head, and when the void head is present among the plurality of heads, the control unit performs control to cause the head that is not the void head among the plurality of heads to eject the ink and not to cause the void head to eject the ink in the ejection operation.
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 appropriate maintenance contract fee for maintenance work of a printing device is calculated. A printing device management device includes a maintenance information deriving unit that derives maintenance information related to an occurrence risk of a maintenance work of a printing device based on at least one of operation record information related to an operation record of the printing device, execution history information related to an execution history of a maintenance work of the printing device, ink information related to ink used in the printing device, media information related to a medium to be printed by the printing device, and installation environment information related to an installation environment of the printing device, an evaluation unit that derives an evaluation for a user of the printing device based on the maintenance information and at least one of a usage amount and a purchase amount of a consumable used in the printing device, and a fee calculation unit that calculates a maintenance contract fee for maintenance work of the printing device based on the derived evaluation of the user.
Provided are a UV irradiation device and a printing apparatus for easily recognizing what kind of mechanical adjustment is needed. The UV irradiation device includes a rotation mechanism holding a print object and causing the print object to rotate about an axial center of the print object as a rotation center, a UV irradiator configured to irradiate an outer peripheral surface of the print object with ink adhering thereto with UV rays, an input unit used by an operator of the UV irradiation device to input information regarding an outer shape of the print object, and a display unit configured to display mechanical adjustment items of the UV irradiation device. Once the information regarding the outer shape of the print object is input to the input unit, the display unit is able to display the mechanical adjustment items of the UV irradiation device.
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
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 printing execution unit (111) of a printing device (100) executes printing of the printing surface identified by printing surface identification information based on printing instruction data including resultant product identification information for identifying a resultant product of printing, a total printing surface number, which is a total number of the printing surface to be printed to obtain the resultant product, printing surface identification information for identifying a printing surface, and printing data of the printing surface identified by the printing surface identification information. A printing history output unit (112) outputs a printing history indicating a result of printing executed based on the printing instruction data including the same resultant product identification information in association with the resultant product identification information.
A printing device that performs printing through an inkjet method is provided. The printing device includes an inject head, a sub-tank, a liquid flow amount detection unit, and a notification means. The inject head ejects ink supplied from an ink container that stores ink. The sub-tank is a container that stores ink in a middle of an ink supply path from the ink container to the inkjet head. The liquid flow amount detection unit detects an ink flow amount which is an amount of ink flowing per unit time from the ink container to the sub-tank. The notification means notifies an alarm based on the ink flow amount detected by the liquid flow amount detection unit. The liquid flow amount detection unit further causes the notification means to notify a stepwise alarm according to the detected ink flow amount.
A manufacturing method for a printed matter creates a printed matter in which a functional powder-containing liquid containing a functional powder is applied to at least a part of a medium, the manufacturing method including: a post-application medium preparing step of preparing a post-application medium that is the medium on which an application film of the functional powder-containing liquid is at least partially formed; an on-application-film ink layer forming step of forming an image layer to be an on-application-film ink layer by ejecting ink onto the application film using a printing apparatus; and a translucent layer forming step of forming a translucent layer that is a layer with translucency covering the image layer. In the on-application-film ink layer forming step, the printing apparatus is caused to form the image layer under a print condition to cure the ink in a matte tone by the curing unit.
B41M 7/00 - After-treatment of printed works, e.g. heating, irradiating
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41J 15/04 - Supporting, feeding, or guiding devicesMountings for web rolls or spindles
B41J 25/00 - Actions or mechanisms not otherwise provided for
B41M 3/00 - Printing processes to produce particular kinds of printed work, e.g. patterns
C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing
A cutting device includes a medium transporting mechanism, a cutting mechanism and a cutting platen. The cutting mechanism includes a cutter blade, a carriage holding the cutter blade, a carriage driving mechanism moving the carriage in a width direction of a medium, and a medium pressing member pressing the medium. The medium pressing member is attached to the carriage, and the medium pressing member is formed with an opposing surface facing the opposing portion. An advancing direction side of the carriage when the cutter blade cuts the medium is a first direction side, a first inclined surface is formed at an end portion on the first direction side of the opposing surface. The first inclined surface being inclined toward a side away from the opposing portion toward the first direction side, and the first inclined surface is disposed more toward the first direction side than the cutter blade.
B41J 11/70 - Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
B26D 1/18 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting memberApparatus or machines thereforCutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a circular cutting member, e.g. disc cutter rotating about a movable axis mounted on a movable carriage
B26D 7/00 - Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
B41J 15/16 - Means for tensioning or winding the web
Discoloration of a three-dimensional object formed by three-dimensional forming using an electron beam curable ink is effectively decreased.
Discoloration of a three-dimensional object formed by three-dimensional forming using an electron beam curable ink is effectively decreased.
A method for producing a three-dimensional object includes a preparing step S1 of preparing a treated three-dimensional object formed by three-dimensional forming using an electron beam curable ink; and an aging step S2 of performing irradiation treatment S2-1 in which the treated three-dimensional object is irradiated with light including wavelengths of less than 430 nm and heat treatment S2-2 in which heat is applied to the treated three-dimensional object, to decrease color tone of a discolored portion in the treated three-dimensional object.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
A printing method for performing printing using a printing device is provided. The method includes: setting a print condition; a checking the print condition; and a print execution stage. The printing device is able to execute a pass modulation operation in which a main scan is executed on the basis of the set number of passes set with an integer value and the number of times of the main scan performed on at least a part of a medium is made larger than the set number of passes. A pass modulation degree is set in the setting of the printing condition. Checking the print condition includes a defective nozzle check stage, checking whether or not nozzle recovery is possible, and searching for a new print condition in a case where the nozzle recovery is impossible.
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 method of shaping a solid object based on a digital model by forming and layering a plurality of separate layers of the solid object is provided. The method includes obtaining, from the digital model, data corresponding to a plurality of slice images indicating cross-sectional shapes and color arrangements of respective separate layers; dividing the slice image of each separate layer into a plurality of divided slice images by each color represented by each of inks of a plurality of colors; determining an ejection timing of each of the inks of the plurality of color and a clear ink, for forming each separate layer by using the data; and forming the separate layer by causing a color ink head and a clear ink head to eject each of the inks of the plurality of colors and the clear ink at the respective determined ejection timings.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
B29C 64/188 - Processes of additive manufacturing involving additional operations performed on the added layers, e.g. smoothing, grinding or thickness control
A coating device includes a nozzle that sprays a coating agent toward a base material, a coating agent storing part that stores the coating agent to be supplied to the nozzle, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the coating agent to be supplied to the nozzle from the coating agent storing part, a pressure adjustment mechanism that adjusts a supplying pressure of the coating agent to be supplied to the nozzle from the coating agent storing part, and a controller that receives an output signal of the temperature sensor and controls the pressure adjustment mechanism.
B41J 3/44 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms having dual functions or combined with, or coupled to, apparatus performing other functions
B05B 12/10 - Arrangements for controlling deliveryArrangements for controlling the spray area responsive to condition of liquid or other fluent material discharged, of ambient medium or of target responsive to temperature or viscosity of liquid or other fluent material discharged
B05B 13/04 - Means for supporting workArrangement or mounting of spray headsAdaptation or arrangement of means for feeding work the spray heads being moved during operation
B05C 11/10 - Storage, supply or control of liquid or other fluent materialRecovery of excess liquid or other fluent material
A jig to be used is appropriately selected, and information necessary for printing is acquired. A printing system includes a print control device that outputs print data; a printing device that executes printing based on the print data; and a jig that is placed on a table of the printing device. Multiple jigs are prepared. A jig ID for identifying the jig is attached to each of the jigs. The print control device includes a jig information acquisition unit that acquires jig information of the jig placed on the table based on the jig ID of the jig placed on the table, and a print data generation unit that generates print data based on the image data and the jig information.
The present invention manages a status of a printer. A display method for causing of an electronic apparatus to display information in a printing system that includes a printer, a management server, and the electronic apparatus (a PC and an electronic device), the display method including: an information transmission step of transmitting printer information from the management server to the electronic apparatus; and a display step of causing the electronic apparatus to display information based on the printer information, the management server manages, as the printer information, operation information, ink usage information, and printed area information, and in the display step, aggregation of operation status, aggregation of an amount of ink used, and aggregation of the printed area are displayed on one screen based on the operation information, the ink usage information, and the printed area information.
To stabilize a shape of a cut portion regardless of characteristics of a medium. The medium cutting method includes a first thrusting process of thrusting a cutter blade into a medium 2 so as to penetrate the medium 2, and a first cutting process of relatively moving the cutter blade with respect to the medium 2 in a longitudinal direction of the medium 2 and a width direction of the medium 2 with a first thrusting spot SP2 as a starting point, which is a spot thrust by the cutter blade in the first thrusting process, to cut the medium 2 in a direction inclined with respect to the width direction of the medium 2.
B26D 1/04 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting memberApparatus or machines thereforCutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member
B26D 5/20 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed
B41J 11/70 - Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
B65H 23/26 - Registering, tensioning, smoothing, or guiding webs longitudinally by transverse stationary or adjustable bars or rollers
B65H 35/06 - Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machinesArticle or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers from or with transverse cutters or perforators from or with blade, e.g. shear-blade, cutters or perforators
To suppress distortion in an image formed on a tapered printing target object. A printing system includes: a printing device that rotates a tapered printing target object about an axial rotation direction of the central axis and ejects an ink to the side surface of the printing target object, and a control unit that forms an image on the printing target object based on supplied print data; and a print data generation device that acquires a rectangular original image, generates an image for printing deformed in the lateral direction in such a manner that the acquired original image is tapered from a second edge side corresponding to the small-diameter-side end portion of the printing target object to a first edge side corresponding to the large-diameter-side end portion of the printing target object, and supplies the image for printing generated to the printing device as print data.
G06K 15/02 - Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data using printers
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
A method for manufacturing a sintered product from a three-dimensional object includes: A preparation step S11, a multilayer made of an ink containing inorganic particles and an organic material is formed to prepare a three-dimensional object. A degreasing step S12 includes: a first degreasing step of heating the three-dimensional object under an inert gas atmosphere at a first average degreasing temperature (T1) for a first heating time to degrease the organic material; and a second degreasing step of heating the three-dimensional object degreased in the first degreasing step, under an inert gas atmosphere at a second average degreasing temperature (T2) higher than T1 for a second heating time to degrease the organic material. A sintering step S13, the three-dimensional object degreased in the second degreasing step is sintered at an average sintering temperature higher than T2 to obtain a sintered product.
B22F 3/16 - Both compacting and sintering in successive or repeated steps
B29C 64/165 - Processes of additive manufacturing using a combination of solid and fluid materials, e.g. a powder selectively bound by a liquid binder, catalyst, inhibitor or energy absorber
B33Y 70/10 - Composites of different types of material, e.g. mixtures of ceramics and polymers or mixtures of metals and biomaterials
B33Y 80/00 - Products made by additive manufacturing
C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing
C09D 11/38 - Inkjet printing inks characterised by non-macromolecular additives other than solvents, pigments or dyes
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SHAPING DEVICE, SHAPING DEVICE MAINTENANCE METHOD, AND SHAPING METHOD
To appropriately realize a configuration suitable for a shaping device that shapes a colored shaped object. A shaping device that shapes a shaped object in which at least a part is colored, includes a plurality of head units and a carriage. Each head unit includes a plurality of nozzle rows each of which ejects ink supplied from an ink container through supply paths of ink different from each other. The carriage holds, as the plurality of head units, a head unit that is a first head unit head including a plurality of nozzle rows each of which ejects colored ink of different colors, and a head unit that is a second head unit including a plurality of nozzle rows each of which ejects ink different from the colored ink ejected by the head unit.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
b and the head 30; the printing device 100 inhibits generation of a stray light which irradiates the head, with electrostatic flocking parts 45 and 55.
To cure a layer of curable material for building more uniformly and appropriately at the time of building an object. A building method that builds an object using a curable material that is cured by being irradiated with an ultraviolet ray, the building method including: providing an ejection head, configured to eject the curable material; providing a UV light source, configured to emit the ultraviolet ray to the curable material ejected from the ejection head; and providing a light source driver, configured to supply an electric power for driving the UV light source, wherein the UV light source is an ultraviolet LED, and the light source driver supplies the electric power that varies in a pulse-like form to the UV light source, so as to drive the UV light source using a pulse driving scheme.
B29C 64/40 - Structures for supporting 3D objects during manufacture and intended to be sacrificed after completion thereof
B29C 35/08 - Heating or curing, e.g. crosslinking or vulcanising by wave energy or particle radiation
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
A tube pump that sends a fluid includes a tube, a roller, and a roller holder. In the roller holder, a guide groove is formed that receives a shaft of the roller and defines a range in which the roller is movable with respect to the roller holder. The roller holder has an inner side surface and an outer side surface as surfaces defining the guide groove in the roller holder. The inner side surface has a protrusion protruding toward the outer side surface.
Provided are an image processing device and an image processing method capable of printing an image on a recording medium without overlapping image regions subjected to different processes. An information processing device is a device for performing printing based on image data on a recording medium using a printing device. In order to print an image of image data by a plurality of different processes, the information processing device divides the image data into a plurality of image regions for each of the different processes, assigns the image regions to a plurality of job layers for each of the different processes, and generates print data by combining the plurality of job layers. The information processing device can assign an image region to a job layer so as not to overlap with an image region of another job layer.
An image processing device and an image processing method are provided. The image processing device includes: a generation unit that generates foil transfer data representing an ejection region of the adhesive ink in a predetermined color with respect to image data indicating an image to be printed on the recording medium; and a composition unit that composes the foil transfer data and the image data to generate composite image data, in which when printing is performed on the recording medium, the adhesive ink is ejected to the region of the predetermined color in the composite image data. The image processing method includes: a first step of generating the foil transfer data; a second step of generating the composite image data; and a third step of ejecting the adhesive ink to a region of a predetermined color in the composite image data and transferring the foil to the recording medium.
B41J 2/005 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms characterised by the printing or marking process for which they are designed characterised by bringing liquid or particles selectively into contact with a printing material
A printing device is provided. The printing device prints a cut position mark for specifying a medium cut position that is a cut position of a medium in a medium transport direction at a position separated by a certain distance from each of multiple medium cut positions on an transport direction upstream side, and prints a first cut range mark disposed at a position corresponding to one end of the medium cut range that is a cut range of the medium in the medium width direction at the medium cut position and a second cut range mark disposed at a position corresponding to the other end of the medium cut range.
Provided is a wiper unit capable of simplifying a mechanism. The wiper unit includes a wiping body extending in a band shape, a housing on which the wiping body is placed and provided to be movable in a predetermined direction, a conveyance mechanism that moves the housing in the predetermined direction, and a transmission mechanism that transmits a moving force of the housing in the predetermined direction and converts the moving force into a moving force of moving the wiping body.
A printer includes a printing portion that performs printing on a media, and a media exchanger that can hold a roll of a plurality of media and can move a specific roll among the rolls to a media supply position where the media can be supplied from the roll to the printing portion. The media exchanger includes a plurality of media holding parts and a rotating part. Each media holding part includes a set of clamping parts that rotatably clamps a single roll, and a guide part that slidably supports one or both of the clamping parts. The rotating part holds the plurality of media holding parts in an arrangement such that, when rotated about the rotation axis, the roll held by each media holding part comes to the media supply position once in the process of the rotation.
B65H 19/18 - Attaching, e.g. pasting, the replacement web to the expiring web
B41J 15/02 - Web rolls or spindlesAttaching webs to cores or spindles
B41J 15/06 - Supporting, feeding, or guiding devicesMountings for web rolls or spindles characterised by being applied to printers having stationary carriages
B41J 15/08 - Supporting, feeding, or guiding devicesMountings for web rolls or spindles characterised by being applied to printers having transversely-moving carriages
An ink ejection mechanism, a printing device, and a method for fixing an inkjet head are provided for easy attachment of the inkjet head to a carriage. An ink ejection mechanism includes: a carriage that moves along a print surface of a recording medium; a head assembly that is detachably disposed on the carriage and ejects ink onto the recording medium; and a fixing unit that fixes the head assembly to the carriage by pressing the head assembly from above.
A method for adjusting a printing apparatus includes an analyzing stage of performing, by an image analysis apparatus, analysis on a pattern image generated by reading a test pattern by a scanner, and a setting value updating stage of updating a control setting value stored in a database, in which the printing apparatus is caused to print a test pattern including a pattern for ejecting ink from a plurality of nozzle rows to the same position in a main scanning direction, in the analyzing stage, a dot position misalignment amount occurring in each nozzle row is detected by image processing based on the pattern image, a dot position correction value corresponding to the dot position misalignment amount is calculated by calculation, and in the setting value updating stage, the database is caused to store the dot position correction value as at least a part of the control setting value.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
The ink landed on a print object is quickly irradiated with an ultraviolet ray. An ultraviolet irradiation device includes a rotating mechanism that holds a print object and rotates the print object about an axis of the print object, and an ultraviolet irradiator that irradiates an outer peripheral surface of the print object to which an ultraviolet-curable ink is attached with an ultraviolet ray. The ink ejected from above the print object lands on the outer peripheral surface of the print object. The ultraviolet irradiator is disposed on the side of the print object, and irradiates the outer peripheral surface of the print object with an ultraviolet ray from the side of the print object.
A printing method for drawing an image on a transfer-receiving medium by transferring the image printed on a transfer medium to the transfer-receiving medium, the method including: a printing stage of printing the image on the transfer medium with a printing unit, which is a printing device; a hot melt resin adhering stage of causing hot melt resin powder to adhere to the transfer medium; and a transfer stage of transferring the image from the transfer medium to the transfer-receiving medium, in which the printing unit includes a colored ink head that ejects a colored ink and a clear ink head that ejects a clear ink, and in the printing stage, the clear ink is further ejected from the clear ink head to at least a part of a region to which the colored ink is ejected from the colored ink head in the transfer medium.
B41M 5/035 - Duplicating or marking methodsSheet materials for use therein by transferring ink from the master sheet by sublimation or volatilisation of design
Provided is a printing device including a printing mechanism that performs printing on a long medium and a cutting mechanism that cuts the medium after printing in a width direction of the medium orthogonal to a transport direction of the medium, the printing device capable of performing printing on the medium by the printing mechanism and transporting the medium toward the cutting mechanism even during the cutting of the medium by the cutting mechanism. A printing device (1) includes a tension applying mechanism (10) having a tension bar (9) that comes into contact with a medium (2) after printing to apply tension to the medium (2). The tension bar (9) is disposed between a printing mechanism (3) and a cutting mechanism (7) in the transport direction of the medium (2).
B41J 11/70 - Applications of cutting devices cutting perpendicular to the direction of paper feed
B26D 1/18 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting memberApparatus or machines thereforCutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a circular cutting member, e.g. disc cutter rotating about a movable axis mounted on a movable carriage
B26D 7/00 - Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
B41J 15/16 - Means for tensioning or winding the web
55.
SHAPING DEVICE, SHAPING METHOD, AND LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE
Shaping of a shaped object is appropriately performed with high accuracy. A shaping device that shapes a shaped object includes head units that are ejection heads, a carriage that holds the head units, a main scan driving part, and a flattening roller unit that is a flattening member having a flattening roller, in which the main scan driving part includes a guide member that guides movement of the carriage in a main scanning direction, and a drive mechanism that moves the carriage along the guide member, and the flattening roller unit is coupled to the carriage so as to be held by the guide member movably in the main scanning direction outside the carriage and move together with the carriage in main scan operation.
B29C 64/194 - Processes of additive manufacturing involving additional operations performed on the added layers, e.g. smoothing, grinding or thickness control during lay-up
B29C 64/232 - Driving means for motion along the axis orthogonal to the plane of a layer
B29C 64/236 - Driving means for motion in a direction within the plane of a layer
A foil transfer device having a reduced size is provided. The foil transfer device includes an adhesive application mechanism that applies an adhesive to a medium, and a transfer roller pair that presses a foil transfer sheet against the medium to which the adhesive is applied to transfer the foil to the medium. The adhesive application mechanism includes a head that ejects an adhesive onto the medium, and a platen that is disposed on the lower side of the head and on which the medium is mounted. In the foil transfer device, the transfer roller pair is disposed on the lower side of the platen.
a in the sub scanning direction is set to a width at which the inkjet head 3 can be arranged at a first position 3A where the inkjet head 3 and the inkjet head 4 are arranged at the same position in the sub scanning direction and a second position where the inkjet head 3 and the inkjet head 4 are arranged at positions shifted in the sub scanning direction.
The present invention more appropriately manages maintenance executed on an inkjet head. A printing device that performs printing through an inkjet method includes an inkjet head, a sub-tank 202, an ink amount detection unit, and a maintenance determination unit (maintenance controller). When the amount of ink in the sub-tank 202 is equal to or larger than a first threshold, the maintenance determination unit permits purge, which is an example of a normal maintenance, as maintenance to be executed on the inkjet head to which ink is supplied from the sub-tank 202. When the amount of ink in the sub-tank 202 is less than the first threshold, the maintenance determination unit prohibits purge and permits flushing, which is an example of low-consumption maintenance, as maintenance to be executed on the inkjet head to which ink is supplied from the sub-tank 202.
A printing method and a printing device are provided to reduce a difference in a degree of wet-spreading of a coating material. The printing method includes: a buffer layer forming step of forming, when there is a difference between a surface free energy of a print object which is an object to be printed and a surface free energy of a coating material applied to a surface of the print object, a buffer layer on the surface of the print object with a buffer material having a surface free energy differing from that of the print object or the coating material; and a printing step of printing by applying the coating material to the buffer layer.
Provided is an inkjet printer capable of ensuring the print quality of the inkjet printer, the inkjet printer performing bidirectional printing on a print medium by a multi-path method. In this inkjet printer, a plurality of nozzle rows an inkjet head has are each composed of ink-ejecting path rows that eject ink when printing is performed on the print medium, and no-ink-ejecting path rows that do not eject ink when printing is performed on the print medium. Ink-ejecting path rows each disposed at an end on one side in a sub-scanning direction are located shifted to each other in the sub-scanning direction. Alternately, specific path rows, each of which ejects ink greater in amount than ink ejected by each of the other ink-ejecting path rows in each nozzle row, are located shifted to each other in the sub-scanning direction.
A manufacturing system manufactures a predetermined product by printing and applying a coating agent to a base material made of resin. In a coating device of the manufacturing system, as a nozzle spraying the coating agent moves once in a first direction, a linear coating agent being the coating agent in a line shape with the first direction as a longitudinal direction is applied to the base material. A host control device creates application data for applying the coating agent to the base material by the coating device based on image data as data of an image to be printed on the base material by printing devices, and the application data includes, for applying the linear coating agents to the base material, spray range data of the coating agent from the nozzle in the first direction, and application interval data of the linear coating agents in a second direction.
B41J 3/44 - Typewriters or selective printing mechanisms having dual functions or combined with, or coupled to, apparatus performing other functions
B05B 12/10 - Arrangements for controlling deliveryArrangements for controlling the spray area responsive to condition of liquid or other fluent material discharged, of ambient medium or of target responsive to temperature or viscosity of liquid or other fluent material discharged
B05B 13/04 - Means for supporting workArrangement or mounting of spray headsAdaptation or arrangement of means for feeding work the spray heads being moved during operation
B05C 11/10 - Storage, supply or control of liquid or other fluent materialRecovery of excess liquid or other fluent material
Provided is an inkjet printer capable of suppressing variations in landing positions of inks ejected from a plurality of inkjet heads mounted on a carriage for each inkjet head. In this inkjet printer, a plurality of inkjet heads 3 are mounted on a carriage. This inkjet printer includes at least one of a first inclination adjustment mechanism (13) for adjusting the inclination of each of the inkjet heads (3) with respect to the carriage in a pivoting direction having a sub scanning direction as an axial direction of pivoting, and a second inclination adjustment mechanism (14) for adjusting the inclination of each of the inkjet heads (3) with respect to the carriage in a pivoting direction having a main scanning direction as an axial direction of pivoting.
B41J 25/316 - Bodily-movable mechanisms for print heads or carriages movable towards or from paper surface with tilting motion mechanisms relative to paper surface
A method for generating ejection position data indicating an ejection position where ink is ejected includes performing an edge detection process, an edge correction process, and an ejection position data generation process based on processing target data indicating an image to be printed. In the processing target data, a non-ejection value indicating that ink is not ejected to a corresponding ejection position or an ejection value other than the non-ejection value is set as a pixel value of a pixel. In the edge detection process, a position where a pixel to which the non-ejection value is set and a pixel for which the ejection value is set are adjacent is detected to detect an edge. In the edge correction process, the pixel value of the corresponding pixel is changed to a non-ejection value for at least a part of the ejection position where ink is ejected to draw the edge.
A repairing method for a shaped object includes: preparing a defective portion part to be attached to a defective portion in a repair target shaped object; creating a repair patch which is an attachment member to be attached to at least one part of the repair target shaped object; and attaching the repair patch to cover at least one part of a boundary portion of the repair target shaped object and the defective portion part; where at least one part of the repair target shaped object is colored. The repair patch including a colored layer and an adhesive layer is created using a shaping device capable of shaping a shaped object colored by a layered shaping method, and the colored layer is colored and formed in accordance with a color of a portion covered by the repair patch in a shaped object.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
B29C 64/135 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using layers of liquid which are selectively solidified characterised by the energy source therefor, e.g. by global irradiation combined with a mask the energy source being concentrated, e.g. scanning lasers or focused light sources
B29C 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
An ink supplying device includes: an attachment unit to which a cartridge for storing ink to be supplied to an inkjet head of a printing apparatus is attached and in which an internal flow path is formed for the ink stored in the cartridge to flow; an external tube that is connected to the internal flow path of the attachment unit and circulates the ink; and a base portion that supports the attachment unit and a part of the external tube. The attachment unit is supported by the base portion so as to be rotatable in a direction around a predetermined central axis. The external tube is disposed in a curved state from a connecting portion connected to the internal flow path to a supported portion supported by the base portion and is provided such that the curved state changes in accordance with the rotation of the attachment unit.
A method for manufacturing a sintered product from a three-dimensional object includes: A preparation step S11, a multilayer made of an ink containing inorganic particles and an organic material is formed to prepare a three-dimensional object. A degreasing step S12 includes: a first degreasing step of heating the three-dimensional object under an inert gas atmosphere at a first average degreasing temperature (T1) for a first heating time to degrease the organic material; and a second degreasing step of heating the three-dimensional object degreased in the first degreasing step, under an inert gas atmosphere at a second average degreasing temperature (T2) higher than T1 for a second heating time to degrease the organic material. A sintering step S13, the three-dimensional object degreased in the second degreasing step is sintered at an average sintering temperature higher than T2 to obtain a sintered product.
B29C 64/165 - Processes of additive manufacturing using a combination of solid and fluid materials, e.g. a powder selectively bound by a liquid binder, catalyst, inhibitor or energy absorber
B33Y 70/10 - Composites of different types of material, e.g. mixtures of ceramics and polymers or mixtures of metals and biomaterials
B33Y 80/00 - Products made by additive manufacturing
C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing
C09D 11/38 - Inkjet printing inks characterised by non-macromolecular additives other than solvents, pigments or dyes
67.
Inkjet printer and method of controlling inkjet printer
An inkjet printer that includes an inkjet head in which a plurality of ink flow paths are formed is provided. In this inkjet printer, a plurality of nozzles from which ink is ejected and a plurality of ink flow paths to which the plurality of nozzles are connected are formed in an inkjet head. The inkjet head includes a plurality of ejection energy generation elements that make the plurality of respective nozzles eject ink. Based on an ink flow rate which is a flow rate of ink flowing into each of the plurality of ink flow paths and internal temperature or external temperature of the inkjet head, a controller of the inkjet printer estimates the ink temperature in each of the plurality of ink flow paths, and controls drive voltage applied to the plurality of ejection energy generation elements based on the result of the estimation.
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 printing system 10 configured to generate a product of printing includes: a coater 14 that is a pretreatment machine configured to execute a pretreatment process of performing a predetermined pretreatment on a medium that is a target of the printing; a printer 16 that is a printing device configured to execute a print process of performing the printing by ejecting ink onto the medium after the pretreatment performed by the coater 14; and a controller 12 that is a process management device configured to propose a condition for the pretreatment process based on a condition for the product to be generated.
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B05D 7/24 - Processes, other than flocking, specially adapted for applying liquids or other fluent materials to particular surfaces or for applying particular liquids or other fluent materials for applying particular liquids or other fluent materials
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
G05B 19/042 - Programme control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers using digital processors
An inkjet printing apparatus includes an inkjet head that moves in a main scanning direction at the time of printing; a filter chamber provided on a path for supplying ink to a nozzle hole (nozzle) in the inkjet head; and a spherical body placed on a head filter in the filter chamber. The spherical body has a diameter φ larger than the mesh of the head filter. The spherical body is disposed on the head filter so as to be rollable by the movement of the inkjet head.
A printing apparatus that performs printing through an inkjet method includes an inkjet head and an ink supply system, where the ink supply system includes a pressure damper that is a pressure adjustment mechanism, a flow path that is a container-side flow path, and a connecting member in which a flow path that is a head-side flow path for flowing ink from the pressure damper to the inkjet head is formed, the pressure damper supplies ink adjusted to a pressure in a predetermined range lower than atmospheric pressure from an output port that is a pressure adjustment mechanism outlet to the flow path, and a flow path cross-sectional area of at least one part of the flow path in the connecting member is larger than a flow path cross-sectional area of the output port.
An inkjet printing apparatus 1 includes an ink-jet head 23 that ejects UV curable ink to a medium M, an irradiation lamp 25 that irradiates the UV curable ink ejected to the medium M with ultraviolet rays, and a heater 37 that heats the UV curable ink after the ultraviolet ray irradiation by the irradiation lamp 25 and thereby stabilizes color fixation of the UV curable ink. The UV curable ink after the ultraviolet ray irradiation is heated at least at 35° C.
A controller 10 activates a heater 21 when a temperature detected by a temperature sensor 13 for detecting a temperature of ink becomes lower than a first reference temperature Ta lower than the appropriate ink ejection temperature Ta at the time of printing pause in which printing is paused. After the heater 21 is activated, when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor 13 exceeds a predetermined second reference temperature T2 that is higher than the first reference temperature T1 and lower than the appropriate ink ejection temperature Ta, the controller 10 moves the inkjet head to the maintenance region and forcibly discharges ink from the inkjet head in the maintenance region.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
74.
INKJET PRINTER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INKJET PRINTER
[Object] To appropriately warm ink.
[Object] To appropriately warm ink.
[Solving Means] An inkjet printer 1 includes an inkjet head 3 and an ink warming mechanism 12. The ink warming mechanism 12 includes a warming part main body 21; an ink flow path 21a formed inside the warming part main body 21; a heater 22 that is attached to the warming part main body 21 and heats the warming part main body 21; a warming part temperature sensor 23 that is attached to the warming part main body 21 and detects a temperature of the warming part main body 21; and a heater controller 4 that controls the heater 22. The heater controller 24 controls the heater 22 based on the detection result of the warming part temperature sensor 23 so that the temperature of the warming part main body 21 becomes a predetermined reference temperature.
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 shaping device shaping an object by forming and layering each layer based on slice images indicating cross-sectional shapes and color arrangements of the object include: a color ink ejection position determining means determining presence/absence of ejection of each ink of colors for coloring to each ejection position constituting the layer based on the slice image corresponding to the layer; a clear ink ejection position determining means determining necessity of ejection of a clear ink to each ejection position based on presence/absence of ejection of ink of each color for coloring to each ejection position determined in the color ink ejection position determining means; and a layer forming means causing a color ink head and the clear ink head to eject ink of each color and the clear ink to each ejection position as determined by the color ink ejection position and clear ink ejection position determining means.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
B29C 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
B29C 64/188 - Processes of additive manufacturing involving additional operations performed on the added layers, e.g. smoothing, grinding or thickness control
A molding device includes a color inkjet head that ejects a color ink, and a clear inkjet head that ejects a clear ink. The color ink is ejected from the color inkjet head and layered to color and form a molded object, and the clear ink is ejected from the clear inkjet head to compensate the layering amount of the color ink. The molding device includes an input part that inputs the compensation amount of the clear ink such that the impact frequency of the clear ink becomes low at a place where the impact frequency of the color ink in coloring and forming the molded object is high, and the impact frequency of the clear ink becomes high at a place where the impact frequency of the color ink is low for each layer forming the molded object.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
The disclosure more appropriately creates a product of printing closer to the target state. A printing system (10) that creates a product of printing includes a printer (16) that is a printing apparatus that executes a printing step, a steaming machine (18) that is a device for a predetermined step that is a device that executes a predetermined step, and a control device (12); where the control device (12) acquires printed matter information that is information indicating a state of a printed matter obtained by performing the printing step by the printer (16), and adjusts a condition of a step to be executed in the steaming machine (18) based on information indicating a state of the target product and the printed matter information such that a product in a state closer to a state indicated by target product information is obtained.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
78.
PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND PRINTING METHOD
The disclosure more appropriately determines a condition of a step executed at the time of creating a product of printing. A printing system (10) that creates a product of printing by performing at least printing includes a printer (16) which is a printing apparatus that executes a printing step of performing printing by ejecting ink; a washing machine (20) which is a post-processing machine that executes a post-processing step on a printed matter obtained by performing the printing step in the printer (16); and a control device (12) that determines a condition of a post-processing step based on a condition of the printing step.
B41J 3/407 - Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
A shaping apparatus includes an inkjet head forming one shaped layer by performing multiple main scans of ejecting an ink droplet of a curable ink that cures according to light of a predetermined wavelength toward a shaping table while reciprocating in a main scanning direction; a light source provided at least at one position on a front side in a forward or return direction in the main scan with respect to the inkjet head and irradiating an ink dot formed by the ink droplet with light; and a flattening unit flattening an upper surface of the ink dot. A shaped object is formed by layering the shaped layer. In the shaping apparatus, the ink dot is flatted by the flattening roller in the return movement without completely curing the ink dot by controlling the on/off state or illuminance of the light source during at least one of the main scans.
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
Since ink is not heated at a protrusion connecting an ink supplying device and a print head chip or the like, the viscosity of the ink increases, and the fluidity may not be maintained in some cases. An inkjet printer 1 for solving the above problem includes an inkjet head 300 that ejects ink; a protrusion 310 provided to protrude from the inkjet head 300 and configured to circulate the ink to the inkjet head 300; and an ink flow path portion 6 that supplies the ink to the protrusion 310; where the ink flow path portion 6 includes an ink warming block 200 that heats the ink, and a conducting portion 210 that is formed in the ink warming block 200 itself or separately from the ink warming block 200 and through which heat from the ink warming block 200 is conducted is adjacently disposed outside the protrusion 310.
A tube pump that sends a fluid includes a tube, a roller, and a roller holder. In the roller holder, a guide groove is formed that receives a shaft of the roller and defines a range in which the roller is movable with respect to the roller holder. The roller holder has an inner side surface and an outer side surface as surfaces defining the guide groove in the roller holder. The inner side surface has a protrusion protruding toward the outer side surface.
k to eject ink, and a plurality of white layers that are light reflecting regions formed on the colored region. The colored regions in the layered ink region are superimposed with at least the white layer interposed 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
83.
PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY, SHAPING APPARATUS, SHAPED ARTICLE SET, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, AND SHAPING SYSTEM
A photographing apparatus for photogrammetry continuously photographs a target object performing a series of motions by synchronizing a plurality of photographing devices provided at a plurality of different viewpoints. The plurality of photographing devices include the plurality of image-capturing units that photograph the target object. Each of the plurality of photographing devices includes the plurality of primary storages each storing each image data of the target object photographed in synchronization by the plurality of image-capturing units, and the plurality of signal output units each outputting a completion signal for each of the image data when storage of each of the image data in a preceding motion of the target object into the plurality of primary storages is completed. The plurality of photographing devices perform photographing in the subsequent motion of the target object based on the completion signal of the signal output unit.
Misalignment between landing positions is appropriately corrected. A printing device 10 that performs printing by an inkjet method includes an inkjet head 102, a carriage 100, a main scan driving part 18 (carriage drive mechanism), a detection mechanism 106, and a controller 30. The controller 30 detects a position where a concentration is the highest among concentrations of a correction pattern changing depending on positions in a main scanning direction, calculates magnitude of misalignment between a landing position of ink ejected from the inkjet head 102 when the carriage 100 moves to a first direction side and a landing position of the ink ejected from the inkjet head 102 when the carriage 100 moves to a second direction side based on a detection result of the position where the concentration is the highest, and corrects the misalignment between the landing positions based on a calculation result.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
85.
Inkjet printer suppressing stray light from light irradiation device
An inkjet printer including a platen that supports a recording medium; an inkjet head having a nozzle surface that ejects ink, which cures by being irradiated with light, toward the recording medium; a light irradiation device that irradiates the ink attached to the recording medium with light; and a carriage that is mounted on the inkjet head and the light irradiation device, and is scanned with respect to the platen; where an uneven portion for suppressing stray light from the light irradiation device from reaching the nozzle surface is provided in a portion closer to the nozzle surface than the light irradiation device in a scanning direction; and the uneven portion is provided at a position facing a space on a path of the stray light from the light irradiation device to the nozzle surface in a space between the portion and the platen.
Provided are an inkjet printing method and an ink set, in which forward and reverse warp inks are printed in an arrangement that reduces warp. The forward warp ink is the ink in which a warp when cured and shrunk by irradiation of light is a forward warp in which a portion on a side where light is irradiated by a light irradiation device is large in the degree of curing and shrinkage as compared with a portion on an opposite side. The reverse warp ink is the ink in which a warp when cured and shrunk by irradiation of light is a reverse warp in which a portion on a side opposite to a side where light is irradiated by the light irradiation device is large in the degree of curing and shrinkage as compared with a portion on the side where light is irradiated.
C09D 133/08 - Homopolymers or copolymers of acrylic acid esters
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
An inkjet printer includes an inkjet head having multiple nozzles that eject an ultraviolet-curable ink, an ultraviolet irradiator that cures the ink, a carriage on which the inkjet head and the ultraviolet irradiator are mounted, a carriage drive mechanism that moves the carriage in a main scanning direction, and a controller that controls the ultraviolet irradiator. A part of the ultraviolet irradiator disposed at the same position as the inkjet head in a sub scanning direction is a head position ultraviolet irradiation portion. The controller makes a peak illuminance of ultraviolet with which the head position ultraviolet irradiation portion irradiates the ink when the carriage moves at a moving speed V2 lower than a peak illuminance of ultraviolet with which the head position ultraviolet irradiation portion irradiates the ink when the carriage moves at a moving speed V1, where the moving speed V2 is lower than the moving speed V1.
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
89.
RADIATION-CURABLE INK, DEPOSITED MATTER, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING RADIATION-CURABLE INK
Provided is a radiation-curable ink that has low odor, excellent curability, and can provide a printed matter that has excellent hardness and toughness. The radiation-curable ink includes the monofunctional polymerizable compound (β) having a heterocyclic structure in which a hetero atom is an oxygen atom, and a multifunctional polymerizable compound (γ) having an alicyclic structure. It is preferable that the radiation-curable ink further include a multifunctional polymerizable compound (Z) not having a bicyclo structure or a higher cyclic structure. It is preferable that the monofunctional polymerizable compound be a monofunctional (meth)acrylate and the multifunctional polymerizable compound be a multifunctional (meth)acrylate.
C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing
90.
Ink composition for inkjet and method for inkjet recording
An ink composition for inkjet and a method for inkjet recording are provided. The ink composition for inkjet includes: a pigment, a water, an alkanediol having a carbon number of 6 or more and 10 or less; and a resin emulsion. A minimum value of a mass ratio of the alkanediol to the ink composition for inkjet is 10%. And, the method includes: performing a typing by attaching an ink composition for inkjet to an ink-unabsorbable or ink-low-absorbable medium. The ink composition for inkjet is prepared by dispersing solutes including a pigment and a resin emulsion in a water including an alkanediol having a carbon number of 6 or more and 10 or less; and the typing is performed by ejecting the ink composition for inkjet on the ink-unabsorbable or ink-low-absorbable medium heated at 50° C. or more and 60° C. or less.
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methodsSheet materials for use therein
C09D 11/037 - Printing inks characterised by features other than the chemical nature of the binder characterised by the pigment
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
C08F 2/46 - Polymerisation initiated by wave energy or particle radiation
C08F 2/50 - Polymerisation initiated by wave energy or particle radiation by ultraviolet or visible light with sensitising agents
C08G 61/04 - Macromolecular compounds containing only carbon atoms in the main chain of the macromolecule, e.g. polyxylylenes only aliphatic carbon atoms
C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing
B33Y 70/00 - Materials specially adapted for additive manufacturing
C08F 283/06 - Macromolecular compounds obtained by polymerising monomers on to polymers provided for in subclass on to polyethers, polyoxymethylenes or polyacetals
C08F 220/30 - Esters containing oxygen in addition to the carboxy oxygen containing aromatic rings in the alcohol moiety
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
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
In this print method, assuming that the number of stacking of ink layers in a thickest portion in a thickly-piled portion is N, in a histogram preparation step ST2, a histogram of luminance values of grayscale image data prepared in an image data preparation step ST1 is prepared, and in luminance value range setting steps ST3 to ST10, a luminance value of predetermined gradations of the histogram is divided into N and N luminance value ranges are set. In the luminance value range setting steps ST3 to ST10, a division position of the luminance value of the predetermined gradations is adjusted while the histogram displayed on a predetermined display is checked.
A printer control system for controlling an inkjet printer that prints an image having a predetermined thickness on a print medium includes: an image data creating/editing portion, configured for creating and editing an image data; and a printer control portion, configured for converting the image data sent from the image data creating/editing portion into a printing data and sending the printing data to the inkjet printer. When a portion for allowing the image to have a thickness in the image printed on the print medium is defined as a thick portion, the image data sent from the image data creating/editing portion to the printer control portion includes at least one of: a thickness information regarding a thickness of the thick portion, and a shape information regarding a shape of an end portion of the thick portion.
G06K 15/02 - Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data using printers
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
B29C 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
A radiation-curable ink is provided and includes: a first liquid phase, including a radiation-curable hydrophobic polymerizable compound; and a second liquid phase, including at least one compound selected from a group consisting of water, an aqueous polymerizable compound, an aqueous polymer, and an aqueous non-polymerizable compound. The second liquid phase is emulsified and dispersed in the first liquid phase. And, a three-dimensional object is formed by curing the radiation-curable ink, in which a third liquid phase derived from the second liquid phase and including at least one compound selected from the group consisting of water, the aqueous polymerizable compound, the aqueous polymer, and the aqueous non-polymerizable compound is dispersed as a sea-island structure in a continuous phase of a hydrophobic cured product formed by curing the first liquid phase. A water content of the third liquid phase is 1% by weight or more.
C09D 11/38 - Inkjet printing inks characterised by non-macromolecular additives other than solvents, pigments or dyes
B33Y 70/00 - Materials specially adapted for additive manufacturing
C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing
Provided are a foamed product with a high level of design, and the like. The problem is solved by a foamed product including: a foam medium with a first part protruded by foaming and a second part that is lower than the first part; and a decorative part with a plurality of decorative particles, formed only in the second part of the first part and the second part, and a manufacturing method for a foamed product, including: a first step of foaming a foam medium to form, in the foam medium, a first part protruded by the foaming and a second part that is lower than the first part; and a second step of fixing a plurality of decorative particles only to the second part of the first part and the second part.
B32B 3/30 - 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 particular shape of the outline of the cross-section of a continuous layerLayered 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 layer with cavities or internal voids characterised by a layer formed with recesses or projections, e.g. grooved, ribbed
B32B 5/18 - Layered products characterised by the non-homogeneity or physical structure of a layer characterised by features of a layer containing foamed or specifically porous material
B32B 33/00 - Layered products characterised by particular properties or particular surface features, e.g. particular surface coatingsLayered products designed for particular purposes not covered by another single class
B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methodsSheet materials for use therein
To efficiently and appropriately shape a 3D object. There is provided a shaping device that shapes a three-dimensional (3D) object through a layering shaping method, the shaping device including an inkjet head, which is a discharging head, that discharges a material liquid droplet, a liquid droplet of a material for the 3D object; and a circling driving section that relatively circles at least a region to be discharged, which is a region to which the material liquid droplet is discharged in the 3D object being shaped, along a circling path set in advance with respect to the inkjet head; where the circling driving section causes the region to be discharged to circle the circling path plural times; and inkjet head discharges the material liquid droplet onto the region to be discharged circling on the circling path.
Disclosed is a shaping system for shaping a three-dimensional object, which includes a slice data generation step that generates slice data and a shaping execution step that shapes the three-dimensional object by a shaping apparatus based on the slice data. The shaping apparatus shapes the three-dimensional object using inkjet heads. The slice data generation step has a color cross-section data generation step that generates color cross-section data showing at least a cross-sectional shape of the three-dimensional object and a color at each position, a plate division data generation step that generates plate division cross-section data in which the color cross-section data is color-separated for each color of the material, and a plate division cross-section data change step that changes at least some plate division cross-section data. The slice data is generated based on the plate division cross-section data changed in the plate division cross-section data change step.
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
B29C 64/112 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only liquids or viscous materials, e.g. depositing a continuous bead of viscous material using individual droplets, e.g. from jetting heads
G05B 19/4099 - Surface or curve machining, making 3D objects, e.g. desktop manufacturing
B33Y 30/00 - Apparatus for additive manufacturingDetails thereof or accessories therefor
[Object] To appropriately produce a product generated by printing on a medium.
[Solving Means] A production management system that manages production of a product generated by executing printing on a medium determines (S104, S114) a recommended condition of processing by an electronic device scheduled to be used for generation of a product, based on processing condition information indicating, for each step of generating the product, a relationship among quality of the product, a type and an installing place of the electronic device that performs at least one step of generating the product, and a recommended condition of processing by the electronic device, the target quality of the product, and the type and the installing place of the electronic device scheduled to be used for generating the product.
G05B 19/418 - Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM]
A printed matter exhibiting metallic gloss is provided and includes: a substrate; and a metallic glossy layer, being formed on the substrate, and the metallic glossy layer containing scaly particles having a metal. In the metallic glossy layer, the scaly particles are oriented to be substantially parallel to a surface of the metallic glossy layer; and the surface of the metallic glossy layer has a DOI value of greater than or equal to 20% and a Sa value of less than or equal to 2 μm.
B41M 7/00 - After-treatment of printed works, e.g. heating, irradiating
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 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41M 5/00 - Duplicating or marking methodsSheet materials for use therein
B41M 3/00 - Printing processes to produce particular kinds of printed work, e.g. patterns
100.
Maintenance liquid for solving ejection problem of UV curable inkjet printer
Provided are a maintenance liquid and a maintenance method that can solve an ejection problem of a UV curable inkjet printer. The maintenance liquid includes: a first ingredient in which a water-soluble compound is soluble and a cured matter of a UV curable ink is insoluble. The maintenance method includes: a first cleaning process at which a water-soluble compound that adheres to an inkjet head included in the UV curable inkjet printer is dissolved by a first maintenance liquid including the first ingredient in which the water-soluble compound is soluble and a cured matter of a UV curable ink is insoluble, and a second cleaning process at which the inkjet head is cleaned by a second maintenance liquid including a second ingredient in which the water-soluble compound is insoluble and the cured matter of the UV curable ink is soluble.
B41J 2/165 - Prevention of nozzle clogging, e.g. cleaning, capping or moistening for nozzles
B08B 3/08 - Cleaning involving contact with liquid the liquid having chemical or dissolving effect
C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing
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 11/38 - Inkjet printing inks characterised by non-macromolecular additives other than solvents, pigments or dyes
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