Seiko Epson Corporation

Hidenori Usuda

Shinichi Kamoshida

Mitsuaki Yoshizawa

Toshio Kumagai

Takayoshi Kagata

Yoshiaki Yamada

Toru Matsuyama

Shinichi Nakamura

Shuji Otsuka

Hideo Noro

Yutaka Takano

Isao Nomura

Tsuyoshi Sano

Kazutoshi Fujisawa

Yoshihiko Matsuzawa

Hitotoshi Kimura

Koichi Otsuki

Tsuyoshi Kitahara

Tomoaki Takahashi

Noriaki Okazawa

Ryoichi Tanaka

Nobuhito Takahashi

Bunji Ishimoto

Yoshiaki Shimizu

Noboru Tamura

Kaoru Koike

Kazunaga Suzuki

Kenji Otokita

Keiji Matsumoto

Kaoru Momose

Tsutomu Miyamoto

Seiya Sato

Takayuki Kawakami

Kazutoshi Shimizu

Kazumi Aruga

Koji Harada

Norihiro Maruyama

Yuji Hatanaka

Takuya Fujita

Shinji Hirata

Takanori Seki

Kenichi Ishihara

Koichiro Miyazaki

Yasushi Hashizume

Yasuhiro Hiraide

Nobuaki Okazawa

A recording apparatus that uses photocurable ink includes an ink discharge section that discharges photocurable ink onto a printing medium, a light irradiation section that irradiates curing light onto the photocurable ink that has been discharged onto the printing medium, a tension application mechanism that applies tension to the printing medium and a control section. The control section discharges photocurable ink onto the printing medium by controlling the ink discharge section, and subsequently applies a tension, which is greater than that at the time of ink discharge, to the printing medium by controlling the tension application mechanism, and irradiates curing light onto the photocurable ink that has been discharged onto the printing medium by controlling the light irradiation section in a state in which the tension is being applied to the printing medium.

Printing apparatus using photocurable ink and method for producing printed material

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a first pulley; a second pulley; a head unit ejecting a liquid; a carriage in which the head unit is provided; a motor that generates power for driving the carriage; a power supply that supplies the power for ejecting the liquid from the head unit; and a belt that is hung on the first pulley and the second pulley, drives the carriage by the power supplied from the motor, and transmits the power to the head unit, in which the belt includes a first member for electrically connecting the power supply and the head unit, and a second member having an electric resistivity higher than an electric resistivity of the first member.

Liquid ejecting apparatus and driving method of liquid ejecting apparatus

A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a discharging portion which discharges liquid; a carriage which has the discharging portion mounted thereon, and is provided with a conductive member; a power supply source which supplies power for discharging the liquid from the discharging portion; a housing which has the power supply source installed therein; and a carriage guide axis which supports the carriage to be movable with respect to the housing, in which between the carriage guide axis and the conductive member, a coupling capacitance is formed by electric field coupling, and in which the coupling capacitance is included in a power supplying path to the discharging portion or a discharging path from the discharging portion, in a transmission path of the power.

Liquid discharging apparatus and control method thereof

The printing device including: a first setting unit configured to set printing mode of a main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image on the medium and then printing the main image on the background image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the main image on the medium and then printing the background image on the main image; and a second setting unit configured to set a printing mode of an additional image printed in association with the printing of the main image and to set either front-surface printing mode for printing a background image for the additional image on the medium and then printing the additional image on the background image for the additional image or rear-surface printing mode for printing the additional image on the medium and then printing the background image for the additional image on the additional image.

Printing device and printing method

A printing apparatus includes a carriage having a recording head movable in a first direction relative to a medium, a color ink nozzle row and a clear ink nozzle row that are provided in the recording head and that respectively eject photo-curable color ink and photo-curable clear ink, and a light irradiation section. A first period of time from when the color ink is deposited on the medium to when light is emitted by the light irradiation section is equal to or longer than a second period of time from when the clear ink is deposited on the medium to when the light is emitted by the light irradiation section.

Printing apparatus and printing method

An apparatus for printing an image on a transparent medium based on a selected mode, the apparatus includes: a head that ejects ink droplets from nozzles, wherein when a first mode is selected, the head prints a first image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the first image, and prints a second image which is different from the first image on the background image, and wherein when a second mode is selected, the head prints a second image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the second image, and prints a first image on the background image.

Provided is a printing apparatus including: a head unit that is provided with a discharge unit which discharges a liquid; a carriage into which the head unit is built; a power delivery unit that delivers at least a part of supplied power to the head unit; and a power supply unit that supplies power to the power delivery unit, in which the power delivery unit is provided with a first conductor and a second conductor, wherein power that is supplied from the power supply unit is delivered to the head unit through a coupling capacitance that is formed by the first conductor and the second conductor, and in which the power supply unit supplies different amounts of power to the power delivery unit depending on a type of a recording medium that is in a transport pathway.

Printing apparatus and control program for printing apparatus

A printing apparatus includes a first nozzle through which to eject color ink, a second nozzle through which to eject clear ink, a control unit that performs control, in a manner that ejects the color ink onto a glittering layer through the first nozzle, and ejects the clear ink onto the color ink through the second nozzle, at the time of forming an image on a medium on which the glittering layer is formed, in which the control unit controls ejection of the clear ink through the second nozzle in such a manner that an amount of the clear ink to be ejected onto the color ink varies according to a light absorption rate of the color ink.

Printing apparatus, printing method and printed matter

A printing apparatus includes a first nozzle through which to discharge color ink to form a first dot, a second nozzle through which to discharge at least one of white ink, clear ink, and first glitter ink to form a second dot, a third nozzle through which to discharge second glitter ink, lower in diffuse reflection rate than the ink discharged from the second nozzle, to form a third dot, in which an image to be visually recognized from the opposite side of an image formation side via a printable medium is formed by forming a glittering base layer, resulting from the third dot, on a color image and the second dot, after forming the color image, resulting from the first dot, on the printable medium and forming the second dot on the first dot making up the color image.

A printing apparatus which prints an image on a transparent medium using a head which discharges ink droplets from nozzles. Two pieces of image data are prepared, one piece of image data is selected from the two pieces of image data to set the selected image data to one of a first image and a second image, and the other piece of image data is set to the other of the first image and the second image. The image data set to the first image is subjected to a processing to be mirror image data. The head prints the mirror image of the first image on the medium, prints a background image on the mirror image of the first image, and prints a real image of the second image on the background image.

A recording apparatus includes: a recording head that discharges ink onto a recording target medium from a nozzle; a first moving unit that moves at least one of the recording target medium and the recording head; a first radiating unit that is disposed at the opposite side to the recording head with respect to the recording target medium and radiates electromagnetic waves that cure the ink; and a second moving unit that moves at least one of the recording target medium and the first radiating unit, and a control unit that controls driving of the recording head, the first moving unit, the first radiating unit, and the second moving unit.

Recording apparatus with a radiating unit for curing ink

An image forming apparatus includes a nozzle row group that is provided with a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row, and a control unit that performs a dot forming operation of ejecting a liquid from nozzles to form dots. The control unit divides the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row into N nozzle groups when the dot forming operation is performed. In a first mode, A nozzle groups of N nozzle groups of the second nozzle row and (N&#x2212;A) nozzle groups of the first nozzle row are employed. In a second mode, B (A&#x2260;B) nozzle groups of N nozzle groups of the second nozzle row and (N&#x2212;B) nozzle groups of the first nozzle row are employed.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

A liquid ejection device has a feeding mechanism, a nozzle, an irradiating section, and a color meter. The feeding mechanism is configured and arranged to feed a medium in a feed direction. The nozzle is configured and arranged to eject a liquid to be cured by irradiation of light toward the medium. The irradiating section is configured and arranged to radiate the light toward the liquid landed on the medium. The color meter is disposed on a downstream side of the feed direction with respect to the irradiating section so as to perform color measurement of an image generated on the medium, the color meter being configured and arranged such that calibration of the color meter is performed by reading a reference. The irradiating section is configured and arranged to radiate the light when the calibration of the color meter is performed.

Liquid ejection device

A recording apparatus includes a recording head which discharges liquid onto a recording material, thereby performing recording; and a waste liquid recovery device which recovers waste liquid which has not been attached to the recording material, of liquid discharged from the recording head, wherein the waste liquid recovery device includes a movable sheet-like member which is provided on a side facing the recording head and receives the waste liquid which has not been attached to the recording material.

Recording apparatus

A printer includes a printing unit that performs printing by causing at least one of respective colors of ink, clear ink and white ink to be ejected onto a transparent medium, and a controller that controls the printing unit, in which the controller performs control so as to form a design image by causing respective colors of ink to be ejected onto a transparent medium, and performs control so as to form a clear layer by causing clear ink to be ejected in a state overlapped on the design image, and performs controls so as to form a base layer by causing white ink to be ejected overlapped on the clear layer.

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Hidenori Usuda