Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Narumi Kawai

Tomoyo Hamajima

Narumi Koga

Masaya Fujioka

Hiroto Sugahara

Shingo Hattori

Yoshitsugu Morita

Ryuji Kato

Noriatsu Aoi

Shunichi Higashiyama

Kazuma Goto

Masayuki Takata

Yuichi Ito

Junichiro Sugimoto

Atsushi Nakamura

Hideo Ohira

Michiko Aoyama

Masahiro Nishizaki

Hisako Tonishi

Tatsunosuke Hoshi

Mayuko Okada

Hiroto Sughara

A printing apparatus which prints a composite image formed of a background image and an input image on a recording medium includes: a display; a display image data generating section which generates data of a display image to be displayed on the display; a display controller which controls the display; an input region determining mechanism which determines at least one input region in which the input image is to be inputted on the background image displayed on the display; an image capturing mechanism which captures the input image inputted via the display; a composite image data generating section which generates data of the composite image from data of the background image and the input image captured by the image capturing mechanism; and a printing mechanism which prints the composite image on the recording medium based on the data of the composite image generated by the composite image data generating section.

Printing apparatus, composite image data generating apparatus, and composite image data generating program

An ink-jet printer including: an ink supply portion; a transport mechanism; an ink-jet head; an inverting mechanism; and a controller is provided. The controller is configured to control the ink-jet head to perform an ordinary jetting operation and a marking jetting operation, and is configured to control the ink-jet head and the inverting mechanism such that only the ordinary jetting operation is performed on the one surface of the printing medium without performing the marking jetting operation, and the marking jetting operation is performed on the other surface of the printing medium after inverting the printing medium with the inverting mechanism.

Ink-jet printer

An ink-jet printer performs the ordinary jetting operation in which the printing is performed on a printing area of the recording paper while transporting the recording paper frontwardly by transport rollers and the marking jetting operation in which a marking is formed at an edge portion of the recording paper. A control unit of the ink-jet printer allows nozzles to jet liquid droplets therefrom in the marking jetting operation, the liquid droplets having larger volumes as compared with those jetted in the ordinary jetting operation. Therefore, in the marking jetting operation, a larger amount of the ink liquid droplets can be permeated in the thickness direction of the recording paper as compared with the ordinary jetting operation. Accordingly, the marking, which can be easily confirmed from the side of the printing medium, is formed.

A printing apparatus, which prints a composite image formed of an enlargement portion and a non-enlargement portion of an original image on a printing medium, includes: an enlargement portion determining section which determines the enlargement portion, of the original image, which is to be enlarged in the composite image; an enlargement rate determining section which determines an enlargement rate of the enlargement portion with respect to the original image; a print data generating section which generates print data for printing the composite image based on image data of the original image, the enlargement portion determined by the enlargement portion determining section, and the enlargement rate determined by the enlargement rate determining section; and a printing mechanism which prints the composite image on the printing medium based on the print data generated by the print data generating section.

Printing apparatus for printing composite image, print data generating apparatus for generating print data of composite image, and print data generating program for generating print data of composite image

A handy printer and a mobile phone based on the use of the same are provided, wherein the printing can be performed on recording paper sheets having various sizes. The handy printer comprises a cover member which is movable between an exposure position at which an ink discharge surface of an ink discharge head is exposable to the outside and a cover position at which the discharge surface is hidden from the outside. When the cover member is positioned at the cover position, the recording is permitted on a recording paper sheet accommodated in a recording paper-accommodating mechanism. When the cover member is positioned at the exposure position, the recording is permitted on a recording medium disposed outside a handy-printer body casing.

Handy printer and mobile phone provided with the same

A liquid jetting apparatus includes a head having a nozzle which jets a liquid; a drive mechanism which reciprocately moves the head in a vertical direction to move the nozzle in the vertical direction; a nozzle protective member which is arranged in a moving area for the head and which protects the nozzle of the head; a controller which controls the drive mechanism to stop the head at a standby position which faces the nozzle protective member; a liquid container which contains the liquid; and a liquid tube which supplies the liquid to the head, and the liquid container is arranged such that, when the liquid container is filled with the liquid at a maximum capacity thereof, a liquid level of the liquid in the liquid container is same as or lower than a lowermost point of the nozzle in the head stopped at the standby position.

Liquid jetting apparatus

A plurality of ink cartridges are installed to be arranged in a vertical direction. A carriage reciprocates in the vertical direction. An ink-jet head has nozzle rows arranged, in a row in the vertical direction, to be parallel mutually, and the ink cartridge is connected to the nozzle row via a tube. There is provided a vertically long and a stylish liquid jetting apparatus which can be installed vertically even in a narrow area.

A water base ink for ink-jet recording contains a coloring agent, water, a penetrant, and a surfactant, wherein the penetrant includes diethylene glycol n-hexyl ether (A), the surfactant includes an acetylene glycol-based surfactant (B) and sodium polyoxyethylene alkyl ether sulfate (B), and (A), (B), and (B) are blended at ratios respectively to fulfill a predetermined condition. Accordingly, the water base ink for ink-jet recording is provided, which is excellent in the permeability, the vaporization characteristic, and the water repellence and which does not deteriorate any resin material forming a casing or the like of an ink jet recording apparatus.

Water base ink for ink-jet recording, ink cartridge, and ink-jet recording apparatus

A water base ink for ink-jet recording contains a self-dispersible coloring agent, a propylene glycol ether, and a surfactant represented by the following general formula (3):R&#x2014;O&#x2014;(CHCHO)&#x2014;SOM&#x2003;&#x2003;(3) wherein Rrepresents an alkyl group having a number of carbon atoms of 12 to 15, M represents Na or triethanolamine, and n represents an integer of 2 to 4, and wherein the propylene glycol ether is dipropylene glycol propyl ether. The ink satisfies three requirements of i) the satisfactory initial introduction performance of the ink into an ink flow passage of a stacked type printer head, ii) the prevention of the occurrence of feathering, and iii) the prevention of the insufficient spread of the ink.

Water base ink for ink-jet recording and ink-jet printer accomodating same

A water-based ink set for ink-jet recording has a plurality of color inks. Each of at least one of the plurality of color inks contains a first ink and a second ink. The first ink has a first hue angle and the second ink has a second hue angle, wherein the first hue angle is not equal to the second hue angle and a differential range therebetween is a hue angle color range of a normal color of the at least one of the plurality of color inks; and a coloring agent of one of the first ink and the second ink is a pigment and a coloring agent of the other thereof is a dye.

Water-based ink set for ink-jet recording

The water-based ink set for ink-jet recording includes a magenta ink and a red ink with dynamic surface tensions thereof satisfying the following inequalities (I), (II), (III) and (IV)&#x3c3;&#x2266;about 49 mN/m&#x2003;&#x2003;(I)&#x3c3;+&#x3c3;&#x2266;about 100 mN/m&#x2003;&#x2003;(II)wherein &#x3c3;is the dynamic surface tension of the magenta ink at a lifetime of 30 ms and &#x3c3;is the dynamic surface tension of the red ink at a lifetime of 30 ms,&#x3c3;&#x2267;about 36 mN/m&#x2003;&#x2003;(III)&#x3c3;+&#x3c3;&#x2267;about 70 mN/m&#x2003;&#x2003;(IV)wherein &#x3c3;is the dynamic surface tension of the magenta ink at a lifetime of 1,000 ms and &#x3c3;is the dynamic surface tension of the red ink at a lifetime of 1,000 ms).

Water-based ink set for ink-jet recording and ink-jet recording method

The water-based ink set for ink-jet recording includes a cyan ink and a blue ink with dynamic surface tensions thereof satisfying the following inequalities (I), (II), (III) and (IV)&#x3c3;&#x2266;about 49 mN/m&#x2003;&#x2003;(I)&#x3c3;+&#x3c3;&#x2266;about 100 mN/m&#x2003;&#x2003;(II)wherein &#x3c3;is the dynamic surface tension of the cyan ink at a lifetime of 30 ms and &#x3c3;is the dynamic surface tension of the blue ink at a lifetime of 30 ms,&#x3c3;&#x2267;about 36 mN/m&#x2003;&#x2003;(III)&#x3c3;+&#x3c3;&#x2267;about 70 mN/m&#x2003;&#x2003;(IV)wherein &#x3c3;is the dynamic surface tension of the cyan ink at a lifetime of 1,000 ms and &#x3c3;is the dynamic surface tension of the blue ink at a lifetime of 1,000 ms.

The water-based ink set for ink-jet recording includes a cyan ink and a blue ink, or a cyan ink and a green ink. The cyan ink is a light cyan ink having a lightness (L*) of about 60 or more in the L*a*b* colorimetric system. A normal cyan ink having a lightness (L*) of about 60 or less in the L*a*b* calorimetric system is not included in the ink set.

A water-based ink set for ink-jet recording is provided which is capable of: reducing graininess in a low-density printed part without reducing the color reproduction range in red and magenta directions in a high-density printed part; extending the color reproduction range in the red direction; improving the vividness of the red color; and improving the light fastness and gas resistance. The water-based ink set for ink-jet recording includes a magenta dye ink and a red pigment ink. The magenta dye ink is a light magenta dye ink having a lightness (L*) of about 50 or more in the L*a*b* calorimetric system.

A water-based ink set for ink-jet recording is provided. According to this ink set, graininess in a low density printed part can be reduced without reducing a color reproduction range in red and magenta directions in a high density printed part. In addition, the color reproduction range in the red direction can be extended to improve the vividness of red color. The water-based ink set for ink-jet recording includes a magenta ink and a red ink. The magenta ink is a light magenta ink having a lightness (L*) of about 50 or more in the L*a*b* colorimetric system. Preferably, the ink set further includes a light cyan ink having a lightness (L*) of about 60 or more and a blue ink and/or a green ink.

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Narumi Kawai