Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Furuno Electric Company Limited

Satoru Arakane

Tsuyoshi Ito

Shota Morikawa

Masashi Kuno

Kenji Kawamoto

Masao Mimoto

Shin Hasegawa

Shoji Sato

Yasuhiro Nakano

Hirotoshi Maehira

Shotaro Iida

Yoshiharu Furuhata

Yuki Matsui

Yasuo Ono

Kenta Horade

Tomohiro Nodsu

Haruka Azechi

Koichi Tsugimura

Yusuke Arai

Shohei Ichikawa

Masashi Ohhashi

Tsuyoshi Kuwayama

Tomoya Kondo

Eisuke Takahashi

Masayoshi Hayashi

Yuka Hattori

Tony Lee

Masahiro Hoga

Keisuke Yamamoto

Takashi Suzuki

Hajime Inada

Yuta Arakawa

Yasunobu Asada

Ayaka Hotta

Satoshi Misonoo

Taichiro Kimoto

Itsuo Fukuoka

Mitsuhiro Inouchi

Shoko Ota

Masaru Nishida

Naoyuki Nakamura

Shinji Ogawa

Atsushi Yamada

Shota Iida

A controller acquires ejection control data, the ejection control data being generated based on image data for one line of an image to be formed, the ejection control data including first data and second data, the first data indicating an amount of liquid ejected from a first nozzle in a first nozzle array, the second data indicating an amount of liquid ejected from a second nozzle in a second nozzle array; stores the acquired ejection control data in a memory; and performs an ejection operation of, while moving a carriage once, controlling a head to eject liquid from the first nozzle based on the first data and to eject liquid from the second nozzle based on the second data. The memory stores the ejection control data of an amount that is smaller than or equal to an amount required for performing the ejection operation twice.

Liquid ejection apparatus, liquid ejection system, and storage medium storing program

A non-transitory computer readable medium recorded with a program for controlling an external apparatus which has a memory and which is configured to communicate with a liquid ejecting apparatus is provided. The program allows a computer to acquire nozzle information from the liquid ejecting apparatus so that the nozzle information is stored in the memory. The program allows the computer to execute the nozzle information acquiring process at a first timing if the nozzle information, which is stored in the memory, fulfills a first condition, or the program allows the computer to execute the nozzle information acquiring process at a second timing having a frequency lower than that of the first timing if the nozzle information, which is stored in the memory, fulfills a second condition.

Non-transitory computer readable medium recorded with program for controlling external apparatus configured to communicate with liquid ejecting apparatus

There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a head having a nozzle; a carriage; a receiver; and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: a first flushing processing; a second flushing processing including at least one of a discharge flushing driving and a non-discharge flushing driving of driving; and a printing processing. The first flushing processing is executed in a case that a first count value is not less than a first threshold value, the first count value being an elapsed time since a completion of the first flushing processing. The second flushing processing is executed in a case that a second count value is not less than a second threshold value, the second count value being an elapsed time since a completion of the printing processing.

Liquid ejecting apparatus and controlling method for the same

An image recording apparatus includes a controller configured to control a conveyor and an image recording engine to perform borderless image recording. To perform the borderless image recording, the controller performs, when a medium length is equal to or less than a particular length, a first enlargement process to enlarge an image to a size with a first overhang area by which the enlarged image extends beyond an image recording target area, the first overhang area having an overhang width of a first value. The controller further performs, when the medium length is not equal to or less than the particular length, a second enlargement process to enlarge the image to a size with a second overhang area by which the enlarged image extends beyond the image recording target area, the second overhang area having an overhang width of a second value smaller than the first value.

Image recording apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, and method for appropriately enlarging image in borderless image recording

An image forming apparatus having a first container, a second container, an image forming device, a medium conveyer, a command acquiring device, and a controller, is provided. When a length of the medium to be conveyed is equal to or smaller than a first predetermined length, the controller controls the medium conveyer to convey the medium from the first container and the image forming device to perform an image forming operation on one of a first side and a second side of the medium, and, after the medium is accommodated in the second container in an orientation with the other of the first side and the second side to be used as the image-formable side, control the medium conveyer to convey the medium from the second container and control the image forming device to perform the image forming operation to the medium conveyed from the second container.

Image forming apparatus

A recording apparatus includes: a recording unit configured to perform recording of an image on a recording medium by using recording material; and a controller configured to execute a recording control regarding the recording. The controller is configured to execute an adjustment processing for adjusting an amount of the recording material to be used in the recording, and the controller is configured to change a processing other than the adjustment processing in the recording control between a case that the adjustment processing is executed and a case that no adjustment processing is executed.

Recording apparatus changing processing depending on an adjustment to an amount of recording material to be used

A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a channel unit having a nozzle and an individual channel; an actuator applying pressure to liquid in the individual channel to discharge the liquid from the nozzle; a driving circuit electrically connected to the actuator and supplying driving signal to the actuator; and a controller. In a case of determining that a single-sided recording is to be executed, the controller supplies the driving signal corresponding to each of gradation values for each of pixels when discharging the liquid toward one of a first surface and a second surface of a recording medium; in a case of determining that the double-sided recording is to be executed, the controller supplies the driving signal corresponding to each of the gradation values for each of the pixels when discharging the liquid toward the first surface and when discharging the liquid toward the second surface.

Liquid discharging apparatus, controlling method for liquid discharging apparatus and medium storing controlling program for liquid discharging apparatus

In a control system, a controller is configured to determine presence or absence of an obstructed area within the intermediate section, and control movement of the moving body in accordance with a selected one of controlling methods including a first and a second control methods. The first control method causes the moving body to move at a first constant speed in the processing section defined within the intermediate section and at a second constant speed faster than the first constant speed in at least a part of a non-processing section within the intermediate section and other than the processing section, the first control method being selected when the obstructed area is absent. The second control method causes the moving body to move at the first constant speed in the processing section and the non-processing section, the second control method being selected when the obstructed area is present.

Control system

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejection head including a plurality of nozzles communicating with a pressure chamber and an actuator configured to apply pressure on liquid stored in the pressure chamber, a carriage, a storage storing information relating to a first timing when a non-ejecting flashing operation is started, and a controller. The actuator applies pressure on the liquid in the pressure chamber in the non-ejecting flashing operation so as to vibrate, without ejecting, the liquid in the plurality of nozzles of the ejection head, while the carriage is decreased in speed so as to be stopped. The controller is configured to select, based on status information, one of the first timing and a second timing, and start the non-ejecting-flashing operation at the selected timing while the carriage is decreased in speed so as to be stopped.

Liquid ejecting apparatus, liquid ejecting method and non-transitory storage medium storing instructions executable by the liquid ejecting apparatus

An image forming device performs image formation on a medium selected by a computer. When a cutting device is unusable, a long sheet-type medium accommodated in a first medium container is unusable. However, a conveyance passage used for conveying a short sheet-type medium is usable in at least one of a first state where the cutting device is unusable or a second state where the sheet-type medium is unable to pass through the cutting device. A necessary condition to make both the long sheet-type medium and the short sheet-type medium selectable includes the detector detecting neither the first status nor the second status. A necessary condition to make the long sheet-type medium unselectable and make the short sheet-type medium selectable includes the detector detecting one of the first status and the second status.

Image forming system and image forming device

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejection head, a carriage, a conveyor and a controller configured to, when it is determined that the state of the ejection is in a first state, execute a first printing process and, when it is determined that the state of the ejection is in a second state, execute a second printing process. In the first printing process, (i) a previous pass-printing is performed, (ii) the printed medium is conveyed by a first distance after the previous pass-printing, and (iii) a succeeding pass-printing is performed after the conveyance of the printed medium. In the second printing process, (i) the previous pass-printing is performed, (ii) the printed medium is conveyed by a second distance larger than the first distance after the previous pass-printing, and (iii) the succeeding pass-printing is performed after the conveyance of the printed medium, in the interlaced-printing.

A controller includes a print controller configured to cause the print execution engine to convey the print medium in a conveying direction and execute a plurality of partial printings. The print controller causes the print execution engine to execute first and second partial printings. On a print medium, first and second target ranges on which printing is to be performed by the first and second partial printings, respectively, form an overlapping range. The first and second target ranges include first and second non-overlapping ranges, respectively, that do not overlap the second and first target ranges, respectively. The print controller generates print data based on non-overlapping range data and overlapping range data. The generating the print data includes increasing a density of at least a portion of the image to be printed in the overlapping range as compared with a density of the images to be printed in the non-overlapping ranges.

Controller, printer, and computer-readable storage medium

A control system is configured such that a carriage that a processing head is mounted is driven by a motor and reciprocates. The motor is controlled by a controller. The controller reciprocates the carriage by selecting a control mode as a target mode based on temperature information related to temperature of the motor and controlling the motor in the target mode. The controller selects the target mode to be applied to the control of the motor for each of particular work units. The target mode is selected from a group of particular control modes. Each control mode in the group of particular control modes is a control mode in which a maximum temperature, which is estimated based on the temperature information, when the control of the motor using the selected control mode would be executed until the processing is completed, is less than a reference value.

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a head, a conveyer having a roller arranged at the downstream of the head according to a conveyance direction, and a controller. The controller is configured to carry out: a recording process, a first determining process to determine whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed since the recording process, a conveying process to convey a medium in if the first determining process determines that the predetermined time has elapsed, and a setting process to set a predetermined time based on a discharge amount of a liquid from a plurality of nozzles onto a recording area and a conveyance time for the conveyer to convey the medium from the recording area to the roller, before the first determining process.

Liquid discharge apparatus

A liquid discharging apparatus includes: a head having a plurality of nozzles; and a controller. The controller executes: a discharging processing of discharging liquid, from each of the nozzles toward a recording medium, in a liquid droplet amount which is selected for each of pixels from at least three kinds of liquid droplet amounts; and a total discharge amount calculating processing of calculating a total discharge amount of the liquid to be discharged from the nozzles in the discharging processing, based on the liquid droplet amount selected for each of the pixels and a discharge duty which is density of the liquid droplet per a unit area of the recording medium.

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Nagoya, Japan

Satoru Arakane