Seiko Epson Corporation

Satoru Katagami

Hisashi Aruga

Hiroshi Kiguchi

Tomomi Kawase

Tatsuya Ito

Masaharu Shimizu

Tsutomu Sasaki

Yuichi Washio

Keiji Takizawa

Hiroshi Toyama

Manabu Suzuki

Toshihiro Ushiyama

Sadaharu Komori

Kazutoshi Fujishima

Kazuyoshi Tanase

Yoshiaki Yamada

Takeshi Ito

Tsuyoshi Kitahara

Shinichi Nakamura

Jun Yamada

Natsuo Fujimori

Kunio Maruyama

Tadaaki Kuno

Takahiro Imai

Kazutoshi Fujisawa

Kazuaki Sakurada

Kei Hiruma

Kazumi Aruga

Kentaro Miyazaki

Toru Igarashi

Motoharu Habata

Kazuya Tajima

Atsushi Fukuda

Akihiro Toya

Takuya Miyakawa

Takeshi Miyashita

Yoshiaki Mori

Yoshihiro Otagiri

Hirotaka Ishizuka

Takahiro Kobayashi

Katsuhiro Takahashi

Hiroyuki Santo

Hirofumi Kobayashi

Hideyuki Nagasawa

A drying unit includes a housing and a first contact heating unit. The first contact heating unit is provided inside the housing. The first contact heating unit includes a first contact heating surface configured to come into contact with a back surface of a medium after printing. The first contact heating unit can change posture from first posture to second posture, in a state where a first engagement portion engages with a first guide portion of a first support portion and a second engagement portion engages with a second guide portion of a second support portion, by a movement from a first position where the first contact heating surface faces the back surface of the medium after printing to a second position where the first contact heating surface is more separated from the back surface of the medium after printing as compared to the first position.

Printing apparatus

A printing deviceincludes a setting sectionthat sets a roll-shaped print medium P, a winding sectionthat winds up the print medium P, a print headthat forms an image by ejecting ink onto an image forming surface Pof the print medium P, and a drying oventhat is disposed downstream of the print headin the transport direction and that is for drying ink that was ejected onto the print medium P, wherein the drying ovenincludes a heating sectionfor heating the print medium P and the heating sectionis configured such that the heating temperature at the inlet side of the drying ovenin the transport direction A is higher than the heating temperature at the outlet side of the drying ovenin the transport direction.

Printing device

A drying unit includes a first contact heating unit provided inside a housing, and a second contact heating unit provided downstream in a transport direction from the first contact heating unit inside the housing. The first contact heating unit includes a first contact heating surface configured to come into contact with a back surface of a medium after printing. The second contact heating unit includes a second contact heating surface configured to come into contact with the back surface of the medium after printing. The first contact heating surface is curved to have a shape protruding in a direction opposite to the second contact heating surface, and the second contact heating surface is curved to have a shape protruding in a direction opposite to the first contact heating surface. The first contact heating surface has a radius of curvature larger than that of the second contact heating surface.

A recording device includes a transport unit configured to alternately repeat transport and stop of a recording medium, a recording head configured to discharge ink onto the recording medium to form an image while the recording medium is stopped in an image forming region, a drying unit including a plate in which a plurality of openings for blowing an air flow are formed in a position facing the recording medium transported by the transport unit, and being configured to dry the recording medium on which an image is formed by the recording head, and a relative movement unit configured to move the recording medium and the plate relatively in an intersecting direction that intersects a facing direction in which the recording medium and the plate face each other, while the recording medium is stopped in the image forming region.

Recording device and method for drying recording medium

A printing apparatus includes a support portion configured to support a part of a printing medium to be transported, a heating portion configured to heat the part of the printing medium supported by the support portion, and a curved portion disposed upstream of the support portion in a transport path of the printing medium and including a curved surface that curves the transport path. The curved portion is formed of a member having a lower thermal conductivity than the support portion. In addition, the temperature of the curved portion is lower than the temperature of the support portion.

A printing apparatus including a set section on which a printing medium is set, a winding unit configured to wind, the printing medium transported from the set section, a head configured to discharge an ink onto an image forming surface of the printing medium being transported, thereby forming an image, and a drying chamber formed downstream of the head in a transport direction and downward of the head, the drying chamber being configured to dry the ink discharged to the printing medium, wherein the drying chamber is provided with an endless belt made of metal and configured to transport the printing medium while being in contact with an image non-forming surface on an opposite side of the printing medium from the image forming surface, and a plurality of rollers over which the endless belt is stretched, the plurality of rollers being configured to cause the endless belt to rotate.

A printing apparatus includes a printing portion that performs printing on a printing medium, a heating portion that heats the printing medium, which is performed downstream of the printing portion in transport of the printing medium, and a controller. The heating portion is disposed in a position facing a back surface, on which the printing is performed. The controller executes first control for putting the heating portion in a first state in which the heating portion is in contact with the back surface during a transport stop period, in which transport of the printing medium is stopped, and executes second control for putting the heating portion in a second state in which the heating portion contacts the back surface at a lower degree than in the first state during a transport period, in which the transport of the printing medium is performed.

Printing apparatus and printing method

A printing apparatus includes a drying unit, and has, a first mode in which a temperature of the drying unit is decreased by performing a control of electric connection to a heater of the drying unit or a temperature control of the heater after starting the maintenance work, and the temperature of the drying unit is increased by performing the control of electric connection to the heater or the temperature control of the heater after the maintenance work, and a second mode in which the temperature of the drying unit is decreased by performing the control of electric connection to the heater or the temperature control of the heater after the starting of the maintenance work, and the temperature of the drying unit is increased by performing the control of electric connection to the heater or the temperature control of the heater during the maintenance work.

Printing apparatus and printing method of printing apparatus

A printing apparatus includes a recording section including a plurality of ink heads configured to discharge, ink, a first reaction solution head, and a second reaction solution head configured to discharge the reaction solution, a driving section configured to drive the recording section, and a controller configured to execute causing the driving section to move the recording section in a first direction, causing the plurality of ink heads to discharge the ink, and causing the first reaction solution head and the second reaction solution head to discharge the reaction solution. The plurality of ink heads are arranged in the first direction. The first reaction solution head is located downstream in the first direction of an ink head located most downstream in the first direction. The second reaction solution head is located between two ink heads located adjacent to each other in the first direction.

A printing apparatus includes a drying unit that includes a bring-in port where a medium is brought in and a bring-out port where the medium is brought out, and dries ink applied onto the medium, and in a case in which printing is temporarily stopped and a predetermined maintenance work is performed, the medium is transported in a transporting direction which is a direction toward the bring-out port from the bring-in port in a maintenance work period from starting of the maintenance work to finishing of the maintenance work or in a partial period of the maintenance work period.

Transporting medium through drying unit during printing interruption

An image forming apparatus includes a reaction liquid application portion that applies reaction liquid to a recording medium, an ink application portion that applies ink which includes a color material that is coagulated using the reaction liquid onto the recording medium onto which the reaction liquid is applied, and a control portion that adjusts an amount per unit area of the reaction liquid that is applied to the recording medium from the reaction liquid application portion according to infiltration into the recording medium.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

There is provided a printing apparatus including: a driving roller which drives a recording medium in a predetermined direction by rotation thereof; a supporting member which supports the recording medium further on the downstream side in the predetermined direction than the driving roller; a discharge head which is provided to oppose the supporting member and discharges liquid to the recording medium supported by the supporting member; a tension control portion which adjusts tension of the recording medium supported by the supporting member by controlling tension of the recording medium based on a result of detecting tension of the recording medium further on the downstream side in the predetermined direction than the driving roller; and a first destaticizing portion which destaticizes the recording medium further on the upstream side in the predetermined direction than the driving roller.

A printing apparatus includes a reaction liquid application portion that applies dots of reaction liquid onto a recording medium by applying the reaction liquid to pixels in a pixel array in which rasters in which a plurality of pixels are lined up in a first direction are lined up in a second direction which is orthogonal to the first direction and an ink application portion that applies ink dots to the recording medium by applying ink which includes a color material that is coagulated using an action of the reaction liquid to the pixels of the pixel array, in which the reaction liquid application portion applies the reaction liquid dots by being separated by one pixel or more in the first direction and the second direction.

A liquid ejecting apparatus which includes a carriage including an ejecting unit which ejects liquid onto a medium, and can move in a reciprocating direction, in which the carriage includes catching units which catch mist which occurs along with ejecting of the liquid from the ejecting unit on at least one side of the ejecting unit in the reciprocating direction, and the catching units include a fan which moves the mist from the catching units by generating an air current.

Liquid ejecting apparatus

A liquid ejecting apparatus which includes an ejecting unit which ejects liquid, and a collecting unit which collects mist which occurs along with ejecting of the liquid from the ejecting unit from a collecting port, in which the collecting unit includes a backflow prevention unit in the collecting port. By adopting such a liquid ejecting apparatus, it is possible to suppress backflow of mist of the liquid from the collecting unit which collects mist of the liquid which occurs along with ejecting of liquid from the ejecting unit.

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Hara-mura, Japan

Satoru Katagami