Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Shotaro Ueda

Naohiro Toda

Yasunobu Takagi

Isamu Kubo

Kenichi Taguma

Tetsuto Ueda

Shingo Masaoka

Yoshimi Nemoto

Ryoh Yokoyama

An object of the present disclosure is to provide a liquid discharge apparatus capable of sucking liquid in a cap member while suppressing generation of bubbles by a suction assisting member detachable from a cap member. A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head () to discharge liquid from a plurality of nozzles, and a suction mechanism () to suck the liquid from the liquid discharge head (). The suction mechanism () includes a cap member () to contact the liquid discharge head () and cover the plurality of nozzles while forming a space between the cap member () and the liquid discharge head (), a suction pump () connected to the cap member () via a suction hole () formed in a surface of the cap member () to reduce pressure in the space, a suction assisting member () to cover the suction hole () and the surface in which the suction hole () is formed in the cap member (), the suction assisting member () including a surface that forms a suction path between the suction assisting member () and the cap member (), and a first support () to provide a gap (c) between the surface that forms the suction path of the suction assisting member () and the surface in which the suction hole () is formed.

Liquid discharge apparatus and suction apparatus

A liquid discharging apparatus includes a tension applying unit configured to apply a predetermined tension capable of stretching an object, to the object; and a liquid discharging unit configured to discharge liquid on the object that is stretched by the predetermined tension applied by the tension applying unit to form a an original image or a corrected image of the original image on the object, the corrected image being corrected by a degree of stretching of a predetermined image when the object on which the predetermined image is formed is stretched by applying the predetermined tension to the object.

Liquid discharging apparatus, image processing apparatus and liquid discharging system

A liquid discharging device detects, among a plurality of nozzles of a liquid discharging head, a normal-discharging nozzle and a false-discharging nozzle, selects whether to recover discharging performance of the false-discharging nozzle by a cleaner or to compensate deterioration in an image caused by the false-discharging nozzle by a compensator using the normal-discharging nozzle according to the detected number of consecutive false-discharging nozzles, and performs operation according to the selection.

Liquid discharging device, control apparatus for liquid discharging device, and method of controlling liquid discharging device

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Shotaro Ueda