Roland Dg Corporation

Tadashi Kawashima

Takeshi Tozuka

Shinya Yamamoto

Teppei Sawada

Yusuke Takano

Yuichi Kitagawa

Yasuhiko Kobayashi

Takefumi Endo

A cutting apparatus includes a first motor to move a carriage, a second motor to cause a cutter to approach a work material, and a controller configured or programmed to control the first motor and the second motor. The controller includes a load detector to detect a load of the first motor, a storage storing a first relationship between the load of the first motor and a supply signal to the second motor, and a cutting pressure controller configured or programmed to control a cutting pressure applied from the cutter to the work material based on the first relationship and the load of the first motor detected by the load detector.

Cutting apparatus

In an ink supply system, a main ink tank and an ink head are connected together via a main supply channel. A sub-ink tank is connected to the main supply channel via a sub-supply channel. An upstream-side valve is provided on an upstream-side portion of the main supply channel. During standby, a first standby setting processor of a controller sets a first standby state in which a first upstream-side valve is open, and a second standby setting processor sets a second standby state in which the first upstream-side valve is closed. A standby state determination processor determines whether or not the amount of time elapsed from when a setting operation was done by the first standby setting processor or the second standby setting processor is greater than or equal to a first amount of time. The standby state switching processor switches between the first standby state and the second standby state when it is determined that the elapsed time is greater than or equal to the first amount of time.

Ink supply system and inkjet printer

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Tadashi Kawashima