Screen Holdings Co., Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Takahiro Uda

Mitsuru Tanemoto

Yuki Tsutsui

Masaki Era

Kunio Muraji

Yoshiyuki Nishigaito

Disclosed is a printing apparatus in which web paper is transported to a printing face contact roller in a swirling form while a direction thereof is turned by first to fourth turning rollers. Heating units are arranged so as to face a printing face of the web paper between the two first and second turning rollers, between the two third and fourth turning rollers, and between the fourth turning roller and the printing face contact roller individually. Such arrangement can achieve a compact drying mechanism. The heating units each directly heat inks on the printing face, and thus do not overheat the web paper. Moreover, the heating units are not directed upward. This avoids contact of the web paper to a front side face of each of the heating units when the web paper slackens.

Printing apparatus for performing printing to an elongated print medium

When a disconnection detecting circuit detects failure, a controller of a temperature controller manipulates a duty ratio to distribute the duty ratio to normal heating rollers. Since the amount of heat decreased by failure of a heating roller can be compensated for by the other heating rollers, no defective drying will occur. It is not necessary to stop a printing process immediately when the disconnection detecting circuit detects failure, but a maintenance operation can be carried out after fully securing a preparation time for maintenance. The quick maintenance can be performed to restrain downtime of the printing apparatus.

Inkjet printing apparatus, and a control method therefor

An inkjet printing apparatus for printing on a printing medium by dispensing inks thereto. The apparatus includes a transport device; print heads for performing printing by dispensing the inks to the printing medium; and a drying section including a heat source for generating heat for drying the inks dispensed to the printing medium, and a shutter switchable between an open state and a closed state. In the open state, a drying amount of heat is applied for drying the inks dispensed to the printing medium, and in the closed state, the heat from the heat source is applied in a minute amount of heat smaller than the drying amount of heat. A controller switches the shutter to the open state when a transporting speed of the printing medium is faster than a predetermined threshold, and switches the shutter to the closed state when the transporting speed of the printing medium becomes equal to or less than the predetermined threshold.

Inkjet printing apparatus

When one of first to third power supply circuits breaks down, a change-over switch performs switching of electrical connection such that drive voltage is allowed to be supplied from normal one of the first to third power supply circuits also to one of the inkjet heads connected to the breakdown power supply circuit. Consequently, the power supply circuits are partially sharable with a plurality of inkjet heads, causing no necessity of stopping the apparatus for replacing one breakdown power supply circuit. As a result, suppression in decrease of throughput of the apparatus is obtainable.

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Kyoto, Japan

Takahiro Uda