Roland Dg Corporation

Takayoshi Oguri

Masanori Ishihara

Hironori Watanabe

Hironobu Suzuki

Yoshitaka Hatano

Bunji Shinomiya

Sachie Muroga

Takuro Kamiya

Shunsuke Kawai

A damper apparatus includes a damper casing that is movable together with an ink head capable of discharging an ink from a nozzle and includes at least one reservoir chamber capable of reserving therein the ink to be supplied to the ink head and an opening in communication with the reservoir chamber, a damper film to close the opening and being elastically deformable in accordance with a reserved amount of the ink in the reservoir chamber, and at least one pressure detector detachably attached to an external surface of the damper casing to directly detect internal pressure of the reservoir chamber and generate a detection signal.

Damper apparatus

An inkjet printer cleaning system includes an inkjet printer and a cleaning unit. The inkjet printer includes an ink head and a table that faces the ink head and on which a substrate is to be placed. The cleaning unit includes an attachment attachable to and removable from the table, and a cleaner that faces the ink head upon attaching of the attachment to the table.

Inkjet head cleaning unit and cleaning system

A printer includes a platen on which a recording medium is placed, an ink head movable in a main scanning direction and able to eject ink onto the recording medium, a cover disposed above and to at least a side of the platen and including an opening located downstream of the ink head in a subscanning direction, a front cover attached to the cover and able to open and close the opening, and an air blower disposed on the front cover.

Ink jet printer

An ink cartridge of an inkjet printer includes a support holding an ink container so that a longitudinal direction of a main body of the ink container extends along a sub-scanning direction of the inkjet printer, and supporting a portion of the main body that is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a thickness direction of the main body such that the main body is supported horizontally. A central portion of the support is lower in height than a left portion and a right portion thereof with respect to a main scanning direction of the inkjet printer.

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Takayoshi Oguri