Seiko Epson Corporation

Tomoyuki Oi

Hiroyuki Motoyama

Junichi Arai

Toshiaki Koike

Tomoharu Kifuku

Yusuke Kato

Ayako Ohashi

Masahiro Furuya

Masakazu Ono

A recording device includes a recording head configured to perform recording on a T-shirt, a tray configured for placement of the T-shirt, the tray being configured to move in a front-rear direction including a position facing the recording head, a medium conveyance unit configured to move the tray in the front-rear direction, a reception unit configured to receive, from a host device, information related to a recording range corresponding to the tray, and a control unit. The information related to the recording range includes information about the front-rear direction, and the control unit moves, to a reference position, at least one of end positions of the recording range of the tray in the front-rear direction by controlling the medium conveyance unit, based on the information related to the recording range received by the reception unit.

Recording device, control method for recording device, and recording system

A recording device includes a recording head configured to perform recording on a T-shirt, a tray including a placing surface for placement of the T-shirt, the tray being configured to move in a front-rear direction including a position facing the recording head, an illumination mechanism configured to emit light in an illumination pattern toward the placing surface from a lower side of the placing surface, an operation panel configured to receive illumination instruction information specifying the illumination pattern, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to change the illumination pattern of the illumination mechanism, based on the illumination instruction information received by the operation panel.

Recording device having placing tray with integrated light source

A printing apparatus includes a support portion supporting a medium, a jetting unit configured to jet a pretreatment agent onto the medium supported on the support portion, a lid member to which the jetting unit is attached, the lid member being configured to cover a printing region of the medium, an ejecting unit configured to eject ink onto the printing region to which the pretreatment agent is jetted from the jetting unit, and a moving unit configured to move the support portion to a first position at which the lid member is configured to cover the printing region and a second position at which the ejecting unit is configured to eject the ink onto the printing region.

Printing apparatus, pretreatment agent injection device, and printing method

A recording device is disclosed which has a push switch and no display. A menu item is sequentially changed out of a plurality of menu items, which are arranged in a specific order, by operating the push switch. Sub-pluralities of menu items are sequentially skipped based on the continuous operation of the push switch to quickly arrive at a desired menu item, without the need to select each and every menu item in sequential order.

Recording device and control method

A printer and reprinting control method do not reprint when an error accompanied by no damage to the actual printing area or print image on paper occurs so that consumables are not wasted. The printer reprints the label on which the print image was being formed when a specific error occurs if the error occurred while the inkjet head was forming the print image in the actual printing area of the label. When the non-printing area of the label is passing the printing position of the inkjet head, the print image in the actual printing area that was printed immediately before an error occurs is reprinted only if a specific error is detected, such as a paper jam error or mechanical error with the possibility of damage to the paper or label.

Printing control method and printer for printing on a label

When the paper loaded in a printer is changed to a different type of paper, the paper setting in the printer can be easily updated without a paper mismatch error occurring. When the paper is replaced or the paper setting is changed in the printer, the coveris first opened, the roll paperis removed from the roll paper compartment, and the coveris then closed. A paper settings update command from the host deviceis received and executed when no roll paper is loaded. After the command is executed, the coveris opened, new roll paperis loaded, and the coveris closed. The printerthen indexes the newly loaded paper for printing, and executes a paper identification process to determine if the newly loaded paper matches the content of the current paper settings.

Method of setting paper in a printer, and a printer

Sounding a buzzer a plurality of times can be controlled with few commands, the processor load is reduced when sounding the buzzer, and the buzzer can be sounded at the desired timing. A printerhaving a buzzerreceives print data containing four types of data, a print configuration command A, a buzzer configuration command B, a printing control command C, and a stop printing command D, from a host device. The buzzer configuration command B is a command that sets the conditions and method of sounding the buzzer. The buzzer configuration command B sets the new page command Cas the command that triggers sounding the buzzerfrom among commands and data contained in the printing control command. When the control unitof the printerdetects the new page command Cwhile executing a print job, the control unitcauses the buzzerto sound at the specified timing in the new page process.

Control method for a printer and a printer

Printer control method for error-detection-based reprinting

An inkjet recording apparatus and ink management method determine how much ink leaks when an ink cartridge is replaced, prompts the user to replace the ink sponge with another sponge of the necessary thickness and ink absorption capacity, and thus prevents ink leakage from soiling the cartridge holder. The amount of ink leakage is detected based on the time from when the ink coveropens until the ink cartridgeis removed from the cartridge holderand manages the ink absorbed by the ink absorbing materialaccordingly.

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Matsumoto, Japan

Tomoyuki Oi