Konica Corporation

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Komori Corporation

Toyoaki Sugaya

Shuji Kida

Takashi Tsutsumi

Fujio Miyamoto

Takashi Muramatsu

Kenichiro Hiramoto

Shinichi Suzuki

Hidenobu Ohya

Toshiyuki Mizutani

Teruyuki Fukuda

Mitsuru Obata

Masaru Nagai

Satoshi Haneda

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Toshiyuki Takabayashi

Makoto Kaga

Tomomi Yoshizawa

Hiroaki Arakawa

Michio Yagi

Akio Maeda

Satoshi Murakami

Hiroyuki Suda

Minoru Maekawara

Tetsuo Uno

Hiromichi Enomoto

Masataka Nakano

Masakazu Date

Hiroya Kimoto

Kenzo Nakanishi

Minoru Yasuda

Provided are an inkjet recording device and an inkjet recording method that enable more reliable recording of an image at a desired position of a recording medium. The inkjet recording device is provided with: a recording means that discharges ink onto a recording medium; a conveying means that performs a conveying operation in which the recording medium is placed at a predetermined placement position upon a conveying member and the conveying member is caused to move in a revolving manner; a recording control means that causes the recording means to perform a recording operation in which an image is recorded onto the recording medium, which moves as a result of the conveying operation, by discharging ink thereto in accordance with image data; and a position-correspondence-information acquiring means that acquires position correspondence information corresponding to the position of the conveying member. The recording control means causes the recording means to start the recording operation when the position of the conveying member corresponding to the position correspondence information acquired by the position-correspondence-information acquiring means matches a recording-operation start position set in advance.

Inkjet recording device and inkjet recording method

An inkjet printing apparatus includes a conveyer conveying a printing medium; an image former discharging ink on the printing medium; a mover relatively moving the image former and the conveyer; a first detector; a second detector; and a controller controlling image formation. The mover performs a first move operation to expand a distance between the image former and the printing medium and a second move operation to expose the conveying surface. Upon detection of an abnormal conveyance state of the printing medium by the first detector, the conveyer stops conveyance and the mover performs the first move operation. After stopping the conveyance and the first move operation, the controller checks for the contact of the printing medium and the image former during the second move operation based on the detection results at the second detector, and only if no contact is determined, the mover performs the second move operation.

Inkjet printing apparatus and method for controlling inkjet printing apparatus

An ink jet recording apparatus includes an ejector, a fixing unit, a reversing unit and a hardware processor. The ejector performs an ejection operation of ejecting a color material and an overcoat material onto a recording medium. The fixing unit fixes the overcoat material, thereby forming an overcoat on the medium. The reversing unit reverses the medium. The processor causes the fixing unit to form the overcoat on one side of the medium after causing the ejector to perform the ejection operation on the one side at a predetermined ejection position, causes the reversing unit to reverse the medium with the overcoat formed on the one side, and causes the fixing unit to form the overcoat on the other side of the medium after causing the ejector to perform the ejection operation on the other side at the ejection position.

Ink jet recording apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes the following. A recorder applies a colorant to a recording medium in accordance with a recording operation of a plurality of recording devices. An image-formation controller instructs the recorder to form a combined image including a plurality of normal images and a test image on the recording medium, the normal image being laid out in a recording area on the recording medium. A reader reads the images formed on the recording medium. A failure detector detects a recording operation failure of any of the recording devices based on the test image read by the reader. A determiner determines the quality of each of the normal images based on the detected result of the recording operation failure by the failure detector and positional information on the images in the combined image.

Image forming apparatus and quality determination method

Image formation device having: an image formation drum () for rotationally conveying a recording medium while holding the recording medium; a supply means () for supplying the recording medium (P) to the drum; a recording head () for forming an image on the recording medium on the drum; and a conveyance mechanism () for receiving the recording medium from the drum at a reception position (m2) on the downstream side in a conveyance direction from the recording head and distributing the recording medium to a paper discharge path or an inversion path. The conveyance mechanism returns the recording medium to the drum at a return position (m9) on the downstream side in the conveyance direction from the reception position (m2) after the front and back surfaces thereof are inverted, and a drum heating means () for heating the surface drum is provided between the reception position and the return position.

Image formation device

An inkjet recording device includes an image forming drum, a recording medium supplying section, a recording head which ejects ink onto a recording medium, a first heating unit which heats the recording medium held on the drum before image recording, a second heating unit which heats the drum downstream of the position at which the recording medium is outputted after image recording and upstream of the supplying section, a heating-unit temperature detector, a drum temperature detector, and a heating control section. The heating control section performs heat control of the first heating unit such that the temperature detected by the heating-unit temperature detector falls within a predetermined set temperature range, and performs heat control of the second heating unit such that the temperature detected by the drum temperature detector falls within a predetermined set temperature range.

Inkjet recording device

An inkjet recording apparatus including: a line head type recording head having nozzles for jetting ink to a recording medium; a moving apparatus for moving the recording head relative to the medium in a nozzle arrangement direction; a conveyance apparatus for conveying the medium reciprocally, relative to the recording head in a direction orthogonal to the nozzle arrangement direction; a head driving section for controlling the recording head so that the recording head jets ink based on inputted image information; and a control section for controlling the conveyance apparatus so that the amount of the frontward movement of the medium in an outward route is larger than the amount of the backward movement in a homeward route and for controlling the moving apparatus, when the conveyance direction is switched, so that the recording head is moved relative to the medium in the nozzle arrangement direction.

Inkjet recording apparatus

A recording method comprising the steps in the following order of: correcting a curl of a recording medium by applying heat and pressure to the recording medium; and forming an image on the recording medium by jetting ink onto the recording medium.

Ink jet recording apparatus, ink-jet recording method and ink jet recording medium

An image recording medium used for an image recording apparatus having a recording head for recording an image on the image recording medium. The image recording apparatus is provided an information recording section in which information relating to the image recording medium is recorded.

Image recording medium and image recording apparatus

The present invention concerns an image recording apparatus, which records images on a roll-type recording medium. The image recording apparatus includes a recording device to record an image on a recording medium by emitting ink onto the recording medium; a cutting member to cut the recording medium after the recording device records the image, the cutting member being disposed downstream in respect to the recording device in a conveying-direction of the recording medium; a second conveyance member to convey the recording medium, the second conveyance member being disposed at a position located between the recording device and the cutting member in the conveying-direction of the recording medium; and a conveyance controller to control the second conveyance member so as to generate a slack of the recording medium at a section between the recording device and the second conveyance member in the conveying-direction of the recording medium.

Image recording apparatus

An inkjet recording method having the steps of: ejecting ink containing pigment, water and an organic solvent onto an image receiving medium, wherein the image receiving medium has a support member having a non-solvent-permeable resin layer, and an ink image receiving layer having a solvent absorbing layer containing inorganic fine particles and a binder, and a surface portion layer containing resin fine particles, an inorganic pigment and a binder; and conducting a heating and pressing treatment onto the image receiving medium. The heating and pressing treatment satisfies conditions of following expressions:()x&#x3e;2()x&#x3c;3wherein, T represents a surface temperature (&#xb0; C.) of the heating and pressing treatment; Trepresents a glass transition temperature of the resin fine particles (&#xb0; C.); t represents a time (second) of the treatment; and Trepresents a melting temperature (&#xb0; C.) of the non-solvent-permeable resin layer.

Inkjet recording method and inkjet recording apparatus

An inkjet recording apparatus is provided with a recording head to conduct recording by jetting an ink onto a recording medium having an ink receiving layer containing thermoplastic in particles on a surface thereof and a pigment ink solvent absorbing layer adjoining to an inner side of the ink receiving layer; a heating and pressing device to heat and press the recording medium so as to make the ink receiving layer of the recording medium to be transparent; a conveyor to convey the recording medium to the recording head and further to the heating and pressing device; and a temperature controller to control a heating temperature by the heating and pressing device within a range of T &plusmn;&Dgr;T&deg; C., where T is 50 to 150&deg; C. and &Dgr;T is not larger than 10&deg; C.

Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method

An image data preservation method wherein, when converting imaged in which date information is photographed into image data, information about the date is read and preserved to be correlated with the image data, as additional information.

Method of preserving photographed images in accordance with the date of photographing

An image recording apparatus of the present invention comprises: an image processing means for compensating the color and gradation of an inputted color image; a monochromatic CRT; a display means for successively inputting color images, having a plurality of colors, into the monochromatic CRT, and for displaying a plurality of images on the monochromatic CRT as monochromatic images; an optical system for forming the monochromatic image, displayed on the monochromatic CRT, onto a color photographic paper; a plurality of color filters, which are selectively inserted between the monochromatic CRT and the color photographic paper, and convert the monochromatic image into a plurality of monochromatic color images; an exposure luminance setting means for each separation color; and an emitting luminance control means.

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Hachioji, Japan

Toyoaki Sugaya