Seiko Epson Corporation

Tsunenobu Endo

Hidetoshi Kodama

Sanshiro Takeshita

Taisuke Okawa

Shuichi Tamura

Shogo Kurosawa

Kan Matsuda

Tomoaki Takahashi

Narihiro Oki

Yuto Togawa

Yasuhiko Yoshihisa

Koichiro Yokoyama

Kazuma Ozaki

Atsushi Sumii

Tsuyoshi Otani

Yasuharu Harada

Masaaki Inoue

Ryo Sugimoto

The printed article includes a medium having a specular reflective layer, a first line composed of a first color formed at the medium, a second line formed at the medium in a second color and formed parallel to the first line, and a prism layer formed onto at least the first line, wherein when the medium is divided into a first region, a second region, and a third region that are continuous in parallel, the first line is disposed in any one region of the first region, the second region, and the third region, the second line is disposed in any one region other than the region where the first line was formed, the prism layer is disposed across two contiguous regions including the region formed with the first line, and the section of the prism layer has a shape of a portion of the non-circular arc approximating the ellipse.

Printing apparatus and printing method

A movement includes a first wheel which includes a wheel main body which is configured by a resin material and a metal layer which is configured by a metal material and is provided on an outer surface of the wheel main body, and a second wheel which is configured by a metal material, in which the movement transmits a drive force of an electric motor module which is driven using a battery as an electrical power source.

Movement and timepiece

A movement includes a first wheel which includes a wheel main body which is configured by a resin material and a conductive layer which is configured by a material containing a conductive polymer and is provided on an outer surface of the wheel main body, and a second wheel which is configured by a metal material, in which the movement transmits a drive force of an electric motor module which is driven using a battery as an electrical power source. It is preferable that the conductive polymer is a material selected from polythiophene, polyacetylene, polyaniline, polyparaphenylene, and polyparaphenylenevinylene which is doped with an impurity.

A train wheel unit is provided with a first wheel which is configured by a material including a conductive polymer and a carbon powder, and a second wheel which is configured by a metal material. The train wheel unit transmits a drive force of an electric motor module which is driven using a battery as an electrical power source.

A print data generating device generates print data printable by a printing device including a feeding unit which feeds continuous forms paper in a scanning direction, a line head which performs printing on the continuous forms paper, a cutting unit downstream of the line head in the scanning direction that cuts the continuous forms paper, and a direction change execution unit which executes direction change processing of changing the direction in which the print image is printed. The print direction of a print image is changed in such a way that that an area of overlap between the image arrangement area and the print area in the acceleration/deceleration zone becomes smaller when the image arrangement area and the print area in the acceleration/deceleration zone overlap with each other both in cases where the direction change processing is executed and where the direction change processing is not executed.

Print data generating device, printing device, print data generating method, and program

A print data generating device generates print data printable by a printing device including a feeding unit which feeds continuous forms paper in a scanning direction, a line head which performs print processing on the continuous forms paper fed in the scanning direction, a cutting unit downstream of the line head in the scanning direction that cuts the continuous forms paper, and a direction change execution which executes direction change processing of changing the direction in which the print image is printed by 180 degrees. The print direction of a print image is changed in such a way that an image arrangement area on the print image of the print data, and a print area where the print processing is carried out by the print head in a paper feed acceleration/deceleration zone at the time of cutting the print tape, do not overlap with each other.

A print data generating device generates print data printable by a tape printer including a feeding mechanism which feeds a print tape in a scanning direction, a print head which performs print processing on the print tape fed in the scanning direction, and a tape cutter which is arranged downstream of the print head in the scanning direction and cuts the print tape. In the print data generating device, a print direction of a print image is changed in such a way that an image arrangement area on the print image of the print data, and a print area where the print processing is carried out by the print head in a paper feed acceleration/deceleration zone at the time of cutting the print tape, do not overlap with each other.

A PC to which a print image generation device according to the invention is applied includes: an acquisition unit which acquires image data of a photographed image and image information recorded with the image data; a conversion unit which converts the acquired image information into text information; an input unit which inputs input information including a title of the photographed image; a print image generation unit which generates a print image for printing the converted text information and the inputted input information, on a print medium for label; and a print instruction unit which gives a print instruction on the print image.

Print image generation device, print system, print image generation method and program

A recording medium determining device includes a light irradiating portion that irradiates a recording medium with visible light; a regular reflection light receiving portion that receives regular reflection light regularly reflected by the recording medium irradiated with light from the light irradiating portion; a diffused reflection light receiving portion that receives diffused reflection light diffusely reflected by the recording medium irradiated with light from the light irradiating portion; and a determining portion that determines the type of recording medium on the basis of each light amount of two or more visible light components with different wavelengths to one another among the light components received by the regular reflection light receiving portion and each light amount of two or more visible light components with different wavelengths to one another among the light components received by the diffused reflection light receiving portion.

Recording medium determining device and recording medium determination method

A printing apparatus includes a position detection unit which includes an optical element, a light source and a light receiving element, radiates light from the light source toward the printing surface, causes diffused reflection light of reflection light which is reflected by the printing surface to be incident to the light receiving element through the optical element and outputs positional information relating to a position of the printing surface at which the light from the light source reflects, from the light receiving element, and a controller which causes movement of the carriage to stop when lifting up of the printing medium is detected on a basis of the positional information output from the light receiving element, in which a virtual plane which contains the optical element and the light receiving element is in a state of being inclined in relation to a normal line of the printing surface.

Printing apparatus

A recording medium determination apparatus includes a light radiation unit which radiates light toward a recording medium; a light receiving unit which receives diffuse reflection light, which is light radiated from the light radiation unit and diffuse reflected by the recording medium; a reflection portion which can reflect transmitted light, which is radiated from the light radiation unit and transmitted through the recording medium, to cause the transmitted light to be incident to the recording medium again; a switching unit which switches a reflectance state such that a reflectance of the reflection portion changes; and a determination unit which determines a thickness of the recording medium on a basis of a value of a ratio between light amounts of a plurality of the diffuse reflection lights which are reflected by the reflection portion in different reflectance states and are received by the light receiving unit.

Recording medium determination apparatus and recording medium determination method

A printing apparatus includes a print head that forms an image on a target printing surface of a printing medium by relatively moving with respect to the printing medium, an elastic wave radiation unit that radiates elastic waves, in air toward the target printing surface, a reception unit that receives the elastic waves that are radiated from the elastic wave radiation unit and reflected by the target printing surface, and a control unit which measures the time of arrival taken for elastic waves, and stops relative movement when the time of arrival is shorter than a defined time, in which the defined time is a time of arrival in which a distance from the print head to the printing medium and the distance from the elastic wave radiation unit to the printing medium to an allowable minimum distance between the print head and the printing medium.

A liquid ejecting apparatus which can reduce transportation failure, enhance device safety, and consume lower power in an apparatus including a liquid electing head, an absorbing member, an electrode, and a potential difference creating unit, by controlling the duration of a high voltage application period by controlling the voltage from the potential difference creating unit using a liquid collection control unit.

Liquid ejecting apparatus

An ink jet recording apparatus includes a recording head which discharges ultraviolet curing inks toward a recording sheet while reciprocally moving in a reciprocal movement direction M crossing a transportation direction S of the recording sheet; and an ultraviolet irradiation head which irradiates ultraviolet rays toward the ultraviolet curing inks discharged from the recording head and attached to the recorded medium. The recording head includes a going recording head and a returning recording head which are disposed at the front and the back of the reciprocal movement direction M with respect to a region in which the ultraviolet irradiation head irradiates the ultraviolet rays to the recording sheet.

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Matsumoto, Japan

Tsunenobu Endo