Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Yasuhiro Nakano

Satoru Arakane

Haruka Azechi

Yuta Toda

Zenichiro Sasaki

Shin Hasegawa

Shotaro Iida

Gakuro Kanazawa

Koichi Tsugimura

Yushi Deura

Masashi Ohhashi

Taisei Okuzono

Yuki Tsujimura

Tsuyoshi Ito

Toshiro Ueda

Shunsuke Minamikawa

Jiro Yamamoto

Toshio Sugiura

Yusuke Arai

Masayoshi Hayashi

Ayaka Hotta

Keisuke Yamamoto

Toshiyuki Yamane

Naoyuki Nakamura

A printing apparatus includes an image printer, a first conveying mechanism configured to convey a printing medium in a first conveying direction, a second conveying mechanism configured to convey the printing medium in a second conveying, a cutting mechanism configured to cut the printing medium into n equal pieces, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a first conveying process of conveying the printing medium in the first conveying direction to print on a front surface of the printing medium, a second conveying process of conveying the printing medium in the second conveying direction to print on a back surface of the printing medium, an image printing process of printing the page images on the front and back surface in a page number order, and a first cutting process of cutting the printing medium on which the last page image is printed.

Printing apparatus, control method of printing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium therefor

There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a head having a nozzle; a carriage; a receiver; and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: a first flushing processing; a second flushing processing including at least one of a discharge flushing driving and a non-discharge flushing driving of driving; and a printing processing. The first flushing processing is executed in a case that a first count value is not less than a first threshold value, the first count value being an elapsed time since a completion of the first flushing processing. The second flushing processing is executed in a case that a second count value is not less than a second threshold value, the second count value being an elapsed time since a completion of the printing processing.

Liquid ejecting apparatus and controlling method for the same

An image recording apparatus includes a controller configured to control a conveyor and an image recording engine to perform borderless image recording. To perform the borderless image recording, the controller performs, when a medium length is equal to or less than a particular length, a first enlargement process to enlarge an image to a size with a first overhang area by which the enlarged image extends beyond an image recording target area, the first overhang area having an overhang width of a first value. The controller further performs, when the medium length is not equal to or less than the particular length, a second enlargement process to enlarge the image to a size with a second overhang area by which the enlarged image extends beyond the image recording target area, the second overhang area having an overhang width of a second value smaller than the first value.

Image recording apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, and method for appropriately enlarging image in borderless image recording

An image forming apparatus having a first container, a second container, an image forming device, a medium conveyer, a command acquiring device, and a controller, is provided. When a length of the medium to be conveyed is equal to or smaller than a first predetermined length, the controller controls the medium conveyer to convey the medium from the first container and the image forming device to perform an image forming operation on one of a first side and a second side of the medium, and, after the medium is accommodated in the second container in an orientation with the other of the first side and the second side to be used as the image-formable side, control the medium conveyer to convey the medium from the second container and control the image forming device to perform the image forming operation to the medium conveyed from the second container.

Image forming apparatus

A liquid ejection apparatus includes a medium container, a liquid ejection head, a mover, and a controller. The mover is configured to execute, among a first moving operation of moving a sheet-like medium and a second moving operation of moving the liquid ejection head, at least the first moving operation. The controller causes the liquid ejection head and the mover to alternately or simultaneously perform execution of the first moving operation and execution of ejection and second moving operations, and adjusts at least one selected from the group of an amount of liquid to be ejected, a time interval between the ejection operations when alternately performing execution of the first moving operation and execution of the ejection and second moving operations, and a moving speed of the medium when simultaneously executing the ejection operation and the first moving operation, according to medium information relating to curling of the medium.

Liquid ejection apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a controller that performs one or more times a first image forming process including performing image formation on a sheet medium, and conveying the sheet medium in a conveyance direction by rotating a first roller by a first number of rotations and rotating a second roller disposed downstream of the first roller in the conveyance direction by a second number of rotations smaller than the first number of rotations. When a count of times the first image forming process has been performed becomes a particular number of times, the controller performs a second image forming process including performing image formation on the sheet medium, and conveying the sheet medium by rotating the first roller by a third number of rotations smaller than the first number of rotations and rotating the second roller by the second number of rotations.

Image forming apparatus and method to adjust amount of sheet medium between upstream roller and downstream roller in conveyance direction

An image recording apparatus includes a controller to calculate n that is a maximum natural number satisfying nX≤X, where Xrepresents a width of a sheet medium, and X represents a longest one of respective lengths, in a width direction of the sheet medium, of a plurality of first images or a single second image based on image data. The plurality of first images are arranged along a longitudinal direction of the sheet medium. When the calculated n is equal to or more than two, the controller performs a juxtaposed image recording process to control a print engine in such a manner that two or more and n or less images, among the plurality of first images or among a plurality of divisional images into which the single second image is divided, are recorded to be arranged side by side along the width direction.

Image recording apparatus, image recording system, and computer-readable storage medium for reducing wasted area on sheet medium

An image forming device performs image formation on a medium selected by a computer. When a cutting device is unusable, a long sheet-type medium accommodated in a first medium container is unusable. However, a conveyance passage used for conveying a short sheet-type medium is usable in at least one of a first state where the cutting device is unusable or a second state where the sheet-type medium is unable to pass through the cutting device. A necessary condition to make both the long sheet-type medium and the short sheet-type medium selectable includes the detector detecting neither the first status nor the second status. A necessary condition to make the long sheet-type medium unselectable and make the short sheet-type medium selectable includes the detector detecting one of the first status and the second status.

Image forming system and image forming device

A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection head, a sensor, a carriage, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: setting a first sheet at a first printing position; printing an image on the first sheet while conveying the first sheet from the first printing position; determining whether an interval is more than a predetermined period; in a case where the interval is determined to be more than the predetermined period: causing the carriage to move in a first direction to a first detection position at which a second sheet is detected; and in response to detecting the second sheet, causing the carriage to move in the first direction to a first carriage position.

A liquid discharging apparatus, having a head with nozzles, a scanning assembly, a conveyer, and a controller, is provided. The controller is configured to determine whether the nozzles are to be flushed in a moving action which accompanies a discharging action, if the controller determines the nozzles are not to be flushed in the moving action, conduct the moving action to move the head at a first acceleration rate; if the controller determines the nozzles are to be flushed in the moving action, determine whether a distance between a flushing range and a discharging range is greater than or equal to a predetermined distance; and if the controller determines the distance is greater than or equal to the predetermined distance, conduct the moving action to move the head at a second acceleration rate and control the head to discharge liquid for flushing the nozzles.

Liquid discharging apparatus, method for controlling the liquid discharging apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium

A liquid discharging apparatus includes a controller configured to execute: a recording processing, a first determining processing, a pre-recording flushing processing, a first flushing processing, and a second flushing processing. In a case that the controller determines, by the first determining processing, that the recording processing is to be executed in the second mode, the controller is configured to make a first flushing interval between the pre-recording flushing processing and the first flushing processing to be longer than a second flushing interval between the first flushing processing and the second flushing processing.

Liquid discharging apparatus, controlling method for the same, and medium storing program

There is provided a liquid ejection apparatus, including: a head; a signal output circuit; a discharge mechanism; a controller; and a memory in which association information is stored. The controller is configured to: diagnose a degree of defectiveness of the head based on a signal from the signal output circuit; and receive, from a user, an input of discharge amount information. In response to the input of the discharge amount information, the controller is configured to: control the discharge mechanism to discharge a liquid by a discharge amount corresponding to the discharge amount information; and change the association in the association information based on the discharge amount corresponding to the discharge amount information and a discharge amount that corresponds to the degree of the defectiveness of the head.

Liquid ejection apparatus and system including liquid ejection apparatus

A liquid discharging apparatus includes a liquid discharging head having nozzles, a tank which stores liquid, and a controller. The controller causes the liquid discharging head to perform a discharging operation for discharging the liquid from the nozzles based on a discharging data. The discharging data includes unit discharging data indicating whether the liquid is to be discharged from the nozzles within a predetermined time period. In the discharging operation, a) if a discharge amount based on the unit discharging data is less than a threshold value, the liquid discharging head performs a first discharging operation during the predetermined time period, and b) if the discharge amount based on the unit discharging data is equal to or more than the threshold value, the liquid discharging head performs a second discharging operation during another time period longer than the predetermined time period.

Liquid discharging apparatus

A liquid droplet discharging apparatus includes: a discharging head having: a liquid channel including a nozzle; and an energy applying part which applies, to liquid inside the liquid channel, discharge energy for discharging a liquid droplet from the nozzle; a signal outputting circuit which outputs signals depending on whether the nozzle satisfies a predetermined discharging performance; and a controller. The controller determines whether the nozzle satisfies the predetermined discharging performance, and estimates viscosity of the liquid inside the discharging head based on: viscosity estimation data in which discharge energy information and viscosity information are associated with each other, and a result of the determination performed in a case that the controller controls the energy applying part based on the discharge energy information and that the discharge energy is thereby applied to the liquid inside the liquid channel.

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Yasuhiro Nakano