Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yoko Ishii

Kenji Sato

Hirokazu Ikenoue

Satoshi Kitaoka

Hideaki Nishimura

Yoshiaki Hoshino

Yohsuke Konishi

An embroidery system includes a coloring device to color a thread. The embroidery system includes an embroidery device to perform embroidery of an embroidery design and underlay stitching. The embroidery device uses the thread colored by the coloring device for at least one of the embroidery of the embroidery design or the underlay stitching. The embroidery system includes circuitry to: create data of the embroidery design and the underlay stitching according to embroidery image data; create color data for coloring the thread to be used for coloring the at least one of the embroidery of the embroidery design or the underlay stitching; acquire roughness data representing roughness impression of the embroidery image data; and change an embroidery density of the embroidery design according to the roughness data.

Embroidery system

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium by discharging liquid droplets onto the medium; and a media heater to heat the medium by contacting a rear surface of the medium opposite a surface of the medium on which the image is formed, in which the media heater includes a contact member with a contact surface having a predetermined curvature that the medium contacts, the contact member is a roller member, and the medium closely contacts the contact surface of the contact member across an entire width of the medium in a direction perpendicular to the media conveyance direction.

Image forming apparatus and drying device for image forming apparatus

A color adjustment determination method is provided that includes forming a color adjustment image on a recording medium by moving a plurality of heads including a plurality of nozzles relative to the recording medium in a relative moving direction and ejecting liquid from the plurality of heads that are arranged in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the relative moving direction, acquiring colorimetric values of a plurality of portions of the color adjustment image formed by the plurality of heads that are arranged at different positions in the orthogonal direction, calculating a color difference between at least two portions of the plurality of portions of the color adjustment image based on the colorimetric values of the plurality of portions, and determining whether at least one of the plurality of heads that have ejected the liquid requires adjustment based on the calculated color difference.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoko Ishii