Abstract:
A method of printing within a circular area of a media includes positioning a printhead including at least one column of nozzles above the circular area of the media, including orienting the at least one column of nozzles substantially perpendicular to a radius of the circular area extended below the printhead, rotating the media relative to the printhead, and printing at least one arcuate print pattern within the circular area of the media with the printhead while rotating the media.
Abstract:
A method for facilitating printing includes the steps of providing to a consumer a first printer containing a fixed amount of imaging substance; receiving back from the consumer the first printer after a substantial portion of the imaging substance has been used; and exchanging the first printer with an exchange printer.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are methods for applying crystalline materials to a substrate by applying a cation and an anion and crystallizing at least a portion of the reaction product of the cation and the anion. The application of at least one of the cation or the anion is actively controlled such that it is applied in a patternwise or blanketwise fashion.
Abstract:
A transfer belt (10) has a two-layer structure consisting of two inner belts (31) formed of metal, such as stainless steel, and an outer belt (32) formed of an elastic material, such as silicone rubber, being spread across the inner belts (31). The inner belts (31) are endless and wound around transfer rollers (12), while the outer belt (32) has its ends which are not joined with each other and form an opening (20) therebetween. Distortion of the outer belt (32) due to stress is designed to be suppressed by using a reinforcing member around the opening (20).
Abstract:
To enable selective use of a sheet path for sheet inversion and a substantially linear sheet path for a recording medium of a high rigidity, thereby enabling to pass a recording medium of a large thickness or a high rigidity in a simple configuration without an increase in the dimension of the apparatus and in an attached state of a sheet inversion unit. A first sheet path extending from a 21 sheet conveying roller through a sheet inversion unit 2 and returning to the sheet conveying roller, and a second sheet path 131 extending substantially linearly at an upstream side of the sheet conveying roller are provided, a part of the first sheet path and the second sheet path is formed by a common sheet path, and a movable flap 104 for switching the sheet paths is provided in the shared sheet path.
Abstract:
An ink jet recording apparatus comprises: an ink jet type of a recording head in which ink jet openings for jetting a photo curing ink are arranged so as to face a recording medium; a light source which is set so as to be opposite to a face of the recording medium to which ink is jetted, and which irradiates a light for curing the ink after the ink is jetted; a light intensity measuring section for measuring a light intensity of the light irradiated from the light source; a temperature measuring section for measuring an ambient temperature of the light intensity measuring section; and a light source control section for correcting a measured light intensity of the light source in accordance with measurement results from the light intensity measuring section and the temperature measuring section.
Abstract:
A gray ink for ink-jet printing, comprising an ink vehicle; and at least one black dye selected from the group consisting of pacified Reactive Black 31, Formula I, and Direct Blue 199 TMA; and at least one yellow dye selected from the group consisting of AY23, Y104 and Y1189. Magenta and cyan dyes can also be used with the black and yellow dyes in the gray ink.
Abstract:
An ink jet ink set and recording element combination comprising: A) a porous ink jet recording element having a 60null specular gloss of at least about 5; and B) a pigment based ink jet ink set comprising at least two inks; wherein the RGD value is less than 40% when 60null is used as the specular angle and the RGD value is calculated according to Equation (A): 1 RGD null null null % = null null null I = 1 N null null Gloss null ( Imaged null null null Areas ) I - Gloss null ( Non null null null Imaged null null null Areas ) null null I = 1 N null Gloss null ( Imaged null null null Areas ) I Equation null null null ( A ) Where I is a variable which identifies a certain color patch used in the evaluation, N is the total number of color patches used in the evaluation.
Abstract:
An apparatus for forming an alignment layer of a liquid crystal display device includes: an alignment material dropping unit with a head having a plurality of holes for dropping an alignment material on the substrate; an alignment material supply unit to supply the alignment material to the alignment material dropping unit; a scan unit to survey alignment material dropping from the head; and a monitor to display an image base upon scan data from the scan unit so that the discharge state of the plurality of holes in the head can be checked.
Abstract:
A sheet feed table has a plurality of ribs formed on a surface thereof. The ribs extend in a sheet feeding direction and are disposed at a predetermined interval in a direction perpendicular to the sheet feeding direction. An air duct is provided between the adjacent ribs. An ink passage opening is formed in an image forming region where a print head moves to form an image. Disposed below the ink passage opening is an ink receiving chamber in which an ink absorber is disposed. A suction opening that communicates with the air duct is disposed upstream and downstream of the image forming region in the sheet feeding direction. A suction device is connected such that the air is sucked through the suction openings into a negative pressure chamber provided on an underside of the sheet feed table. The negative pressure chamber and the ink receiving chamber are separated from each other.