Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110187792 | PRINTER-PLOTTER APPARATUS - To improve printing speed and cutting speed. | 08-04-2011 |
20110304868 | INKJET PRINTER, INKJET HEAD, AND PRINTING METHOD - To appropriately suppress an impact of an air resistance encountered by ink droplets discharged from nozzles of an inkjet head. | 12-15-2011 |
20110310179 | INKJET PRINTER, INKJET HEAD, AND PRINTING METHOD - To suitably use a metallic ink or a pearl-colored ink in an inkjet printer. Furthermore, to suitably use an ink containing a large-sized pigment in the inkjet printer. | 12-22-2011 |
20110310204 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - To provide a printing method that enhances bonding between a colored-ink layer and an overprint layer, flatten a surface of the overprint layer, and make it possible to print glossy images or decorative colors when performing overprinting on a colored ink print using an inkjet printer. | 12-22-2011 |
20120147074 | DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE AND DROPLET DISCHARGE METHOD - A printer comprises: a vacuum table for supporting a jig which holds a medium; a printer head for discharging droplets; and a relative movement means for moving the printer head relative to the medium; a registration mark detection unit and barcode detection unit for acquiring holding platform information and support position information for the jig; and a controller for controlling the movement of the printer head by the relative movement means and controlling the discharge of droplets from the printer head on the basis of the holding platform information, the support position information and information pertaining to the desired pattern. As a result of this configuration, it is possible to generate image data without aligning the jig with a reference position on the vacuum table. | 06-14-2012 |
20120147109 | INKJET PRINTER AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - Disclosed is a printing method whereby a glossy image free of running can be printed by an inkjet printer. An inkjet head ( | 06-14-2012 |
20120236328 | PRINT DATA CREATING DEVICE, PRINT DATA CREATING METHOD AND PRINT DATA CREATING PROGRAM - A printer data generating device which is a raster image processor is provided. The raster image processor (RIP) includes, a dot displaced quantity detecting section detecting a displaced quantity of a hitting position of ink, a contour detecting section detecting one pixel corresponding to the contour, a dot size setting section setting a dot size of each pixel to be larger than a resolution pitch based on the displaced quantity detected in the dot displaced quantity detecting section and the pixel corresponding to the contour detected in the contour detecting section. | 09-20-2012 |
20120249640 | INKJET PRINTER, PRINTING METHOD, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINT DELIVERABLE, AND PRINT DELIVERABLE - (Problem to be Solved) | 10-04-2012 |
20120262525 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing method and a printing system are provided in which a fast printing speed is achieved, a variety of ultraviolet curable inks can be used, and excellent transfer properties to a printing object can be achieved. First, print processing is performed, thereby printing an image on a transfer pad, next, provisional curing processing is performed, thereby provisionally curing an ultraviolet curable ink applied to the transfer pad, next, transfer processing is performed, thereby transferring the ultraviolet curable ink landed on the transfer pad to a printing object, and next, final curing processing is performed, thereby performing final curing of the ultraviolet curable ink transferred to the printing object. In this way, transfer printing of an image to the printing object can be performed by a single transfer. In addition, if the transfer printing is finished, cleaning processing is performed, thereby cleaning the transfer pad. | 10-18-2012 |
20120262526 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - The effect of air resistance acting on ink drops discharged from nozzles of an ink-jet head is appropriately controlled, for example, by means of a method suitable for a breathable medium, such as a cloth and the like. In this way, for example, high-resolution printing, printing with a great gap distance, and the like is properly implemented. | 10-18-2012 |
20120306975 | DAMPER APPARATUS, DAMPER TUBE ASSEMBLY, AND INK JET PRINTER - The invention provides a damper apparatus including a housing having a valve chamber and reciprocally moving integrally with a carriage, an inlet port communicating an ink flow channel on the upstream side and the valve chamber, an outlet port communicating the ink flow channel on the downstream side and the valve chamber, and a spherical valve body stored so as to be movable in the valve chamber, wherein the valve body moves relatively to a position for closing the inlet port or the outlet port upon reception of the inertial force in association with the acceleration and deceleration to close the ink flow channel when the carriage is accelerated or decelerated, and the valve body moves relatively to a position for opening the inlet port and the outlet port under its own weight to open the ink flow channel when the carriage is not accelerated and decelerated. | 12-06-2012 |
20130100216 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - The object of the present invention is to form, quickly and at low cost, a high-quality image on a medium formed with a curved surface. | 04-25-2013 |
20140125746 | TRANSFER PRINTING INK AND TRANSFER PRINTING METHOD - Provided are a transfer printing ink and a transfer printing method which are advantageous in that an increased number of types of transfer media can be employed. The transfer printing ink of the present invention contains a solvent, a sublimation dye, and a binder resin, wherein the binder resin is dispersed, emulsified, or suspended in the solvent, and the binder resin has a melting point which is higher than the lowest temperature at which the sublimation dye sublimates. | 05-08-2014 |
20140347421 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND INK SET - The present disclosure provides ways to more appropriately perform high-quality printing with gradation inks. The disclosure provides a printing apparatus for printing using an inkjet scheme. The apparatus includes a plurality of inkjet heads that eject ink droplets of a first-color ink of at least one color selected from a plurality of colors. The plurality of inkjet heads respectively eject ink droplets of different concentrations of the first-color ink (magenta or cyan). At least one of the plurality of inkjet heads ejects ink droplets of a resin dispersed ink, and the resin dispersed ink is a ink in which dispersing particles of a colored binder resin as a dispersoid is dispersed in a dispersion medium. | 11-27-2014 |
20140347423 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - To appropriately perform textile printing by an ink jet method on a media of fabric. A printing apparatus for performing printing of a design represented by a preset target color on a medium of fabric by an ink jet method includes a plurality of the ink jet heads, each of the ink jet heads discharges an ink droplet of each of target color inks which is adjusted to present its corresponding target color on the medium. The printing apparatus performs printing of a design represented by a plurality of the target colors that are different from each other on the medium. Each of the ink jet heads discharges an ink droplet of each of target color inks which is adjusted to present its corresponding target color on the medium. | 11-27-2014 |
20140349031 | COLORED ALUMINUM ARTICLE PRODUCING METHOD, COLORING METHOD, AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - This invention is to appropriately color aluminum materials. A method for producing a colored aluminum article by coloring an aluminum material includes: a mask forming step S | 11-27-2014 |
20140354744 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - The invention provides ways of appropriately performing image transfer printing. A printing apparatus for performing image transfer printing is provided that includes: a transfer belt provided as a transfer image forming member on which a transfer image is created; an inkjet head that creates the transfer image on the transfer belt; a counter heater provided as a heating member that heats the transfer belt; a transfer roller provided as a transfer member that transfers the transfer image to a medium; and a strong UV irradiator provided as an image fixing unit that fixes to the medium the image transferred to the medium. The inkjet head ejects ink droplets of an ink containing a solvent that is removed by heating with the counter heater. The ink has a viscosity of 50 mPa·sec or more after the solvent is removed by heating with the counter heater. | 12-04-2014 |
20150022601 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording apparatus is provided and includes: a carriage on which a recording head for discharging ink droplets onto the recording medium is mounted and that moves relative to the recording medium; a platen that supports the recording medium at a predetermined position; and heating means for heating the recording medium, in which heating means includes a platen heater that is mounted on the platen and heats the recording medium from a lower side of the recording medium, a carriage heater that is mounted on the carriage and heats the recording medium from an upper side of the recording medium, and an upper heater that is disposed on a downstream side of the carriage in a moving direction of the recording medium and heats the recording medium from the upper side of the recording medium. | 01-22-2015 |
20150029255 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an ink jet recording apparatus that prints an image onto a recording medium using an ink which is composed of an aqueous ink vehicle containing latex as a binder resin. The ink jet recording apparatus includes a carriage on which a recording head for discharging ink droplets onto the recording medium is mounted and that moves relative to the recording medium, in which an infrared heater that is disposed opposite to the recording medium and heats the recording medium is mounted on the carriage, and the infrared heater is disposed to be distant from the recording head in a moving direction (X direction) of the recording medium. | 01-29-2015 |
20150035919 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING DEVICE - The invention is intended to produce a high-quality print image in a simple fashion. As a solution, there is provided a printing method for transferring an applied ink on a transfer medium | 02-05-2015 |
20150042711 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDING APPARATUS - The present invention addresses the problem of improving the quality of recorded images in ink jet recording technologies in which a plurality of nozzle lines that discharge ink of the same color are used. As a solution, nozzle lines ( | 02-12-2015 |