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20080204535 | INK JET PRINTER - An ink jet printer comprising a transporting device that is capable of transporting a print medium with a predetermined width in a first direction, an ink jet head that is capable of ejecting ink drops onto the print medium to execute a printing process, and a drying device that is capable of drying a portion of the printed print medium with a width that is smaller than the width of the print medium that extends from one end of the print medium to a second end of the print medium in the first direction. | 08-28-2008 |
20080204536 | Ink jet recording apparatus - In an ink jet recording apparatus for performing printing with active ray curing type ink, when there is an attempt to prevent ink curing in a nozzle portion at a time of printing on a thick rigid medium, no-margin printing on the rigid medium is impossible. To an outside of a region of a rigid medium | 08-28-2008 |
20080204537 | Ink-jet printer device and ink-jet printing method - An ink-jet printer device equalizes a surface temperature of a print medium on the platen. In an ink-jet printer device which includes a platen having heater blocks, and a carriage having non-contact type temperature sensors each measure a surface temperature of each of a plurality of portions of the print medium on the platen. A CPU calculates an output value of each of the heater blocks for making the surface temperature of each of the plurality of portions of the print medium uniform based on the measured surface temperature, and a heater drive PWM circuit controls an output of each of the heater blocks based on the calculated output value. | 08-28-2008 |
20080204538 | PRINTING ON CORRUGATED SUBSTRATES - Methods and devices for forming, such as by printing, high quality, high throughput, ultraviolet curable gel ink images on corrugated substrates for packaging applications are disclosed. The methods and devices have excellent edge acuity and do not require precoating of the substrate prior to printing or nitrogen inerting during curing. | 08-28-2008 |
20080211893 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - A light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting body, a thermally conductive member, and a heat radiation member. The substrate has a first face and a second face which is a face opposite to the first face. The light emitting body is held on a side of the first face of the substrate and emits light. The thermally conductive member is provided so as to be in contact with the second face of the substrate and contains a high thermal conductive material. The heat radiation member is provided so as to be in contact with the thermally conductive member and radiates heat conducted from the substrate through the thermally conductive member. | 09-04-2008 |
20080225099 | Photo-curable Ink-jet Ink Compositions, Systems, And Methods - The present invention is drawn to photo-curable ink-jet ink compositions, systems, and methods. One exemplary ink-jet ink composition includes a liquid vehicle, a milled pigment which has been milled in a milling solvent having minimal to no gas solvency for the milled pigment, and a photo initiator. In this embodiment, the composition can be ink-jettable at frequencies of at least 29 KHz without requiring degassing during printing. | 09-18-2008 |
20080225100 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a support drum which rotates while supporting a recording medium on a support surface thereof. A guide shaft of the recording apparatus is spaced apart from the support surface by a predetermined distance and extends in parallel to a direction perpendicular to a rotation direction of the support drum. A carriage which is guided by the guide shaft is reciprocally moved along the support surface. A recording head mounted on the carriage ejects an ultraviolet curing ink toward the recording medium. An ultraviolet ray irradiation unit irradiates ultraviolet rays to the ultraviolet curing inks which are ejected from the recording head. In operation, the carriage is moved along the guide shaft so as to form an image formed by the ultraviolet curing ink and a coat ink over the overall surface of the recording medium supported by the support drum. | 09-18-2008 |
20080225101 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a support drum that rotates while supporting a recording medium on a support surface thereof. A guide axis extends in parallel with a rotation axis of the support drum along the support surface. A carriage that is guided by the guide axis moves back and forth along the support surface. A recording head for ejecting ultraviolet curing type ink toward a recording medium is supported on the support surface. The recording head has head units and is mounted on the carriage. Each head unit ejects a different type of ultraviolet curing type ink to a different position along an extending direction of the guide axis. An ultraviolet emission unit of the recording apparatus includes ultraviolet light sources that generate ultraviolet light having at least an intensity, wavelength, or emission time that is different from those of the other ultraviolet light sources. | 09-18-2008 |
20080239043 | ACTIVE-ENERGY RAY CURABLE INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An active-energy ray curable ink-jet recording apparatus includes: an active-energy ray irradiation source; a plurality of full-line ink-jet heads which eject a liquid functional material that is curable by an active-energy ray, onto a recording medium which is scanned and transported; and a head controller for controlling the heads to form an image on the recording medium, wherein the full-line ink-jet heads include: a head arrangement having adjacent combinations of at least one set of colors in a complementary relationship; and active-energy ray irradiation sources which are placed respectively for each of the combinations on downstream sides of the combinations in the scanning transporting direction. | 10-02-2008 |
20080239044 | UV CURABLE INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - A UV curable ink-jet recording apparatus includes: a recording medium transporting unit; an ink-jet head; and a UV irradiating unit, wherein the apparatus includes a light capturing portion between the UV irradiating unit and the ink-jet head, at least a part of the light capturing portion as seen in a longitudinal section taken vertically along a direction of transporting the recording medium has an opened wedge shape having no base side and comprising: a side vertical to the recording medium; and an oblique side which is in contact with a top of the vertical side, and which extends obliquely downward, the vertical side is located on the side of the ink-jet head, and the oblique side downward extends from the top toward the UV irradiating unit. | 10-02-2008 |
20080239045 | INK SET FOR INKJET RECORDING AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An ink set for inkjet recording is provided that includes at least a colored liquid comprising at least a radically polymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, and a colorant and an undercoat liquid comprising at least a radically polymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, the undercoat liquid comprising a sensitizer represented by Formula (I) below. | 10-02-2008 |
20080252709 | WATER-BASED HEAT FIXING INK AND HEAT FIXING INKJET RECORDING METHOD - A water-based heat fixing ink comprising at least the following 4 compounds, a: pigment; b: water-soluble resin comprising a copolymer, in which a monomer having a carboxyl group and monomer having a hydrophobic group are polymerized, and the resin is dissolved by neutralization with an amine; c: an organic solvent satisfying following Equation (1) which is represented by a hydrogen bonding term and a polar term of a solubility parameter; and d: water; wherein b is contained in an amount of 0.5-7.0 weight % as a free polymer in a water-based heat fixing ink, | 10-16-2008 |
20080273072 | APPARATUS FOR FORMING A THIN FILM USING AN INKJET PRINTING METHOD - In an apparatus of forming a thin film, the apparatus has a printing chamber that forms a thin film on a substrate. The apparatus has at least two drying chambers that receive the substrate on which the thin film is formed and dry the thin film on the substrate. The two drying chambers may be independently controlled. Accordingly, the apparatus may reduce process time for forming the thin film without contamination of the substrate. | 11-06-2008 |
20080278560 | Inkjet recording apparatus - An inkjet recording apparatus | 11-13-2008 |
20080309746 | PRINTING SYSTEM WITH A DATA CAPTURE DEVICE - Provided is a printing system for producing wallpaper. The printing system includes a frame, a cabinet on the frame, the cabinet configured to receive replaceable ink reservoirs and cartridges of blank wallpaper, and a pagewidth printhead arranged on the frame for printing images on the blank wallpaper. Also included are pilot guides for guiding the blank wallpaper fed from the cartridges via a media path defined in the cabinet past the pagewidth printhead to facilitate printing, and a dryer module configured to dry the printed wallpaper. The system further has a cutter module for cutting the printed wallpaper before the printed wallpaper is fed into a container which stores the wallpaper in a roll, and a data capture device configured to capture the identity of an identifier carried by a print sample. The printhead is configured, subsequent to the capture of the identity of the print sample, to print the pattern which corresponds to the print sample. | 12-18-2008 |
20090021569 | INK JET PRINTER - An ink jet head of an ink jet printer comprises an ink jet nozzle ejecting ultraviolet curing ink, a pair of ultraviolet LEDs provided on both sides of the ink jet nozzle in the moving direction for emitting ultraviolet light in order to cure the ultraviolet curing ink. | 01-22-2009 |
20090027472 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS, INK-JET COPIER AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A containing member contains a recording medium which has a base member and granular material coated on both sides of the base member, and roughness of the surfaces of the coated granular material is smaller than the roughness of the base member. A printing unit includes an ink-jet recording head which jets recording liquid onto the recording medium. A conveyance unit and a conveyance path convey the recording medium, one side of which has been already printed, into the printing unit again in order to print image onto the other side thereof. A unit is provided for enabling the printing unit to print image on the recording medium such that the vertical orientations of the images printed both sides of the recording medium are coincide with each other. | 01-29-2009 |
20090033730 | PRINTING METHOD, PRINTING APAPRATUS, AND PRINTED DOCUMENT - The present invention relates to a printing method, a printing apparatus, and a printed document by which an ink offset can be prevented while securing a sufficient adhesion force of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. Ink is applied so that, when ink applied to a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet cures, a convex section of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer exposed out of the curried ink, thereby printing an image. | 02-05-2009 |
20090033731 | INKJET PRINTER - In an inkjet printer in which upstream and downstream output rollers engageable against their respective counter parts are disposed upstream and downstream, respectively, of a drying unit for drying printing paper after being printed, the upstream output roller is disengaged from its counter part after the disengagement between the downstream output roller and its counter part. | 02-05-2009 |
20090040284 | METHOD FOR INKJET PRINTING WITH LIGHT-CURABLE INK - A method for inscribing a substrate with an inkjet printer using a light-curing ink. The method includes traversing, by the carriage, to the first end position at a first travel speed. The light-curing ink is sprayed-on along an inscription row onto the substrate using the print head during the traversing to the first end position. The sprayed-on ink is irradiated, for curing, using the illumination head during the traversing to the first end position. The carriage is traversed from the first end position to the second end position along the inscription row at a second travel speed, the second travel speed being lower than the first travel speed. The print head is inactive during the traversing to the second end position. The sprayed-on ink is irradiated using the illumination head during the traversing to the second end position. The substrate is then advanced using the transport apparatus. | 02-12-2009 |
20090046134 | Phase change ink compositions - A phase change ink composition comprising (a) at least one curable monomer or prepolymer, (b) at least one gellant, (c) at least one hyperbranched polymer comprising at least one photoinitiating moiety, (d) a colorant, (e) optionally, a reactive oligomer; and (f) optionally, at least one low molecular weight photo initiator. | 02-19-2009 |
20090046135 | Printer - In a printer, an image is formed by discharging a light curing type ink from a recording head on a recording medium and irradiating light from a light emission unit so as to harden the ink. The printer comprises a short arc type discharge lamp in which a pair of electrodes is provided in an electric discharge container so as to face each other a reflector which is provided so as to surround the discharge lamp, which has a concave face which reflect light from the discharge lamp wherein the pair of the electrodes are arranged so that a straight line formed by connecting the pair of electrodes, extends along an optical axis of the reflector, and wherein mercury of 0.08-0.30 mg/mm | 02-19-2009 |
20090066771 | INK JET RECORDING HEAD UNIT AND PRODUCTION PROCESS THEREOF - In an ink jet recording head unit, on a surface of an ejection outlet surface of an ink jet recording head, a tape is applied so that a portion at the tape with a relatively high adhesiveness corresponds to an area of the ejection outlet surface with a relatively high hydrophobicity and a portion of the tape with a relatively low adhesiveness corresponds to an area of the ejection outlet surface with a relatively low hydrophobicity. | 03-12-2009 |
20090066772 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - To reduce ink bleeding and growing of dot diameters for high image quality, an ink jet recording apparatus for recording a color image includes a first head group including chromatic color ink recording heads, a second head group including at least one of a transparent ink recording head and an achromatic color ink recording head, and light emitting devices for curing a photocurable ink having landed on a recording medium. The first and the second head groups are disposed along a scanning direction. The chromatic color ink recording heads of the first head group do not have the light emitting device therebetween along the scanning direction. And the light emitting device is arranged along the scanning direction between the first and second head groups and further arranged at least on a trailing side, in the scanning direction, of a trailing one of the first and second head groups. | 03-12-2009 |
20090079807 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MATERIAL - A recording apparatus includes an intermediate transfer member, a supply unit that supplies onto the intermediate transfer member a curable solution containing a cationic curable material that is cured by a cationic curing reaction upon application of an external stimulus, a discharge unit that discharges an ink containing a recording substance to a layer to be cured that has been formed by the curable solution supplied onto the intermediate transfer member, a transfer unit that transfers, from the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium, the layer to be cured to which the ink is discharged, and a stimulus supply unit that supplies a stimulus that cures the layer to be cured. | 03-26-2009 |
20090085997 | INKJET PRINTER - In an inkjet printer configured so that dry air in a drying unit is blown out to a conveyance unit, the conveyance unit conveys one or more pieces of paper laid thereon in a direction substantially orthogonal to a direction of paper output and a collecting unit downstream of the conveyance unit in the direction of paper conveyance collects the pieces of paper and conveys the collected pieces of paper in a direction substantially orthogonal to the direction of paper conveyance of the conveyance unit. | 04-02-2009 |
20090085998 | INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - The inkjet recording device has the feed mechanism for feeding the paper sheet in the feed direction, the inkjet head for ejecting the droplets towards the paper sheet conveyed by the feed mechanism, the dry section for drying the droplets attached on the paper sheet by landing, and the control mechanism for predicting the amount of heat necessary for drying the droplets based on either one of the paper sheet information of the paper sheet and the recording information to be recorded on the paper sheet to control the temperature of the dry section. | 04-02-2009 |
20090085999 | COATER AND INK-JET RECORDING DEVICE USING THE SAME - The coater includes a liquid holding vessel holding a functional liquid, a coating roll having a surface, a part of which is immersed in the functional liquid in the liquid holding vessel, the coating roll having recesses for retaining the functional liquid, a coating roll rotating device rotating the coating roll, a liquid flow generator which flows a region of the functional liquid held in the liquid holding vessel where the functional liquid contacts the coating roll, in a direction opposite to a rotational direction of a portion of the coating roll which is immersed in the functional liquid within the liquid holding vessel, and a transport device transporting an object coated with the functional liquid upon contact with the coating roll. The coater is capable of uniformly coating a highly viscous functional liquid at a high speed. | 04-02-2009 |
20090086000 | INK-JET RECORDING DEVICE - The ink-jet recording device includes an image forming section where an active energy ray-curable ink is ejected onto a recording medium to form an image, and an image curing section which includes at least one light irradiation unit having a fluorescent lamp and which cures the ink on the recording medium upon exposure to active energy rays. The fluorescent lamp has a bulb, a reflective film formed on a bulb inner wall and having a first aperture formed on a recording medium side, and a phosphor film formed on the reflective film and the bulb inner wall and having a second aperture formed on the recording medium side. The formulas: β<α, 60°≦α≦150° and 30°≦β≦90° where α represents a first aperture angle of the first aperture and β represents a second aperture angle of the second aperture are satisfied. | 04-02-2009 |
20090109269 | PRINTER WITH PRINT HEAD PLATEN - A wet ink printer uses a heated printhead. A platen guides and supports the print medium during printing, and has a plurality of raised ribs. In an example, the ribs extend on the base generally along the advance direction of the print media. Each rib comprises a discontinuous series of rib portions, and wherein between each adjacent pair of ribs is provided a spacing to allow deformation of the print medium towards the platen base. | 04-30-2009 |
20090115827 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND 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. | 05-07-2009 |
20090115828 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to an ink jet recording apparatus having an ultraviolet irradiation head having a discharge tube. Solving means include a recording head that reciprocates along the surface of recording paper and discharges ultraviolet curable ink toward the recording paper, a discharge tube that moves together with the recording head and outputs ultraviolet light, and a movable plane reflecting mirror that switches between two light paths through which ultraviolet light from the discharge tube is applied in front of and behind the recording head in the reciprocation direction M. The discharge tube may include an elliptic reflecting mirror that converges output ultraviolet light toward the surface of the recording paper. | 05-07-2009 |
20090122126 | Web flow path - An apparatus and method relating to a web flow path between print heads and a dryer are disclosed. | 05-14-2009 |
20090135238 | Ultraviolet Ray Curable Ink-jet Ink, Ink-jet Recording Method and Ink-jet Recording Apparatus - An ultraviolet ray curable ink-jet ink comprising at least a mono-functional monomer, a bi-functional monomer, and a photo-polymerization initiator,
| 05-28-2009 |
20090135239 | UNDERSIDE CURING OF RADIATION CURABLE INKS - An ink printing device is disclosed that incorporates a curing lamp located on the opposite side of a printed face of a printed substrate and partially cures a radiation curable ink by irradiating through the substrate. Additionally, this disclosure provides a method for partially curing radiation curable inks by exposing a radiation curable ink on a substrate to a curing lamp located opposite the printed face of the substrate. | 05-28-2009 |
20090153634 | PRINTING PROCESS - The invention relates to an ink jet printing process which comprises the steps of i) applying a radiation-curable primer to a substrate to form a layer of primer, ii) ink jet printing a radiation-curable ink onto the primer layer, and iii) curing the primer and the ink, wherein the viscosity of the primer increases rapidly after application to the substrate. | 06-18-2009 |
20090160923 | CONCENTRATED ENERGY SOURCE - Apparatus for curing a substance. The apparatus includes a diode for emitting electromagnetic energy at a frequency selected to cure the substance and a culminator positioned to receive at least a portion of the electromagnet energy emitted by the diode. The culminator is selected to concentrate and intensify the received energy and to direct the energy toward an area of the substance. The area has a length and a width less than the length. | 06-25-2009 |
20090160924 | CONTACTLESS INK LEVELING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method of leveling ink that is printed on a substrate includes establishing a thermal gradient across a thickness of the substrate, the thermal gradient characterized in that it is less than a viscosity threshold temperature of the ink across most of the substrate. | 06-25-2009 |
20090160925 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HEATING RECORDING MEDIUM - A recording apparatus is provided which includes recording means for ejecting liquid so that the liquid is recorded on a recording medium; transporting means for transporting the recording means relative to the recording medium; microwave irradiation means for irradiating microwaves to the recording medium; microwave reception means for receiving the microwaves reflected from the recording medium; and microwave irradiation control means for determining a dryness level of the recording medium based on a reception level of the microwave reception means and controlling an irradiation dose or an irradiation intensity of the microwaves irradiated by the microwave irradiation means in accordance with the dryness level. | 06-25-2009 |
20090189965 | FLUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS - A fluid discharging apparatus includes: nozzles configured to discharge fluid to a medium; a rotating member having a holding area configured to hold the medium and a non-holding area formed with an opening on a peripheral surface thereof and configured to rotate with the peripheral surface opposed to the nozzles; and a collecting mechanism configured to collect the fluid which does not adhere to the medium, the collecting mechanism including a suction unit configured to suck the fluid through the opening into the rotating member and a storage unit configured to store the fluid sucked into the rotating member. | 07-30-2009 |
20090195627 | Printing Method for Printing Press and Printing Press - There are provided a printing method for a printing press that includes: printing an image on a sheet of paper fed using an ultraviolet curable paint; and irradiating the ultraviolet curable paint on the printed sheet fed by selectively causing a plurality of light emitting diodes disposed at predetermined intervals across a lateral direction of the sheet to turn on in accordance with the location and size of a predetermined area of the sheet, thereby irradiating the predetermined area with ultraviolet light therefrom and curing the predetermined area. | 08-06-2009 |
20090207223 | PRINTING OR COATING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An inkjet printing apparatus for printing on a substrate comprises a first support, which is a substrate support, and a second support which supports at least one inkjet printing head, at least one UV source of ultraviolet radiation, and at least one gas dispenser. The second support is moveable relative to a substrate supported by the first support. The printing head deposits ink on the substrate and the UV source cures the deposited ink. The gas dispenser is arranged to provide a layer of gas, which is at least depleted of oxygen, between the UV source and the substrate. | 08-20-2009 |
20090207224 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A printing apparatus for printing on a substrate comprises a first support for the substrate and a second support moveable relative to the first support. The second support supports an inkjet print head and at least one plasma source. The print head and plasma source move with the support to apply plasma to the substrate and to deposit ink on the substrate treated with the plasma. | 08-20-2009 |
20090207225 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD OF RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes: a supporting member that has a supporting surface for supporting a target to which a liquid is ejected; a heating apparatus that heats the supporting member; a transport unit that transports the target from an upstream side of the supporting member to a downstream side while sliding the target on the supporting surface; and a recording unit that, when a direction in which the target supported on the supporting surface is transported is a main scanning direction, repeatedly performs a moving operation in the main scanning direction in which the liquid is ejected to a recording area of the target to perform recording and a moving operation in a sub-scanning direction in which no liquid is ejected, thereby performing recording on the recording area of the target. | 08-20-2009 |
20090213200 | PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device includes a liquid spraying head unit and a light radiation head unit. The liquid spraying head unit is configured and arranged to spray a photo-curable liquid to a printing medium. The light radiation head unit is configured and arranged to radiate curing light rays to the photo-curable liquid on the printing medium to cause the photo-curable liquid to be cured. The light radiation head unit includes a light emitting body and a reflector. The light emitting body is arranged on a light source arrangement surface extending non-parallel to the printing medium. The reflector is configured and arranged to reflect the curing light ray emitted from the light emitting body toward the photo-curable liquid sprayed on the printing medium. The reflector is arranged on a reflector arrangement surface facing the light source arrangement surface and extending non-parallel to the printing medium. | 08-27-2009 |
20090219369 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording apparatus includes an ink jet head in which a plurality of nozzles are arranged, a sub-scan driving unit which carries a recording medium to be formed with an image, a first carrying unit which is disposed on a downstream side of a carrying direction of the recording medium by the sub-scan driving unit and carries the recording medium on which an image is formed by the ink jet head, and a second carrying unit which is disposed so as to face the first carrying unit and heats the recording medium interposed between the first carrying unit and the second carrying unit. | 09-03-2009 |
20090231404 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - Clogging of an ink-jetting opening is more reliably prevented, by inkjet recording apparatus | 09-17-2009 |
20090231405 | APPLICATION APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An application apparatus has: a supply device which supplies a liquid in which a treatment agent having a prescribed function is dissolved; an application device which applies the liquid supplied from the supply device, onto a medium; and a condensing device which condenses the liquid supplied to the application device from the supply device during a period until the liquid is applied to the medium. | 09-17-2009 |
20090237478 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING TEMPERATURE OF TRANSPORT BELT OF RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a transport belt that transports a target, a record head that performs recording by adhering liquid to the target that is loaded on the transport belt so as to be transported, a heating unit that heats the transport belt so as to accelerate drying the liquid that is recorded on the target by the record head, and a cooling unit that forcedly cools a portion of the transport belt that is heated by the heating unit in a position located in the middle in moving the portion of the transport belt to a position corresponding to the record head. | 09-24-2009 |
20090244229 | Color-filter manufacturing method and color-filter manufacturing apparatus - A color-filter manufacturing method includes a first step in which an ink jet method is used to eject liquid inks which contain color components to form a land pattern made up of lands of light transmitting materials and a second step in which after drying of the thus ejected liquid inks, the ink jet method is used to eject a liquid ink which contains a light blocking material and the ink is allowed to permeate into a clearance between the lands, thereby forming a black matrix pattern. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244230 | ULTRAVIOLET CURING INKJET PRINTER, PRINTING METHOD USED IN ULTRAVIOLET CURING INKJET PRINTER, AND HEAD - An ultraviolet curing inkjet printer includes a first ejecting device, a first ultraviolet light irradiation device, and a second ultraviolet light irradiation device. The first ultraviolet light irradiation device is configured to emit ultraviolet light of a first light quantity for temporarily curing the ultraviolet curable inks ejected from the first ejecting device. The first ultraviolet light irradiation device is disposed posterior to the first ejecting device in a first direction as a scanning direction. The second ultraviolet light irradiation device is configured to emit ultraviolet light of a second light quantity for finally curing the ultraviolet curable inks temporarily cured by the first ultraviolet light irradiation device. The second ultraviolet light irradiation device is disposed anterior to the first ejecting device in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the first direction and is a moving direction of a recording medium relative to the first ejecting device. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244231 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer includes: a printing part including a print head for ejecting ink to paper to print an image on the paper; a drying part including a heater for drying the ink adhering to the paper printed by the print head; and an agitator for agitating the air in the space in the printing part during a warm-up operation involving raising the temperature of the heater. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244232 | PRINTING APPARATUS, TARGET TRANSPORT DEVICE, AND TARGET TRANSPORT METHOD - A target transport device includes a transport belt that transports a target from an upstream side to a downstream side, a support member that supports the target transported by the transport belt over the transport belt, a heating unit that heats the support member, and a heat applying unit that applies heat from the heating unit to the support member so that a difference in temperature occurs on a surface of the supporting member supporting the target in a transport direction of the target. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244233 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording apparatus includes an ink jet head on which a plurality of nozzles are arranged, a sub-scan driving unit which carries a recording medium on which an image is formed, a first carrying unit which is disposed on a downstream side of a carrying direction of the recording medium by the sub-scan driving unit and carries the recording medium on which an image is formed by the ink jet head, a second carrying unit which is disposed on a downstream side of the first carrying unit along a carrying direction of the recording medium, and a heating unit which is disposed between the first carrying unit and the second carrying unit. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244234 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording apparatus is provided which includes: a recording unit that performs a recording operation on a target by causing liquid to adhere onto the target; a drying unit that performs a drying operation on the target on which the liquid is adhered by the recording operation of the recording unit in a state where a restricting force is not substantially applied thereto; and a restricting unit that performs a restricting operation on the target which has been subjected to the drying operation by the drying unit while supporting the target on a supporting face of a support member capable of supporting a surface of the target having the liquid adhered thereon in a uniform planar state, the restricting operation applying a restricting force to the target, the restricting force being directed toward the supporting face. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244235 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium by using an ink and a treatment liquid. The ink contains coloring material, and the treatment liquid contains a component which causes the coloring material to aggregate. The image forming apparatus includes: a treatment liquid deposition device which deposits the treatment liquid onto the recording medium; an ink droplet ejection device which ejects and deposits droplets of the ink onto the recording medium; a plurality of heat fixing devices which perform fixing process of the image formed on the recording medium by removing stepwise a solvent component contained in the image, the heat fixing devices being arranged sequentially in a conveyance direction of the recording medium; and a fixing control device which controls the fixing process with the heat fixing devices so as to satisfy the following condition: if W | 10-01-2009 |
20090244236 | INK JET PRINTER AND METHOD OF INK JET PRINTING - An ink jet printer prints an image by ejecting ink on recording medium. Information of an ink volume of the ink for application to the recording medium, for example, dot number, is specified. A first dryer dries the recording medium before forming the image. A memory stores a data table of a relationship between the ink volume and a drive condition of the dryer. A drive condition determiner determines a drive condition of the dryer from the ink volume according to the data table read from the memory. A CPU controls the dryer in the drive condition determined by the drive condition determiner. Preferably, the drive condition determiner, if the ink volume is lower than a first tolerable amount causing occurrence of cockle on the recording medium, disables the dryer. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244237 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - The inkjet recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording surface of a recording medium, includes: an inkjet head which ejects an ink; a first drum-shaped member for printing which has a first drum circumferential surface opposing the inkjet head, and holds and rotationally conveys the recording medium in such a manner that the ink is deposited onto the recording medium by using the inkjet head; and a second drum-shaped member for drying which is disposed downstream of the first drum-shaped member, has a second drum circumferential surface opposing a drying device which dries a solvent of the ink, and holds and rotationally conveys the recording medium. | 10-01-2009 |
20090244238 | PRINTING SYSTEM FOR CURED 3D STRUCTURES - A printing system is provided having a plurality of printers, a conveyor for serially conveying a print medium past each printer so that voxels printed by the successive printer form successive layers of a three dimensional printed structure on the conveyed print medium, and a plurality of curing mechanisms between the printing devices for curing the printed voxels. | 10-01-2009 |
20090251520 | ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION DEVICE AND INK EJECTION DEVICE - An ultraviolet irradiation device includes: a light source which irradiates ultraviolet curable ink with ultraviolet rays; and a jetting port which jets gas to form a gas film facing the light source in an irradiation direction. | 10-08-2009 |
20090284574 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording device has a recording head equipped with a nozzle for ejecting photocuring ink to a recording medium and also has light irradiation devices equipped with light sources for irradiating the photocuring ink deposited on the recording medium with light. The light irradiation devices can apply light to each block region in irradiation region on the recording medium divided into block regions and can bring the divided block region into an irradiation state or a non-irradiation state on a region by region basis. Further, in recording operation, on and off of the light sources are switched over by time sharing such that at least one of the block regions is in the non-irradiation state. | 11-19-2009 |
20090290007 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording method including: (i) exposing a surface of a recording medium to non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma so as to hydrophilize the surface of the recording medium, and (ii) applying a stimulus to an ink composition so as to eject the ink composition to form an image on the recording medium, wherein the ink composition contains at least one of a pigment/water-dispersible resin particle mixture in which a pigment is dispersed along with water-dispersible resin particles and colored water-dispersible resin particles each of which is a water-dispersible resin particle which is colored. | 11-26-2009 |
20090295894 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - The inkjet recording apparatus includes: a conveyance device which conveys a recording medium; a drying air flow spraying device which sprays a drying air flow onto the recording medium while the recording medium is conveyed by the conveyance device; a negative pressure suctioning device which opposes the drying air flow spraying device, and suctions a rear surface of the recording medium and suctions at least a portion of the drying air flow sprayed by the drying air flow spraying device while the recording medium is conveyed by the conveyance device; and an inkjet head which ejects ink to be deposited on the recording medium. | 12-03-2009 |
20090315963 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING DRYING CONDITION FOR PRINT IMAGE - The present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus that can substantially prevent possible variation in the color of an image on a print medium discharged from an ink jet printing apparatus. A drying condition is determined under which the color of the image varies until the color of the image becomes a target one having a color difference ΔE of at most 3 from a stable color with substantially no temporal variation. The image is dried according to the drying condition. The print medium is then discharged from the printing apparatus. This enables variation in the color of the image on the print medium discharged from the printing apparatus to be prevented from exceeding 3 in terms of color difference ΔE. As a result, a user can be prevented from perceiving variation in color. | 12-24-2009 |
20090322843 | INKJET PRINTER AND INK DRYER - An inkjet printer includes a plurality of guide walls and a plurality of choke portions. Each of the plurality of guide walls is arranged substantially in parallel with a feeding direction of a medium to provide a guide wall clearance between the plurality of guide walls. The wave guide has a first internal space connected to the guide wall clearance and an electromagnetic-wave supplier and configured to apply the electromagnetic wave to the medium which is introduced into the first internal space. Each of the plurality of choke portions includes a second internal space adjacent to each guide wall and an opening from the second internal space to the guide wall clearance. The second internal space is connected to the first internal space via the guide wall clearance. The second internal space has a length of λ/4 relative to wavelength λ of the electromagnetic wave in the feeding direction. | 12-31-2009 |
20100002063 | Printing System Having Duplex Dryer - A printing system is provided having a printer, a feed mechanism for feeding media to the printer for printing, and a dryer for drying the printed media. The printer has opposed printheads for respectively printing on first and second opposed faces of the media. The dryer has a transport mechanism for transporting the printed media from the printer past a first blower for blowing heated air onto the first face of the printed media and a second blower for blowing heated air onto the second face of the printed media. The first and second blowers are selectively operable for selectively drying the first face, the second face or both faces of the printed media during transportation. | 01-07-2010 |
20100026771 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD, INKJET RECORDING SYSTEM, AND PRINTED MATERIAL - An inkjet recording method is provided that includes a step of discharging onto a recording medium an ink composition containing a vinyl ether compound, an oxirane compound and/or oxetane compound, a cationic photopolymerization initiator, and a colorant, and a step of curing the discharged ink composition by irradiation with UV rays by UV irradiation means having an aperture type hot cathode fluorescent tube having a getter in the interior thereof. There are also provided an inkjet recording system that includes recording medium transport means, an inkjet head for discharging an ink composition containing a vinyl ether compound, an oxirane compound and/or oxetane compound, a cationic photopolymerization initiator, and a colorant to thus form an image on a recording medium, and UV irradiation means for curing the ink composition discharged onto the recording medium by irradiation with UV rays, the UV irradiation means having as a UV light source an aperture type hot cathode fluorescent tube having a getter in the interior thereof, a printed material obtained by the inkjet recording method, and a printed material obtained using the inkjet recording system. | 02-04-2010 |
20100033545 | Ink Jet Printer and a Process of Ink Jet Printing - An ink jet printer for printing a cationic ink jet ink is provided. The printer comprises a print head for printing the ink onto a substrate, a heating means for heating the ink on the substrate, and a source of radiation for curing the heated ink. | 02-11-2010 |
20100039487 | Digital Ink Jet Printer and Process - There is provided a digital ink jet printer for printing and curing graphics on a cylindrical object comprising: (i) a printhead assembly comprising at least one printhead, wherein said at least one printhead contains ink; ii) a UV lamp for curing ink, attached to the printhead assembly, wherein said UV lamp is aligned in a plane with said at least one printhead; and (iii) a carrier moveably attached to said printhead assembly, wherein said carrier is positioned such that the cylindrical object is below the printhead assembly. | 02-18-2010 |
20100039488 | Printing System Having Drying Compartment - A printing system is provided. The system has a support for supporting a media cartridge containing media web and a printhead, a drying compartment for drying the media web printed on by the printhead, and a driven roller for feeding the media web along a straight media path from the media cartridge past the printhead and through the drying compartment. The drying compartment has a door adjacent the media path, the printed media web extending from the media path as a catenary loop into a cavity of the drying compartment when the door is open. | 02-18-2010 |
20100053289 | SECURITY PRINTING WITH GEL INKS - A method and system of embossing ink including applying the ink to a print substrate, applying an embossing substrate to the ink wherein the embossing substrate imprints a predetermined pattern into the ink, and curing, via a radiation source, the ink such that an imprint of the predetermined pattern is embossed in the ink. | 03-04-2010 |
20100053290 | INK COMPOSITION AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - The present invention provides an ink composition including:
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20100053291 | PRINTING APPARATUS - Provided is a printing apparatus including: a head unit that ejects liquid on a printing medium that is transported in a printing medium transport direction; a transporting roller unit that is disposed at a printing medium transport direction upstream side of the head unit; a transporting belt unit that is disposed at a printing medium transport direction downstream side of the head unit; an intermediate supporting unit that is disposed at a side facing the head unit; and a heating unit that is disposed to at least one of the transporting roller unit, the transporting belt unit and the intermediate supporting unit to heat the printing medium, wherein the heating unit heats the printing medium so that a temperature T | 03-04-2010 |
20100060703 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided are an image forming method and image forming apparatus capable of always stably transferring an ink image on an intermediate transfer body to a printing medium and stably obtaining an image with high quality. Formation and drying operation of the image using an inkjet method are repeated a plurality of times to obtain the image on the intermediate transfer body and the thus obtained image is transferred from the intermediate transfer body to a printing medium to form the image. At this time, a capability of the drying operation finally performed among a plurality of times of the drying operations is more lowered than those of all the drying operations except the drying operation finally performed. | 03-11-2010 |
20100066791 | Inkjet Printing Apparatus and Method - There is provided an apparatus and method for inkjet printing, particularly thermal inkjet printing, in which at least one radiation-curing device for curing the radiation-curable ink is integral with, and downstream of, the inkjet printing station. The inkjet printing apparatus further includes a plurality of commercial replaceable inkjet printer cartridges with integral printheads, mounted into a print carriage in fixed array positioned at a set distance above a continuously—moving industrial print media carried on a conveyor or on a web or sheet to engage non-contact printing on said industrial print media with photo-quality, multi-colour print capability. | 03-18-2010 |
20100073448 | RECORDING MATERIAL AND RECORDING APPARATUS - According to an aspect of the invention and there is provided a recording material comprising an ink, ink absorbing particles that absorb the ink, and a curable liquid that cures the substantial surface of the ink absorbing particles. | 03-25-2010 |
20100079568 | Active Energy Beam-Curable Ink and Ink-Jet Recording Method Using Active Energy Beam-Curable Ink - An active energy beam-curable ink contains an active energy beam-curable resin and a photocation polymerization initiator; wherein, as the active energy beam-curable resin, a multifunctional epoxy compound, an oxetane compound and 33 to 55% by weight of a monofunctional alicyclic epoxy compound are contained. Accordingly, it is possible to stably discharge the active energy beam-curable ink from an ink jet head, and the ink having a high hardness and high adhesion after curing is provided. | 04-01-2010 |
20100079569 | FLUID EJECTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A fluid ejecting device includes a transporting member for transporting a medium in a transporting direction, a fluid ejecting head for ejecting fluid containing a color material onto the medium, an irradiating unit provided on the downstream side of the fluid ejecting head in the transporting direction to cure the fluid by irradiating the fluid on the medium with ultraviolet rays, and a charge applying member for applying charges to the color material of the fluid on the medium before irradiation of the fluid with the ultraviolet rays. | 04-01-2010 |
20100085406 | Printing Method for Printing Press and Printing Press - An object is to provide a printing method for a printing press and a printing press that are capable of providing advantages in terms of service life, heat generation, and power consumption while overcoming various problems caused by ultraviolet irradiation. The method includes: printing an image on a sheet of paper fed using an ultraviolet curable paint; and irradiating the ultraviolet curable paint on the printed sheet fed by irradiating the ultraviolet curable paint with ultraviolet light from a plurality of light emitting diodes disposed at predetermined intervals across the transverse direction of the sheet, thereby curing the ultraviolet curable paint, wherein all the light emitting diodes are turned on while shielding a predetermined area in the transverse direction of the sheet from ultraviolet light. | 04-08-2010 |
20100091078 | Ink Jet Printing Apparatus - According to the present invention, the size of a droplet ejected to a target area is minimized to obtain high printing resolution, and effects of attraction and adhesive forces acting between a nozzle and air resistance can be minimized so that the target area is finely controlled to obtain high printing precision. An inkjet printing apparatus according to the present invention includes an ejecting device ejecting a droplet of a solution to a target area; and a light irradiating device irradiating light onto the droplet at an acute angle with respect to a line going through the ejecting device and the target area to heat and evaporate a part of the droplet before the ejected droplet reaches the target area, so that the droplet is accelerated along the line. | 04-15-2010 |
20100103235 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FIXING A RADIATION-CURABLE GEL-INK IMAGE ON A SUBSTRATE - An apparatus fixes ink on a substrate, such as in ink-jet printing. A leveling member is positioned to contact an ink-bearing side of the substrate at a nip. A radiation source is positioned to direct radiation to the ink-bearing side of the substrate at the nip, the radiation suitable for curing the ink on the substrate. | 04-29-2010 |
20100103236 | PRINTING METHOD USING INK JET RECORDING AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing method that uses ink jet recording with a water-based ink set to form an image on a non-ink-absorbing or low-ink-absorbing recording medium, the method includes a printing step including recording with a color ink and recording with a resin ink performed after the recording with the color ink; and a drying step performed during the printing step and/or after the printing step. In the printing method, the water-based ink set includes the color ink containing a water-insoluble coloring agent and the resin ink not containing a coloring agent. The color ink contains the water-insoluble coloring agent, a resin component, a water-soluble solvent, and a surfactant. The resin ink contains a water-soluble resin solvent, a wax, and thermoplastic resin particles as a resin component that are insoluble in water but compatible in the water-soluble resin solvent. A content of the thermoplastic resin particles in the resin ink is 4% by mass or more and 12% by mass or less, and a content of the wax in the resin ink is 0.5% by mass or more and 6% by mass or less. | 04-29-2010 |
20100103237 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRYING TARGET - A recording apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a target from an upstream side of a transport direction to a downstream side of the transport direction, a recording unit having a configuration in which at least one of a plurality of unit heads is deviated from another unit head in the transport direction, and performing a recording operation by attaching liquid to a target by each unit head, the unit heads allowing liquid ejecting nozzles to form nozzle arrays in a width direction of the target perpendicular to the transport direction, and a plurality of drying units having an arrangement identical to the arrangement of the unit heads in the transport direction and the width direction at a downstream side of the transport direction as compared with the recording unit, and drying the target. | 04-29-2010 |
20100110156 | DRYING APPARATUS, RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRYING TARGET - A drying apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a target in a form of a cut sheet, on which a recording process has been performed through the attachment of liquid, from an upstream side to a downstream side of a transport direction. A drying unit performs a drying process on the transported target by blowing air toward a liquid attachment surface of the target. The drying unit is provided with a blowing port which allows air to blow toward an end portion of the target at the downstream side of the transport direction in a first direction from the upstream side to the downstream side of the transport direction, and allows air to blow toward an end portion of the target at the upstream side of the transport direction in a second direction from the downstream side to the upstream side of the transport direction. | 05-06-2010 |
20100118094 | DEVICE FOR PRINTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL PARTS, PARTICULARLY PLASTIC CARDS - A device for printing two-dimensional parts, particularly plastic substrates, preferably plastic cards, having a depot comprising the parts to be imprinted, a printing station with a printing device, and a transport device for transporting the parts through the printing station, characterized in that aligning means serving the alignment of the parts on the transport device are provided in front of the printing station. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118095 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus for an inkjet recording having improved bleed resistance and stickiness resistance of formed image, exhibiting excellent abrasion resistance and adhesion to the recording medium, and having capability of printing onto recording medium with low softening temperature. An image forming apparatus for an inkjet recording method that forms an image by jetting a photo-curable inkjet ink comprising a colorant, a photo-curable monomer, a photo-initiator and a gelling agent onto a recording medium, and photo-curing the ink by a light irradiation apparatus, wherein an illuminance of the light irradiation apparatus is 1 mW/cm | 05-13-2010 |
20100118096 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image by using liquid, a conveyance mechanism having a roller configured to convey a medium on which the image is formed by the image forming unit or a transfer belt for transferring to a medium an intermediate image formed by the image forming unit, and wherein the roller has a discharge surface on which one or a plurality of holes is formed to blow gas toward the medium or the transfer belt conveyed by the conveyance mechanism. | 05-13-2010 |
20100128096 | CUSTOMIZATION OF CURABLE INK PRINTS BY MOLDING - A system has a print head to dispense ink onto a print surface to form a printed image, a molding surface to contact the ink to form an informational image in at least the surface of the ink, and a radiation source to solidify the ink into the printed and informational images. A method includes dispensing ink onto a print medium to form a printed image, pressing a molding surface onto the printed image to transfer an informational image onto the printed image, and solidify the ink into the printed and informational images. | 05-27-2010 |
20100141724 | Ink-Jet Recording Apparatus, Ink-Jet Recording Method and Ultraviolet Ray Curable Ink - Disclosed are an inkjet recorder and inkjet recording method wherein the problem of image quality degradation caused when an image formed of an ultraviolet-curable ink employing no aqueous solvent is cured using flash light is solved, and a high-gloss high-quality image can be attained quickly while eliminating deterioration in density and adhesion to a recording medium. With such an inkjet recorder and inkjet recording method, a high-quality image can be similarly attained even in case of a color image containing an ink of different infrared absorption such as a black ink. Also disclosed is an ultraviolet-curable ink used in such an inkjet recorder and inkjet recording method. The inkjet recorder comprises a flash light source, and is characterized by comprising a means for attenuating the quantity of light at least in a part of infrared wavelength region of flash light emitted from the flash light source. | 06-10-2010 |
20100141725 | RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is a recording apparatus including: a recording unit for performing recording on a recordable medium; a transportation unit for transporting the recordable medium; and a drier for accelerating the drying of the recordable medium by ejecting gas to the recordable medium, wherein the drier is configured such that the ejection range of the gas in a direction perpendicular to the transportation direction of the recordable medium is changeable. | 06-10-2010 |
20100141726 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method includes: moisture-controlling one surface of an inkjet recording medium having an air permeability of 300 seconds or more; feeding the moisture-controlled inkjet recording medium onto a conveyance path in a state where the moisture-controlled inkjet recording medium is curled such that a surface of the moisture-controlled inkjet recording medium that is curved inwards faces the conveyance path for conveying the inkjet recording medium; conveying the fed inkjet recording medium while adhering the inkjet recording medium by suction onto the conveyance path; and forming an image by applying ink by an inkjet method on the inkjet recording medium adhered by suction to the conveyance path. | 06-10-2010 |
20100149295 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REGISTERING COLOR INK JET PRINTING IN A MAILING MACHINE - Printing systems including top registration plates and electromagnetic-curable inkjet print heads are described including methods for setting the intensity of the related electromagnetic sources. The printer includes a top registration plate that includes a plurality of registration plate print head openings, each opening adjacent to the registration plate. The transparent area is downstream of a UV light source and located above a media ski. In an alternative configuration, the top registration plate includes a transparent area that is adjacent to an opaque area of the registration plate. The transparent area is downstream of the UV light source and located above a media ski and below a light catch used to prevent the UV light from reaching the print heads in the printer. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149296 | UV-CURABLE COATINGS AND METHODS FOR APPLYING UV-CURABLE COATINGS USING THERMAL MICRO-FLUID EJECTION HEADS - An aqueous-based UV-curable fluid composition for use in a micro-fluid ejection device. The fluid composition includes a mixture of poly-functional compounds, a colorant compound, a photo-initiator and less than about 50 weight percent water based on a total weight of the fluid composition, wherein the fluid composition is substantially devoid of volatile organic carrier fluids. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149297 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus which transports a recording material onto a recording support unit, ejects ink from a recording head to perform recording on the recording material, includes: a hot air generating unit which is provided at a holding member of the recording head on one side of the recording head; and an exhaust unit which is provided at the holding member on the other side of the recording head. Here, the recording apparatus is configured to form a first air stream in which hot air blown out from the hot air generating unit passes between the recording head and the recording support unit so as to reach the exhaust unit when the exhaust unit is in operation. | 06-17-2010 |
20100157005 | Industrial Printer With Cutter And Dryer Modules - An industrial printer includes a frame; a cabinet defining a media path; a pagewidth printhead arranged on the frame for printing images on blank web media; pilot guides for guiding the blank web media fed from cartridges via the media path past the pagewidth printhead to facilitate printing; a dryer module configured to operatively dry the printed web media; and a cutter module for cutting the printed web media before the printed web media is fed into a container for storing the web media in a roll. The cutter module includes a frame having end plates, and a pair of entry rollers and a pair of exit rollers serving as a transport mechanism for the web media through the module. The cutter module further includes a slitter gang composed of a plurality of slitters each having a plurality of blades, the slitter gang being located between the end plates. The dryer module includes a plenum defined vertically downward through the cabinet for supplying air received from a top of the plenum to the media path. | 06-24-2010 |
20100157006 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes: a medium holding unit which is divided into a plurality of members to form a holding surface and holds a printing medium being transported on the holding surface; a heat transfer type first heating unit which is disposed in the medium holding unit and heats the printing medium held by the medium holding unit; and a printing head which performs printing by ejecting ink onto the printing medium. Boundaries formed by gaps between the plurality of members on the holding surface of the medium holding unit are curved in both a transport direction and a width direction of the printing medium so as not to be in a straight line shape in the transport direction. | 06-24-2010 |
20100165064 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING IMAGE - An image forming apparatus includes a carriage mounted with a recording head of an ink-jet system, a carriage driving mechanism, and a sheet conveying mechanism that conveys a sheet in a predetermined direction. The carriage is moved in a direction orthogonal to the conveying direction of the sheet by the carriage driving mechanism. A sheet guide member is arranged in a position below the recording head and opposed to the recording head. A sheet passes over a guide section of this sheet guide member. A heater is provided in the sheet guide member. This heater heats the guide section. | 07-01-2010 |
20100171803 | PULSE DRYING SYSTEM - A laser drying system for printing is described. The present invention comprises in one embodiment a printer configured to apply liquid ink to a portion of a substrate to produce a printed area and a non-printed area, a laser module comprising a laser emitting a laser emission, the laser module mounted on an adjustable mount, a means to move the substrate from the printer to the laser module, the mount located over the means to move, an optic module comprising a focusing lens to focus the laser emission, and a controller configured to obtain print data from the printer and to operate the mount, the laser module, and the optic module to focus the laser emission only at the printed area of the substrate and not at the non-printed area of the substrate. | 07-08-2010 |
20100177151 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FIXING A RADIATION-CURABLE GEL-INK IMAGE ONTO A SUBSTRATE - An apparatus prints and/or fixes ink on a substrate, such as in ink-jet printing with UV-curable inks. A conformable member is positioned to contact an ink-bearing side of the substrate at a nip. The conformable member substantially comprises a silicone-based elastomer having a conformability from about 20 shore A to about 10 shore A. A radiation source directs radiation to the ink-bearing side of the substrate at the nip, the radiation suitable for curing the ink on the substrate. The apparatus is particularly useful for printing onto corrugated cardboard or otherwise non-planar surfaces, since the resulting ink image is impressed uniformly onto the substrate by the conformable member without voids in the ink layer in the recesses of the non-planar surface. | 07-15-2010 |
20100188469 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a plurality of recording heads that eject ink onto a recording medium to execute recording, a medium feeding unit that feeds the recording medium toward a downstream side of the recording apparatus in a feed direction, a heating/drying unit that heats the recorded recording medium to dry the ink on the recoding medium, and a cooling unit that is provided at the downstream side of the recording apparatus in the feed direction further down in comparison with the heating/drying unit and which cools the heated recording medium. The plurality of recording heads are provided in parallel with each other in the feed direction, and the heating/drying unit and the cooling unit are provided in the feed direction between one recording head at an upstream side and another recording head positioned adjacent to the downstream side of the one recording head. | 07-29-2010 |
20100194837 | IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - The image recording method includes ejecting an ink to form an image on the surface of a recording layer of a recording medium; and then applying a glossiness imparting liquid on the surface of the recording medium. The ink includes a particulate colorant, a surfactant and water, and has a solid content of not lower than 6% by weight. The recording layer is located overlying a substrate including cellulose pulp as a main component and includes an inorganic pigment and a styrene-butadiene copolymer. The surface of the recording medium bearing the recording layer absorbs the ink in an amount of from 1 ml/m | 08-05-2010 |
20100194838 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - There is provided a printing method that is performed by using a first nozzle ejecting color ink that is used for printing an image on a medium and is cured in a case where irradiation of an electromagnetic wave is received, a second nozzle ejecting a process solution that is used for processing the surface of the medium and is cured in a case where irradiation of an electromagnetic wave is received, and an irradiation unit emitting the electromagnetic wave. The printing method includes printing an image constituted by color dots on the medium by ejecting the color ink from the first nozzle so as to form the color dots on the medium and forming process dots in areas other than the image on the medium by ejecting the process solution from the second nozzle, emitting the electromagnetic wave onto the color dots and the process dots, coating the color dots and the process dots with the process solution after the electromagnetic wave is emitted onto the color dots and the process dots, and emitting the electromagnetic wave onto the process solution with which the color dots and the process dots are coated. | 08-05-2010 |
20100201770 | Method reducing image glosser artifacts - Often times the glossing process results in an image artifact consisting of locally lighter image a fixed distance from the lead edge as a print is glossed. This artifact is most visible in areas of medium but consistent image. The present invention provides methods for reducing this artifact. | 08-12-2010 |
20100201771 | LIQUID DISCHARGING METHOD AND LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting method using a liquid discharging apparatus, the method including: a first process, forming dots on a medium in a predetermined direction at a first interval by discharging liquid that is cured when electromagnetic waves are irradiated to the medium; a second process, irradiating the dots formed on the medium with electromagnetic waves; a third process, forming dots in the predetermined direction at the first interval so that the dots formed in the first process and the dots formed in the third process are positioned in the predetermined direction at a second interval which is shorter than the first interval; and a fourth process, irradiating the dots formed on the medium with electromagnetic waves. | 08-12-2010 |
20100201772 | PRINTING METHOD - Provided is a printing method of printing a color image on a medium using a printing apparatus. The method includes forming dots on a medium by using cyan ink, magenta ink, and yellow ink that are cured when irradiated with electromagnetic waves, and then forming dots on the medium by using at least any ink among red ink, green ink, blue ink, and orange ink cured when irradiated with electromagnetic waves. | 08-12-2010 |
20100201773 | INK JET PRINTER USING UV INK - An ink jet printer includes a platen configured to receive a print media, an ink jet head, and at least one UVLED. The ink jet head is relatively movable with respect to a surface of the print media received on the platen and configured to shoot an ink drop at the surface of the print media. The at least one UVLED is configured to irradiate the ink drop on the surface of the print media with UV rays to cure the ink drop on the surface of the print media. | 08-12-2010 |
20100208020 | INK JET PRINTER FOR PRINTING ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE CURING INK - A printing device has a gas source, a printhead having a nozzle plate with nozzles in the nozzle plate, the nozzles are fluidly connected to corresponding pumping chamber and a gas outlet positioned adjacent to the nozzle plate. The gas outlet is in fluid communication with the gas source and the gas outlet is configured to provide gas to an exposed surface of the nozzle plate so that the gas flow is substantially parallel to the surface of the nozzle plate. Fluid that is ejected out of the nozzles has a UV curable component. After the fluid has been ejected out of the nozzle and onto a receiver, the fluid is irradiated and cured. | 08-19-2010 |
20100208021 | FIXING PROCESSING APPARATUS, INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND FIXING PROCESSING METHOD - The fixing processing apparatus includes: a conveyance device which conveys a recording medium in a prescribed conveyance direction along a conveyance path, a desired image having been recorded in an image formation region on an image formation surface of the conveyed recording medium; a heat and pressure fixing device which is arranged in the conveyance path and carries out heat and pressure fixing process in which the image formation surface of the recording medium is subjected to at least one of heating process, pressing process and non-pressing process, the heat and pressure fixing device applying pressure to the image formation region in the pressing process, the heat and pressure fixing device applying no pressure to the image formation region in the non-pressing process; and a setting device which sets a temperature of the heat and pressure fixing device to be higher in the non-pressing process than in the pressing process. | 08-19-2010 |
20100208022 | SYSTEM FOR THE FIXING OF PRINTED IMAGES ON A PRINTING SUBSTRATE - Printed images exhibiting a color medium are applied to the printing substrate by a printing device, the printing substrate having been provided beforehand with a viscous fluid film by an application unit arranged in front of the printing device. The color medium of the printed images migrates to a surface of the viscous fluid film and adheres there. After the drying of the fluid film the printed images are firmly fixed on the printing substrate. | 08-19-2010 |
20100214385 | Drying System for Web Printer - A drying system for a printer is provided. The printer feeds a media web along a media path past a printhead to an exit region. The drying system has a first chamber positioned on one side of the media web between the printhead and exit region, a heating element within the first chamber, a fan positioned to direct air past the heating element to produce heated air, and a second chamber positioned on the other side of the media web opposite the first chamber, the second chamber having an opening through which the heated air from the first chamber passes. The opening is configured so that the printed media web extends from the media path as a loop to hang within the second chamber through the opening from opposite sides of the opening. | 08-26-2010 |
20100220162 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRINTING OBJECTS, IN PARTICULAR PLASTIC PARTS - A method for imprinting objects, including providing a printing machine configured to deliver at least one object to be imprinted to a printing apparatus using a retaining apparatus or an inscription carrier. A data processing system is provided and includes at least one print pattern stored in at least one database. The data processing system is connected to the printing machine and configured to control the printing machine. A liquid is applied so as to generate the at least one print pattern on a surface of the at least one object using the printing apparatus. The at least one object is then exposed to a radiation so as to dry and cure the liquid and then the retaining apparatus or the inscription carrier is conveyed to an output station. The retaining apparatus and inscription carrier are stackable in the output station. | 09-02-2010 |
20100220163 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method - There is provided an image forming device, including: an image forming section that ejects ink droplets based on ink data and forms an image on a recording medium; a liquid adhering section that adheres a transparent liquid to an opposite face of the recording medium to that formed with the image; and a drying section that dries the recording medium that has been formed with the image by the image forming section and has been adhered with the transparent liquid on the opposite face. | 09-02-2010 |
20100220164 | PRINTING SYSTEM HAVING MEDIA GUIDING DRYER - A printing system is provided having a printhead mounted to a support structure, a print media and printing fluid cartridge removably mounted to the support structure in juxtaposition with the printer, the cartridge having a roll of print media and a removable printing fluid cartridge for feeding printing fluid to the printhead, a print media feed mechanism for feeding the print media from the roll to the printhead, and a dryer located in series with the printhead to receive printed media directly from the printhead. The dryer has guide rollers for transporting the printed media through the dryer, and a blower arranged to direct drying air onto a face of the printed media as it is transported through the dryer. | 09-02-2010 |
20100225719 | Transporting device and liquid ejecting apparatus - The transporting device includes a linear guide member disposed at a position facing to inkjet line heads and a drying device, moving a pallet on which a sheet is attracted by magnetic force, and a belt driving device supporting both sides of the pallet by an endless belt and driving the pallet by circumferential movement of the belt. An ink is ejected from the inkjet line heads to the sheet on the pallet transported by the linear guide member, and a recording surface of the sheet is dried by the drying device. Subsequently, the pallet from which the sheet is separated is moved back to an upstream side of the inkjet line heads passing through a lower side of the linear guide member in the vertical direction by circumferential movement of the belt. | 09-09-2010 |
20100225720 | DRAWING DEVICE - A drawing device includes a carriage, a base configured and arranged to mount a substrate, and a movement device configured and arranged to move the substrate and the carriage relative to each other in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction. The carriage includes a plurality of types of droplet ejection head units and a plurality of ink-curing light irradiation sections. The droplet ejection head units are configured and arranged to respectively eject a plurality of types of photo-curing inks onto the substrate with the droplet ejection head units being aligned along a direction intersecting the second direction at a predetermined pitch. The ink-curing light irradiation sections are respectively disposed in positions adjacent to both sides of each of the droplet ejection head units in the second direction, and configured and arranged to cure the photo-curing inks. | 09-09-2010 |
20100225721 | TABLE HAVING INDICIA ON SURFACE - A method of creating a display on a table top having an upper surface is provided. The method comprises the steps of printing indicia on the upper surface of the table top and curing the indicia to create the display. The method further includes the steps of applying a first sealant layer over at least a portion of the display on the upper surface, and curing the first sealant layer. In one example, at least one of the ink and the first sealant layer is curable via exposure to a radiation source. In another example, the radiation source is a source of ultraviolet light. | 09-09-2010 |
20100231672 | Method of improving the electrical conductivity of a conductive ink trace pattern and system therefor - A method and system for improving the electrical conductivity of a conductive ink trace pattern provided on a substrate involves the printing of a conductive ink on a substrate to form a trace pattern thereon, fixing the trace pattern to the substrate and performing calendering on the substrate having the trace pattern fixed thereto. | 09-16-2010 |
20100231673 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The image forming method includes: an image forming step of forming an image on a recording medium by using aqueous ink, the recording medium showing dimensional change of not more than 0.1% with respect to water content of 1 g/m | 09-16-2010 |
20100238244 | Pattern formation method - A pattern is formed by carrying out the steps of dropping curable ink linearly onto a substrate, curing the ink dropped onto the substrate, and depositing layers of ink by repeating a process of linearly dropping a predetermined amount of ink onto the cured ink and a process of curing the predetermined amount of ink. In the step of depositing layers of ink, the ink is dropped at dot pitch p that satisfies p | 09-23-2010 |
20100238245 | DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE AND DROPLET DISCHARGE METHOD - A droplet discharge device includes a stage, a droplet discharge head, a movement unit and a light radiating unit. The droplet discharge head includes nozzles arranged to discharge droplets of photo-curable liquid material toward a drawing region of a workpiece. The movement unit is arranged to move the stage and the droplet discharge head relative to each other. The light radiating unit has a light emitting part capable of emitting light to an entire area of the drawing region and disposed on a side opposite from the surface of the workpiece on which the liquid material is applied. The light emitting part is arranged not to emit the light to the portion of the drawing region when the droplet discharge head is disposed at a position over the portion, and to emit the light to the portion when the droplet discharge head has moved away from the position. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238246 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording method of the invention includes at least: applying, onto a recording medium, an ink composition containing at least a pigment, a copolymer containing at least a fluorine atom, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water, thereby forming an image; drying the image by removing the water-soluble organic solvent and at least a part of the water from the recording medium; and heat-fixing the image onto the recording medium by bringing a surface of the image into contact with a heating member, and may further include other processes. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238247 | INK JET PRINTER - An ink jet recording apparatus includes a guide rail extending in a first direction; an ink head that slidably engages with the guide rail and discharges an ultraviolet light curable ink toward a recording medium; an ultraviolet light irradiation device attached to the ink head to move together with the ink head and that irradiates ultraviolet light to the ink discharged on the recording medium; a second head that slidably engages with the guide rail; a carriage that moves along the guide rail; a first connection mechanism that detachably connects the carriage with the ink head; a second connection mechanism that detachably connects the carriage with the second head; and an irradiation prohibition mechanism that prohibits the irradiation by the ultraviolet light irradiation device based on a predetermined condition relating to a connection state between the carriage and the ink head caused by the first connection mechanism. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238248 | INK JET PRINTER - According to one embodiment, an ink jet recording apparatus includes: a guide rail extending in a first direction; an ink head that slidably engages with the guide rail and discharges an ultraviolet light curable ink toward a recording medium; a second head that slidably engages with the guide rail; a carriage that moves along the guide rail; a first connection mechanism that bridges the carriage and the ink head and detachably connects the carriage with the ink head; a second connection mechanism that detachably connects the carriage with the second head; and an ultraviolet light irradiation device that is attached to the ink head to move together with the ink head, that is positioned in front, in rear or below the first connecting mechanism when the carriage and the ink head are connected by the first connecting mechanism, and that irradiates the ultraviolet light curable ink discharged from the ink head on the recording medium with ultraviolet light. | 09-23-2010 |
20100245510 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - There is provided a recording apparatus including: an intermediate transfer body; a forming unit that forms an ink receiving layer on the intermediate transfer body, the ink receiving layer including a first solution layer containing a curable material that cures when irradiated with ultraviolet radiation, and a second solution layer, on the first solution layer, containing a curable material that cures when irradiated with ultraviolet radiation, and a liquid absorbing component, and in the case in which the first solution layer contains a liquid absorbing component, the content of the liquid absorbing component in the second solution layer being larger than the content of the liquid absorbing component in the first solution layer; an ink supplying unit that supplies ink droplets onto the ink receiving layer; a transferring unit that transfers the ink receiving layer from the intermediate transfer body to a recording medium; and an ultraviolet irradiation unit that irradiates the recording medium with ultraviolet radiation. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245511 | RECORDING DEVICE AND RECORDING MATERIAL - A recording device includes: an intermediate transfer member; a layer forming unit that forms a curable solution layer on the intermediate transfer member, the curable solution layer including a liquid-absorbing component, a curable material that is cured by irradiation of UV rays, and a surfactant having an HLB value of from 8 to 18; an ink supply unit that supplies ink droplets to the curable solution layer formed on the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that transfers the curable solution layer, to which the ink droplets have been applied, from the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium; and a UV irradiation unit that irradiates UV rays onto the recording medium, to which the curable solution layer has been transferred. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245512 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD - Disclosed is an inkjet recording method including recording an image by applying at least one of an ink containing a water-soluble dye of Formula (M), an ink containing a water-soluble dye of Formula (BK), an ink containing a water-soluble dye of Formula (Y), and an ink containing a water-soluble dye of Formula (C) according to an inkjet process, to an inkjet recording medium produced by a method including forming an undercoat layer containing a binder resin and a water-soluble divalent metal salt, to a support; forming a coating film containing at least inorganic fine particles and an acetoacetyl-modified polyvinyl alcohol, on the undercoat layer; and applying a curing solution containing a water-soluble multifunctional compound having two or more amino groups in the molecule, to the coating film, either simultaneously with the forming of the coating film or before the coating film undergoes decreasing-rate drying during drying of the coating film. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245513 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head having a nozzle opening for ejecting a liquid; a heating unit disposed opposite a liquid ejecting surface of the liquid ejecting head; a transport unit that transports a liquid-ejection-target medium between the liquid ejecting head and the heating unit; a blower unit that blows air onto a liquid-ejection-target surface of the medium; and a blowing control unit. The blower unit is able to vary an amount of air blown in a plurality of regions disposed along a certain direction, the plurality of regions including a region of the liquid-ejection-target medium, and the blowing control unit controls an amount of the air blown from the blower unit in the plurality of the regions along the certain direction on the basis of a width of the medium in the certain direction. | 09-30-2010 |
20100253756 | Method of Ink Delayed Curing for UV Inkjet Printers - A method of ink delayed curing for an UV inkjet printer, the method comprises the following steps: a. closing a pair of movable light-blocking plates on an UV lamp set of an inkjet module on UV inkjet printer; b. activating printing, forwarding the inkjet module toward a set direction and provide ink for a work piece; c. after the inkjet module provides ink toward the set direction, opening the movable light-blocking plates of an UV lamp set so that the UV lamp set can irradiate on the work piece; and d. making the inkjet module move back for its next inkjetting stage, thereby irradiation onto the ink on the work piece by the UV lamp set can be delayed till the inkjet module moves back. | 10-07-2010 |
20100253757 | KEYBOARD, PRINTING METHOD OF PATTERN ON KEY CAP, AND PRINTING METHOD OF PATTERN ON KEYBOARD - A keyboard which includes a plurality of key caps is provided. Each of the key caps includes a surface respectively and the surfaces of the key caps are coplanar substantially. Therein a pattern which includes a plurality of ink dots is formed on each surface of the key caps. The pattern formed by the ink dots could be a symbol, a character, a graph, or a combination thereof and several patterns could form a combination pattern. Additionally, the patterns could be covered with a protection layer. | 10-07-2010 |
20100259589 | INERT UV INKJET PRINTING - Enhanced printing solutions are enabled by providing ultraviolet curing conditions without requiring complete evacuation of atmospheric oxygen. Increased ink coverage and adjusted surface appearance are also provided. | 10-14-2010 |
20100271449 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The image forming apparatus, comprises: a plurality of ejection heads which eject liquid containing, a first ultraviolet curing initiator having spectral absorption characteristics at least in a first wavelength range, a second ultraviolet curing initiator which has spectral absorption characteristics at least in a second wavelength range being on a shorter wavelength side from the first wavelength range and has no spectral absorption characteristics in the first wavelength range, an ultraviolet-polymerizable compound, and a coloring material, onto a medium; a semi-curing device which radiates, at least once, ultraviolet light having at least a wavelength which is in the first wavelength range and which is on a longer wavelength side from the second wavelength range, onto dots formed by the liquid ejected from the ejection heads onto the medium; an intermediate processing device which performs intermediate processing of an image formed on the medium by the dots; and a main curing device which radiates ultraviolet light having at least a wavelength in the second wavelength range, onto the image which has undergone intermediate processing by the intermediate processing device. | 10-28-2010 |
20100289859 | SURFACE-TREATED PIGMENT, INK COMPOSITION, AND INK-JET RECORDING METHOD - A surface-treated pigment is formed of a metal pigment including flat particles whose surfaces are treated with an alkoxysilane compound having a group having an unsaturated double bond between carbon atoms. | 11-18-2010 |
20100289860 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD USING THE SAME - An ink jet printer includes a medium supporter to support a print medium. A print head is configured to eject ink droplets toward the print medium. An ultraviolet light irradiation device is configured to irradiate the print medium with ultraviolet light to cure ink deposited on the print medium. On a carriage, the print head and the ultraviolet light irradiation device are mounted to face the medium supporter. The carriage is reciprocally movable relative to the print medium in a first direction and movable relative to the print medium in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The ultraviolet light irradiation device is arranged on a side in the first direction of the print head. The print head is arranged to project toward an upstream side of a feeding direction in the second direction by a predetermined length relative to the ultraviolet light irradiation device. | 11-18-2010 |
20100295913 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR INK JET ULTRAVIOLET TRANSFUSE - In a tonerless imaging process, an inked image layer jetted on an image receptor is simultaneously transferred and fused to a recording medium. A radiation-curable material is incorporated in the image layer such that irradiation of the image layer cures the radiation-curable material therein. An ink jet printing apparatus for performing the above process is also disclosed. | 11-25-2010 |
20100302330 | IMAGE FORMATION METHOD AND ACTIVE ENERGY BEAM-CURABLE INK - Disclosed is an image formation method comprising: using an inkjet recording method and an active energy beam-curable ink to form, on a permeable substrate having an ink image formed thereon, an image that corresponds with the ink image and is superimposed on top of the ink image. | 12-02-2010 |
20100309268 | RADIATION CURABLE INKJET PRINTING METHODS - A radiation curable inkjet printing method for producing printed flexible foils and plastic bags includes the steps of a) providing a web-like polymeric substrate having a maximum value for Tan δ between 40° C. and 110° C.; b) providing a single pass inkjet printer having at least one page-wide printhead or at least one set of staggered printheads, a transporting device arranged to transport the web-like recording medium, and a curing device; c) jetting onto the web-like polymeric substrate having a surface energy Ssub, a non-aqueous radiation curable inkjet liquid having a surface tension SLiq, wherein SLiq is smaller than SSub by at least 4 mN/m; and d) curing the radiation curable liquid on the substrate at a surface temperature equal or higher than the temperature of the maximum value for Tan δ and smaller than the melting point of the polymeric recording medium. The maximum value for Tan δ is determined by dynamic mechanical analysis at a temperature ramp of 3° C./min using forced oscillation with a cycle of 1 second and an amplitude of 100 μm. Also, a single pass inkjet printer for performing the method. | 12-09-2010 |
20100309269 | CURING - A method of curing radiation-curable fluid is described. In one example, the method includes emitting radiation from an array of light-emitting diodes towards ink to be cured. LEDs are cheap, light weight, highly efficient in their conversion of electrical power, and give effectively instant switching to full power. Another advantage is that the emission spectrum of an LED is sharply peaked around the nominal frequency. Thus LEDs give several advantages over conventional radiation sources such as mercury lamps. A low oxygen environment is preferably provided at the radiation source to accelerate the curing reaction. Also described are inks which are specially formulated to respond to the radiation emission spectrum of an LED. | 12-09-2010 |
20100309270 | INKJET-RECORDING MEDIUM AND INKJET-RECORDING METHOD USING SAME - To provide an inkjet-recording medium including a water non-absorptive support, and an ink-receiving layer which is formed over at least one surface of the water non-absorptive support and which contains inorganic microparticles, wherein the ink-receiving layer has an ink-absorption capacity of 2 mL/m | 12-09-2010 |
20100321452 | HYBRID PRINTING METHOD USING MOVABLE PALLET - Disclosed is a hybrid printing method using a movable pallet. The movable pallet provides for easy attachment and detachment to enable a printing process, a digital printing process, a foiling process and a flocking process. The movable pallet can be used to apply various desired inks on the surface of fabric products and the like. A printing process, a digital printing process, a multicolor foiling process and a multi-color flocking process can be enabled to provide for a variety of designs and colors, dissimilar to the conventional method enabling a simple design and a single color work. The method of the invention is carried out with the pile put into a box and tightly contact at the top and bottom thereof and therefore the pile is not scattered into the atmosphere, thereby enabling to maintain a comfortable working environment, unlike the conventional process in which a pile is to be sprayed from the top to the bottom during the flocking process and thus a fine pile is scattered into the atmosphere to contaminate the environment of the workplace. The method is not an integral (fixed) type and thus can be carried out a selective work for each individual process, thereby improving the productivity by more 100-150% as compared to the conventional facility. Sixth, the movable pallet is formed of a thin aluminum plate of 3-4 mm thickness to minimize the time required for heating and cooling and to provide for easy attachment and detachment due to its light weight, and the pallet is supported on a pallet bracket to thereby avoid bending or distortion. | 12-23-2010 |
20100321453 | INK JET PRINTER - An ink jet printer includes: an ink head having a print head for ejecting ink and movable in a first direction, the ink curable upon irradiation with ultraviolet light; a first device positioned on a first side section of the ink head and a second device positioned on a second side section of the ink head opposite the first side section in the first direction, the devices being for irradiating a recording medium with ultraviolet light; and a cutting head attachable to the ink head such that the cutting head is positioned adjacent the ink head, movable in the first direction, and configured to cut at least a portion of the recording medium. When the ink and cutting heads are attached, at least a portion of the cutting head is positioned in front or in rear of one of the devices in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. | 12-23-2010 |
20100328411 | PRINTING ON VINYL PRINT MEDIA - A system and method of ink-jet printing on vinyl print media can comprise jetting an ink-jet ink onto a vinyl print medium to form a printed image, and applying from 50-100° C. of heat to the printed image. The ink-jet ink can include a colorant, an aqueous liquid vehicle, and core-shell polymer particles. Upon printing and heating, at least a portion of the aqueous liquid vehicle evaporates, the vinyl print medium plasticizes (but does not flow), and the ink-jet ink flows. The fused polymer particles form a film that encapsulates at least a portion of the colorant. | 12-30-2010 |
20110001782 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING FLEXIBILITY OF INK PRINTED ONTO SUBSTRATES USING IRRADIATION CURE CONTROL - This invention discloses a method and apparatus for improving the flexibility of ink and substrate. In particular, systems utilizing cationic inks such as Ultra Violet cured ink can control the flexibility of the ink and substrate layer the ink is applied on by using Ultra Violet irradiation control. | 01-06-2011 |
20110001783 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a head that ejects liquid to be cured by receiving irradiation of an electromagnetic wave onto a medium; a provisional-curing irradiation section that emits a first electromagnetic wave to a dot formed on the medium by the liquid; and a main-curing irradiation section that emits a second electromagnetic wave, which has irradiation intensity higher than that of the first electromagnetic wave, to the dot to which the first electromagnetic wave is emitted. When the main-curing irradiation section emits the second electromagnetic wave, a dot forming surface of the medium faces the lower side in the direction of gravity. | 01-06-2011 |
20110001784 | INK-JET APPLICATION METHOD AND DISPLAY DEVICE PRODUCING METHOD - By using an ink-jet application method, a solid content having a desired thickness contained in an application solution is formed in a desired region of a substrate by repeating an applying process and a drying process more than once. In the applying process, the application solution is sprayed and applied on the substrate. In the drying process, the application solution is dried to generate the solid content. | 01-06-2011 |
20110012971 | Printing System Having Media Loop Dryer - A printing system is provided having a printhead for printing on a media web, a dryer and drying chamber for drying the printed web, and a feed mechanism for feeding the web past the printhead, dryer and drying chamber so that the printed web hangs into the drying chamber as a loop from opposite sides of an opening in drying chamber. The dryer directs heated air into the drying chamber through the opening to dry the printed web. | 01-20-2011 |
20110025795 | LIGHT IRRADIATING APPARATUS, LIGHT IRRADIATING PROCESS, AND IMAGE RECORDING PROCESS - The present invention provides a light irradiating apparatus comprising a plurality of light emitting elements which emit light of a specific wavelength region and form elliptical light images on a surface to be irradiated, wherein the plurality of light emitting elements are mutually arranged so that the light images are made continuous along their major axis directions. Further, the invention also discloses the above-mentioned light irradiating process and an image recording process. | 02-03-2011 |
20110043578 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method including: at least recording an image by ejecting, by an ink jet method, an ink composition containing, at least one pigment as a coloring material, particles of at least one resin, at least one water-soluble organic solvent, and water, the ink composition having a surface tension of from 30 mN/m to 40 mN/m, to a recording medium having a single-layered or multi-layered pigment layer on or above at least one side of a support containing cellulose pulp as a main ingredient and a transferring amount of pure water to the recording medium, when measured by a dynamic scanning liquid absorptometer, of from 1 ml/m | 02-24-2011 |
20110050822 | PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing system includes a temporary-curing light source radiating temporary-curing light to dots formed on a medium, and a complete-curing light source radiating complete-curing light to the dots irradiated with the temporary-curing light and having a wavelength band different from that of the temporary-curing light source. In the printing system described above, ink used for forming the dots includes at least two types of photopolymerization initiators which photopolymerize a monomer when being irradiated with light, and the two types of photopolymerization initiators have absorption peaks at different wavelengths. | 03-03-2011 |
20110050823 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a transport unit that intermittently transports an elongated recording medium from an upstream side to a downstream side as the lengthwise direction of the recording medium moves along a transport path. A recording unit adheres a recording material to the recording medium when the recording medium is stopped in a midstream position of the transport path. A drying unit downstream from the recording unit heats and dries the recording material. A contact member has a contact surface continuous contact with the surface of the recording medium opposite the surface thereof to which the recording material is adhered, from the time when the recording medium enters into the drying unit to the time when the recording medium is discharged from the drying unit. The contact member forms the transport path with the contact surface having at least one bent section in the drying unit. | 03-03-2011 |
20110050824 | RECORDING APPARATUS - There is provided a recording apparatus. The recording apparatus includes: a support member which supports a recording medium; a recording head which applies a recording material to one surface of the recording medium supported on the support member; and a fixing unit which fixes the recording material adhered to the one surface of the recording medium transported from the support member, wherein the support member and the fixing unit are arranged to be partly overlapped with each other in an up and down direction. | 03-03-2011 |
20110058000 | Digital Ink Jet Printing Method and Apparatus - A method and apparatus a digital ink-jet printer are presented. A radiation-curable ink is continuously applies to successive locations on a substrate along a print line extending across the substrate. Concurrently with the continuous application of the radiation-curable ink along the print line, first curing radiation of a predetermined first intensity is continuously applied to the applied ink on the successive locations on the substrate along said print line, with a certain time delay, constant for all the locations on the substrate, between the applications of ink and to the first curing radiation. Second curing radiation of a predetermined second intensity is applied to the locations on the substrate a certain time period, constant for all the locations on the substrate, after the application of the first curing radiation to said locations. | 03-10-2011 |
20110063389 | INKJET WEB PRINTER - In one embodiment, an inkjet printer includes: a first series of print bars arranged along an arc on a first side of an arched printing unit and a second series of print bars arranged along an arc on a second side of the arched printing unit and a dryer positioned within a footprint of the arched printing unit. A plurality of web guides are arranged to guide the web along a duplex printing path past the first print bars for printing on a first side of the web, then through the dryer for drying the first side of the web, then past the second print bars for printing on a second side of the web, and then through the dryer for drying the second side of the web. | 03-17-2011 |
20110063390 | RECORDING METHOD - A recording method includes a first drying step of evaporating 50 to 85 wt % of ink adhering on a recording medium, the ink being ejected from a recording head onto a surface of the recording medium back side of which is supported on a medium-supporting unit which faces the recording head, and a second drying step of drying the recording medium, which has been subjected to the first drying step, at the downstream side of the medium-supporting unit in a feeding direction of the recording medium. | 03-17-2011 |
20110069128 | Liquid Ejecting Apparatus - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes the following elements. A carriage allows a head ejecting liquid which is curable by light irradiation to move in the moving direction intersecting the transporting direction in which a medium is transported. A precuring light source, provided for the carriage, radiates light for precuring to dots formed by applying the liquid ejected from the moving head onto the medium. A full curing light source is provided for the carriage so as to be located downstream of the precuring light source in the transporting direction. The full curing light source radiates light for full curing to the dots which have been irradiated with light for precuring. | 03-24-2011 |
20110069129 | Printing Apparatus and Method - A printing apparatus and method may provide efficient transfer of ink from a transfer belt to a recording sheet by using a transfer mechanism having a supporting member for supporting the recording sheet and a contact member. In one arrangement, the contact member may be configured to contact an inner peripheral surface of the transfer belt to bend the transfer belt and push the outer peripheral surface of the belt outward at an angle smaller than 90°. By pushing and bending the transfer belt, the an ink transfer surface of the belt and the recording sheet may be pinched together to affect transfer of the image. | 03-24-2011 |
20110069130 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL TYPE II PHOTOINITIATORS AND CURABLE COMPOSITIONS - A multifunctional Type II photoinitiator according to Formula (I): | 03-24-2011 |
20110074896 | INK COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A PROCESSED PRODUCT OF PRINTED MATTER - An active radiation curable ink composition is disclosed. The ink composition includes a compound having a persulfide bond, at least one end of the persulfide bond being bonded to a ring structure directly or via a carbonyl group or a thiocarbonyl group; one or more radical polymerizable compounds; and a photopolymerization initiator. | 03-31-2011 |
20110074897 | INK COMPOSITION AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An ink composition is provided that includes (A) a monofunctional monomer comprising an acrylate monomer represented by Formula (I) and (B) a photopolymerization initiator represented by Formula (II), the monofunctional monomer (A) having a content of 30 to 90 wt %. There is also provided an inkjet recording method that includes (a | 03-31-2011 |
20110085013 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes: a first nozzle which ejects a first ink used to print an image on a medium and cured by irradiation of light; a pre-curing light source which emits a pre-curing light to dots formed as the first ink ejected from the first nozzle is landed onto the medium; a second nozzle which ejects a second ink used to coat a surface of the medium and cured by irradiation of light onto the medium after being irradiated by the light from the pre-curing light source; and a main-curing light source which emits a main-curing light to the medium, wherein the irradiation energy of the light emitted to a unit area of the medium from the pre-curing light source is changed according to whether the second ink is ejected from the second nozzle. | 04-14-2011 |
20110096130 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a printing device including: a plurality of heads configured to discharge inks cured by light irradiation and arranged in a transport direction of a medium; a plurality of pre-curing light sources provided in correspondence with the plurality of heads and configured to irradiate pre-curing light to dots formed on the medium by the heads; and a completely-curing light source configured to irradiate completely-curing light to the dots to which the light from the plurality of pre-curing light sources is irradiated, wherein a first printing mode in which a background ink is discharged from a head of an upstream side of the transport direction of the heads for discharging color inks and a second printing mode in which the background ink is discharged from a head of a downstream side of the transport direction of the heads for discharging the color inks are present. | 04-28-2011 |
20110096131 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing device includes a plurality of heads ejecting ink cured by irradiation of light and arranged in a transport direction of a medium, a plurality of temporary curing light sources provided respectively corresponding to the plurality of heads and respectively irradiating light for temporary curing to dots formed on the medium by the respective heads, and a main curing light source irradiating light for main curing to the dots to which the plurality of temporary curing light sources have irradiated the light, wherein the printing device has a first printing mode where a clear ink is ejected from a head placed at the upper stream in the transport direction when seen from heads ejecting color inks, and a second printing mode where the clear ink is ejected from a head placed at the lower stream in the transport direction when seen from the heads ejecting the color inks. | 04-28-2011 |
20110096132 | INK JET RECORDING DEVICE AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - Provided are an inkjet recording device and an inkjet recording method for providing an image wherein concentration nonunifomiity is reduced with less ink bleed between inks of different colors, in high speed multicolor printing of single path system. In the device and the method, a conditional expression of 0.6≦R/R0≦0.9 is satisfied, where, R is a dot radius of a second ink jetted on a first ink which is jetted on the recording medium and semi-cured by a beam applied, and R0 is a dot radius of the second ink directly jetted on the recording medium. | 04-28-2011 |
20110102525 | Non-Contact Heating Of Solid Ink Prints After Ink Fixing - An imaging device includes a media transport system configured to transport print media along a media path. A first print station is positioned along the media path that is configured to apply ink to a first side of the media. A first fixing assembly is positioned along the media path downstream from the first print station. A second print station is positioned along the media path downstream from the first fixing assembly that is configured to apply ink to a second side of the media. A second fixing assembly is positioned along the media path downstream from the second print station. A heater is positioned along the media path downstream from the second fixing assembly that is configured to heat the media to a gloss reducing temperature. | 05-05-2011 |
20110102526 | CARRIAGE APPARATUS OF INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS EQUIPPED THEREWITH - A carriage apparatus of an ink jet recording apparatus, discharges a photocurable ink, while moving with respect to a recording medium in main scan and sub scan directions. The carriage apparatus includes a first recording portion having recording heads for discharging a first ink to the recording medium. A first half curing unit irradiates and half cures the first ink. A second recording portion at a downstream side of a sub scan direction with respect to the first recording portion discharges the second ink to the recording medium and has fewer recording heads than the first recording portion. A second half curing unit irradiates the second ink with light to half cure the second ink. A main curing unit at the downstream side of the sub scan direction of the second recording portion irradiates the recording medium with light, thereby fully curing the half cured first and second inks. | 05-05-2011 |
20110102527 | CARRIAGE DEVICE OF INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - Ink jet recording apparatus carriage device which discharges light cure type ink onto a recording medium while moving along a first guide shaft and a second guide shaft, which are disposed parallel to each other, curing the discharged ink by light, thereby forming a desired image on the recording medium, includes: head unit having recording head which discharges the ink onto the recording medium and recording carriage on which the recording head is mounted; light curing unit having a plurality of light curing sections which cures the ink on the recording medium by light and light curing carriage on which the plurality of light curing sections are mounted; carriage base slidably supported on the first guide shaft; and support frame having one end fixed to the carriage base and the other end slidably supported on the second guide shaft, wherein the head unit is supported in a cantilever manner on the carriage base. | 05-05-2011 |
20110102528 | COMPOSITION, RESIST FILM, PATTERN FORMING METHOD, AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An embodiment of the composition contains any of compounds of the formula A-LG in which A represents any of residues of general formula (A-1) below and LG represents any of groups that are cleaved to generate acids of the formula A-H when acted on by an acid. The composition further contains at least one of a compound that generates an acid when exposed to actinic rays or radiation and a compound that generates an acid when heated. | 05-05-2011 |
20110109708 | AQUEOUS INK COMPOSITION AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The invention provides an aqueous ink composition comprising (A) a colorant, (B) a polymer including a hydrophobic structural unit represented by Formula (1) below, (C) a polymerization initiator, (D) a polymerizable compound including an ethylenically unsaturated bond, and (E) water. In the Formula (1), R | 05-12-2011 |
20110115861 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING TEXTURED SURFACE TO CURABLE GEL INK - A printing system has a print mechanism to dispense a curable ink onto print media, a texture roller having a textured surface arranged to transfer a texture through a film to the curable ink on the media resulting in textured ink, and a curing mechanism to cure the textured ink. A printing system has a print head to dispense a curable ink onto print media, a film arranged adjacent a side of the media upon which the ink is dispensed, a texture roller arranged on a side of the film opposite the media to transfer texture to the curable ink, resulting in textured ink, and a curing mechanism to cure the textured ink. A method of controlling gloss in a printed image includes forming a printed image on print media using curable ink, using a roller to transfer a texture pattern to the curable ink, and curing the ink such that the pattern cures into the ink. | 05-19-2011 |
20110115862 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - A recording head is operable to eject ink toward a recording medium. A carriage mounting the recording head is operable to carry the recording head in a first direction. At least one infrared ray heater is provided on the carriage so as to oppose the recording medium. An input energy of the infrared ray heater is 60 W or less. | 05-19-2011 |
20110115863 | RECORDING APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a humidifying unit that generates humidified gas, a drying unit that dries ink applied to a sheet by a recording unit, a first duct that supplies gas discharged from the drying unit to at least one of the humidifying unit and the recording unit, and a second duct that supplies the humidified gas generated by the humidifying unit to the recording unit. | 05-19-2011 |
20110115864 | METHOD FOR DRYING A PRINTING SUBSTRATE AND/OR A PRINTING MEDIUM LOCATED THEREON AND A PRINTING MACHINE - The patent application describes a method for drying a printing substrate and/or a printing medium located thereon in a printing machine with at least one first and one second microwave applicator, the second microwave applicator being arranged, viewed in transport direction of the printing substrate, downstream of and adjacent to the first microwave applicator. The method comprises the steps of transporting the printing substrate past the first and the second microwave applicators, introducing microwaves into the printing substrate and the printing medium by means of the first microwave applicator, detecting the microwave power not absorbed by the printing substrate and the printing medium, and introducing microwaves into the printing substrate and the printing medium by means of the second microwave applicator, with the microwave power made available by the second microwave applicator being controlled as a function of the microwave power of the first microwave applicator that was not absorbed by the printing substrate and the printing medium. The method is particularly suitable for multi-color printing. Further described is a printing machine comprising at least one printing unit for applying a moist printing medium to a printing substrate, at least one drying unit for drying the printing medium and/or the printing substrate, and at least one transport unit for successively transporting the printing substrate through the at least one printing unit and the drying unit. The drying unit comprises a first and a second microwave applicator, said second microwave applicator being arranged, viewed in transport direction of the printing substrate, downstream of and adjacent to the first microwave applicator, and also comprises a first sensor unit in the region of the first microwave applicator for detecting the microwave power not absorbed by the printing substrate and the printing medium, and a control unit which communicates with said sensor unit in order to control the second microwave applicator on the basis of an output signal of said sensor unit. | 05-19-2011 |
20110128336 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRINTING - A printing apparatus includes a head which discharges coating ink which coats a medium and electromagnetic radiation-curable ink for image formation having a surface tension lower than the surface tension of the coating ink, a curing unit which irradiates the electromagnetic radiation-curable ink for image formation with electromagnetic waves to cure the electromagnetic radiation-curable ink for image formation, and a controller which makes the head execute a first discharge processing of discharging the coating ink to coat the medium and makes the head execute a second discharge processing of discharging the electromagnetic radiation-curable ink for image formation onto the medium coated by the coating ink to form an image in this order, and then, makes the curing unit execute a curing processing of irradiating the electromagnetic radiation-curable ink for image formation discharged onto the medium with the electromagnetic waves to cure the electromagnetic radiation-curable ink for image formation. | 06-02-2011 |
20110134199 | ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION DEVICE AND INK EJECTION DEVICE - An ultraviolet irradiation device includes: a light source which irradiates ultraviolet curable ink with ultraviolet rays; and a jetting port which jets gas to form a gas film facing the light source in an irradiation direction. | 06-09-2011 |
20110157284 | RECORDING METHOD - A recording method includes: printing a recording pattern onto an electronic component with a photocuring liquid having the property of accelerating curing when irradiated with light; irradiating light onto liquid that constitutes the recording pattern after the printing of the recording pattern; and thinning the film that constitutes the recording pattern after the irradiating of the light. | 06-30-2011 |
20110164101 | DRYING APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A drying apparatus includes: a rotatable belt which has an outer surface and an inner surface, the outer surface contacts a sheet; a blowing mechanism which blows hot air on the sheet at a side of the outer surface; and a heating unit which includes a heating element and a contact surface which is disposed in contact with the inner surface. A plurality of rollers are arranged in a direction in which the sheet travels. The rollers are pressed against the outer surface of the belt with the travelling sheet being held between the rollers and the outer surface of the belt. | 07-07-2011 |
20110169902 | INKJET INK COMPOSITION AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet ink composition is provided that includes (Component A) an N-vinyllactam, (Component B) a di(meth)acrylate ester of at least one type of diol selected from the group consisting of a straight-chain hydrocarbon diol having 9 to 18 carbon atoms, a branched hydrocarbon diol having 6 to 18 carbon atoms, and a monoalicyclic hydrocarbon diol having 6 to 18 carbon atoms, and (Component C) at least one type of polymerization initiator selected from the group consisting of an α-amino ketone compound, a thioxanthone compound, a thiochromanone compound, and a bisacylphosphine oxide compound. There is also provided an inkjet recording method that includes (a) an image formation step of forming an image above a support by discharging the inkjet ink composition by an inkjet method and (b) a curing step of curing the ink composition by irradiating the obtained image with actinic radiation to thus obtain a printed material having a cured image above the support. | 07-14-2011 |
20110169903 | INKJET INK COMPOSITION AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet ink composition is provided that includes (Component A) an N-vinyllactam, (Component B) a compound represented by Formula (B), and (Component C) a di(meth)acrylate ester of a hydrocarbon diol having 6 to 18 carbon atoms | 07-14-2011 |
20110181675 | INK JET RECORDING SYSTEM AND RECORDING METHOD - An ink jet recording system, contains a recording head that ejects ink to the surface of a target non-ink-absorbing or low ink-absorbing recording medium; a medium support portion that faces the recording head and supports the target recording medium from the back surface; a drying portion as a first fixing portion that evaporates a liquid ingredient of the ink that is ejected to the target recording medium from the recording head and adheres thereto; and a second fixing portion at the downstream side with respect to the drying portion of a feeding direction of the target recording medium, the second fixing portion is an irradiation device that irradiates the target recording medium with ultraviolet ray or electron beam, and the evaporation amount of the liquid ingredient in the drying portion is 40 to 70% by weight of the ink adhering to the target recording medium. | 07-28-2011 |
20110199447 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DRYING METHOD USED IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus has an image forming unit, a heat pump, and a blow-out port. The image forming unit forms an image on a medium. The heat pump generates air of a decreased low humidity. The low-humidity air generated by the heat pump is blown from the blow-out port to the medium on which the image is formed by the image forming unit. | 08-18-2011 |
20110199448 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DRYING METHOD IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a tray, a heating mechanism, a blower, and a body casing. The image forming unit forms an image on an image forming medium. The tray stacks the image forming medium, having an image formed thereon by the image forming unit, on the tray. The heating mechanism warms air. The blower sends out the air warmed by the heating mechanism. The body casing has a discharge opening. The discharge opening is used to discharge the air sent from the blower to the image forming medium stacked on the tray. | 08-18-2011 |
20110199449 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - A light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting body, a thermally conductive member, and a heat radiation member. The substrate has a first face and a second face which is a face opposite to the first face. The light emitting body is held on a side of the first face of the substrate and emits light. The thermally conductive member is provided so as to be in contact with the second face of the substrate and contains a high thermal conductive material. The heat radiation member is provided so as to be in contact with the thermally conductive member and radiates heat conducted from the substrate through the thermally conductive member. | 08-18-2011 |
20110205320 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD - A recording apparatus includes: an upstream conveying unit that intermittently conveys a recording medium from an upstream side to a downstream side in a conveying direction; a downstream conveying unit that continuously conveys the recording medium; a recording unit that deposits a liquid and performs a recording process on the recording medium while the recording medium is being intermittently conveyed by the upstream conveying unit and has stopped; a fixing unit that performs a fixing process for fixing the liquid on the recording medium being continuously conveyed by the downstream conveying unit after the liquid has been deposited by the recording unit; and a control unit that controls the downstream conveying unit so that the downstream conveying unit conveys the recording medium at a conveying velocity that is higher than an average conveying velocity when the recording medium is conveyed by the upstream conveying unit. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205321 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head which ejects an aqueous ultraviolet-curable ink toward a recording surface of a recording medium; a holding and drying unit including: a suction holding drum which conveys the recording medium while holding a back surface side of the recording medium by suction through suction holes formed in an outer circumferential surface of the drum; and a hot air flow drying device disposed to face the outer circumferential surface of the drum; a transfer conveyance device which is arranged at a downstream side of the holding and drying unit and conveys the recording medium while holding a leading end of the recording medium and curving the back surface side in a convex shape; and a fixing unit including an ultraviolet light irradiation device which is arranged at a downstream side of the transfer conveyance device and irradiates ultraviolet light onto the image. | 08-25-2011 |
20110211030 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND SHEET PROCESSING METHOD - An apparatus for performing duplex printing having a sheet feeding unit, a printing unit, a cutter unit, a drying unit, and a reverse unit. In the duplex printing, the printing unit prints a plurality of images on a first surface of a sheet fed from the sheet feeding unit. The sheet is a continuous sheet. The sheet printed on the first surface passes through the drying unit and is led to the reverse unit. The reverse unit feeds the reversed sheet to the printing unit and the printing unit prints a plurality of images on a second surface that is a back of the first surface of the sheet fed from the reverse unit. The cutter unit cuts the sheet printed on the second surface into a plurality of cut sheets each having the image printed thereon. The cut sheets pass through the drying unit and are ejected. | 09-01-2011 |
20110216139 | DRYING APPARATUS, RECORDING APPARATUS, AND DRYING METHOD - A drying apparatus includes a fluid supply mechanism configured to supply a fluid as a heat medium for controlling a target to a desired temperature. The fluid supply mechanism supplies the fluid to a space region disposed on one surface side of the target, to increase the pressure in the target from the one surface side. | 09-08-2011 |
20110221839 | COATING AGENT FOR UV CURABLE INKJET PRINTING - A coating agent for use in UV curable inkjet printing using nonaqueous UV ink. The coating agent includes a main component that is an organic-inorganic nanocomposite, and the coating agent is configured to form an undercoat before the inkjet printing or to form a finishing coat after the inkjet printing and UV curing. | 09-15-2011 |
20110221840 | HEATER UNIT AND LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE - The heater unit includes: a locking device selectable between a locked state in which the heater unit chassis is locked in the printer chassis, and an unlocked state in which the printer chassis and the heater unit chassis are unlocked; and a grip portion. When the grip portion is in a first operating position, the locking device is held in the locked state, and when the grip portion is in a second operating position, the locking device is held in the unlocked state. The operating state of the locking device changes in an interlocked manner with switching of the operating position of the grip portion. | 09-15-2011 |
20110228024 | Inkjet Printing Apparatus - A printing apparatus has been developed that prints inkjet images on a continuous web with a configurable number of distinct ink colors. The printing apparatus includes a frame configured to support a plurality of components to form a printing system, the frame including a plurality of mounting locations, a plurality of printing system components including at least one printhead array and at least one first ink composition curing assembly, each printing system component in the plurality of printing system components being configured to mount to a mounting location on the frame, and the printing apparatus being enabled to eject a first ink composition onto an image receiving surface when a first set of printing system components selected from the plurality of printing system components is mounted to the frame and being enabled to eject a second ink composition onto an image receiving surface when a second set of printing system components selected from the plurality of printing system components is mounted to the frame, the second set of printing system components not including a first ink composition curing assembly. | 09-22-2011 |
20110228025 | DRYING DEVICE AND RECORDING DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH DRYING DEVICE - A drying device includes a drying unit configured to carry out a drying process on a recording medium by blowing heated air from a discharge port formed at a location partway along the conveyance path of the recording medium as the medium is conveyed from the upstream side to the downstream side in the conveyance direction. A drying zone is disposed on the downstream side of the drying unit in the conveyance direction over the front face of the recording medium so that the air blown from the discharge port is retained in the drying zone. An upper surface of the drying zone is defined by an extended surface portion of an outer surface of a housing of the drying unit, the extended surface portion extending from the discharge port toward the downstream side in the conveyance direction to cover the conveyance path from above. | 09-22-2011 |
20110234723 | PRINTING SYSTEMS WITH PROGRESSIVE IMAGE TRANSFER AND PROGRESSIVE RADIANT ENERGY EXPOSURE OF IMAGES FOR MULTI-PASS PRINTING, PRINTING APPARATUSES AND CORRESPONDING METHODS - Printing systems, printing apparatuses and methods of forming images on media are provided. An exemplary embodiment of the printing systems includes a rotatable intermediate member including an outer surface on which marking material can be applied by a marking system to form an image via multiple passes of the intermediate member past the marking system; a transport device including a rotatable transport belt having an inlet end and an outlet end, the transport device being movable relative to the outer surface of the intermediate member to engage the transport belt with a medium starting at the inlet end at which a leading edge of the medium enters and progressively increase an engagement zone with the medium toward the outlet end as the leading edge of the medium advances, the outer surface and the transport belt forming an image transfer/curing zone along which the image is transferred from the outer surface to the medium, the image transfer/curing zone increasing in length as the transport belt is progressively engaged with the advancing medium; and a radiating device including a radiant energy source adapted to simultaneously progressively expose the image to radiant energy while the image is being transferred to the medium along the image transfer/curing zone. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234724 | CORRUGATED PRE-CURLER FOR MEDIA HOLD-DOWN TRANSPORT - A system for maintaining depth of focus in an ink jet printer between a series of print heads and corrugated media includes a vacuum transport in combination with a heating element positioned upstream of the series of print heads in order to help the vacuum transport acquire the corrugated media and seal edges of the corrugated media against a platen. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234725 | INK-JET RECORDING METHOD AND INK SET - An ink-jet recording method, having the steps of: ejecting droplets of inks from an orifice of a recording head onto a recording sheet in response to recording signals; and heating the recording sheet to 70° C. or higher before the droplets of the ink land on the recording sheet or at the time of landing thereof, thereby to form a multi-order color image on the recording sheet, in which the inks are two or more kinds of inks that thicken by heating and have different color hues from each other, and the droplets of the inks are ejected in sequence from the ink having the lowest viscosity at 70° C. among the inks. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234726 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink jet recording method includes recording with an aqueous ink composition on a non-ink-absorbing or low-ink-absorbing recording medium. The aqueous ink composition contains a water-insoluble colorant, water-insoluble thermoplastic resin particles, a surfactant, a first solvent including at least one selected from 2-pyrrolidone and N,N′-dimethylpropylene urea, a second solvent including 1,2-hexanediol, and a third solvent including at least one selected from glycol diethers having a boiling point of 240° C. or more and 280° C. or less. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234727 | INK JET RECORDING PROCESS - Recording onto a non-ink-absorbing or low-ink-absorbing recording medium is performed using an aqueous ink composition containing a first solvent composed of a glycol diether having a boiling point of 150 to 220° C., a second solvent composed of at least one selected from 1,2-hexanediol and 1,2-pentanediol, and a third solvent composed of a glycol having a boiling point of 170 to 220° C. and conducting two drying steps at different heating conditions. | 09-29-2011 |
20110234728 | INK JET RECORDING PROCESS - Recording onto a non-ink-absorbing recording medium is performed using an aqueous ink composition containing a first solvent composed of at least one selected from 2-pyrrolidone, 1,3-dimethyl-imidazolidinone, and N,N′-dimethylpropylene urea, a second solvent composed of at least one selected from 1,2-hexanediol and 1,2-pentanediol, and a third solvent composed of at least one selected from glycol diethers and heating the non-ink-absorbing recording medium at 40 to 60° C. | 09-29-2011 |
20110242242 | Image Forming Apparatus and Image Forming Method - There is provided an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium, the image forming apparatus including: a first discharge head which discharges, toward the recording medium, an ink containing a coloring agent; a second discharge head which discharges, toward the recording medium, a liquid which improves image quality and which contains a component for coagulating or depositing the coloring agent; an energy emitting device which emits active energy; and a transport mechanism which transports the recording medium to a position opposed to the first discharge head and the second discharge head, wherein: at least one of the ink and the liquid contains a curable substance which is curable by being irradiated with the active energy. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242243 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink jet recording apparatus of the present invention includes a head, a first light source, a second light source. Liquid droplets of a photo-curable ink composition are applied to a recording medium. After one second or less elapses from the time when the liquid droplets are applied to the recording medium, the liquid droplets are illuminated with light of the first light source. After 0.1 second or more and one second or less elapses from the time when the liquid droplets are illuminated with light of the first light source, the liquid droplets are illuminated with light of the second light source. | 10-06-2011 |
20110242244 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND THERMAL INSULATION METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus includes: an image formation unit including an inkjet head which forms an image on a recording medium, and an image formation drum which rotates while supporting the recording medium on a circumferential surface and thereby moves the recording medium relatively to the inkjet head; a drying process unit including a drying process device which performs a drying process on the recording medium on which the image has been formed by the inkjet head, and a drying drum which rotates while supporting the recording medium on a circumferential surface and thereby moves the recording medium in a process region of the drying process unit; and an air curtain generation unit which generates an air flow in a downward direction between the image formation unit and the drying process unit, and thereby generates an air curtain for thermal insulation between the image formation unit and the drying process unit. | 10-06-2011 |
20110249067 | Ink-jet recording apparatus - [Objective] To provide an ink-jet recording apparatus capable of suppressing contamination of a recording medium, efficiently utilizing installation space, and carrying out printing continuously onto both surfaces of the recording medium. | 10-13-2011 |
20110254909 | Coated Films for Inkjet Printing - Provided are coated films suitable for inkjet printing applications using UV-curable inkjet ink. The films are coated with cationically stabilizable emulsion polymers. The emulsion polymers contain cationically stabilizable amino-functional polymers. Also provided is a method of printing with a UV-inkjet printer comprising jetting UV-curable inkjet ink onto the coated film substrate to form an ink printed image. | 10-20-2011 |
20110261127 | METHODS OF LEVELING INK ON SUBSTRATES AND APPARATUSES USEFUL IN PRINTING - Methods of leveling ink on substrates and apparatuses useful in printing are provided. An exemplary embodiment of the methods includes irradiating ink disposed on a surface of a porous substrate with radiation emitted by at least one radiant energy source. The radiation heats the ink to at least a viscosity threshold temperature of the ink to allow the ink to flow laterally on the surface to produce leveling of the ink. The ink is heated sufficiently rapidly that heat transfer from the ink to the substrate is sufficiently small during the leveling that ink at the substrate interface is cooled to a temperature below the viscosity threshold temperature thereby preventing any significant ink permeation into the substrate. | 10-27-2011 |
20110261128 | DRYING APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - The invention provides an apparatus including: a rotatable belt having an outer surface and an inner surface, the outer surface partially coming into contact with a sheet; a plurality of rollers being arranged in a direction of movement of the sheet and including a first roller and a second roller adjacent to each other, the plurality of rollers being pressed against the outer surface and the moving sheet being nipped between the plurality of rollers and the outer surface; a blowing mechanism configured to blow hot air from between the first roller and the second roller toward the sheet; and a heating unit including a heater and a contact surface coming into contact with the inner surface, the heating unit being configured to be able to set the contact surface thereof to have a predetermined non-uniform temperature distribution. | 10-27-2011 |
20110261129 | ACTIVE ENERGY RAY CURABLE INK JET RECORDING LIQUID COMPOSITION AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD USING THE SAME - The invention provides an active energy ray curable ink jet recording liquid composition including a radically polymerizable compound, an active energy ray polymerization initiator, a wax and water, wherein the melting point of the wax is 40° C. or more and 120° C. or less. | 10-27-2011 |
20110267409 | Compositions and processes for manufacturing printed electronics - The present invention is directed to a printable composition, comprising: 0.5 to 60 wt % of a polymer selected from the group consisting of epoxy, Novolac and poly(dimethylglutarimide); and 40-99.5 wt % of a solvent composition comprising (1) a high boiling point solvent having a flash point greater than about 10° C. and a boiling point greater than about 130° C. and (2) a low boiling point solvent having a flash point less than 30° C. and a boiling point less than or equal to 130° C., all weight percents based on the total weight of the composition. The present invention is also directed to methods of forming patterned substrates using the above compositions. The compositions of the invention are useful for printing electronic materials onto a substrate using a piezo-electric printer. | 11-03-2011 |
20110267410 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET METHOD - In a printing apparatus improvement of drying ability and reduction of consumed power are concurrently achieved by improving the efficiency of drying ink. More concretely, hot air is blown onto a print medium printed by ink, and a portion of the blown hot air is recovered and blown again. Before the hot air is blown, the print medium is heated by a preheating unit, making it higher than the dew point temperature of the blown hot air. | 11-03-2011 |
20110273522 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF INSTALLING PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a first housing at least a sheet feeding unit is provided therein and a second housing at least a printing unit is provided therein. The first housing and the second housing are individually supported on a floor. The first housing and the second housing are separable for the purpose of maintenance. | 11-10-2011 |
20110279612 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND CALIBRATION METHOD - An apparatus includes: a drying unit to dry a printing medium on which an image was printed using an inkjet head; a humidification unit to humidify the printing medium that was dried by the drying unit so that the moisture content of the printing medium becomes the equilibrium state in the ambient environment; a colorimetric unit to perform colorimetry on the printing medium that was humidified by the humidification unit; and a calibration unit to calibrate printing properties on the basis of the result of colorimetry by the colorimetric unit. | 11-17-2011 |
20110285799 | INKJET PRINTER - An inkjet printer includes a platen having a placing face, a printing device, and a printing medium feeding device. A guide is provided on a feeding-out side via which a printing medium is to be fed out from the platen. The guide has a guide face. A printing medium temperature raising device is to heat the guide face so as to raise a temperature of the printing medium placed on the guide face. A temperature raising preventing device is provided between the guide face of the guide and a portion of the placing face facing a printing target region. The temperature raising preventing device is configured to prevent an extended portion of the printing medium from being heated by the printing medium temperature raising device. The extended portion corresponds an area which is extended to the feeding-out side by a predetermined length from the printing target region. | 11-24-2011 |
20110292144 | INK DRYING - Ink drying methods and apparatus are disclosed. One example ink drying apparatus includes a resistive heating element having a first power dissipation density adjacent to a center region of a print media travel path and a second power dissipation density adjacent to an edge region of the print media travel path, wherein the first and second power densities are not equal. | 12-01-2011 |
20110298876 | INKJET IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INKJET IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image recording apparatus is provided containing:
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20110298877 | PRINT HEAD, UPGRADE KIT FOR A CONVENTIONAL INKJET PRINTER, INKJET PRINTER AND METHOD FOR PRINTING OPTICAL STRUCTURES - The inventions relates to a print head for printing optical structures on a substrate comprising an ejection device for ejecting at least one droplet of a printing ink towards the substrate and a curing device for curing the at least one deposited droplet, wherein the curing device comprises at least one UV-LED (ultraviolet emitting light-emitting diode). | 12-08-2011 |
20110310203 | Pre-Heating Print Media - A system for pre-heating print media includes a carriage: a plurality of printheads disposed on the carriage; and a plurality of heating lamps disposed on the carriage such that each of the printheads is associated with at least one of the heating lamps. Each of the heating lamps heats a corresponding portion of a print medium prior to arrival of a printhead associated with that heating lamp at that portion of the print medium. | 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 |
20110316949 | PAPER SEASONING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a paper seasoning apparatus and an inkjet recording apparatus including a paper seasoning apparatus, capable of seasoning paper configured in a paper stack, and separating the paper stacks by introducing separation plates between sheets of the paper. Namely, separation plates for separating paper into specific numbers of sheets are introduced from a plate feeding apparatus into a housing of a paper seasoning apparatus. A separation plate lowering device lowers the separation plate that is supporting a paper stack. Seasoning is performed by blowing air from an air blowing device against the paper stack. | 12-29-2011 |
20110316950 | PAPER SEASONING APPARATUS, PAPER SEASONING METHOD, INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a paper seasoning apparatus, a paper seasoning method, and an inkjet recording apparatus, that may improve seasoning achieved by blowing air against a paper stack. A paper seasoning apparatus includes, an upwards protruding shaped mounting surface on which a paper stack is mounted, and first air blowing devices and second air blowing devices that blow air against a side face of the paper stack mounted on the mounting surface. The second air blowing devices are disposed in the vicinity of a maximum height position and at a height of a position where air outlets of the second air blowing devices include the mounting surface. | 12-29-2011 |
20120001991 | ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION UNIT - An ultraviolet irradiation unit ( | 01-05-2012 |
20120013692 | APPARATUS FOR PRINTING ON A MEDIUM - A roller assembly for use in a printer includes a shaft with two ends and a pair of conical rollers. Each of the conical rollers is disposed on the shaft near each of the ends. The roller assembly guides a medium within the printer without damaging a freshly-printed surface of the medium. A printer including the roller assembly and a belt in contact with the roller assembly is also described and claimed. | 01-19-2012 |
20120013693 | PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING METHOD, SHEET-FED PRINTING PRESS, AND ROTARY PRINTING PRESS - A printing device includes a rotatable printing cylinder, a blanket cylinder configured to make a synchronous rotation with the printing cylinder in contact with each other and to convey a printing medium by nipping the printing medium with the printing cylinder, an inkjet head that forms an image on a surface of the blanket cylinder by squirting heatset ink onto the surface of the blanket cylinder, and a first heating unit that heats up either the printing medium conveyed into a contact portion of the printing cylinder and the blanket cylinder or the blanket cylinder. | 01-19-2012 |
20120026264 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming method includes applying an ink composition including water, a pigment, a water-soluble organic solvent and polymer particles to a recording medium at an application amount of the ink composition of 6 g/m | 02-02-2012 |
20120038723 | Curable Sublimation Ink And Sublimation Transfer Process Using Same - A transfer printing method including applying a curable sublimation ink having at least one curable component and at least one sublimation colorant in a desired pattern onto a transfer substrate to form an image on the transfer substrate at a first temperature which is below the sublimation temperature of the sublimation colorant; curing the image on the transfer substrate; and optionally, bringing the transfer substrate into contact with a final image-receiving substrate, optionally applying pressure, and heating to a second temperature which is sufficient to cause the sublimation colorant to sublime and form a permanent image on the final image-receiving substrate. | 02-16-2012 |
20120038724 | ADD-ON TYPE ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An add-on type ultraviolet irradiation apparatus for being coupled to an inkjet recording apparatus that does not include an ultraviolet irradiation device for curing ultraviolet curable ink, so as to make the inkjet recording apparatus usable as an ultraviolet curing type image forming apparatus, includes: a detection device which detects a conveyance operation of a recording medium performed by the inkjet recording apparatus; an ultraviolet light source for radiating ultraviolet light onto an ultraviolet curable ink deposited on the recording medium by the inkjet recording apparatus; and an exposure control device which controls exposure performed by the ultraviolet light source according to a detection signal obtained from the detection device. | 02-16-2012 |
20120038725 | WATER-BASED INKJET INK, METHOD FOR PRODUCING INKJET PRINTED PRODUCT USING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING WATER-BASED INKJET INK - Disclosed is an inkjet ink which provides a high-quality image in that whitening of the recorded image film is inhibited, durability of the image is good, and there is no banding, and the like; inkjet injection stability and ink shelf life are excellent; and head maintenance returnability is excellent Also disclosed are a method for producing an inkjet printed product using the same, and a method for producing a water-based inkjet ink. This inkjet ink comprises at least a) a pigment, b) a polymer dispersant comprising polyethylene oxide groups having an acid value of less than 50 mgKOH/g (c) acrylic copolymer resin, and (d) at least one water-soluble organic solvent selected from glycol ethers and 1,2-alkanediols having 4 or more carbons. | 02-16-2012 |
20120062666 | METHODS OF FORMING IMAGES ON SUBSTRATES WITH INK PARTIAL-CURING AND CONTACT LEVELING AND APPARATUSES USEFUL IN FORMING IMAGES ON SUBSTRATES - Methods of forming images on substrates in printing and apparatuses for forming images on substrates in printing are provided. An exemplary embodiment of the methods of forming images on substrates in printing includes applying ink onto a surface of a substrate; irradiating the ink on the surface of the substrate with first radiation to partially-cure the ink; applying pressure to the substrate and partially-cured ink at a nip with a first surface of a first member and a second surface of a second member to level the ink on the surface of the substrate; and irradiating the as-leveled ink on the surface of the substrate with second radiation to substantially fully cure the ink. | 03-15-2012 |
20120062667 | METHODS OF ADJUSTING GLOSS OF IMAGES LOCALLY ON SUBSTRATES USING INK PARTIAL-CURING AND CONTACT LEVELING AND APPARATUSES USEFUL IN FORMING IMAGES ON SUBSTRATES - Apparatuses and methods for forming images on substrates in printing are provided and may include a first marking station for applying a first ink having a first color to a surface of a substrate, a first partial-curing station downstream from the first marking station, a second marking station downstream from the first partial-curing station for applying a second ink having a second color to the surface of the substrate, a second partial-curing station downstream from the second marking station, a leveling device for applying pressure to the substrate and the partially-cured first ink and second ink to level the first ink and second ink on the surface of the substrate, and a post-leveling curing device for irradiating the as-leveled first ink and second ink on the surface of the substrate to substantially-fully cure the first ink and the second ink. | 03-15-2012 |
20120062668 | METHODS OF TREATING INK ON POROUS SUBSTRATES USING PARTIAL CURING AND APPARATUSES USEFUL IN TREATING INK ON POROUS SUBSTRATES - Methods of treating ink on a porous substrate and methods of printing onto porous substrates are provided. An exemplary embodiment of the methods of treating ink on a porous substrate includes applying a layer of ink onto a first surface of a porous substrate; irradiating the layer of ink with first radiation having a first spectrum effective to partially cure the ink layer and reduce penetration of the ink into pores of the substrate; leveling the partially-cured ink layer; and irradiating the as-leveled ink layer with second radiation to further cure the ink layer, the second radiation having a second spectrum different from the first spectrum of the first radiation. | 03-15-2012 |
20120062669 | CURABLE PHASE CHANGE INK CONTAINING ALKOXYSILANE MONOMER - A phase change ink includes an ink vehicle that includes at least one curable carrier, at least one gellant, at least one wax and at least one alkoxysilane monomer. In a method of forming an image with the ink, the phase change ink is melted, then jetted onto an image receiving substrate, wherein the phase change ink forms a gel state, and exposed to ultraviolet light to cure the curable components of the phase change ink. The alkoxysilane participates in crosslinking to form silicon-oxygen-silicon bonds, thereby producing an ink with advantageous stability and high image quality. | 03-15-2012 |
20120062670 | PHASE CHANGE INK COMPOSITION - The present invention relates a composition which is useful in printing an electrical conductor on the front surface of a substrate, such as a solar cell. A phase change binder is used to allow printing of narrow grid lines which also may have adequate height to provide sufficient electrical conduction. The present invention is also directed to a process to print a pattern of the composition. | 03-15-2012 |
20120069108 | INK COMPOSITION - The present invention provides an ink composition comprising at least a polymerizable compound, a photo-polymerization initiator and a polymerization accelerator, wherein the polymerizable compound comprises en N-vinyl compound, the photo-polymerization initiator comprises two or more compounds selected from the group consisting of bisacylphosphine oxides, monoacylphosphine oxides and α-amino ketones, and the polymerization accelerator comprises fine particles having a polymerizable functional group. The ink composition of the invention may be a transparent ink composition containing no coloring material. The ink composition of the invention may further contain a fluorescent whitening agent. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069109 | METHOD OF PRINTING - The application describes a method and apparatus for controlling surface finish in the printing of a substrate in a plurality of passes using a curable print material and an ink jet printer having a radiation source. A first set of passes is carried out, including depositing ink on the substrate and emitting radiation from a radiation source toward the deposited ink. The emitted radiation applies a dose of radiation in a first range. A second set of passes is then carried out to deposit ink on the substrate. Further radiation is emitted from a radiation source toward the deposited ink, the emitted radiation applying a dose of radiation in a second range different from the first range. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069110 | INK DRYING APPARATUS AND INK-JET PRINTING APPARATUS - An ink drying apparatus ( | 03-22-2012 |
20120075394 | INK, INKJET PRINTER, AND METHOD FOR PRINTING - An ink includes a volatile organic solvent and a UV curable ink. The ink has a viscosity greater than or equal to 3 mPa·sec and less than or equal to 18 mPa·sec (at 25° C.). The UV curable ink has a viscosity of greater than or equal to 20 mPa·sec (at 25° C.). The UV curable ink comprises a pigment, an ultraviolet curable resin curable by an ultraviolet light, and a photopolymerization initiator. | 03-29-2012 |
20120086762 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD - A method of ink jet recording including forming an uncured first ink layer of a first ultraviolet curable ink A on a recording medium, forming an uncured second ink layer having a recording pattern inside the uncured first ink layer of the ink A by discharging a second ultraviolet curable ink B from an ink jet head, and curing the uncured first ink layer by irradiating the uncured first ink layer with ultraviolet light after forming the uncured second ink layer, wherein the ink A contains a photoradical generator and the ink B contains a photobase generator and a coloring agent. | 04-12-2012 |
20120092428 | INK-JET INKS HAVING POLYMERS AND NEAR-INFRARED ABSORBING DYES - The present disclosure is drawn to methods and compositions directed at durable ink-jet inks. As such, an ink-jet ink can comprise a liquid vehicle, a colorant dispersed or dissolved in the liquid vehicle, a high T | 04-19-2012 |
20120113199 | LED Roll to Roll Drum Printer Systems, Structures and Methods - An enhanced printing system comprises a drum structure, a print carriage for delivering LED curable ink there from, such as from one or more print heads, and one or more LED light sources for curing the delivered ink. Some embodiments may preferably further comprise one or more LED pining stations, such as to control, slow or stop the spread of ink drops. As well, some printer embodiments may comprise a mechanism to deliver any of an inert gas, e.g. nitrogen, or other gas that is at least partially depleted of oxygen, between the LED energy source and the substrate. The disclosed LED printing structures typically provide higher quality and/or lower cost as compared to prior art systems, for a wide variety of printing matter output, such as for but not limited to super wide format (SWF) output, wide format (WF) output, packaging, labeling, or point of sale displays or signage. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113200 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SUBSTRATE AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD - The invention provides a process for producing a protective-layer-provided substrate in which a protective layer is formed on a substrate on the surface of which a plurality of structures have been arranged at intervals. The protective layer has a resin layer and a film for chucking. The process includes the steps of forming the resin layer between the respective structures, on the surfaces of the respective structures and on the surface of the substrate having the plurality of the structures; and forming the film for chucking on the resin layer to form the protective layer. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113201 | ULTRAVIOLET CURABLE TYPE INK-JET INK COMPOSITION, RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDING APPARATUS USISNG SAME - Provided is a UV curable type ink-jet ink composition containing a monomer A which is expressed by the following general formula (I): | 05-10-2012 |
20120113202 | CONTACTLESS INK LEVELING METHOD AND APPARTUS - A method of leveling ink that is printed on a substrate includes establishing a thermal gradient across a thickness of the substrate, the thermal gradient characterized in that it is less than a viscosity threshold temperature of the ink across most of the substrate. | 05-10-2012 |
20120120168 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus and an image forming method in which ink curing defects caused by differences in the activation energy absorption characteristics due to differences in the inks are avoided, and a desirable curing process can be achieved. | 05-17-2012 |
20120120169 | CONTACTLESS INK LEVELING METHOD AND APPARTUS - A method of leveling ink that is printed on a substrate includes establishing a thermal gradient across a thickness of the substrate, the thermal gradient characterized in that it is less than a viscosity threshold temperature of the ink across most of the substrate. | 05-17-2012 |
20120127248 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording method using a clear ink composition includes processes of applying the clear ink composition and of heating the applied clear ink composition, wherein the clear ink composition contains an amino group-containing resin, water, a sparingly water soluble alkanediol, and a wetting agent which is solid at 20° C. and 60% relative humidity. | 05-24-2012 |
20120127249 | RECORDING METHOD, LIGHT CURABLE TYPE INK SET, AND RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is a recording method using a light-curable-type ink set including a light-curable-type color-ink composition containing a polymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, and a coloring material and a light-curable-type clear-ink composition containing a polymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the light-curable-type color-ink composition contains (1) an acylphosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator and (2) at least one of a thioxanthone-based photopolymerization initiator and/or an α aminoalkylphenone-based photopolymerization initiator which is in a range of 0.5 to 4 mass % with respect to the total mass of the color ink composition, wherein the light-curable-type clear-ink composition contains an acylphosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator which is in a range of 5 to 12 mass % with respect to the total mass of the clear-ink composition, and wherein illumination energy when a coated film made from the ink set is cured through light illumination from a light source is in a range of 100 to 800 mJ/cm | 05-24-2012 |
20120133715 | Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method using the same - The present invention is directed to an inkjet recording apparatus | 05-31-2012 |
20120133716 | ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION DEVICE AND PRINTING DEVICE - An ultraviolet irradiation device | 05-31-2012 |
20120140007 | INKJET PRINTERS WITH DUAL PAPER SENSORS - A printer that determines paper type includes a first short and long wavelength radiation source located on a first side of paper which first radiation source sequentially outputs a short wavelength radiation and a long wavelength radiation onto the first side of the paper that reflects the long wavelength radiation and the short wavelength radiation is absorbed by the paper and emitted as long wavelength fluorescence radiation; one or more first detectors located on the first side of the paper and each detector detects a long wavelength fluorescence signal resulting from the short wavelength radiation source of the first radiation source and a reflectance signal resulting from the long wavelength radiation source of the first short and long wavelength radiation source; a second short and long wavelength radiation source located on a second side of the paper which second short wavelength and long wavelength radiation source sequentially outputs a short wavelength radiation and a long wavelength radiation onto the second side of the paper that reflects the long wavelength radiation and the short wavelength radiation is absorbed by the paper and emitted as long wavelength fluorescence radiation; one or more second detectors located on the second side of the paper each detector detects a long wavelength fluorescence signal resulting from the short wavelength radiation source of the second radiation source and a reflectance signal resulting from the long wavelength radiation source of the second short and long wavelength radiation source; and a lookup table that determines a paper type from a plurality of paper types based on the fluorescence signal and reflectance signals. | 06-07-2012 |
20120140008 | INK-JET INKS INCLUDING INTER-CROSSLINKABLE LATEX PARTICLES - The present disclosure includes compositions, methods, and systems having an ink-jet ink comprising a liquid vehicle, a colorant dispersed or dissolved in the liquid vehicle, inter-crosslinkable latex particles dispersed in the liquid vehicle, and an inter-particle crosslinker. The inter-crosslinkable latex particles can comprise at least one hydrophobic monomer; at least one acidic monomer; at least one inter-crosslinkable monomer including at least one keto group; the inter-crosslinkable monomer having the structure described in Formula 1. Additionally, the inter-crosslinkable latex particles can be intra-crosslinked forming an inter-particle crosslinked latex polymer film after printing and upon at least partial depletion of the liquid vehicle or liquid vehicle component. | 06-07-2012 |
20120147108 | INK-JET INK PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An ink-jet ink printing method and associated system can comprise a printer including an ink-jet ink. The ink comprises an aqueous liquid vehicle, 1 wt % to 5 wt % pigment, 1 wt % to 5 wt % acrylic polymer particles, 0.3 wt % to 3 wt % urethane polymer particles, and is formulated to print on a vinyl medium. The system also includes a heating device. Upon applying heat to the ink-jet ink printed on the vinyl medium, the polymer particles in the printed ink fuse, and form a film encapsulating at least a portion of the pigment on the vinyl print medium. | 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 |
20120147110 | INK JET RECORDING MEDIUM WITH LENTICULAR LENSES - Disclosed is a recording medium with a lenticular lens for ink jet recording. The recording medium includes: a lenticular lens layer having a convex part surface, on which a plurality of semicylindrical or arcuate and elongated convexes are arranged in parallel, and a backside surface; and an ink absorptive layer provided on the backside surface of the lenticular lens layer. In the recording medium, an ink permeable layer for avoiding the stay of ink droplets on a recorded face after printing, or an adhesive layer for rendering the recording medium easily fixable to a wall, a mount and the like, or a temporarily applicable part is further provided. | 06-14-2012 |
20120154495 | Oxygen Inhibition for Print-Head Reliability - Systems and methods of applying a gaseous inhibitor into a printing region to hinder the curing process of ink on the print heads caused by the presence of stray light in the printing environment. | 06-21-2012 |
20120154496 | CURABLE SOLID INKS FOR RAISED PRINT APPLICATIONS AND METHODS FOR USING THE SAME - Curable solid inks and low shrinkage curable solid inks which are solid at room temperature and molten at an elevated temperature at which the molten ink is applied to a substrate. In particular, the solid inks of the present embodiments retain the advantages of handling, safety, and print quality usually associated with conventional solid phase change inks but provide additional breakthrough performance characteristics such as enhanced robustness, lower jetting temperature, and ultra-low shrinkage upon crystallization, which allow the inks to be used as novel materials in inkjet-based Braille and raised print applications. | 06-21-2012 |
20120154497 | COATING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A coating apparatus includes a movable body, a particle feeding portion, a liquid feeding portion, a stimulus giving portion, and a nip portion. The movable body includes a circumferential face capable of rotating. The particle feeding portion feeds solid particles transparent to visible light to the circumferential face of the movable body. The liquid feeding portion feeds a hardenable liquid, in a form of a layer, on the circumferential face of the movable body supplied with the solid particles. The hardenable liquid is hardened by a stimulus given to the hardenable liquid. The stimulus giving portion gives the stimulus to the hardenable liquid fed on the circumferential face. The nip portion nips the hardenable liquid between the movable body and a recording medium. | 06-21-2012 |
20120154498 | IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD - An image formation device includes an inkjet head that ejects ink onto a sheet, IR heaters that dry the ink ejected on the sheet, and warm air heaters between the IR heaters. At the IR heaters, a peak wavelength of infrared rays is set to be less than or equal to 1.2 μm. By adjusting temperature of the IR heaters and temperature and wind speed of the warm air heaters, during an initial stage of drying in which a moisture content derived from ink at the sheet is greater than or equal to 4.0 g/m | 06-21-2012 |
20120154499 | CONDUCTOR FORMING METHOD - There is provided a method for forming a conductor, including a first printing step of printing a contour part of the conductor with a first printing ink, a drying step of drying the printed contour part, and a second printing step of printing a remaining part of the conductor with a second printing ink, wherein the second printing ink contains a conductive material and has a surface tension lower than or equal to a surface tension of the first printing ink. | 06-21-2012 |
20120162333 | Infrared-Absorbing Radiation-Curable Inks - Disclosed is an ink composition comprising: (a) a phase change ink carrier which comprises at least one curable monomer, oligomer, or prepolymer; (b) an initiator; (c) an infrared-absorbing taggant; and (d) an optional colorant, the ink being curable upon exposure to radiation, the ink absorbing radiation in the infrared region. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162334 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording medium includes: a recording head ejecting fluid onto a recording medium; a transporting device transporting the recording medium along a supporting surface; and a heating device heating the recording medium on the supporting surface, in which a control device that protrudes the supporting surface upward toward the center portion from both ends in the width direction perpendicular to the transport direction which is direction the recording medium is transported, and controls the amount of protrusion at the center portion in accordance with the amount of thermal extension in the width direction of the recording medium due to heating of the heating device. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162335 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes: a recording head that ejects fluid onto a recording medium; a supporting member that supports the recording medium; and a heating device that heats the supporting member, in which a supporting surface that supports the recording medium in the supporting member has a surface treatment layer having a radiation factor of 0.85 or more. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162336 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus including a conveyor which conveys a recording medium in a conveyance direction; a recording head which ejects recording liquid curable by irradiation of ultraviolet light; a plurality of pretreatment heads which ejects pretreatment liquid curable by irradiation of ultraviolet light, the pretreatment heads including a downstream pretreatment head and an upstream pretreatment head which is positioned upstream of the downstream pretreatment head in the conveyance direction; and a controller which controls the conveyor and the pretreatment heads to cause: a total amount of liquid droplets ejected from the downstream pretreatment head to be greater than a total amount of liquid droplets ejected from the upstream pretreatment head; and a liquid droplet ejected from the downstream pretreatment head to overlap, on the recording medium, a liquid droplet which has been ejected from the upstream pretreatment head. | 06-28-2012 |
20120162337 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR INK JET PRINTING ON A NONABSORBENT SUBSTRATE - Ink jet printing on a non-absorbent substrate involves a wet primer having a primer viscosity. The wet primer is applied on the non-absorbent substrate. An ink jet ink having an ink jet viscosity lower than the primer viscosity is jetted over the wet primer while the primer is still wet. The wet primer and ink are simultaneously cured on the substrate. | 06-28-2012 |
20120176455 | PRINTING METHOD USING INK JET RECORDING - Printing is performed on a non-ink absorbing or low-ink absorbing recording medium, by providing a drying process, using an aqueous ink composition at least containing glycol ethers having an HLB value calculated by the Davis method in the range of 4.2 to 8.0 and 1,2-alkyldiols having 4 to 8 carbon atoms and a liquid composition at least containing glycol ethers having an HLB value calculated by the Davis method in the range of 4.2 to 8.0 and 1,2-alkyldiols having 4 to 8 carbon atoms. | 07-12-2012 |
20120176456 | ULTRAVIOLET CROSSLINKING INK AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An ultraviolet crosslinking ink including a radically polymerizable and anionically polymerizable monomer; a photoradical generator; and a photo-base generator. An inkjet recording method including ejecting an ultraviolet crosslinking ink including a radically polymerizable and anionically polymerizable monomer; a photoradical generator; a photo-base generator; and a colorant, toward a surface of a recording material to form an ink image, and irradiating the ink image with ultraviolet light using a light emitting diode. | 07-12-2012 |
20120188318 | CONVEYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A conveying device comprising a conveying body that conveys a recording medium; and a press roller comprising a large diameter portion that is formed at an axial direction central portion of the press roller and makes contact with the conveying body, and small diameter portions formed at both axial direction sides of the large diameter portion with a smaller diameter than the large diameter portion. Only a width direction central portion of the recording medium is pressed against the conveying body by the large diameter portion. | 07-26-2012 |
20120188319 | CUSTOMIZATION OF CURABLE INK PRINTS BY MOLDING - A system has a print head to dispense ink onto a print surface to form a printed image, a molding surface to contact the ink to form an informational image in at least the surface of the ink, and a radiation source to solidify the ink into the printed and informational images. A method includes dispensing ink onto a print medium to form a printed image, pressing a molding surface onto the printed image to transfer an informational image onto the printed image, and solidify the ink into the printed and informational images. | 07-26-2012 |
20120194622 | ULTRA VIOLET LIGHT EMITTING DIODE CURING OF UV REACTIVE INK - A method for printing a pattern on a electrical circuit, the method includes jetting on the electrical circuit an ultraviolet curable ink to form a pattern; and at least partially curing the ultraviolet curable ink by exposing the pattern to ultraviolet radiation generated from at least one ultraviolet light emitting diode (LED). | 08-02-2012 |
20120194623 | ELECTROMAGNETIC IRRADIATION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electromagnetic irradiation device is provided. The electromagnetic irradiation device includes an irradiator which irradiates droplets that are attached to a recording medium with an electromagnetic wave, an irradiation control unit which causes the irradiator to periodically irradiate the attached droplets with the electromagnetic, and a frequency setting unit which sets a frequency of an irradiation period which is a period during which the irradiator is caused to emit the electromagnetic wave. The period may be set to be equal to or greater than | 08-02-2012 |
20120194624 | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE IRRADIATION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - An electromagnetic wave irradiation device includes an irradiator which irradiates electromagnetic waves onto a liquid droplet which has been adhered to a recording medium, an irradiation controller which causes the irradiator to irradiate the electromagnetic waves periodically such that a frequency of an irradiation period in which the electromagnetic waves are irradiated is a predetermined frequency, and a time setting unit which sets a time ratio obtained by dividing a length of an irradiation time by the irradiator in the irradiation period by a length of a termination time during which the electromagnetic waves are not irradiated by the irradiator in the irradiation period to be a value of greater than or equal to 0.2 and less than or equal to 2. | 08-02-2012 |
20120200651 | INK SET AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An ink set is disclosed which includes a yellow ink composition containing a resin-coated yellow pigment in which a yellow pigment is coated with a crosslinked water-soluble resin, a water-soluble polymerizable compound and water; a magenta ink composition containing a resin-coated magenta pigment in which a magenta pigment is coated with a crosslinked water-soluble resin, a water-soluble polymerizable compound and water; a cyan ink composition containing a resin-coated cyan pigment in which a cyan pigment is coated with a crosslinked water-soluble resin, a water-soluble polymerizable compound and water; and a treatment liquid containing an aggregating agent for aggregating components in the ink compositions. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200652 | RECORDING METHOD - A recording method is for recording on a recording medium with a photocuring liquid substance by discharging droplets from a discharge head onto the recording medium while displacing the discharge head and the recording medium relative to each other. While the discharge head and the recording medium are displaced relative to each other, a droplet discharge step of discharging the droplets from the discharge head toward a predetermined section of the recording medium, and a radiation step of radiating the light toward the droplets discharged on the recording medium, are performed n (n being an integer of 2 or greater) times on the predetermined section to complete recording on the predetermined section, and the recording rate in the nth discharge step is lowered below 100%/n. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200653 | INK COMPOSITION AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The invention provides an ink composition including:
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20120212553 | LIQUID DROPLET DISCHARGING DEVICE - A liquid droplet discharging device is provided with a discharge head capable of relative movement through a predetermined plane with respect to a substrate, and adapted to discharge liquid droplets cured by activation light; and an irradiation section for irradiating the liquid droplets on the substrate with the activation light. Also provided is a retaining device whereby a cover member that transmits the activation light is detachably retained in a direction parallel to the predetermined plane. | 08-23-2012 |
20120224009 | PRINTING SYSTEM INCLUDING WEB MEDIA MOVING APPARATUS - A digital printing system for printing on a continuous web of print media includes a printhead configured to selectively moisten at least a portion of the web of print media as the web of print media is guided through the printing system. A roller, positioned downstream from the printhead, contacts the print media and causes the print media to wrap around a portion of the roller as the print media moves past the roller. The roller, having an axis of rotation, includes a pattern of recesses and ridges positioned along the axis of rotation of the roller. A second section of the roller is located between a first section of the roller and a third section of the roller as viewed along the axis of rotation. The roller includes a profile as viewed along the axis of rotation in which the diameter of the ridges located in the first section of the roller and the diameter of ridges located in the third section of the roller are greater than the diameter of the ridges located in the second section of the roller. | 09-06-2012 |
20120224010 | PRINTING METHOD INCLUDING WEB MEDIA MOVING APPARATUS - A method of printing includes providing a printhead and providing a roller positioned downstream from the printhead. The printhead is used to selectively moisten at least a portion of the web of print media as the web of print media is guided through the printing system. The print media is caused to contact and wrap around a portion of the roller as the print media moves past the roller. The roller, having an axis of rotation, includes a pattern of recesses and ridges positioned along the axis of rotation of the roller. A second section of the roller is located between a first section of the roller and a third section of the roller as viewed along the axis of rotation. The roller includes a profile as viewed along the axis of rotation in which the diameter of the ridges located in the first section of the roller and the diameter of ridges located in the third section of the roller are greater than the diameter of the ridges located in the second section of the roller. | 09-06-2012 |
20120224011 | CURABLE SOLID INK COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING NOVEL CURABLE WAX - Curable solid ink compositions, comprising a curable wax having a melting point under 40° C. as part of the ink vehicle, which are suitable for ink jet printing in applications that require high and/or variable levels of gloss. In particular, there is provided a novel high gloss, ultraviolet (UV) curable, phase change ink composition comprising a colorant and an ink vehicle comprising a gellant, a reactive diluent, a photoinitiator package, and a curable acrylate wax. | 09-06-2012 |
20120229581 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming method includes an ejecting step, a drying step after the ejecting step, and a particle-providing step after the drying step. The ejecting step includes ejecting aqueous ink onto a recording medium and forming an image. The drying step includes drying such that a difference between a water amount contained in the recording medium after the drying and a water amount that was contained in the recording medium before the ejecting is from 1.0 g/m | 09-13-2012 |
20120229582 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head having a nozzle opening for ejecting a liquid; a heating unit disposed opposite a liquid ejecting surface of the liquid ejecting head; a transport unit that transports a liquid-ejection-target medium between the liquid ejecting head and the heating unit; a blower unit that blows air onto a liquid-ejection-target surface of the medium; and a blowing control unit. The blower unit is able to vary an amount of air blown in a plurality of regions disposed along a certain direction, the plurality of regions including a region of the liquid-ejection-target medium, and the blowing control unit controls an amount of the air blown from the blower unit in the plurality of the regions along the certain direction on the basis of a width of the medium in the certain direction. | 09-13-2012 |
20120229583 | PHOTOCURABLE INK COMPOSITION, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING MATTER - An ink jet recording method having the steps of discharging a photocurable ink composition comprising a monomer expressed by CH | 09-13-2012 |
20120236095 | COATED PRINT MEDIA - The present disclosure is drawn to a coated print medium, a method of preparing a print medium, and a printing system. The coated print medium can comprise a substrate and a coating applied to the substrate. The coating can include, by solids, 20 wt % to 90 wt % of non-film forming polymer particulates having a particle size from 50 nm to 300 nm and a glass transition temperature greater than 85° C.; 1 wt % to 25 wt % water soluble polymer binder; 0.1 wt % to 5 wt % fixing agent; and 0.1 wt % to 10 wt % slip aid. | 09-20-2012 |
20120236096 | Thermal Indicators - A thermal indicator using indicia formed by opaque ink applied to a thermal imaging material element is described. The ink is substantially the same color as the imaging element background and remains substantially hidden until the imaging element background changes color when heated. Time-temperature exposure indicating labels can be prepared using a printer with direct thermal type and ink jet type print heads. | 09-20-2012 |
20120236097 | MARKING DEVICE, MANUFACTURING DEVICE, AND MARKING METHOD - A marking device includes a plurality of treatment devices, a transporting part, a static eliminator and a controller. Each of the treatment devices is configured and arranged to perform a treatment on a base material. The transporting part is configured and arranged to transport the base material between the treatment devices. The static eliminator is disposed near a path along which the base material is transported by the transporting part. The controller is configured to control the transporting part to follow a transport path routed via the static eliminator when the base material is transported to the treatment devices. | 09-20-2012 |
20120236098 | THERMAL INK TRANSFER USING ENDLESS BELT - An embodiment is a method and apparatus for thermal ink transfer. An endless belt having a thin thickness transfers ink from an ink donor roll to an image substrate based on a pattern on the belt. A heating unit heats the belt locally as needed in vicinity of contact between the belt and the ink donor roll. | 09-20-2012 |
20120242765 | TRANSIENT VOLTAGE SUPPRESSION IN SOLID-STATE LIGHT FIXTURES - A lighting module has an array of solid state light emitters positioned to transmit ultraviolet light, a power supply electrically coupled to the array of solid state light emitters through a connector, and a transient voltage suppressor electrically coupled to the connector. A printing system includes a lighting module having an array of emitters, the lighting module electrically coupled to a power supply having a transient voltage suppressor, a print substrate delivery system positioned to receive light from the array of emitters, and an ink delivery system positioned to delivery ink to the print substrate such that the ink receives sufficient illumination from the lighting module to cure the ink. A lighting system has a lighting module having an array of light emitters, a power supply electrically coupled to the lighting module, and a transient voltage suppressor electrically coupled to the power supply. | 09-27-2012 |
20120242766 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus includes a nozzle that ejects, onto a medium, photo-curing ink cured when irradiated with light, and an irradiation unit that irradiates, with the light, the photo-curing ink landed on the medium. Here, when printing an image on the medium by coating with the photo-curing ink, the photo-curing ink is ejected from the nozzle so that the photo-curing ink is coated on the medium with a smaller amount of ink than normally coated in a region inside an outer border of the image, and the photo-curing ink is cured by irradiating the image with the light from the irradiation unit. | 09-27-2012 |
20120242767 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus includes a nozzle that ejects, to a medium, photo-curing ink cured when irradiated with light, and an irradiation unit that irradiates, with the light, the photo-curing ink landed on the medium. Here, when printing an image on the medium by coating with the photo-curing ink, the photo-curing ink is ejected from the nozzle so that unevenness is formed in an original edge of the image by having a pixel that forms a dot along the edge and a pixel that does not form the dot appeared, and the photo-curing ink is cured by irradiating the image with the light from the irradiation unit. | 09-27-2012 |
20120242768 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD, INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS, AND INK JET RECORDED MATTER - An ink jet recording method including: applying at least two energy beam curable liquids different from each other in surface tension on a recording medium to form an energy beam curable liquid layer having a distribution pattern of different surface tensions; ejecting an energy beam curable ink on the energy beam curable liquid layer formed on the recording medium; and irradiating the energy beam curable liquid layer and the energy beam curable ink with energy beams to cure the energy beam curable liquid layer and the energy beam curable ink to form an image. | 09-27-2012 |
20120249700 | INK COMPOSITION AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An ink composition comprising:
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20120249701 | BLACK INK COMPOSITION, INK SET, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A black ink composition includes a resin-coated carbon black containing a water-soluble resin and carbon black, a water-soluble polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator, and water, wherein an average primary particle diameter of the carbon black is 20 nm or more, and an absorbance ratio of absorbance at a wavelength of 350 nm with respect to absorbance at a wavelength of 600 nm (absorbance at a wavelength of 350 nm/absorbance at a wavelength of 600 nm), when the black ink composition is diluted 5,000-fold with water, is 1.9 or lower. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249702 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING DEVICE - A printing method includes: discharging droplets of a liquid curable by active light rays from a nozzle of a discharge head onto a semiconductor device while the semiconductor device is in a heated state; and irradiating the droplets on the semiconductor device using the active light rays. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249703 | DRYING DEVICE AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A drying device of this disclosure is a drying device that dries ink discharged onto a surface of a recording medium and includes a drying conveyor portion and a blower portion. The drying conveyor portion conveys the recording medium. The blower portion blows air toward the recording medium substantially parallel to an ink recording surface of the recording medium being conveyed by the drying conveyor portion. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249704 | DRYING APPARATUS, RECORDING APPARATUS HAVING THE DRYING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF FABRICATING NIPPING MEMBER - A drying apparatus provided with a heating portion which includes two nipping members and which is configured to heat a recording medium being nipped by and between the two nipping members, wherein one of the two nipping members is disposed in opposition to the other of the two nipping members, and includes an air-permeable elastic member, and a liquid-repellant film which covers a surface of the elastic member in opposition to the above-indicated other nipping member and which has a plurality of through-holes formed therethrough. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249705 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink jet recording method includes heating an ink non-absorbent or low ink-absorbing recording medium to a temperature of 40° C. to 110° C. and performing recording using an aqueous ink composition containing a water-insoluble colorant, a paraffin wax, resin particles, and water. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249706 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - A light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting body, a thermally conductive member, and a heat radiation member. The substrate has a first face and a second face which is a face opposite to the first face. The light emitting body is held on a side of the first face of the substrate and emits light. The thermally conductive member is provided so as to be in contact with the second face of the substrate and contains a high thermal conductive material. The heat radiation member is provided so as to be in contact with the thermally conductive member and radiates heat conducted from the substrate through the thermally conductive member. | 10-04-2012 |
20120256992 | Inkjet Web Printer And Duplex Web Printing Path - In one embodiment, an inkjet printer includes: a first series of print bars arranged along an arc on a first side of an arched printing unit and a second series of print bars arranged along an arc on a second side of the arched printing unit and a dryer positioned within a footprint of the arched printing unit. A plurality of web guides are arranged to guide the web along a duplex printing path past the first print bars for printing on a first side of the web, then through the dryer for drying the first side of the web, then past the second print bars for printing on a second side of the web, and then through the dryer for drying the second side of the web, | 10-11-2012 |
20120262524 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING METHOD - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes (A) a carriage that moves a nozzle ejecting a liquid which is cured by irradiation of an electromagnetic wave in a moving direction, (B) a first irradiation section that is installed on the carriage and irradiates electromagnetic waves on dots formed by landing the liquid which is ejected from the moving nozzle, on a medium, and (C) a second irradiation section that is installed on the carriage and irradiates electromagnetic waves on the dots which are irradiated by the electromagnetic waves from the first irradiation section, in which an irradiance level of the electromagnetic waves from the second irradiation section is different from that of the electromagnetic waves from the first irradiation section. | 10-18-2012 |
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 |
20120268537 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus includes a chromatic ink ejecting nozzle that ejects a chromatic photocuring ink which is cured upon irradiation of light onto a medium, an achromatic ink ejecting nozzle that ejects an achromatic photocuring ink which is cured upon irradiation of light onto the medium, and an irradiation section that irradiates the light onto the chromatic photocuring ink impacted on the medium. At a time of applying the chromatic photocuring ink to print an image on the medium, the printing apparatus performs a process of ejecting the chromatic photocuring ink on the medium, a process of ejecting the achromatic photocuring ink on the medium from the achromatic ink ejecting nozzle in such a way as to apply the achromatic photocuring ink along an edge of an application range of the chromatic photocuring ink, and a process of irradiate the light from the irradiation section to cure the photocuring ink. | 10-25-2012 |
20120268538 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus is provided with an ink discharge nozzle which discharges photocurable ink which is cured when irradiated with light onto a medium, a surfactant nozzle which discharges a surfactant which has a substance which improves the wetting properties of the photocurable ink, and an irradiating section which irradiates the light onto the photocurable ink which has landed on the medium, wherein a process of discharging the surfactant from the surfactant nozzle onto the medium, a process of discharging the photocurable ink onto the medium, and a process of curing the photocurable ink by irradiating the light from the irradiating section are performed so that the surfactant is applied in the surroundings of the application range of the photocurable ink when an image is printed on the medium due to the application of the photocurable ink. | 10-25-2012 |
20120268539 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A printing apparatus includes an ink ejection nozzle configured to eject therethrough a photo-curable ink, onto a medium; and an irradiation portion configured to irradiate the photo-curable ink having been applied to the medium with the light. Further, when printing of an image is performed onto the medium by applying the photo-curable ink, the printing apparatus ejects the photo-curable ink onto the medium such that the photo-curable ink is applied onto an increased portion of an area resulting from expansion of at least one original area, in an outward direction of the at least one original area from an entire edge thereof; the printing apparatus cures the photo-curable ink having been applied onto the medium by irradiating the photo-curable ink with the light from the light irradiation portion; and the printing apparatus removes the photo-curable ink having been applied onto the increased portion from the medium. | 10-25-2012 |
20120274716 | Print Process For Phase Separation Ink - A process including disposing at least one phase separation ink in an imagewise fashion onto a final image receiving substrate to form an ink image, wherein disposing is at a first temperature at which the at least one phase separation ink is in a molten, unseparated state; cooling the ink image to a second temperature sufficient to initiate crystallization of at least one component of the at least one phase separation ink, wherein at the second temperature the at least one phase separation ink comprises a crystalline phase and an amorphous phase; wherein the amorphous phase of the at least one phase separation ink substantially penetrates into the final image receiving substrate; and wherein the crystalline phase of the at least one phase separation ink substantially remains on the surface of the final image receiving substrate; applying pressure to the ink image on the final image receiving substrate; and allowing the ink to complete crystallization. | 11-01-2012 |
20120274717 | PHOTOCURABLE INK COMPOSITION, RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING APPARATUS, PHOTOCURABLE INK JET RECORDING INK COMPOSITION, AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - A photocurable ink composition includes polymerizable compounds and a photopolymerization initiator. The polymerizable compounds include vinyl ether group-containing (meth)acrylic esters represented by the following Formula (I): | 11-01-2012 |
20120274718 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming method includes the steps of: depositing an ink containing 10% or more and less than 30% of a water-soluble high-boiling-point organic solvent having an SP value of 28 or lower, onto a recording medium in accordance with an image signal, the ink having a viscosity of 10 cP or lower in a case where a temperature of the ink is 25° C.; removing water contained in the solvent of the ink on the recording medium, by a heating drying device; and heating and pressurizing the ink so as to fix the ink onto the recording medium. | 11-01-2012 |
20120281049 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An inkjet recording apparatus includes: an image forming device; a scanning device; a relative movement device which causes relative movement between the recording medium and the image forming device; a first active light beam irradiation device which radiates an active light beam onto the ink to provisionally cure the ink; a second active light beam irradiation device which radiates an active light beam having an irradiation light quantity for fully curing the ink; an ejection control device which controls ink ejection from the nozzle row, for each of a plurality of nozzle groups; and an irradiation control device which controls irradiation of the active light beam of the first active light beam irradiation device, with respect to each of a plurality of irradiation units, according to an irradiation light quantity of the active light beam of the first active light beam irradiation device. | 11-08-2012 |
20120287212 | ROBUST CURABLE SOLID INKS AND METHODS FOR USING THE SAME - Curable solid inks and low shrinkage curable solid inks which are solid at room temperature and molten at an elevated temperature at which the molten ink is applied to a substrate. In particular, the solid inks of the present embodiments retain the advantages of handling, safety, and print quality usually associated with conventional solid phase change inks but provide additional breakthrough performance characteristics such as enhanced curing and robustness, lower jetting temperature, and ultra-low shrinkage upon crystallization, which allow the inks to be used as novel materials in inkjet-based print applications. | 11-15-2012 |
20120287213 | UV INK JET PRINTING INK COMPOSITION - A 1K UV-ink jet printing ink composition comprising effect pigments, wherein the composition comprises:
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20120287214 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A nozzle surface (nozzle plate) of a printing head which ejects UV-curable ink from a nozzle is tilted with a predetermined inclination angle θ with respect to the recording surface of a recording sheet so as to face the opposite side to an ultraviolet irradiator. In this manner, it is difficult for the ultraviolet light which is radiated from the ultraviolet irradiator, and is reflected on the recording sheet to input to the nozzle plate, and it is possible to prevent ink in the nozzle from being thickened, or being cured due to the ultraviolet light. | 11-15-2012 |
20120287215 | REFLECTOR STRUCTURE FOR A RADIANT DRYER UNIT OF AN INKJET PRINTER - Structures for radiant dryer units of a printer. A radiant dryer unit includes a reflector element that reflects light waves from a light source back towards a printable medium to dry ink printed on the medium. The reflector element includes a plurality of modular sections. Each modular section includes a base portion having a reflective surface, and includes legs that protrude from an opposing surface of the base portion. The modular sections are affixed to one another so that the reflective surfaces of the modular sections form an aggregate reflective surface that faces toward the light source of the radiant dryer unit. | 11-15-2012 |
20120293593 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a head section which discharges a first ink which is cured due to the irradiation of light and a second ink which is a clear ink which is cured due to the irradiation of light and an irradiation section which irradiates the light, wherein a first image is formed by the light being irradiated with regard to the first ink which is discharged onto the medium, a second image is formed by the light being irradiated with regard to the second ink which is discharged onto the first image and the medium, a region where the first image is formed is included in a region where the second image is formed, and the discharge amount of the second ink per unit region is equal to or less than the discharge amount of the first ink per unit region. | 11-22-2012 |
20120314011 | METHOD AND APPLYING A CURABLE HOT-MELT INK ON A MEDIUM - In a method for applying a curable hot-melt ink the ink is applied in a fluid state on a medium, in particular a recording medium or an intermediate transfer member, on which the ink cools, thereby thickening. Then, the applied ink is at least partly heated such that the viscosity of at least a part of the ink decreases. Thereafter, the ink is cured. The method is suitable for providing a high gloss image and/or for improving an ink transfer from the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium and/or for improving an adhesion of the ink on the recording medium. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314012 | BELT LEVELING APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR SIMULTANEOUS LEVELING AND PINNING OF RADIATION CURABLE INKS - Systems for leveling UV-curable gel ink include a leveling belt member having a TEFLON FEP inner layer and a conformable silicone outer layer. A UV source is disposed to direct light through the belt onto a substrate at a leveling or pressure nip defined by the leveling beltz tube and a backing member such as a backing belt and chilled platen. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314013 | SHEET-FED DUPLEX PRINTING PRESS - A sheet-fed duplex printing press includes a front-surface printing unit having a first impression cylinder that can carry cut paper by rotating while holding the cut paper a first blanket cylinder that contacts the first impression cylinder and can transfer heatset ink onto a front surface of the cut paper, and a first ink jet head that can supply the heatset ink to the first blanket cylinder, and a rear-surface printing unit having a second impression cylinder that can carry the cut paper by rotating while holding the cut paper, a second blanket cylinder that contacts the second impression cylinder and can transfer heatset ink onto a rear surface of the cut paper, and a second ink jet head that can supply the heatset ink to the second blanket cylinder, in which the first impression cylinder and the second impression cylinder directly contact each other. | 12-13-2012 |
20130002777 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDED ARTICLE - An ink jet recording apparatus includes a first line head that ejects a polymerizable ink containing an active energy radiation-polymerizable compound but substantially not containing a coloring agent onto a recording medium to form an undercoat layer, a second line head that ejects a glittering ink onto the undercoat layer to form a glittering image, a third line head that ejects a coloring ink to form a color image, a transport mechanism that transports the recording medium, an irradiation portion that irradiates the undercoat layer with active energy radiation, and a heating portion that dries the glittering ink. The first line head is disposed upstream from the second line head in the recording medium moving direction, and the third line head is disposed downstream from the second line head in the recording medium moving direction. | 01-03-2013 |
20130010041 | METHODS FOR RADIATION CURABLE GEL INK LEVELING AND DIRECT-TO-SUBSTRATE DIGITAL RADIATION CURABLE GEL INK PRINTING, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS HAVING PRESSURE MEMBER WITH HYDROPHOBIC SURFACE - A UV curable gel ink leveling method for digital direct-to-substrate UV curable gel ink printing includes jetting UV curable gel ink directly onto a substrate, irradiating the gel ink to increase a viscosity of the gel ink, adding sacrificial release fluid to a hydrophilic contact roll, and leveling the ink at a leveling nip formed by the contact roll and a pressure roll. The pressure roll comprises an elastomeric material and a surface that is hydrophobic. | 01-10-2013 |
20130016164 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICEAANM USUDA; HidenoriAACI MatsumotoAACO JPAAGP USUDA; Hidenori Matsumoto JP - A liquid ejection device has a feeding mechanism, a nozzle, an irradiating section, and a color meter. The feeding mechanism is configured and arranged to feed a medium in a feed direction. The nozzle is configured and arranged to eject a liquid to be cured by irradiation of light toward the medium. The irradiating section is configured and arranged to radiate the light toward the liquid landed on the medium. The color meter is disposed on a downstream side of the feed direction with respect to the irradiating section so as to perform color measurement of an image generated on the medium, the color meter being configured and arranged such that calibration of the color meter is performed by reading a reference. The irradiating section is configured and arranged to radiate the light when the calibration of the color meter is performed. | 01-17-2013 |
20130016165 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUSAANM Izawa; HideoAACI ChibaAACO JPAAGP Izawa; Hideo Chiba JPAANM Ooyama; KouichiAACI AkitaAACO JPAAGP Ooyama; Kouichi Akita JPAANM Sato; MasahitoAACI AkitaAACO JPAAGP Sato; Masahito Akita JP - [Object] To provide an inkjet recording apparatus that can obtain a recorded object with high quality by reliably inhibiting flapping of a travelling web to maintain travelling stability. | 01-17-2013 |
20130016166 | INKJET INK COMPOSITION AND INKJET RECORDING METHODAANM HAYATA; YuuichiAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP HAYATA; Yuuichi Kanagawa JP - An ink composition is provided that comprises at least (Component A-1) diethylene glycol monobutyl ether acrylate, (Component A-2) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by Formula (1), phenoxyethyl acrylate, isobornyl acrylate, 3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexyl acrylate, and 4-t-butylcyclohexyl acrylate, (Component A-3) an N-vinyllactam and/or tetrahydrofurfuryl acrylate, and (Component B) a polymerization initiator, Component A-1 having a content of 1 to 35 wt % of the entire ink composition, and Components A-1 to A-3 having a total content of 60 to 90 wt % of the entire ink composition | 01-17-2013 |
20130016167 | RECORDING APPARATUSAANM Kitagishi; MikioAACI Matsumoto-shiAACO JPAAGP Kitagishi; Mikio Matsumoto-shi JPAANM Ota; MihoAACI Shiojiri-shiAACO JPAAGP Ota; Miho Shiojiri-shi JP - A recording apparatus includes a recording head that ejects fluid onto a recording medium, a transport device that transports the recording medium along a support surface, and a heating device that heats the recording medium. The heating device is provided with plural first heating units in a direction crossing the transport direction in a state where a side of the first heating unit is parallel with the transport direction, and a second heating unit which extends in the transport direction at a boundary region which is present between the neighboring first heating units. | 01-17-2013 |
20130021420 | METHOD FOR DRYING PRINTED MATERIAL - A method for drying printed material operates with the aid of a one-dimensional or two-dimensional array of radiation sources which can be driven individually or in groups. At the same time, the high-resolution image data describing the printing image or a content of printing forms for individual color separations is transformed into image data of lower resolution. Position data which describes the position of the printed image in the transport direction is also obtained from a device for transporting the printing material. Control data for modulation of an intensity of the radiation sources or groups of radiation sources of the array are generated from the image data of lower resolution and the position data, so that the printing material is swept over in the transport direction with time-modulated radiation points which in each case include a plurality of image points of the higher-resolution printed image. | 01-24-2013 |
20130027486 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A sheet processing apparatus includes a heater, an irradiation unit, and a contact unit. The irradiation unit irradiates a sheet with heat rays from the heater to heat the sheet by radiant heat. The contact unit includes a member that heats a region of the sheet by coming into contact with the radiant heated sheet on a downstream side of the irradiation unit. A part of the heat rays output from the heater is radiated onto a part of a structure constituting the contact unit to raise a temperature of the member. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027487 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a carriage having a recording head movable in a first direction relative to a medium, a color ink nozzle row and a clear ink nozzle row that are provided in the recording head and that respectively eject photo-curable color ink and photo-curable clear ink, and a light irradiation section. A first period of time from when the color ink is deposited on the medium to when light is emitted by the light irradiation section is equal to or longer than a second period of time from when the clear ink is deposited on the medium to when the light is emitted by the light irradiation section. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027488 | PRINTING METHOD, PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTED MATERIAL AND MOLDED ARTICLE - With the printing method according to the above described aspect of the present invention, when first ink and second ink made of resin are placed on a printing medium, a first dot for which a first ink droplet land on the printing medium and a plurality of second dots for which a plurality of second ink droplets land on the printing medium are in contact, but adjacent ones of the second dots are separated from each other. With this printing method, the first ink is high in stretchability, and the glass transition point when the second ink is cured is higher than the glass transition point when the first ink is cured. | 01-31-2013 |
20130027489 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to apply ink to a recording medium while reciprocating a print head with respect to the recording medium and a drying unit configured to apply energy for accelerating dryness to the recording medium to which the ink is applied by the print head. The drying unit applies a larger energy at edges of a range within which the printing unit moves on the recording medium than at a middle of the range. | 01-31-2013 |
20130038668 | PRINT PREPARATION METHOD - Provided is a print preparation method possessing an ejection step in which liquid drops of actinic energy radiation curable type ink-jet ink each containing a polymerizable compound, a photo-polymerizable initiator and a gelling agent are injected from an ink-jet recording head to supply the actinic energy radiation curable type ink-jet ink onto a recording medium, and an actinic energy radiation exposure step, wherein the print preparation method further comprises step (A) in which the recording medium is exposed to electromagnetic waves having a longer wavelength than a wavelength of an absorption wavelength of the photo-polymerization initiator contained in the actinic energy radiation curable type ink-jet ink from a side of a surface on which the image is formed, before conducting the actinic energy radiation exposure step, the print preparation method by which a print having images exhibiting excellent image wear resistance, gloss evenness and image density evenness is provided. | 02-14-2013 |
20130044168 | INK-JET IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND INK-JET INK SET - In the present invention, provided are an ink jet image forming method employing actinic energy radiation curable ink-jet ink exhibiting no offset resistance during storage by superposing printed portions after printing in addition to excellent properties of printing durability, gloss evenness of coated paper and paper-feeding suitability, and an ink jet ink set thereof. It is a feature that the ink jet image forming method possessing the steps of providing colorless ink on a substrate, followed by heating the colorless ink provided on the substrate, and subsequently exposing the colorless ink provided on the substrate, to actinic energy radiation, wherein the colorless ink contains no colorant but an actinic energy radiation curable composition and a gelling agent with which a thermoreversible gel is formed. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044169 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming member; a conveying member that retains with a retaining member a leading end portion of the recording medium and conveys the recording medium; a suction-attachment plate that is disposed with a separation to the conveying member, the suction-attachment plate suction-attaching the back face of the recording medium being conveyed by the conveying member while the leading end portion of the recording medium is retained by the retaining member and including a suction-attachment face at a temperature of from 30° C. to 70° C. for suction-attaching the recording medium; and a heating member that is disposed on the opposite side of the conveyed recording medium to the suction-attachment plate side and heats and dries the recording medium such that the front face of the recording medium being conveyed by the conveying member is imparted with heat energy of from 1.0 J/cm | 02-21-2013 |
20130044170 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The image forming apparatus of the present invention includes an image forming member that jets liquid droplets onto a recording medium and forms an image on a front face of the recording medium, a tension imparting member that induces tension of 100N/m to 1000N/m in the recording medium image-formed on the recording medium front face by the image forming member, and a drying member that dries the image formed on the front face of the recording medium when tension induced in the recording medium by the tension imparting member to a residual moisture level of 3 g/m | 02-21-2013 |
20130044171 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording portion that ejects liquid onto a recording medium which is transported in a transportation direction so as to perform recording processing, a first infrared heating portion that is arranged at a recording surface side of the recording medium, and irradiates the recording medium on which the recording processing has been performed by the recording portion with infrared rays having wavelengths which are easy to be absorbed by water contained in the liquid, and a second infrared heating portion that is arranged at the recording surface side of the recording medium at the downstream side with respect to the first infrared heating portion in the transportation direction, and irradiates the recording medium which has been heated by the first infrared heating portion with infrared rays having wavelengths which are easy to be absorbed by a solvent contained in the liquid. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044172 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND IRRADIATOR - An image recording apparatus includes: a nozzle that discharges electromagnetic wave curable ink that is cured when an electromagnetic wave is irradiated onto a recording medium; and an irradiator for irradiating the electromagnetic wave, wherein a filter that transmits the electromagnetic wave is provided on the irradiator, and the filter has a first transmittance that causes the electromagnetic wave curable ink on the recording medium to be curable with respect to an electromagnetic wave that is incident at a first angle and a second transmittance that maintains a state in which the nozzle can discharge the electromagnetic wave curable ink with respect to an electromagnetic wave that is incident at a second angle. | 02-21-2013 |
20130050368 | Ink Jet UV Pinning for Control of Gloss - Gloss is controlled in UV ink jet printing within a printing system. Controlled pinning energy is used to adjust the amount of ink interaction between drops, substrate, and ink layers, resulting in virtual elimination of gloss banding and control of the finished gloss level from a gloss level of approximately 85 to a gloss level of approximately 5. | 02-28-2013 |
20130050369 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The image forming method of the present invention includes imparting ink to form an image on a recording medium, drying the image, and curing the image after the drying process,
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20130050370 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a support member that supports a recording medium, a heating device that heats the recording medium on the support member, a recording head that ejects fluid onto the recording medium on the support member and that is positioned between the support member and the heating device, a blower that has a blowing port from which gas is blown, and a carriage that moves and has the recording head mounted thereon. The carriage has an enclosing structure inside which at least part of the gas blown from the blowing port is taken and inside which a gas layer in which the gas flows is formed between the recording head and the heating device. | 02-28-2013 |
20130057626 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system has a first image forming section to form an image on a sheet, wherein the first image forming section heats the sheet to fix the image on the sheet, a second image forming section to form an image to the sheet on which the image has been formed by the first image forming section, and a transporting section to transport the sheet from first image forming section to the second image forming section. The transporting section has a first transporting part to transport the sheet to a predetermined position, and a second transporting part to reverse a surface of the sheet which has been transported by the first transporting part as transporting the sheet from the predetermined position to an area below the predetermined position. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057627 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a support portion including a support surface that supports a target; a liquid ejecting head that ejects a liquid onto the target supported by the support surface, from a position opposed to the support surface; a housing portion that includes the support portion in a wall portion opposed to the liquid ejecting head and that is formed in a location so that an air suction port that takes in air from the exterior is further from the liquid ejecting head than the support surface in a direction that is orthogonal to the support surface; and an air exhaust unit that exhausts air from the interior of the housing portion. | 03-07-2013 |
20130063534 | IMAGE FIXATION APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - An image fixation apparatus includes a supporting surface that is a part of a path along which a recording target medium is transported from an upstream side to a downstream side and can support the recording target medium; and an image fixation section that is provided opposite the supporting surface and performs image fixation processing when the recording target medium is supported by the supporting surface after recording of an image on the recording target medium at a position upstream of the supporting surface, the image fixation processing being processing of fixing the image on the recording target medium, wherein, when measured in a direction in which the supporting surface and the image fixation section are provided opposite to each other, the supporting surface is relatively distant from the image fixation section as compared with a region that is located upstream of the supporting surface in the transportation path. | 03-14-2013 |
20130063535 | PHOTOCURABLE INK JET RECORDING INK COMPOSITION AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - Provided is a photocurable ink jet recording ink composition having a low viscosity and excellent curing property and photopolymerization initiator solubility. The photocurable ink jet recording ink composition includes a polymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator. The polymerizable compound includes vinyl ether group-containing (meth)acrylic esters represented by Formula (I) in an amount of 20% by mass or more based on the total mass of the ink composition. The photopolymerization initiator includes a bisacylphosphine oxide photopolymerization initiator in an amount of 5% by mass or more based on the total mass of the ink composition and a thioxanthone photopolymerization initiator. The content ratio of the bisacylphosphine oxide photopolymerization initiator to the thioxanthone photopolymerization initiator is from 3:1 to 5:4. | 03-14-2013 |
20130070035 | DISTRIBUTED LIGHT SOURCES AND SYSTEMS FOR PHOTO-REACTIVE CURING - A light source for a photo-reactive curing apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of light source elements or modules, such as, UV or visible LEDs or LED arrays, arranged to provide a beam profile comprising irradiation zones separated by a dark zone. Photo-polymerization occurs during periods of irradiation and dark polymerization occurs during dark intervals between irradiation. The relative positioning or spacing of light source elements or modules is set to provide an exposure profile with a dark interval which matches the required dark reaction interval for optimal curing efficiency. In modular or adjustable light sources, the spacing is adjustable dependent on process parameters. For processes such as inkjet printing, the beam profile may be better matched to the ink chemistry, so as to control the polymerization reaction to meet a required process speed for single pass or multiple pass applications. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070036 | INK COMPOSITION, INK SET, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides an ink set including an ink composition including resin particles including a polymer formed from one or more structural units selected from structural units, which are represented by the following Formula (1) and are derived from a polymerizable compound having an SP value of from 8.80 (cal/cm | 03-21-2013 |
20130076843 | INKJET PRINTER USING LARGE PARTICLES - A printer includes a dryer, a liquid-deposition unit, a charging member, a development station, and a fixer arranged in that order along the paper path. The dryer dries a selected region of the paper on the transport to a moisture content not to exceed that of the paper equilibrated to 20% RH. The liquid-deposition unit deposits hydrophilic liquid in a selected fluid pattern on the paper within 15 seconds of the completion of drying. The charging member selectively charges the paper so that a charge pattern of charged and discharged areas is formed on the paper and the charged areas have a potential of at least 100 V. The development station deposits dry ink on the charged paper in a dry ink pattern corresponding to the selected fluid pattern. The fixer permanently fixes the dry ink to the paper. | 03-28-2013 |
20130076844 | LARGE-PARTICLE INKJET PRINTING ON SEMIPOROUS PAPER - A print is produced on a semiporous recording medium. The semiporous recording medium is dried to an equilibrated 20% RH. Hydrophilic liquid is deposited on the medium in a selected fluid pattern within 15 seconds after the completion of drying. The recording medium is charged so that a charge pattern of charged and discharged areas is formed on the recording medium and the discharged areas correspond to the fluid pattern. Charged dry ink having charge of the same sign as the charge in the charged areas on the recording medium is deposited on the medium in a pattern corresponding to the selected fluid pattern. The dry ink is at least in part hydrophilic, so the dry ink adheres to the hydrophilic liquid, and at least some of the liquid is drawn into or around the deposited dry ink particles. | 03-28-2013 |
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 |
20130100217 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND SHEET DRYING DEVICE - To downsize a drying device that blows gas on a sheet to dry the sheet. A printing apparatus is provided with: a print head of an inkjet type; and a drying unit that dries a sheet printed by a print head. The drying unit has: a plurality of conveying rollers that support the sheet; a conveying belt that conveys the sheet; and a nozzle that is arranged between the plurality of conveying rollers in a direction of the conveyance of the sheet by the conveying belt and blows gas toward the sheet. The nozzle has a blowout port and the blowout port is tilted with respect to a surface of the sheet, which is supported by the conveying rollers. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100218 | RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet printer includes a liquid recording head that is arranged at a halfway position of a transportation path of a sheet to be transported to a downstream side from an upstream side, and performs surface print processing by adhering ink to a surface of the sheet, a drying device that is arranged so as to be spaced from the liquid recording head on the transportation path, and an exhaust fan that generates airflow for suppressing heat transfer from the drying device to the liquid recording head between the liquid recording head and the drying device. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100219 | SHEET CONVEYANCE APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND JAM CLEARING METHOD - A sheet conveyance apparatus comprising: a first processing unit including a first sheet conveyance mechanism; a second processing unit including a second sheet conveyance mechanism; a cutting unit, interposed between the first processing unit and the second processing unit, for cutting the sheet; and a controlling unit that controls, in a case of trouble with sheet conveyance, driving of the first sheet conveyance mechanism until an end of the sheet reaches the first processing unit side beyond a cutting position of the cutting unit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100220 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a head that ejects liquid to be cured by receiving irradiation of an electromagnetic wave onto a medium; a provisional-curing irradiation section that emits a first electromagnetic wave to a dot formed on the medium by the liquid; and a main-curing irradiation section that emits a second electromagnetic wave, which has irradiation intensity higher than that of the first electromagnetic wave, to the dot to which the first electromagnetic wave is emitted. When the main-curing irradiation section emits the second electromagnetic wave, a dot forming surface of the medium faces the lower side in the direction of gravity. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100221 | RADIATION CURABLE INKJET PRINTING METHODS - A radiation curable inkjet printing method for producing printed flexible foils and plastic bags wherein a web-like polymeric substrate having a maximum value for Tan δ between 40° C. and 110° C. and a surface energy S | 04-25-2013 |
20130106966 | DIGITAL CURING METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT PACKAGE PRINTING USING RADIAITON CURABLE INKS | 05-02-2013 |
20130113867 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND 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. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113868 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR PRINTING ULTRAVIOLET (UV) CURABLE INK - An inkjet printing apparatus ( | 05-09-2013 |
20130120513 | IMAGE RECEIVING MEMBER WITH INTERNAL SUPPORT FOR INKJET PRINTER - A thin wall ink image receiving member enables the ink image receiving member to reach operational temperatures from a cold state more quickly than image receiving members used in previously known printers. The thin wall image receiving member includes at least one annular support member fixedly mounted against the inner surface of the cylindrical wall to enable the image receiving member to provide adequate pressure in a nip formed with a transfix roller to transfer an ink image from the image receiving member to media in the nip. | 05-16-2013 |
20130120514 | LIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE, LIGHT IRRADIATION MODULE, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A light irradiation device according to an embodiment includes a light emitting element, and a substrate on which the light emitting element is mounted. The substrate includes a laminated body constituted so that a plurality of insulating layers are laminated, a first heat transfer member disposed in the laminated body so that a part thereof is located directly below the light emitting element, and a second heat transfer member disposed between the insulating layers so as to surround the first heat transfer member when seen in a plan view. Thermal conductivities of the first heat transfer member and second heat transfer member are higher than a thermal conductivity of the laminated body. | 05-16-2013 |
20130127960 | PRINTING SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION OF A PATTERNED CLEAR LAYER FOR REDUCING GLOSS BANDING - The invention involves application of a clear, low-density after-layer of high gloss ink onto a printed substrate to reduce or eliminate negative printing effects, such as gloss banding. Some embodiments of the invention involve a method of applying colored ink, curing the colored ink, applying a clear ink layer in a pattern, and curing the clear layer. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127961 | COMPOSITE MATERIAL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING IT - A process for producing a composite material or a precursor thereof includes the steps: (i) printing a support material (A1) with an ink (D) which can be cured by irradiation with light, the support material (A1) (a) being impregnable with a curable resin (B) which after curing is transparent and light-stable, and (b) having a translucency, based on the overall thickness, of 10-95%, preferably 20-90%, more preferably 30-80% for light in the wavelength range of 200-500 nm; (ii) curing the ink (D) by irradiation with light; (iii) impregnating the thus-treated support material (A1) with a curable resin (B) which after curing is transparent and light-stable, and optionally combining the support material (A1) with at least one further support material (A2); and (iv) curing the curable resin (B) simultaneously with or after step (iii); and also relates to the material obtainable by this process. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127962 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE, IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - An image recording device includes: a conveyor unit for conveying a recording medium; a drum for rotating under the force of friction against the recording medium being conveyed by the conveyor unit, the recording medium being wound around an outer peripheral surface thereof; an ejection unit for ejecting a photo-curable ink to record an image on a portion, of the recording medium, that is wound around the drum; a light irradiation unit for irradiating the portion, of the recording medium, that is wound around the drum with light to cure the ink on the recording medium, downstream of the recording medium on a conveyance path with respect to the ejection unit; and a cooling unit for cooling the drum. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127963 | Printing Ink - This invention relates to a radiation-curable ink-jet ink having a viscosity of 30 mPas or less at 25° C., the ink comprising: at least two monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomers which comprise a cyclic monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomer and 2-(2-ethoxyethoxy)ethyl acrylate; a monofunctional monomer selected from an N-vinyl amide, and N-acryloyl amine or a mixture thereof; a multifunctional (meth)acrylate monomer; a polymerisable (meth)acrylate oligomer; a radical photoinitiator; and a colouring agent. The ink is preferably used in reel-to-reel printing and in printing where the substrates are stacked. | 05-23-2013 |
20130135407 | TARGET TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A target transport apparatus includes a transport roller pair that has a plurality of segmented roller members disposed at intervals in a width direction that intersects with a transport direction of continuous paper and that imparts a transport force on the continuous paper by the segmented roller members pinching the continuous paper; and an image capturing unit, disposed in a location that corresponds to a pinched area in the width direction of the continuous paper that is pinched by the segmented roller members and to the pinched area along the transport direction, that detects, without making contact with the continuous paper, an amount by which the continuous paper is transported by the transport roller pair. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135408 | PRINTING APPARATUS - There is provided a printing apparatus capable of improving total throughput of color measurement and preventing damage to a printed image. Therefore a colorimetric housing | 05-30-2013 |
20130141504 | LIGHT-CURABLE INK COMPOSITION FOR INK JET RECORDING AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD USING THE SAME - A light-curable ink composition for ink jet recording contains a coloring material, a polymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator. The coloring material contains at least C.I. Pigment Yellow 155, and the polymerizable compound contains at least a vinyl-ether-containing (meth)acrylate represented by general formula (I) below: | 06-06-2013 |
20130155161 | KEYBOARD MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed herein are a keyboard manufacturing apparatus and method that provide improved printing of at least one of a letter, a symbol, a number, and a pattern onto a keycap of a keyboard. The keyboard manufacturing apparatus includes a loader to load a keyboard, an unloader to unload the keyboard, a printing device provided between the loader and the unloader to print at least one of the letter, symbol, number and pattern onto the keyboard, wherein the printing device includes a support on which the keyboard is positioned, and an inkjet unit to print the at least one of the letter, symbol, number and pattern onto the keyboard, wherein the inkjet unit includes an inkjet head containing ink with a color identical to a specific color to be printed onto the keyboard, and a hardeners positioned on one side of the inkjet head to dry the ink. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155162 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING DEVICE - A printing method comprises supplying a flocculant for promoting aggregation reaction of aggregative material that gels by aggregation to at least a region of a printing medium having a small capillary force, shooting droplets of ink containing the aggregative material by an ink jet method to at least the region of the printing medium having a small capillary force, and fixing the ink that has gelled by the aggregation reaction between the aggregative material and the flocculant onto the printing medium. | 06-20-2013 |
20130176370 | LED CURABLE COMPOSITIONS - A radiation curable composition includes a) at least one monomer comprising at least one vinyl ether group and at least one (meth)acrylate group; and b) at least one diffusion hindered photoinitiator selected from the group consisting of a polymeric photoinitiator, a multifunctional photoinitiator and a polymerizable photoinitiator characterized in that the diffusion hindered photoinitiator includes at least one structural moiety according to Formula (I): | 07-11-2013 |
20130182057 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording method includes using at least a first ink composition containing a color material and a second ink composition containing a resin as well as substantially not containing a color material, including: a first recording step recording the first ink composition onto a medium to be recorded; a second recording step recording the second ink composition onto the image; a second drying step of drying the image at a first temperature, which is performed during execution of the second recording step or thereafter; and a third drying step of drying the image at a second temperature which exceeds the first temperature after the second drying step; in which, the second ink composition does not substantially contain an aprotic polar solvent, and the heat deformation temperature of the resin exceeds the first temperature and is lower than the second temperature. | 07-18-2013 |
20130194365 | SEPARATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM TO CURE INK - An image forming apparatus includes an ink applicator unit to selectively apply ultraviolet (UV) curable ink on a media, a media support unit to support the media to receive the UV curable ink, and a UV radiation curing device to cure the UV curable ink on the media. The UV radiation curing device includes a UV radiation source module to emit an electromagnetic spectrum and a dispersion member. The dispersion member may separate ultraviolet electromagnetic radiation subtype C (UVC radiation) from at least one of ultraviolet electromagnetic radiation subtype A (UVA radiation) in the electromagnetic spectrum and ultraviolet electromagnetic radiation subtype B (UVB radiation), apply the UVC radiation to the UV curable ink on the media, and subsequently apply the at least one of the UVA radiation and the UVB radiation after the UVC radiation is applied to the UV curable ink on the media. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194366 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL RAISED PRINTING - Systems and methods are provided for digital printing of Braille or other raised printing. In some embodiments, ink is printed directly from a print head onto a substrate, rather than onto a transfer drum that is later printed onto a substrate. In some embodiments, a plurality of layers of a curable, phase-change ink are printed onto the substrate, wherein pauses of a predetermined time are included in between of layers to enable the curable, phase-change ink to set up into a given shape and height. In some embodiments, temperatures of printing components are lowered from those used for traditional printing, so as to enable the curable phase change ink to set up into a given shape and height. In some embodiments, spacing of components are altered from those used for traditional printing, so as to enable the curable phase change ink to set up into a given shape and height. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194367 | DRYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a drying device including: an airflow path extending in a direction intersecting with a conveyance path of a recording medium; an external air intake section that introduces external air into the airflow path; and a heating and blowing section provided to the airflow path that heats external air introduced into the airflow path and blows drying air onto a front face of the recording medium being conveyed on the conveyance path. | 08-01-2013 |
20130201266 | PRINTING APPARATUS USING PHOTOCURABLE INK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINTED MATERIAL - A recording apparatus that uses photocurable ink includes an ink discharge section that discharges photocurable ink onto a printing medium, a light irradiation section that irradiates curing light onto the photocurable ink that has been discharged onto the printing medium, a tension application mechanism that applies tension to the printing medium and a control section. The control section discharges photocurable ink onto the printing medium by controlling the ink discharge section, and subsequently applies a tension, which is greater than that at the time of ink discharge, to the printing medium by controlling the tension application mechanism, and irradiates curing light onto the photocurable ink that has been discharged onto the printing medium by controlling the light irradiation section in a state in which the tension is being applied to the printing medium. | 08-08-2013 |
20130208064 | CURABLE COMPOSITION FOR INKJET, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - Provided is a curable composition for inkjet capable of improving uniformity of a cured product film and heat resistance of a cured product. The curable composition for inkjet according to the present invention contains a compound having a (meth)acryloyl group and a cyclic ether group, a photoreactive compound, a compound having a cyclic ether group, a photopolymerization initiator, and a potential curing agent, the photoreactive compound and the compound having a cyclic ether group each are a compound other than the compound having a (meth)acryloyl group and a cyclic ether group, the compound having a (meth)acryloyl group and a cyclic ether group has one or two (meth)acryloyl groups, and the viscosity at 25° C. of the curable composition for inkjet according to the present invention is 160 mPa·s or more and 1200 mPa·s or less. | 08-15-2013 |
20130215202 | HELICAL DRYER PATH FOR A PRINT SUBSTRATE WEB - In one example, a print substrate web path through a printer includes a first web path through a printing unit and a helical second web path through a dryer. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215203 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRINTING SHARP IMAGE IN AN INKJET PRINTER - An apparatus and method to heat media in order to achieve rapid ink drying for sharp image quality is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a media heating means to heat media approximate the print zone to prevent coalescence and inter-color bleeding, and a printhead cooling means to cool the printhead so that the printhead temperature is maintained below an upper printhead temperature limit to minimize clogged nozzles. The preferred embodiment includes a hot air blower attached to the movable carriage to impinge heated air directly on to the media surface, and circulating a liquid coolant in a fluid channel built in a printhead plate conductively connected to the printhead. | 08-22-2013 |
20130222499 | GLOSS-CONTROLLABLE, RADIATION-CURABLE INKJET INK - Gloss-controllable, radiation-curable inkjet inks cure quickly with minimal radiation exposure, enabling high-printing speed and low surface heating with controllable gloss on the printed image. Ink gloss can be controlled by varying the pinning energy to create the printed images with varied gloss from 10 to 100 gloss unit at 85° gloss measurement angle. After curing, the ink remains flexible on the surface, giving excellent performance on a wide range of surfaces, greatly expanding the range of applications for the ink. A gloss-controllable, radiation-curable inkjet ink may include approximately 8-18% of photo-initiators responding to UVA and UW (UVA: 320-400 nm wavelengths, UW: 400-450 nm wavelengths) radiation to initiate free radicals and optionally, other types of photo-initiators and approximately 60-85% of highly flexible mono-functional monomers. The resulting ink is of low viscosity, having excellent flexibility after curing, is low-odor and permits excellent print quality and high productivity on a wide range of surfaces. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222500 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording method comprising a jetting step using a paper sheet, wherein a decay rate of ultrasonic transmittance through the paper sheet after five seconds with respect to ultrasonic transmittance through the paper sheet immediately after immersion of the paper sheet in pure water is from 4% to 26%, and jetting aqueous ultraviolet-curable ink onto a front surface of the paper sheet with an inkjet recording head; a conveyance step of conveying the paper sheet to an exposure section such that an amount of time from the jetting step until exposing the aqueous ultraviolet-curable ink on the paper sheet to ultraviolet light is from 1 second to 8 seconds; and an exposure step of exposing the aqueous ultraviolet-curable ink on the paper sheet to ultraviolet light to thereby cure the aqueous ultraviolet-curable ink. | 08-29-2013 |
20130222501 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method has applying an ink composition which includes: at least a pigment, water, and polyvalent (meth)acrylamide of 3.0 mass % or more and 15.0 mass % or less with respect to the entire ink composition as a polymerizable compound, to a coated paper having a pigment layer on at least one surface of a support in which cellulose pulp is a main component, using an ink jet method; at least drying the applied ink composition; and curing the ink composition on the coated paper by irradiating the active energy rays at an illuminance of 1 W/cm | 08-29-2013 |
20130222502 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method uses an ink set that includes applying a liquid composition onto a recording medium; further applying a ink composition onto the recording medium with an ink jet method to form an image; drying the image at a surface temperature of the image of 35° C. to 55° C. until a difference between a residual water content of a non-image portion on the recording medium and a residual water content of a image portion where an application amount of the ink composition is the maximum is 2 g/m | 08-29-2013 |
20130222503 | INK SET AND RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink set includes an ink composition for background containing a pigment for background and a coloring ink composition containing a coloring pigment. Provided that the surface tension of the ink composition for background is S1 (mN/m), and the surface tension of the coloring ink composition is S2 (mN/m), S1 and S2 satisfy −5<(S1−S2)<4. the ink set is used in a first mode in which the ink composition for background and the coloring ink composition are recorded on a recording medium by being caused to be adjacent to each other, or in a second mode in which the ink composition for background is recorded on an image which has been recorded using the coloring ink composition. A recording apparatus includes this ink set. | 08-29-2013 |
20130235135 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus having a head unit that ejects a yellow UV curable-type ink onto a medium, an irradiating section that irradiates the UV light, and a controller that works as follows: when the first mode is set, control is carried out so that, after the UV light with the first energy is irradiated on the UV curable-type ink ejected onto each unit area of the medium, the UV light with the second energy higher than the first energy is irradiated; when the second mode is set for printing an image with a glossiness higher than that of the image printed according to the first mode, control is carried out so that the UV light with an energy higher than that of the first energy is irradiated on the UV curable-type ink ejected on unit area of the medium. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235136 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RECORDED MATTER, MANUFACTURING DEVICE OF RECORDED MATTER AND RECORDED MATTER - Provided is a method of manufacturing a recorded matter including applying a first ink including a volatile first liquid to an intermediate transfer medium; applying a second ink including a coloring agent, a thermoplastic resin and a volatile second liquid using an ink jet method to locations of the intermediate transfer medium where the first ink is applied; heating the surface of the intermediate transfer medium where the second ink is applied from the opposite surface side and volatilizing at least a part of the second liquid; transferring the second ink heated of the surface of the intermediate transfer medium onto the recording medium; and heating the second ink transferred to the recording medium of the surface of the intermediate transfer medium. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235137 | NAIL PRINT APPARATUS INCLUDING BLOWING UNIT - A nail print apparatus including a dividing wall; a first finger inserting section which is provided in one space divided by the dividing wall and in which a finger is inserted; a print head which is provided in the one space divided by the dividing wall and performs printing on a nail part of the finger inserted in the first finger inserting section; a second finger inserting section which is provided in other space divided by the dividing wall and in which a finger is inserted; and a blowing section which blows air into the first finger inserting section and into the second finger inserting section. | 09-12-2013 |
20130235138 | DEVICE FOR DRYING A RECORDING MEDIUM WHICH IS PRINTED WITH INK IN A PRINTER, AND METHOD THEREFOR - In a method or device to dry a web-shaped recording medium in a printer, the web-shaped recording medium is printed with aqueous ink and subsequently directed with a predetermined web tension past a heatable body whose contact surface that faces towards the recording medium is brought into contact with a side of said recording medium that has not been freshly printed to dry said recording medium in a drying operation. A first guide element is arranged before the heatable body and a second guide element is arranged after the heatable body, the first and second guide elements guiding the recording medium. The contact surface of the heatable body is substantially flat. A negative pressure device generates a negative pressure at the contact surface facing towards the recording medium. The negative pressure is deactivated in a halt operation, the deactivation process taking place continuously over an adjustable time interval. | 09-12-2013 |
20130242014 | PREHEAT AT LEAST ONE OF MEDIA AND MEDIA SUPPORT MEMBER TO PREDETERMINED TEMPERATURE IN PREHEAT MODE - An image forming apparatus and printing methods include a media support member to support media and an ink applicator unit to selectively apply ink to the media disposed on the media support member in a print mode. The image forming apparatus and printing methods also include a heating unit to preheat at least one of the media support member and the media to a predetermined temperature in a preheat mode prior to the selective application of the ink to the media. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242015 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT OF IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE, METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME, AND IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE - A method includes: shaping a transparent belt base having opposite ends into a tubular shape with the ends thereof spaced away from or in contact with each other to make a tubular belt base; superposing a release base having a liquid layer of a curable polyurethane elastomer on and in contact with the outer periphery of the tubular belt base inclusive of the space or contact portion between the ends in a manner that the liquid layer is sandwiched in between the transparent belt base and the release base; curing the curable polyurethane elastomer while the liquid layer being sandwiched between the transparent belt base and the release base to form a transparent polyurethane elastomer layer; stripping the release base off the transparent polyurethane elastomer layer; and connecting the ends of the tubular transparent belt base spaced away from or in contact with each other to form a joint. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242016 | METALLIC INK JET PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRAPHICS APPLICATIONS - A multi-phase system for creating a metallic effect on a substrate, comprising applying to the substrate a first ink jet ink comprising a dispersion of reflective metallic particles in a suitable carrier system, to form a reflective coating layer; and applying a second ink jet ink over the reflective coating layer to form a protective coating layer. Optionally, an undercoat layer is printed on the substrate prior to applying the first ink jet ink. The second ink jet comprises at least one crosslinkable polymer or is otherwise energy curable. The second ink jet ink optionally imparts a color to the metallic image. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242017 | RECORDING APPARATUS WITH EXTENDED FIXING UNIT - There is provided a recording apparatus. The recording apparatus includes: a support member which supports a recording medium; a recording head which applies a recording material to one surface of the recording medium supported on the support member; and a fixing unit which fixes the recording material adhered to the one surface of the recording medium transported from the support member, wherein the support member and the fixing unit are arranged to be partly overlapped with each other in an up and down direction. | 09-19-2013 |
20130242018 | RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is a recording apparatus including: a recording unit for performing recording on a recordable medium; a transportation unit for transporting the recordable medium; and a drier for accelerating the drying of the recordable medium by ejecting gas to the recordable medium, wherein the drier is configured such that the ejection range of the gas in a direction perpendicular to the transportation direction of the recordable medium is changeable. | 09-19-2013 |
20130250018 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - According to an aspect of the present invention, by switching off the provisional curing device on the rear side in the direction of travel of the scanning direction, droplet ejection is carried out without performing provisional curing of the ink immediately after droplet ejection. The provisional curing of the ink is carried out by the provisional curing device on the front side in the direction of travel of the scanning direction, during scanning in the opposite direction to that during droplet ejection. | 09-26-2013 |
20130250019 | RADIATION-CURABLE INK COMPOSITION, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDED MATTER - Provided are a radiation-curable ink composition including phenoxyethyl acrylate (A) in an amount of from 20 to 55 mass % of the total reaction components, a multifunctional acrylate (B) in an amount of from 20 to 50 mass % of the total reaction components, and a black pigment (F1); and a radiation-curable ink composition including phenoxyethyl acrylate (A) in an amount of from 20 to 55 mass % of the total reaction components, a multifunctional acrylate (B) in an amount of from 10 to 50 mass % of the total reaction components, and a yellow pigment (F2). | 09-26-2013 |
20130258013 | PRINTING APPARATUS - In a printing apparatus with a unit for performing a post processing after printing, visibility and operability from the downstream side can be improved. The printing apparatus, includes: a first unit configured to perform printing on a sheet; and a second unit configured to perform a predetermined process for the sheet, the second unit being capable of shifting between a first position and a second position, wherein a part of the second unit becomes a support of the sheet for printing by the first unit when the second unit is in the first position, and the part does not become the support when the second unit is in the second position. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258014 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE AND IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - An image recording device includes a support member, a recording head, a conveyor unit, a surface modifying apparatus and a movement mechanism. The conveyor unit intermittently conveys a recording medium toward a support member along a conveyance path, and intermittently passes the recording medium through a processing position disposed on an upstream side of the supporting member with respect to the conveyance path. The surface modifying apparatus, during a passage time in which the recording medium passes through the processing position, executes surface modification processing on the recording medium passing through the processing position, and emits heat along with execution of the surface modification process. The movement mechanism places the recording medium passing through the processing position near the surface modifying apparatus during the processing time, and separates the recording medium and the surface modifying apparatus when the passage time ends. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258015 | ULTRAVIOLET RAY-CURABLE CLEAR INK COMPOSITION AND RECORDING METHOD - An ultraviolet ray-curable clear ink composition includes a polymerizable compound; and a photopolymerization initiator, in which the polymerizable compound contains a vinyl ether group-containing (meth)acrylic acid ester represented by the following formula (I) and 5% by mass to 25% by mass of urethane oligomer with respect to the total mass of the ink composition. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258016 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD, ULTRAVIOLET CURABLE INK AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording method includes discharging a ultraviolet curable ink of which viscosity is 7 mPa·s or more at 20° C. from a head toward a recording medium, and curing the ultraviolet curable ink adhered to the recording medium, wherein, in the discharging, the temperature of the ultraviolet curable ink discharged is 20 to 30° C., and the viscosity of the ultraviolet curable ink at the temperature is 13 mPa·s or less. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258017 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD, PHOTOCURABLE INK JET INK COMPOSITION, AND INK JET RECORDING DEVICE - The ink jet recording method includes discharging liquid droplets of a photocurable ink composition including a solvent, a polymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator from a head to a recording medium to land the liquid droplets, thereby forming an image; evaporating the solvent included in the photocurable ink composition constituting the image; and irradiating the image after the second step with light, wherein when the irradiation is initiated in the third step, the content of the polymerizable compound included in the photocurable ink composition constituting the image after the second step is from 20 to 90% by mass, based on the total mass of the ink composition. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258018 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD, ULTRAVIOLET CURABLE INK, AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is an ink jet recording method including: discharging first ultraviolet curable ink of a radical polymerization reaction type which contains a radical photopolymerization initiator and a radical polymerization compound and in which transmittance at a wavelength of 395 nm is equal to or less than 1%, onto a recording medium; and curing the first ultraviolet curable ink which is landed on the recording medium by irradiating the ink with ultraviolet light, in which a light source which initially emits the ultraviolet light in the curing of the ink is an ultraviolet light emitting diode in which peak intensity of the irradiated ultraviolet light is equal to or more than 800 mW/cm | 10-03-2013 |
20130265376 | Inkjet Compositions For Forming Functional Glaze Coatings - Inkjet compositions that can be applied to glass and/or ceramic substrates to impart various effect to the substrate after firing, including: gloss, matt, contrast gloss (luster), specular reflection (metallic appearance), relief and slipperiness. The inkjet compositions include solvents, additives for dispersion, and inorganic substances, but preferably do not include any color-producing ceramic pigments. The inorganic substances contained in the inkjet compositions are the responsible for the above mentioned effects on the surface of the ceramic article. Depending on the type of effect desired, the inorganic substance may be a specific frit, a crystalline oxide, or a combination of frits and crystalline oxides. | 10-10-2013 |
20130271541 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus | 10-17-2013 |
20130278690 | PREPROCESSING LIQUID FOR TEXTILE PRINTING, INK SET FOR INK JET TEXTILE PRINTING, INK JET TEXTILE PRINTING METHOD - There is provided preprocessing liquid for textile printing including: a polyvalent metal compound, resin emulsion, a heat discoloration type coloring material, and water. | 10-24-2013 |
20130278691 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE - An image recording device is provided with a plurality of color ink heads, first irradiation units which are disposed between the color ink heads which are adjacent, a second irradiation unit which is disposed more to the downstream side in the transport direction than the plurality of color ink heads and which irradiates light which is stronger than the light which is irradiated by the first irradiation units, and a transparent ink head which is disposed more to the downstream side in the transport direction than the second irradiation unit and which discharges transparent ink onto the image, wherein an interval, where a furthermost downstream color ink head and the transparent ink head are lined up, is wider than an interval where the plurality of color ink heads are lined up. | 10-24-2013 |
20130278692 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR PRINTING ON TEXTILES - Systems, methods and apparatuses are described for a continuous line process of printing a digital continuously variable image on a textile. The systems and methods provide for accomplishing all tasks associated with printing a textile simultaneously for multiple textiles at varying stages of the printing process without interruption. | 10-24-2013 |
20130286120 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD, ULTRAVIOLET-RAY CURABLE INK, AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording method includes ejecting an ultraviolet-ray curable ink of which a viscosity at 28° C. is 8 mPa·s or more from a head to a recording medium, and curing the ultraviolet-ray curable ink attached to the recording medium, wherein, in the ejecting of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink, the ultraviolet-ray curable ink is heated such that a temperature of the ejected ultraviolet-ray curable ink becomes 28° C. to 40° C., and a viscosity of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink at the temperature is 15 mPa·s or less. | 10-31-2013 |
20130286121 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is an ink jet recording method including: discharging an ultraviolet ray-curable ink, which has a viscosity at 20° C. of 25 mPa·s or less and an average equivalent of polymerizable unsaturated double bond of 100 to 150, from a head onto a recording medium at a discharge temperature of 30° C. to 40° C.; and irradiating the ultraviolet ray-curable ink, attached onto the recording medium, with ultraviolet rays emitted from a light source to cure the ultraviolet ray-curable ink. | 10-31-2013 |
20130293646 | DRYING PRINTED MEDIA MOVING ALONG MEDIA PATH - Apparatus for drying media in a printer includes first and second successive printing stations with a first rotatable member that contacts the wet side of the media between them. Each prints on one side of the media. A media-path extender between the first printing station and the first rotatable member includes a dry-side rotatable member and a wet-side rotatable member around which the media path passes in that order. An extension media path is defined from the first printing station past the dry-side member, the wet-side member, and the first rotatable member, in that order, to the second printing station. The printer selectively transports the media either along a bypass media path or along the extension media path. The wet-side member is farther past the first printing station than is the first rotatable member. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293647 | PRE-TREATMENT COMPOSITION FOR INKJET PRINTING - A coating composition for pre-treating a substrate prior to inkjet printing thereon, and an inkjet receiving medium comprising a substrate and having a topmost layer coated thereon, where the coating composition has a solids content which comprises at least 30 wt % of one or more aqueous soluble salts of multivalent metal cations, and particles comprised primarily of polymer having a Rockwell Hardness of less than R90 and having a mode equivalent spherical diameter of at least about 2 micrometers. When coated, the composition provides at least 0.01 g/m | 11-07-2013 |
20130293648 | Method and Apparatus for Cleaning a Heated Drum Within a Continuous Web Printer - A method of cleaning a heated drum within a continuous web printer includes operating an actuator to rotate a drum that is heated to a first temperature. The drum rotates in a process direction of a media web contacting the drum and heats the media web as the media web moves over a portion of the drum. The method also includes stopping movement of the media web, heating the drum to a second temperature that is greater than the first temperature, and operating the actuator to rotate the drum against a portion of the stopped media web to transfer ink from the drum to the portion of the stopped media web. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293649 | WEB INKJET PRINTING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING AN AIR BAR - In a method and apparatus for duplex inkjet printing on a web medium, a web medium is guided along an S-form transport path having generally horizontal top, middle and bottom spans and two turns linking the spans. One inkjet printhead is located to print onto a one surface of the web at the middle span and another inkjet printhead is located to print onto the opposite surface of the web at one of the other spans. To protect the printed surfaces before they are dried at least one of the turns in the S-form path is effected using an air bar to hold the printed web surfaces away from hard equipment surfaces. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293650 | LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE AND AIR BLOWING METHOD - A liquid discharge device includes a platen, a head unit and an air blower. The platen is configured and arranged to support a medium. The head unit is configured and arranged to discharge liquid on the medium supported by the platen. The air blower is configured and arranged to send air toward the medium supported by the platen. The air blower is attached to the liquid discharge device such that the air sent by the air blower toward the medium flows in a direction at an angle to a normal line direction of the medium. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293651 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An inkjet recording method for printing by ejecting droplets of a water-based ink composition onto a recording medium having a recording surface which is a plastic film and by causing the droplets to adhere to the recording surface, including: using, as the water-based ink composition, a water-based ink composition including at least colorant, between 0.1 wt % and 1.5 wt % of a silicon-based surfactant, alkanediol, pyrrolidone derivative, thermoplastic resin, and water; and heating the water-based ink composition that has adhered to the recording surface to a temperature of 40° C. or higher. | 11-07-2013 |
20130321542 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHODS - Methods for curing ink printed on a print medium are disclosed. The methods comprise heating air to a temperature suitable for curing the ink, and blowing the air through a plurality of holes onto the print medium. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321543 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing method includes: performing a first process that applies first processing to one or a plurality of flat-shaped blankets; and performing a second process that applies second processing to the one or the plurality of blankets to which the first processing has been applied. The second processing is applied in parallel with the first processing applied to another one or plurality of flat-shaped blankets in the first process. | 12-05-2013 |
20130328980 | LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT AMIDE GELLANTS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME - Disclosed herein are curable solid inks which are solid at room temperature and molten at an elevated temperature at which the molten ink is applied to a substrate. In particular, the curable solid inks of the present embodiments comprise low molecular weight amide gellants that impart self-leveling capabilities to the inks. Also disclosed herein are methods for making the amide gellant and the inks comprising the amide gellants. | 12-12-2013 |
20130328981 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING METHOD - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes (A) a carriage that moves a nozzle ejecting a liquid which is cured by irradiation of an electromagnetic wave in a moving direction, (B) a first irradiation section that is installed on the carriage and irradiates electromagnetic waves on dots formed by landing the liquid which is ejected from the moving nozzle, on a medium, and (C) a second irradiation section that is installed on the carriage and irradiates electromagnetic waves on the dots which are irradiated by the electromagnetic waves from the first irradiation section, in which an irradiance level of the electromagnetic waves from the second irradiation section is different from that of the electromagnetic waves from the first irradiation section. | 12-12-2013 |
20130328982 | INK JET DEVICE COMPRISING FLUID EXTRACTION MEANS, AND ASSOCIATED INK JET METHOD - The invention relates to an ink jet device and to an associated ink jet method. The ink jet device comprises at least one ink jet head ( | 12-12-2013 |
20130335494 | DIGITAL INKJET PRINTING MACHINE WITH TRANSPARENT INK - A digital inkjet printing machine with transparent ink comprising an inkjet module, at least one UV light projection device and a working platform with heating function is disclosed, wherein the working platform is used for heating a work piece during or after the jetting of ink on the work piece on the working platform for hardening the ink droplets thereon, and the inkjet module has a plurality of colored ink cartridges and at least one transparent ink cartridge filled with transparent UV curable ink; the at least one UV light projection device is disposed on a side of the inkjet module for irradiating UV light downward on a surface of the work piece on the working platform in order to solidify the transparent UV curable ink droplets jetted thereon, and to form a three-dimensional transparent color layer on the surface of the printed work piece. | 12-19-2013 |
20130335495 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD AND PRINTED MATERIAL - An inkjet recording method includes in sequence a application step of applying a transparent ink or an effect pigment ink onto a recording medium, a image formation step of carrying out image formation by discharging an effect pigment ink or a transparent ink onto the recording medium, and a step of curing the transparent ink and the effect pigment ink above the recording medium, the method comprising or not comprising, between the application step and the image formation step, a step of curing the transparent ink or the effect pigment ink, and when it does the transparent ink or the effect pigment being cured at a percentage cure of no greater than 85%, the effect pigment ink comprising an effect pigment, a polymerization initiator, and a polymerizable compound, and the transparent ink comprising a polymerization initiator and a polymerizable compound but comprising substantially no pigment. | 12-19-2013 |
20130342621 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE GEL INK SPREAD OF A PRINTED IMAGE - An approach is provided for controlling ultraviolet-curable gel ink spread of a printed image. The approach involves causing, at least in part, one or more inks to be applied to a first substrate image area by one or more inkjets in a printing zone of a printer, the one or more inkjets being configured to form one or more first ink spots on the first substrate image area. The approach also involves determining a temperature of at least the first substrate image area in the printing zone. The approach further involves determining a first spot size of at least one of the one or more first ink spots. The approach additionally involves causing, at least in part, a temperature of at least a second substrate image area in the printing zone to be based, at least in part, on the determined first spot size. | 12-26-2013 |
20140002557 | METHOD AN APPARATUS FOR LEVELING A PRINTED IMAGE | 01-02-2014 |
20140002558 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A DEGREE OF CURE IN AN ULTRAVIOLET PRINTING SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
20140002559 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS | 01-02-2014 |
20140002560 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140009546 | SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING HEATED AIR TO PRINTED INK - System for supplying ink printed on a print medium comprises a heater to heat air, an impingement plate with a plurality of holes, and a blower for blowing heated air through the holes of the impingement plate onto the print medium. The impingement flux length in the system which may be defined as the length of the impingement plate through which heated air is blown, is adjustable. | 01-09-2014 |
20140009547 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes: a transport path for transporting a recording medium; a cover that is capable of being opened and closed and that covers the transport path when the cover is in a closed state; and a blowing unit, provided in the cover, that is capable of blowing air toward the recording medium that is on the transport path when the cover is in a closed state and that retracts from the transport path when the cover is in an open state. | 01-09-2014 |
20140009548 | RECORDING APPARATUS - There is provided a recording apparatus. The recording apparatus includes: a support member which supports a recording medium; a recording head which applies a recording material to one surface of the recording medium supported on the support member; and a fixing unit which fixes the recording material adhered to the one surface of the recording medium transported from the support member, wherein the support member and the fixing unit are arranged to be partly overlapped with each other in an up and down direction. | 01-09-2014 |
20140015907 | RECORDING METHOD - A recording method includes a first drying step of evaporating 50 to 85 wt % of ink adhering on a recording medium, the ink being ejected from a recording head onto a surface of the recording medium back side of which is supported on a medium-supporting unit which faces the recording head, and a second drying step of drying the recording medium, which has been subjected to the first drying step, at the downstream side of the medium-supporting unit in a feeding direction of the recording medium. | 01-16-2014 |
20140015908 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing method includes applying a curable resin-containing ink onto an inked surface of a transfer sheet, heating the ink applied on the inked surface of the transfer sheet to increase viscosity of the ink, transferring the heated ink on the inked surface of transfer sheet to a printing object directly or indirectly, and curing the ink transferred to the printing object. | 01-16-2014 |
20140022322 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD - A recording apparatus includes: an upstream conveying unit that intermittently conveys a recording medium from an upstream side to a downstream side in a conveying direction; a downstream conveying unit that continuously conveys the recording medium; a recording unit that deposits a liquid and performs a recording process on the recording medium while the recording medium is being intermittently conveyed by the upstream conveying unit and has stopped; a fixing unit that performs a fixing process for fixing the liquid on the recording medium being continuously conveyed by the downstream conveying unit after the liquid has been deposited by the recording unit: and a control unit that controls the downstream conveying unit so that the downstream conveying unit conveys the recording medium at a conveying velocity that is higher than an average conveying velocity when the recording medium is conveyed by the upstream conveying unit. | 01-23-2014 |
20140028767 | PRODUCING A HOT-AIR FLOW IN A PRINTER TO HEAT A PRINT MEDIA - A printer comprises a heating system to produce a hot-air flowimpinging on a print media, the heating system comprising a heat source, a fan, and an air chamber. The air chamber has an air-impinging plate with air-impinging holes adjacent to the print media. The heating system provides first and second partially overlapping hot-air circulation circuits. The first hot-air circulation circuit leads from the heater through the holes of the air-impinging plate to direct hot air through the air-impinging holes to the print media in the course of printing operation. The second hot-air circulation circuit leads back to the heater through a recirculation channel without passing through the air-impinging holes of the air-impinging plate to prevent air from being directed onto the print media, in the course of the heat-up operation. The heating system further comprises circuit-switching arranged to switch the air flow between the first and second hot-air circulation circuits. | 01-30-2014 |
20140028768 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRINTING UNTREATED TEXTILE IN AN INKJET PRINTER - A method and system for printing untreated textile media in an inkjet printer for sharp image quality is disclosed. The method comprises printing untreated textile media with an aqueous dye-based textile ink selected according to the type of the textile media, and heating the printed textile media above a predetermined media temperature limit in the print zone to evaporate the ink moisture. The method further comprises maintaining printhead temperature by circulating a coolant through a channel in a plate that is conductively attached to the printhead for nozzle healthiness, and driving the untreated textile media with an endless belt to control stretching and distortion. | 01-30-2014 |
20140043416 | INK-JET PRINTER FOR PRINTING ON CARDS - An ink-jet printer for printing on a thermoplastic card includes a support on which the card is placed and a printing station includes at least one ink-jet printhead for printing on the card. A reservoir is coupled to the ink-jet printhead and contains an ink comprising: a medium consisting of a low-boiling organic solvent; an auxiliary solvent consisting of a high-boiling organic solvent; and a colouring component soluble in the medium. The support includes a heating system to heat the card during operation of the printing station. | 02-13-2014 |
20140043417 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF GRAVURE AND OFFSET PRINTING FORMS OR FOR PRINTING CYLINDRICAL PRINTING MATERIALS - A device and a method for printing the surface of a flat or cylindrical printing-image store is provided, wherein the device includes an arrangement of closely adjacent cells, a printing-image store, a coating device which is assigned to the frame, a printing device which is assigned to the frame and by way of which ink can be introduced via an inkjet print head, a drying device which is assigned to the frame and by way of which the protective layer and/or the primer which is applied to the surface of the printing-image store or the ink which is introduced into the cells or is applied to the cylindrical printing material can be dried, and a positioning device in order to move the carrier between the coating device, the drying device and the printing device and to position it there in each case in a processing position. | 02-13-2014 |
20140043418 | INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - Provided is an inkjet printing apparatus that can dry a medium immediately after printing or bleed-through ink while preventing the medium or bleed-through ink from being in contact with a dryer. In an inkjet printing apparatus including an inkjet head ( | 02-13-2014 |
20140049584 | Printing Apparatus and Printing Method - A printing apparatus includes: a first nozzle which elects a first ink used to print an image on a medium and cured by irradiation of light; a pre-curing light source which emits a pre-curing light to dots formed as the first ink ejected from the first nozzle is landed onto the medium; a second nozzle which ejects a second ink used to coat a surface of the medium and cured by irradiation of light onto the medium after being irradiated by the light from the pre curing light source; and a main-curing light source which emits a main-curing light to the medium, wherein the irradiation energy of the light emitted to a unit area of the medium from the pre-curing light source is changed according to whether the second ink is ejected from the second nozzle. | 02-20-2014 |
20140049585 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING CAN BODY ON WHICH IMAGE IS FORMED - A printing device ( | 02-20-2014 |
20140055541 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a transport unit that intermittently transports an elongated recording medium from an upstream side to a downstream side as the lengthwise direction of the recording medium moves along a transport path. A recording unit adheres a recording material to the recording medium when the recording medium is stopped in a midstream position of the transport path. A drying unit downstream from the recording unit heats and dries the recording material. A contact member has a contact surface continuous contact with the surface of the recording medium opposite the surface thereof to which the recording material is adhered, from the time when the recording medium enters into the drying unit to the time when the recording medium is discharged from the drying unit. The contact member forms the transport path with the contact surface having at least one bent section in the drying unit. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055542 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE - A recording medium includes a supply part that supplies a recording medium; a recording medium conveyance part that has a support surface to support the recording medium and conveys the recording medium; an ejection head that ejects liquid toward the recording medium supported by the recording medium conveyance part; a recording medium collecting part that collects the recording medium; and a heater block as a drying part that is placed between the recording medium conveyance part and the recording medium collecting part and dries the ink applied to the recording medium. A part that is on the most recording medium conveyance part side of the contact surface of the heater block is positioned higher than a part that is on the most heater block side of the support surface in a vertical direction. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055543 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording method uses an ink jet recording apparatus including a plurality of heads arranged in parallel in a first direction, each of which ejects droplets of a different radiation-curable ink composition onto a recording medium, and first light sources provided for corresponding heads so as to be disposed at a predetermined side of the corresponding heads. The first light sources emit active radiation to irradiate the droplets on the recording medium. The method includes ejecting droplets of the ink compositions from the heads onto the recording medium, and performing a first irradiation by irradiating the droplets of each ink composition with the active radiation from the corresponding first light source at an irradiation energy within 500 ms after the droplets have landed. The irradiation energy is in the range of 5% to 10% of the energy E | 02-27-2014 |
20140063158 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRINTING DIFFERENTIAL GLOSS IMAGE ON PACKAGING - A system for generating a differential gloss image useful for digital printing directly on packaging includes a packaging transport and a laser glossing imager. The packaging transport is configured to position packaging substrate having a printed image to a laser glossing imager. The printed image is formed of toner or ink. The packaging substrate is aligned with respect to the laser glossing imager exposing one or more portions of the printed image to radiation for altering a surface of the one or more portions of the printed image for forming a differential gloss image. | 03-06-2014 |
20140063159 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus including: a jetting head that jets, onto a recording medium, a curable ink composition including 0.5% by mass or more, based on a total amount of the ink composition, of a water-soluble organic solvent having an SP value of 21 (MPa) | 03-06-2014 |
20140063160 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus including: a jetting head that jets, onto a recording medium, a curable ink composition including 3% by mass to 18% by mass, based on a total amount of the ink composition, of a polyfunctional polymerizable compound, and water; a chain gripper that grips a leading end of the recording medium onto which the curable ink composition has been jetted from the jetting head, and conveys the recording medium; and an irradiation device that irradiates light to the recording medium which is conveyed by the chain gripper and onto which the curable ink composition has been jetted. | 03-06-2014 |
20140071216 | PRINTED HEATING ELEMENT - A heating element is provided with a conductive path pattern which can be printed in a mask-free manner (e.g., drop-on-demand) with existing printing technology. The printing step can be performed, for example, with a thermal inkjet printer, a piezoelectric inkjet printer, an aerosol jet printer, or an ultrasound printer. The ink solution can be formulated so that it establishes an electrically conductive path which is free of polymer binders. | 03-13-2014 |
20140078230 | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE IRRADIATION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - An electromagnetic wave irradiation device includes an irradiator which irradiates electromagnetic waves onto a liquid droplet which has been adhered to a recording medium, an irradiation controller which causes the irradiator to irradiate the electromagnetic waves periodically such that a frequency of an irradiation period in which the electromagnetic waves are irradiated is a predetermined frequency, and a time setting unit which sets a time ratio obtained by dividing a length of an irradiation time by the irradiator in the irradiation period by a length of a termination time during which the electromagnetic waves are not irradiated by the irradiator in the irradiation period to be a value of greater than or equal to 0.2 and less than or equal to 2. | 03-20-2014 |
20140085389 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink jet recording apparatus of the present invention includes a head, a first light source, a second light source. Liquid droplets of a photo-curable ink composition are applied to a recording medium. After one second or less elapses from the time when the liquid droplets are applied to the recording medium, the liquid droplets are illuminated with light of the first light source. After 0.1 second or more and one second or less elapses from the time when the liquid droplets are illuminated with light of the first light source, the liquid droplets are illuminated with light of the second light source. | 03-27-2014 |
20140092183 | RADIANT DRUM DRIER FOR PRINT MEDIA IN A PRINTING SYSTEM - Methods and systems disclosed herein provide for drying of wet colorants applied to a print media utilizing a substantially optically transparent drum that includes a radiant energy source. In one embodiment, a printer includes a hollow drum and a radiating energy source inside of the hollow drum. The energy source radiates energy for drying a wet colorant applied to a print media. The hollow drum surrounds the energy source and is substantially transparent to the radiated energy of the energy source. The drum includes a peripheral surface that contacts the print media as the print media transits along a print path. The drum conductively heats the print media for drying the wet colorant, and permits the radiated energy of the energy source to dry the wet colorant. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092184 | DRYERS THAT USE ROLLERS TO DEFINE FIRE ENCLOSURE OPENINGS - Systems and methods are provided for drying print media. The system comprises a dryer comprising an enclosure and a roller. The roller is proximate to an opening into the enclosure. A perimeter of the roller covers a portion of the opening, and an uncovered portion of the opening comprises a gap for a web of print media. The gap has a size defined on one side by the perimeter of the roller and on another side by a surface of the opening. | 04-03-2014 |
20140092185 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A drying unit that dries a printed paper sheet is disposed at a position downstream to a liquid ejecting head in a transportation direction. The drying unit includes a heater having a heating surface that also serves as a transportation surface of the paper sheet, an upstream roller that is disposed at a position opposite the heating surface, and a downstream roller that is disposed at a position downstream to the upstream roller in the transportation direction and opposite the heating surface. A distance between the upstream roller and the heating surface is longer than a distance between the downstream roller and the heating surface. | 04-03-2014 |
20140098168 | METHOD FOR PRINTING ON A SHINY SURFACE BY A UV INKJET PRINTER WITH TRANSPARENCY AND HIGH COLOR DENSITY - A method for printing on a shiny surface by a UV inkjet printer with transparency and high color density is described. Steps of the method include: (a) according to a conveying direction of a workpiece, dividing the workpiece with a reflective film into a plurality of continuous printing areas; (b) performing a printing operation on each printing area of the reflective film of the workpiece for at least three times; and (c) turning on a UV lamp at one side of an inkjet module when a final printing operation is performed on each printing area, to cure ink jetted from the inkjet module, thereby enabling the reflective film of the workpiece to still retain high shininess and high transparency after printing of the workpiece with a transparent reflective film surface is completed, and enabling a pattern printed thereon to have high color density. | 04-10-2014 |
20140098169 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording method includes a first process in which a coloring ink is recorded on a recording medium using an ink jet head so as to form a first image, a second process in which a background ink is recorded using the ink jet head so as to form a background image that covers the first image, and a third process in which a coloring ink is recorded using the ink jet head so as to form a second image, and a drying process is included between the first process and the third process. | 04-10-2014 |
20140104354 | BARRIER DRYER WITH POROUS LIQUID-CARRYING MATERIAL - A media drying system removes a moistening liquid from a moistened medium. A liquid reservoir containing a heating liquid heated above a moistening-liquid boiling point. A rotatable liquid-blocking member has a liquid-blocking layer with an inner surface and an outer surface. A media-transport system transports the moistened medium so it contacts or is entrained around the liquid-blocking member in a path zone so that the moistened medium is brought into contact with the outer surface of the liquid-blocking layer. A porous material absorbs heating liquid from the liquid reservoir and brings the absorbed heating liquid into contact with the inner surface of the liquid-blocking layer for at least a portion of the path zone. Heat is transferred through the liquid-blocking layer from the absorbed warmed heating liquid to the moistening liquid, vaporizing the moistening liquid and removing it from the moistened medium. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104355 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a head that ejects liquid to be cured by receiving irradiation of an electromagnetic wave onto a medium; a provisional-curing irradiation section that emits a first electromagnetic wave to a dot formed on the medium by the liquid; and a main-curing irradiation section that emits a second electromagnetic wave, which has irradiation intensity higher than that of the first electromagnetic wave, to the dot to which the first electromagnetic wave is emitted. When the main-curing irradiation section emits the second electromagnetic wave, a dot forming surface of the medium faces the lower side in the direction of gravity. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104356 | ACTIVE-ENERGY-RAY-CURABLE INK JET RECORDING INK COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR FORMING IMAGE - An active-energy-ray-curable ink jet recording ink composition is provided, in which (1) a polymerizable compound having an active-energy-ray-polymerizable group and a polymerizable compound having at least two active-energy-ray-polymerizable groups are used in amounts of 10 to 25 mass % and 75 to 90 mass % relative to the total amount of the active-energy-ray-polymerizable compounds, respectively; (2) the polymerizable compound having an active-energy-ray-polymerizable group includes 10 to 20 mass % of N-vinylcaprolactam; and (3) the polymerizable compound having at least two active-energy-ray-polymerizable groups includes 15 to 35 mass % of 2-(2-vinyloxyethoxy)ethyl(meth)acrylate. Furthermore, a method for forming an image is provided. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104357 | INK COMPOSITION, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PRINTED MATERIAL - An ink composition with excellent solvent resistance of the recorded image and fixability to a recording medium which may be applicable to an ink jet recording method, and an image forming method using the ink composition are provided. An ink composition which includes a dispersion medium including (a) water, and particles of (b) a polymer compound and (b) the polymer compound includes a repeating unit having a partial structure represented by the following General Formula (1) is provided. In the following General Formula (1), R | 04-17-2014 |
20140111586 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes: an apparatus main body that has a transportation unit which transports a recording medium and a liquid droplet ejection head which ejects an ink onto the recording medium; a curing unit that has a curing heater which heats and cures the ink on the recording medium; and a support mechanism that connects the apparatus main body and the curing unit, and displaceably supports the curing unit to be in an unfolded state and to be in a folded state where a depth which is the total length of the apparatus main body and the curing unit is shorter than that in the unfolded state in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the apparatus main body. | 04-24-2014 |
20140118450 | TRANSPORTATION DEVICE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A transportation device includes a transportation unit that transports continuous paper, and an image capturing unit that has a light irradiator capable of irradiating the continuous paper which is transported by the transportation unit with light and detects a transportation amount of the continuous paper based on reflected light of the light irradiated onto the continuous paper by the light irradiator. The light irradiator is arranged so as to irradiate the continuous paper with light obliquely with respect to the detection region of the continuous paper from the width direction side of the continuous paper, which is orthogonal to the transportation direction of the continuous paper. | 05-01-2014 |
20140118451 | UV-CURABLE INK JET INK COMPOSITION - A UV-curable ink jet ink composition contains a polymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator containing an acylphosphine-based photopolymerization initiator having a phenyl group in the molecule thereof, and a fluorescent brightening agent. The fluorescent brightening agent in a predetermined concentration has a higher maximum absorbance than the photopolymerization initiator in the same concentration, in a wavelength region of 360 to 420 nm. | 05-01-2014 |
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 |
20140132683 | POST-APPLICATION INK PROCESSING AND SHEET HANDLING - An apparatus including a control cylinder rotatably supported for thermal conduction to a sheet. The sheet conveys ink deposited on a first side. The sheet is held against a peripheral arch of the control cylinder as it rotates with the first side of the sheet directly engaging and wrapping around the control cylinder along the peripheral arch. The apparatus also includes a thermal control element for heating and/or cooling the control cylinder. The apparatus also includes a pressure roll for spreading the ink. The pressure roll with the control cylinder forms a spreader nip, which is selectively changeable between a closed and open position. In the closed position the pressure roll is biased toward the control cylinder for applying pressure to the ink on the sheet. The pressure roll is spaced further away from the control cylinder in the open position relative to the closed position. | 05-15-2014 |
20140132684 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink jet recording method includes recording a white color-based image by discharging droplets of a white color-based ink composition from nozzles of an ink jet recording head, and then attaching the droplets of the white color-based ink composition on a recording surface of a flexible packing film, recording a color by discharging droplets of a color ink composition from the nozzles, and then attaching the droplets of the color ink composition on the white color-based image, and firstly heating at least the white color-based image and the color image at temperature higher than 40° C., in which the white color-based ink composition contains water, a coloring material of a white color base, and a urethane-based resin, but substantially does not contain alkyl polyols having a normal boiling point of 280° C. or more, and the color ink composition contains water, and a coloring material of a color system. | 05-15-2014 |
20140132685 | INK COMPOSITION AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An ink composition having excellent storage stability and curing properties after an image formation and an image forming method using the ink composition are provided. | 05-15-2014 |
20140132686 | PRINTING METHOD - Provided is a printing method of printing a color image on a medium using a printing apparatus. The method includes forming dots on a medium by using cyan ink, magenta ink, and yellow ink that are cured when irradiated with electromagnetic waves, and then forming dots on the medium by using at least any ink among red ink, green ink, blue ink, and orange ink cured when irradiated with electromagnetic waves. | 05-15-2014 |
20140152749 | ACOUSTIC DRYING SYSTEM WITH MATCHED EXHAUST FLOW - An inkjet printing system, comprising: one or more inkjet printheads for printing drops of ink onto a receiver medium, and an acoustic air impingement drying system positioned in proximity to at least one of the inkjet printheads. The acoustic air impingement drying system includes: an airflow source providing a supply flow rate; an acoustic resonant chamber having an inlet slot that receives air from the airflow source and an outlet slot that directs air onto the receiver medium; an exhaust air channel for removing the air directed onto the receiver medium by the acoustic resonant chamber; a blower for pulling air through the exhaust air channel at an exhaust flow rate; and a blower controller that controls the supply flow rate and the exhaust flow rate, wherein the exhaust flow rate is controlled to match the supply flow rate to within 1%, or to exceed the supply flow rate. | 06-05-2014 |
20140152750 | ACOUSTIC DRYING SYSTEM WITH MATCHED EXHAUST FLOW - An inkjet printing system, comprising: one or more inkjet printheads for printing drops of ink onto a receiver medium, and an acoustic air impingement drying system positioned in proximity to at least one of the inkjet printheads. The acoustic air impingement drying system includes: an airflow source providing a supply flow rate; an acoustic resonant chamber having an inlet slot that receives air from the airflow source and an outlet slot that directs air onto the receiver medium; an exhaust air channel for removing the air directed onto the receiver medium by the acoustic resonant chamber; a blower for pulling air through the exhaust air channel at an exhaust flow rate; and a blower controller that controls the supply flow rate and the exhaust flow rate, wherein the exhaust flow rate is controlled to match the supply flow rate to within 1%, or to exceed the supply flow rate. | 06-05-2014 |
20140152751 | RECORDING METHOD - A recording method includes a liquid substance discharge step of discharging a liquid substance from a discharge head toward a predetermined section of sections of the recording medium, and a radiation step of radiating light toward the liquid substance discharged on the recording medium. The liquid substance discharge step and the radiation step are performed n times, with n being an integer of 2 or greater, on the predetermined section to complete recording on the predetermined section while moving the discharge head and the recording medium relative to each other. In the n liquid substance discharge steps, with a recording rate of a first liquid substance discharge step being denoted by a % and a recording rate of a final liquid substance discharge step being denoted by b %, a>b. | 06-05-2014 |
20140160215 | ACTIVE-ENERGY-RAY-CURABLE INKJET RECORDING INK COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR FORMING IMAGE - An active-energy-ray-curable inkjet recording ink composition is provided, in which a polymerizable compound having an active-energy-ray-polymerizable group and a polymerizable compound having at least two active-energy-ray-polymerizable groups are used in amounts of 60 to 95 mass % and 5 to 40 mass % relative to the total amount of the active-energy-ray-polymerizable compound, respectively; the polymerizable compound having an active-energy-ray-polymerizable group includes N-vinyl-2-caprolactam and isobornyl acrylate in amounts of 1 to 15 mass % and 1 to 25 mass % relative to the total amount of the active-energy-ray-polymerizable compound, respectively; and the polymerizable compound having at least two active-energy-ray-polymerizable groups includes a polymerizable compound having a vinyl ether group. Furthermore, a method for forming an image is provided. | 06-12-2014 |
20140176654 | INKJET PRINTING SYSTEM WITH CONDENSATION CONTROL - Inkjet printing systems are provided that use a combination of higher resistance flow areas and lower resistance flow areas to allow a vaporized carrier reducing airflow to flow between a printing module and a receiver without disrupting inkjet drop placements. Removal of the vaporized carrier fluid reduces condensation. | 06-26-2014 |
20140184710 | PRINTING MACHINE - The invention relates to a printing machine, wherein the printing machine has at least one first printing unit and at least one first dryer, wherein the at least one first printing unit has at least one inkjet print head, at least one first central cylinder, and an integral first drive motor dedicated to the at least one first central cylinder, and wherein the at least one first dryer is embodied as a radiation dryer, and wherein the at least one first dryer has at least one ventilating device, which has at least one air infeed line and at least one air removal line, and wherein at least one first cooling unit is arranged downstream of the at least one first dryer along a transport path of a printing material through the printing machine. | 07-03-2014 |
20140198162 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE SURFACE PREPARATION IN AN AQUEOUS INKJET PRINTER - An aqueous inkjet printer is provided with a surface energy applicator that is positioned to treat the surface of a blanket immediately prior to a printhead ejecting ink onto the blanket. Modifying the surface energy of blanket with the electric field and charged particles produced by the applicator affects the adhesion of the ink to blanket. This adhesion changes from the impact of the ink on the blanket until the ink image is transferred to media. The surface energy applicator is operated during each print cycle to alter the surface energy of the blanket for each ink image formed on the blanket. | 07-17-2014 |
20140198163 | Inkjet Printer Having An Image Drum Heater And Cooler - An inkjet offset printer includes a heated drum assembly having a hollow drum with an internal surface defining an internal cavity and a heater and a cooler located in the internal cavity. The heater includes at least one ceramic heater element. The cooler includes a slot to direct an air stream that is normal to the internal surface of the drum that aids in quenching the heating element for faster control responses. | 07-17-2014 |
20140204158 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A printing system includes a media transport device to move a medium at a speed ranging from about 15.24 mpm to about 609.6 mpm. The system includes an ink applicator to apply ink on the medium, and a treatment applicator to apply a treatment composition (including liquid vehicle, polyvalent metal salt fixing agent, and latex resin having an acid number less than 20) before or after the ink is applied, to form a printed-on medium. The system further includes a heating system programmed to: i) dry the printed-on medium at a predetermined temperature for a reduced dwell time (from about 1 second to about 40 seconds); and ii) leave residual moisture in the printed-on medium for a predetermined time after the reduced dwell time. The residual moisture is at a level that is higher than an initial moisture content of the medium prior to treatment composition and ink application. | 07-24-2014 |
20140210919 | LOW-TEMPERATURE GAS FLOW INSERTION IN PRINTING SYSTEM DRYERS - Systems and methods are provided for inserting low temperature gas into dryers of printing systems. The system comprises a dryer, which includes a heating element and a flow generator. The heating element is within an interior of the dryer and is able to heat a web of printed media as the web travels through the interior. The flow generator is within the interior and is operable to directly project an impinging jet of gas along a width of the web that deflects heated air proximate to the web. The gas is cooler than the heated air. | 07-31-2014 |
20140210920 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a plurality of line heads that discharge light curable inks onto a recording target material, a plurality of first light irradiators that are located at downstream side of transportation direction relative to the respective line heads in the transportation direction and emit light to the recording target material, a drum that is located at the downstream side relative to the first light irradiators in the transportation direction and forms a part of the transportation path, and a second light irradiator that is located opposite to a portion of the drum with which the transported recording target material makes contact and emits light to the contact portion. In the recording apparatus, the first light irradiators emit light for provisionally curing the discharged light curable inks, and the second light irradiator emits light for permanently curing the light curable inks, which have been provisionally cured, on the drum. | 07-31-2014 |
20140232797 | RECORDING MEDIUM HEATING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THE RECORDING MEDIUM HEATING APPARATUS - A recording medium heating apparatus includes a plurality of heat rollers disposed in a feeding path of a recording medium and having respective heating units; and a control unit controlling temperatures of the heating units so that the temperature of a first heat roller is lower than the temperature of a second heat roller. Further, the first and the second heat rollers are included in the plurality of heat rollers and the first heat roller is disposed on the upstream side of the second heat roller in the feeding path. | 08-21-2014 |
20140240417 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A liquid discharge apparatus includes a support that supports a medium; a head that discharges liquid to the medium transported onto the support; and a drying portion that dries the liquid that has landed on the medium. The liquid discharge apparatus has a heated area and a non-heated area. The drying portion is disposed in the heated area, and the support and the head are disposed in the non-heated area. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240418 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS - A liquid discharge apparatus includes a first head, a second head on a downstream side in the transport direction from the first head, a first irradiation section between the first head and the second head, a second irradiation section arranged on the downstream side in the transport direction, a first mist recovery section that is arranged between the first head and the first irradiation section, a second mist recovery section that is arranged between the second head and the second irradiation section, and an air flow adjustment member that is arranged between the second mist recovery section and the second irradiation section, adjusts an amount of air which is absorbed into the second mist recovery section, and decreases the air which is absorbed from the downstream side in the transport direction than the second mist recovery section in the air which is absorbed into the second mist recovery section. | 08-28-2014 |
20140240419 | RECORD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING RECORD - A method for manufacturing a record includes an image layer-forming step of forming an image layer by applying ink containing resin and a solvent A to a recording medium, a heating step of heating the image layer to a temperature not lower than the glass transition temperature of the resin, and a solvent-removing step of removing the solvent A from the image layer after the heating step. | 08-28-2014 |
20140253653 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording apparatus has a recording head capable of performing recording by discharging an aqueous ink to a target recording medium, a drying portion which dries the aqueous ink recorded on the target recording medium by the recording head, a collecting portion which collects vapor at least containing water evaporated from the aqueous ink by the drying portion, a heating and compressing portion of heating and compressing the vapor collected by the collecting portion, and an ejecting portion of ejecting the vapor heated and compressed by the heating and compressing portion to the target recording medium on which recording is performed. | 09-11-2014 |
20140253654 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INK CURING - According to one example there is provided apparatus for curing ink on a substrate. The apparatus comprises a substrate support, a curing sheet positionable above the substrate support to create a gap between a substrate on the substrate support and the curing sheet. The apparatus further comprises an oxygen-depletion mechanism for reducing the oxygen level in the gap and an ultra-violet, UV, radiation source to apply UV radiation through the curing sheet to a substrate on the substrate support. | 09-11-2014 |
20140267518 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus includes an ejecting head which ejects photocurable liquid onto the recording medium; and a light irradiator which radiates the light to the liquid which is ejected onto the recording medium, in which the light irradiator includes a light source substrate which is arranged so as to face the recording medium, and includes a light source which radiates the light to the recording medium; a heat transport member which includes a portion to be connected which is in thermal contact with the light source substrate, and a portion to be cooled which is located at a position which is further separated from the light source substrate than the portion to be connected, and transports heat from the portion to be connected to the portion to be cooled; and a cooling fan which cools down the portion to be cooled. | 09-18-2014 |
20140267519 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus includes: a rotating drum including a hollow cylinder around which a recording medium is guided while the rotating drum rotates; a discharge head that discharges liquid onto the recording medium guided around the outer surface of the rotating drum; and an air flow generator that generates an air flow that passes through the inside of the hollow cylinder of the rotating drum. The rotating drum further includes, in the hollow cylinder, a shaft member that has an axis identical to a rotation axis of the rotating drum and supporting members that are plate-shaped and that extend from the shaft member in the radial direction of the rotating drum and support the hollow cylinder, and the rotating drum rotates in a rotation direction about the shaft member. Each of the supporting members includes at least one air hole penetrating therethrough in the rotation direction. | 09-18-2014 |
20140267520 | METHOD OF FORMING IMAGE AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - A method of forming an image includes a step of heating a nonporous substrate to a temperature in a range of from 30° C. to 80° C.; and a step of forming an image on the nonporous substrate by applying water-based inks of at least two colors to the nonporous substrate employing an ink jet technique, wherein an ink set that contains water-based inks each containing a coloring material, an emulsion resin, water, and a water-soluble solvent is used to apply the water-based inks of the at least two colors, and, of the water-based inks in the ink set, at least one water-based ink has a minimum film-forming temperature different from those of water-based inks of other colors. | 09-18-2014 |
20140267521 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE - An image recording device includes: a rotating drum configured to rotate and including a cylindrical hollow outer member having an outer peripheral surface around which a recording medium is wrapped during rotation of the rotating drum; an ejecting head facing the outer peripheral surface of the rotating drum and configured to eject liquid onto the recording medium wrapped around the outer peripheral surface of the rotating drum; an air supply unit configured to supply gas from one side of the rotating drum to a hollow portion surrounded by the outer member of the rotating drum in an axial direction along which a rotating shaft of the rotating drum extends; and an exhaust unit configured to exhaust gas from the hollow portion to the other side of the rotating drum in the axial direction. | 09-18-2014 |
20140285599 | REDUCTION OF INK TEMPERATURES IN A RADIANT DRYER - Systems and methods for reducing ink temperatures in a radiant dryer. In one embodiment, a fluid dispersion unit is implemented in a printing system. The printing system includes a production printer that is operable to apply ink on a front side of a continuous-form medium, and includes a radiant dryer that is operable to dry the ink that is applied on the front side of the medium. The liquid dispersion unit is configured to apply a liquid on a back side of the medium before the medium enters the radiant dryer. | 09-25-2014 |
20140285600 | PRINTING DEVICE FOR PRINTING ON CONTAINERS - A printing device for printing on containers in a rotationally-driven container conveying unit by means of which containers are conveyed between at least one container feed location and at least one container removal location, the printing device, and including at least one print head and at least one housing for housing a container. Each housing includes a hollow body, which is partially open at least in a printing area and which is used for accommodating the container, the opening for the printing area defining a front side and a side located opposite the front side defining a rear side. | 09-25-2014 |
20140285601 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus that includes a condensation guide portion is provided. The recording apparatus includes a recording head that discharges ink onto a recording medium, a heater that dries the ink discharged on the recording medium by the recording head without making contact with the recording medium, a medium supporting portion provided with an opening portion which allows vapor that evaporates from the ink due to the heater to pass therethrough, and a condensation guide portion which causes the vapor that passes through the opening portion to condense and thereby prevent the recording medium from being wetted by the condensed vapor. | 09-25-2014 |
20140285602 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording head which discharges ink onto a recording medium; a heater which dries the ink discharged on the recording medium by the recording head without making contact with the recording medium; and a transport belt which supports the recording medium in a transportable manner in a position in which it is at least possible to dry a portion of the recording medium on which the ink is discharged using the heater. The transport belt includes a plurality of protruding portions, which can make contact with the recording medium, and a contact area between a contact portion of the protruding portion in relation to the recording medium, and the recording medium is 0.3 mm | 09-25-2014 |
20140292968 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus includes a first print head that discharges a first liquid that is cured through irradiation of light from a nozzle towards the recording medium; a second print head that discharges a second liquid in which a content rate of a tri-functional or higher polyfunctional monomer is different from that of the first liquid and that is cured through irradiation of light from a nozzle towards the recording medium, and is provided at a different position in the transport direction from the first print head; and an irradiator that irradiates the recording medium with light, and is arranged between the print heads in the transport direction, in which the irradiator emits light having directionality in a direction receding in the transport direction from a print head that discharges a liquid with a higher content rate from the print heads. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292969 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - A first irradiation section has a light source and an emitting member. The light source generates radiation, and the emitting member is located between a first irradiation point and a virtual plane that extends through the edge of a nozzle surface closest to the first irradiation section tangentially to a curved surface. The radiation generated by the light source goes out through the emitting member. A control section controls a transportation speed in such a manner that ink dots formed at a dot formation point should move to the first irradiation point in a second time period that is equal to or shorter than a first time period. The first time period is the time period from the time immediately after the ink dots are formed to the time when the diameter of the ink dots reaches twice the nozzle pitch. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292970 | HOUSING FOR INK CURING APPARATUS - A double-walled housing ( | 10-02-2014 |
20140300674 | PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device includes a device main body that has a feeding unit for feeding a recording medium and a printing section for printing by ejecting ink from a liquid drop ejecting head onto the recording medium that has been fed by activation of the feeding unit, and a heating unit disposed on a downstream side in a feed direction of the recording medium with respect to the device main body. The heating unit has a medium passage through which the recording medium after printing passes, a heating unit provided with a heat generator disposed in an intermediate position of the medium passage to heat the recording medium after printing with heat generated by the heat generator, and an air discharging unit for forcibly discharging air in the medium passage. | 10-09-2014 |
20140313267 | PRINTING INK, APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention provides an inkjet ink comprising at least 30% by weight of organic solvent based on the total weight of the ink, a radiation curable material, a photoinitiator and optionally a colourant. The invention also provides an apparatus for printing the ink wherein the apparatus comprises at least one printhead, a means for evaporating solvent from the printed ink and a source of actinic radiation. Furthermore, the invention provides a method of inkjet printing comprising i) inkjet printing the inkjet ink as defined above on to a substrate; ii) evaporating at least a portion of the solvent from the printed ink; and iii) exposing the printed ink to actinic radiation to cure the radiation curable material. | 10-23-2014 |
20140313268 | AQUEOUS INK COMPOSITION AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The aqueous ink composition contains (A) a polymer that has an SP value of 18.6 to 20 and contains a hydrophilic group-containing repeating unit (a1) of 5% to 45% by mass, (B) a pigment, (C) water, and (D) an organic solvent represented by the following Formula (I). | 10-23-2014 |
20140333704 | PHOTOCURABLE INKJET AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD USING SAME - Provided is a photocurable inkjet ink comprising a curable monomer, a photopolymerization initiator, a gelling agent, a colorant, and a curable oligomer. The photocurable inkjet ink is characterized in that the curable oligomer has from two to twenty functional groups, that the glass transition temperature thereof is 40° C. or higher, and that the curable oligomer content is from 2 to 20% by mass relative to the mass of the ink as a whole. | 11-13-2014 |
20140340455 | WATER-DILUTABLE INKS AND WATER-DILUTED RADIATION CURABLE INKS USEFUL FOR INK-BASED DIGITAL PRINTING - An ink composition useful for digital offset printing applications includes a colorant and a radiation-curable water-dilutable compound. A process for variable data lithographic printing includes applying a dampening fluid to an imaging member surface; forming a latent image by evaporating the dampening fluid from selective locations on the imaging member surface to form hydrophobic non-image areas and hydrophilic image areas; developing the latent image by applying an ink composition comprising an ink component to the hydrophilic image areas, the ink composition comprising a radiation-curable water-dilutable compound, a colorant component, and optionally water; and transferring the developed latent image to a receiving substrate, wherein the ink transfer efficiency is 90% or higher. | 11-20-2014 |
20140340456 | INK JET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD FOR PRINTING AN IMAGE HAVING MATT AND GLOSSY IMAGE AREAS - A method of printing an image ( | 11-20-2014 |
20140354742 | OVERCOAT COMPOSITION FOR INK JET PRINTING - An ink jettable overprint composition includes a reversible polymer material, which can reversibly transition between a liquid state and a solid state by reversible cycloaddition reactions, wherein upon cooling, the reversible polymer material transitions from a liquid state to a solid state by reversible cycloaddition reactions within a time period of less than about 10 seconds. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354743 | INK-JET RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is an ink-jet printer including a printer head which ejects ink onto a medium while moving relative to the medium in a main-scanning direction, an LED module which exposes the ink ejected onto the medium to light while moving in the main-scanning direction together with the printer head so as to cure the ink, and LED light sources which are provided to the LED module at a position near the medium, which are plurally arranged at least in the main-scanning direction, and which are divided into a plurality of areas in accordance with an arrangement position with respect to the LED module to adjust an amount of light during light emission for each area. | 12-04-2014 |
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 |
20140354745 | PATTERN FORMATION METHOD - A pattern formation method includes a first step of forming a film having a flat surface on an uneven structure including a concave portion exhibiting liquid repellency and a convex portion exhibiting lyophilic properties so as to cover the concave portion and the convex portion; and a second step of forming a pattern by drying the film. | 12-04-2014 |
20140362150 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE AQUEOUS INK, INK CARTRIDGE, RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - There is provided an ultraviolet-curable aqueous ink containing: a continuous phase containing water; and a dispersed phase dispersed in the continuous phase, wherein the dispersed phase contains a water-insoluble ultraviolet polymerizable compound, and a water-insoluble ultraviolet polymerization initiator having an absorption at a wavelength range of 375 nm or more and 450 nm or less. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362151 | RADIATION-CURABLE INK FOR INK JET RECORDING, RECORD MADE USING THE SAME, AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD USING THE SAME - A radiation-curable ink for ink jet recording contains N-vinylcaprolactam. The N-vinylcaprolactam content is in a range of 5% by mass to 20% by mass, inclusive, relative to the total mass of the ink. The ink is for the purpose of making a marking on a recording medium, and the recording medium is a package substrate or a semiconductor substrate. The ink is applied to the package substrate or the semiconductor substrate, exposed to radiation, and then subjected to a heat treatment at a temperature in a range of 150° C. to 200° C., inclusive. | 12-11-2014 |
20140362152 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE INK COMPOSITION FOR INK JET AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ultraviolet-curable ink composition for ink jet is for use in an ink jet recording method that includes irradiating the ultraviolet-curable ink composition for ink jet applied to a substrate with ultraviolet radiation that has a peak wavelength in the range of 380 to 405 nm from a semiconductor light source to obtain a cured coating. The product of the light transmissivity (%) of the cured coating at a wavelength of 395 nm and the irradiation energy of the ultraviolet radiation (mJ/cm | 12-11-2014 |
20140368589 | Curing Apparatus, Image Forming Apparatus, and Articles of Manufacture - Curing apparatus, image forming apparatus and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example curing apparatus includes a curing unit to heat an area adjacent a substrate travel path, the curing unit having a width less than a width of the substrate travel path, and a controller to reciprocate the curing unit within the substrate width. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368590 | PRINTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image is printed by ink on a first face of a sheet of which the first face has low absorbency and the second face has a water-absorbing property greater than the first face. The first face of the sheet that has been printed upon is heated and the second face is moisturized. | 12-18-2014 |
20140368591 | RADIATION-CURABLE INKJET INK SET AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - To provide a radiation-curable inkjet ink set that has a sufficiently wide color gamut and is excellent in terms of mechanical strength and substrate adhesion of cured ink, and an inkjet recording method employing the ink set. A radiation-curable inkjet ink set comprises a yellow ink comprising C.I. Pigment Yellow 185 at 1.5 to 2.5 mass %, and a magenta ink comprising C.I. Pigment Red 48:4 at 1.5 to 2.5 mass %. | 12-18-2014 |
20140375735 | LIGHT IRRADIATION APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A light irradiation apparatus of the embodiment is a light irradiation apparatus that emits light including an ultraviolet ray to a target relatively moving in one direction, including a light irradiation device in which a light emitting element is disposed on one main surface of a base; and a light irradiation chamber in whose internal space the target moves with a light-irradiated surface up from an entrance to an exit thereof in the one direction, the light irradiation device being disposed in an upper section of the internal space. | 12-25-2014 |
20140375736 | Ink, Base to be Printed, Printing Device, Printing Method, and Method for Producing Base to be Printed - The purpose of the present invention is to prevent the discoloration of an ink even when the ink is printed on a base to be printed and then exposed to a high-temperature environment. An ink comprising a glass composition, wherein the glass composition ( | 12-25-2014 |
20140375737 | RECORDING SUBSTRATE TREATMENT APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DRYING - A recording substrate treatment apparatus includes a transporting mechanism for transporting a sheet of a recording substrate; a suction device to provide an underpressure force at an outer surface of the transporting mechanism arranged for holding down a sheet of a recording substrate; a heater for directly heating the recording substrate; and a blower for providing a flow of a gaseous medium at the outer surface of the transporting mechanism, wherein in operation the blower receives the gaseous medium from the suction device. The present invention also pertains to a printing system comprising such a recording substrate treatment apparatus and a method of drying a recording substrate using such a recording substrate recording apparatus. | 12-25-2014 |
20150009269 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a medium supporting portion that supports a recording target medium, and an electromagnetic wave irradiator that emits electromagnetic waves onto the recording target medium on the medium supporting portion and dries ink present on the recording target medium using the electromagnetic waves. In the recording apparatus, the medium supporting portion has a thermal conductivity of equal to or higher than 0.057 w/(m·K) and equal to or lower than 2.2 w/(m·K). | 01-08-2015 |
20150015648 | ACTINIC RADIATION-CURABLE INKJET INK AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD USING SAME - Provided is an actinic radiation-curable inkjet ink that undergoes sol-gel phase transfer and contains a dye, a gelling agent, a photopolymerization compound and a photopolymerization initiator. The actinic radiation-curable inkjet ink comprises a photopolymerizable compound A, which is a (meth)acrylate having hydroxyl groups; a photopolymerizable compound B, which is a (meth)acrylate compound having a molecular weight within a range of 300 to 1,500 and an intramolecular structure (—CH | 01-15-2015 |
20150015649 | Process and Apparatus for Printing Assembled Absorbent Articles with Custom Graphics - The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for printing graphics on absorbent articles. Printing systems according to the present disclosure may include a carrier apparatus that transports individual absorbent articles past a printing station, which prints a custom graphic on the absorbent articles. The carrier apparatus may include a hook member connected with an endless belt. The printing system may also include a pressing apparatus positioned adjacent the endless belt. During operation, an absorbent article may be positioned on a hook member, and the endless belt conveys the absorbent article in the machine direction past the printing station. As the absorbent article advances toward the printing station, the pressing apparatus compresses and flattens the absorbent article against the hook member to help provide a relatively flat, smooth surface on the absorbent article to be printed. The printing station then prints a graphic on the advancing article. | 01-15-2015 |
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 |
20150022602 | PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing system is disclosed which comprises an image forming station | 01-22-2015 |
20150022603 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a support member that supports a recording medium, a heating device that heats the recording medium on the support member, a recording head that ejects fluid onto the recording medium on the support member and that is positioned between the support member and the heating device, a blower that has a blowing port from which gas is blown, and a carriage that moves and has the recording head mounted thereon. The carriage has an enclosing structure inside which at least part of the gas blown from the blowing port is taken and inside which a gas layer in which the gas flows is formed between the recording head and the heating device. | 01-22-2015 |
20150022604 | LARGE-SCALE INKJET PRINTER - A multipass large format flat bed inkjet printer ( | 01-22-2015 |
20150029277 | WAVELENGTH FILTERS FOR DRYERS OF PRINTING SYSTEMS - Systems and methods are provided for filtering wavelengths of energy in a dryer of a printing system. The system comprises a dryer of a printing system that includes a heating element and an optical filter. The heating element is within an interior of the dryer and is able to radiate broad spectrum energy onto a web of printed media as the web travels through the interior. The optical filter is located within the interior between the heating element and the web, and the optical filter is able to prevent specific wavelengths of the energy from reaching the web while allowing other wavelengths of the energy to pass through. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029278 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND DRYING METHOD - A recording apparatus includes an electromagnetic wave irradiation section that dries ink present on a recording medium by using electromagnetic waves; and a fan that moves vapor evaporated from the ink, which is generated on a back side of the recording medium by irradiating the electromagnetic waves by the electromagnetic wave irradiation section, in a direction away from the recording medium. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029279 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND DRYING METHOD - A recording apparatus includes: a medium support section that supports a recording medium; and an electromagnetic wave irradiation section that dries ink present on the recording medium by irradiating electromagnetic waves to the recording medium on the medium support section, in which the medium support section has a first region including an irradiation region of the electromagnetic wave irradiation section and a second region provided adjacent to the first region, having thermal conductivity lower than that of the first region, and including a non-irradiating region of the electromagnetic wave irradiation section, and is provided with an opening section through which vapor evaporated from the ink passes. | 01-29-2015 |
20150029280 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes an electromagnetic wave irradiating portion that radiates an electromagnetic wave and dries ink by using the electromagnetic wave; a first medium supporting portion that supports a recording medium in an irradiation area of the electromagnetic wave irradiating portion and has an opening portion through which vapor evaporated from ink ejected onto the recording medium by electromagnetic wave irradiation by the electromagnetic wave irradiating portion passes; and a second medium supporting portion that is provided adjacent to the first medium supporting portion and has a thermal conductivity lower than the first medium supporting portion. | 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 |
20150035920 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes: a head that is capable of ejecting liquid on a medium; a heater that dries the liquid ejected on the medium; a medium support section that is provided with a first opening section through which vapor which is evaporated from the liquid ejected on the medium passes; a first member that is provided with a second opening section through which the vapor passing through the first opening section passes and allows at least some of the vapor to be condensed; and a second member that allows the vapor passing through the second opening section to be condensed. | 02-05-2015 |
20150049149 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD AND PRINTED MATERIAL - An inkjet recording method including applying an undercoat solution onto a transparent recording medium, semi-curing the undercoat solution, discharging an ink composition onto the semi-cured undercoat solution, and carrying out overall curing of the semi-cured undercoat solution and the ink composition by exposure under an low oxygen atmosphere after the image formation, the undercoat solution comprising two or more types of polymers and/or oligomers from among polymers and oligomers having a structure selected from the group consisting of a polyester structure, a polyurethane structure, and a chlorinated polyolefin structure, the ink composition comprising at least 95 parts of a polyfunctional ethylenically unsaturated compound relative to 100 parts of the total content of ethylenically unsaturated compound, and at least 5 parts of a polyalkylene glycol diacrylate, and exposure in the overall curing being carried out from both the image formation face and the reverse face of the recording medium. | 02-19-2015 |
20150054894 | TEMPERATURE ADJUSTING MEMBER AND PRINTER INCLUDING THE SAME - A temperature adjusting member includes: a thermoelectric conversion module; a casing which contains the thermoelectric conversion module; an exterior pipe which contains the casing; and a support body which brings the casing into contact with an inner wall of the exterior pipe. The support body includes a holding portion, a connecting portion and a support portion. The holding portion holds the casing; the connecting portion is connected to the holding portion; and the support portion supports the holding portion by the connecting portion. The connecting portion is connected to the support portion such that the holding portion is movable toward the inner wall of the exterior pipe. | 02-26-2015 |
20150062269 | PRINTER, PRINTER CONTROL METHOD, AND LIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE - A printer or the like is provided that can increase adhesiveness between cured photo curable ink and a print medium as necessary. The printer includes a discharge unit | 03-05-2015 |
20150062270 | PRINTING METHOD - The problem addressed by the present invention lies in obtaining printed material having higher brightness using an ultraviolet-curing metallic ink. In order to solve this problem, the printing method includes: an ink ejection process, in which an ultraviolet curing type metallic ink including metal particles is ejected on a recording medium, and the recording medium is swelled by the metallic ink, soaked with the metallic ink, or dissolved by the metallic ink; a leveling process, in which the metallic ink on the recording medium is leveled; a temporary curing process, in which ultraviolet rays are irradiated to the metallic ink on the recording medium to cure in such a degree that the metallic ink is not completely cured; and a main curing process, in which ultraviolet rays are irradiated to the metallic ink on the recording medium for curing after the temporary curing process. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062271 | INKJET PRINTER ASSEMBLY USING A GELLING UV CURABLE INK - An inkjet printer assembly for printing an image on a recording medium comprises a medium support surface for supporting a recording medium; an inkjet print head for ejecting droplets of an UV-curable ink on the recording medium, the inkjet print head being arranged over the medium support surface; an UV radiation source for irradiating the droplets of UV-curable ink on the recording medium, the UV radiation source being arranged over the medium support surface; a covering arranged over the medium support surface, the covering and the medium support surface together enclosing a print space including the inkjet print head and the UV radiation source; and exhaust means, the exhaust means being configured to vent the print space. The covering comprises a window part arranged such to allow a view on the medium support surface, the window part being at least partially transparent for visible light and configured to filter UV radiation from the UV radiation source to an extent that no harmful amount of UV radiation passes through. Thus, an operator is enabled to view a print result directly as it is printed without being subjected to harmful radiation. | 03-05-2015 |
20150062272 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejection section that ejects a liquid, a medium supporting section that supports a medium onto which the liquid is ejected, a heater that is disposed at a position which is not in contact with the medium supporting section and is configured to emit a thermal energy, a heat receiving section that receives the thermal energy emitted from the heater, and a stop section that stops the heater when a temperature of the heat receiving section becomes a predetermined temperature or higher, wherein the heat receiving section is disposed at a position on a first direction side with respect to the heater and between the heater and the medium supporting section, when the first direction is defined as a direction which is directed from the heater to the medium supporting section. | 03-05-2015 |
20150070451 | IMAGE-FORMING METHOD - An image-forming method that comprises: a process of discharging a radiation-curable inkjet ink, which contains a photopolymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, and a gelling agent and which undergoes a phase transition depending on the temperature, on a recording medium; and a process of curing the radiation-curable inkjet ink discharged on the recording medium by irradiating active radiation thereon. The method performs the irradiation with the active radiation so that the maximum illuminance at the surface of the recording medium is 2-5 W/cm | 03-12-2015 |
20150070452 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTER, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - When a heat capacity of a recording medium having a base material coated with a foamable resin layer is larger than a normal heat capacity, to form a raised amount equal to that with the normal case with a normal heating quantity, a turned mirror image of the image is generated. The image is transferred onto the front face of the recording medium and fixed. The recording medium is reversed, and conveyed again to the transfer part. The turned mirror image is transferred onto the rear face of the recording medium and fixed. The recording medium is heated with the heat quantity equal to that in the normal case, and combination of heat absorbed by the turned minor image and heat absorbed by the image is transmitted to the foamable resin layer to expand the foamable resin layer. | 03-12-2015 |
20150070453 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHODS - Methods for curing ink printed on a print medium are disclosed. The methods comprise heating air to a temperature suitable for curing the ink, and blowing the air through a plurality of holes onto the print medium. | 03-12-2015 |
20150077490 | PRINT APPARATUS - A print apparatus includes a print part configured to discharge a liquid onto a recording medium being conveyed, an irradiation part configured irradiate the recording medium, onto which the liquid has been discharged, with light, and a backup part provided to an opposite side of the irradiation part relative to the recording medium and having a regulating surface where a surface oriented toward the recording medium regulates movement of the recording medium in a direction of drawing away from the irradiation part, the regulating surface has an opening, and an irradiation area for the light irradiated from the irradiation part fits inside the opening as viewed in a plan view. | 03-19-2015 |
20150077491 | DIGITAL IMAGING PROCESS FOR FLOORING MATERIAL - A method is provided for imaging fibrous polyamide flooring material. Images are formed on fibrous polyamide flooring material having vivid color and color saturations by piezoelectric digital means without going through washing process or discharging hazardous chemicals. The energy-saving and environmentally friendly method can produce high resolution product with durability and longevity. | 03-19-2015 |
20150077492 | PLASMA TREATMENT APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING PRINTED MATTER - A plasma treatment apparatus includes a discharge electrode; a dielectric roller which includes a rotatable counter electrode and a rotatable dielectric, the dielectric being at least provided on a surface with which a treatment target comes into contact; an adjusting roller configured to adjust a contact amount of the treatment target with respect to the dielectric roller; and a control unit configured to control the adjusting roller. | 03-19-2015 |
20150077493 | TREATMENT TARGET REFORMING DEVICE, PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND PRINTED MATERIAL MANUFACTURING METHOD - A treatment target reforming device decreases a pH value of a surface of a treatment target using a dielectric-barrier discharge. The treatment target reforming device includes: a discharge electrode and a counter electrode which are disposed so that a conveying path of the treatment target is interposed therebetween; and a power supply which applies a repetitive pulse voltage with an output voltage equal to or larger than 10 kVp-p and smaller than 13 kVp-p to the discharge electrode. | 03-19-2015 |
20150085037 | System and Method for Image Receiving Surface Treatment in an Indirect Inkjet Printer - An inkjet printer applies a layer of a hydrophilic composition, which includes a liquid carrier and an absorption agent, to an image receiving surface of an indirect image receiving member. A dryer in the printer removes a portion of the liquid carrier from the layer of hydrophilic composition to form a dried layer of an absorption agent on the image receiving surface and an aqueous ink image is formed on the dried layer. The aqueous ink image and at least a portion of the dried layer are transferred to a surface of a print medium as the aqueous ink image and print medium move through a transfix nip formed between the indirect image receiving member and a transfix member. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085038 | Coating for Aqueous Inkjet Transfer - A coating composition for an image transfer member in an aqueous ink imaging system is disclosed that comprises a hydrophilic composition and a surfactant. The hydrophilic composition can be a polyvinyl acetate-based composition. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085039 | Coating for Aqueous Inkjet Transfer - An image transfer member (ITM) is provided with a skin over its surface in which the skin incorporates a hygroscopic agent. The hygroscopic agent is operable to make the ITM skin very hydrophilic or to provide a high surface energy. One such hygroscopic agent is glycerol that may be applied to the surface of the ITM with a carrier, such as water. In an image transfer process, the carrier is completely or partially removed, such as by drying, leaving a thin skin of the hygroscopic agent. Ink drops applied in an image pattern onto the skin spread without puddling or draw-backs, producing an optimum wet image. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085040 | LED INK CURING APPARATUS - An LED array for UV print curing comprising a plurality of LED modules grouped into a plurality of LED zones, each LED zone, comprising one or more LED modules and each LED module comprises a plurality of LEDs, wherein, in use, each LED zone is controllable independently of the other zones by a controller according to a pre-determined curing map. | 03-26-2015 |
20150091993 | VACUUM PULLDOWN OF PRINT MEDIUM IN PRINTING SYSTEM - A method for printing on a moving print medium in a printing system is disclosed. The method includes providing a linehead defining one or more print zones. A plurality of transport rollers are provided, wherein at least one transport roller is disposed opposite the linehead, adjacent to the second side of the print medium, and aligned with one of the print zones. A vacuum assembly is disposed opposite the second side of the print medium and includes a vacuum manifold aligned with the aligned transport roller. The print medium is moved through the printing system and a vacuum force operates on the print medium such that at least a portion of the print medium is deflected thereby increasing a wrap angle of the moving print medium around the aligned transport roller. Liquid is jetted from the linehead onto the print medium to form a print. | 04-02-2015 |
20150091994 | VACUUM TRANSPORT ROLLER FOR WEB TRANSPORT SYSTEM - A printing system for printing on a print medium is disclosed. A linehead is disposed opposite a first side of the print medium, the linehead defining one or more print zones where a liquid is jetted onto the print medium. One or more vacuum transport rollers having a porous sleeve rotatable around a non-rotating core are disposed adjacent to a second side of the print medium and opposite the linehead. At least one of the vacuum transport rollers is aligned with one of the print zones of the linehead. The rotatable porous sleeve is engaged by the moving print medium that exerts a force on the porous sleeve, causing it to rotate. The core includes a vacuum manifold that outputs a vacuum force that operates on the print medium through the porous sleeve to deflect the print medium and causes the print medium to wrap around the vacuum transport roller(s). | 04-02-2015 |
20150091995 | VACUUM PULLDOWN OF PRINT MEDIUM IN PRINTING SYSTEM - A method for printing on a print medium is disclosed. The method includes providing a linehead defining one or more print zones and adapted to jet liquid onto the print medium. One or more vacuum transport rollers having a porous sleeve rotatable around a non-rotating core are also provided. At least one vacuum transport roller is disposed adjacent to the second side of the movable print medium, opposite the first linehead, and aligned with a print zone. The core includes a vacuum manifold that outputs a vacuum force that operates on the print medium through the porous sleeve. The print medium is moved through the printing system and a vacuum force deflects the print medium, causing an increase in a wrap angle of the print medium around the vacuum transport roller. Liquid is jetted from the linehead onto the print medium to form a print. | 04-02-2015 |
20150097903 | INKJET PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printing method comprises: an inkjet printing device having an inkjet print head with a built-in heater, an ink tank with a built-in heater the tank interior of which communicates with the atmosphere, and an ink supply path that connects the inkjet print head with the ink tank; a process of heating a radiation-curable inkjet ink in the ink tank with a viscosity at 25° C. of 1.0×10 | 04-09-2015 |
20150097904 | LAMINATE PRODUCING METHOD - A laminate is provided that includes a metallic ink layer having excellent glossiness. A method for producing a laminate includes forming a metallic ink layer by irradiating ultraviolet light to a metallic ink applied onto a medium, forming a smoothing ink layer by applying a smoothing ink onto the metallic ink layer after forming the metallic ink layer, and forming a color ink layer by applying a color ink onto the smoothing ink layer. | 04-09-2015 |
20150097905 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus configured to record images on both sides of a sheet includes a corrugate mechanism configured to form a sheet into a continuous corrugated shaped in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction and parallel to a recording surface of the sheet. | 04-09-2015 |
20150103123 | METHOD OF PRINTING DECORATIONS ON SUBSTRATES - A method of printing a decoration on a substrate includes applying an ink coating in a predetermined design on the substrate by inkjet printing. The ink coating is cured to form a cured ink coating, and a portion of the cured ink coating is trimmed. Residual ink particles generated by the trimming are cleaned off the substrate. A printed substrate includes a substrate and a decoration printed on the substrate. The decoration comprises at least one layer of an inkjet-printed ink coating free of a saw edge and having a thickness in a range from 1.5 μm to 5 μm. | 04-16-2015 |
20150103124 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE AND IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - An arrival of a joint member at a detection position provided at an upstream side of a recording unit on a transportation path is detected. A second distance, which is a distance from the detection position to the recording head along the transportation path, is longer than a first distance, which is a distance of a transportation of the continuous medium in the case where, because of an existence of a liquid already landed on an area of the continuous medium at the detection time, the area being located at a position being on the transportation path and facing the recording unit, the continuous medium is transported during a period until at least hardening of the liquid is completed by a light radiation portion. | 04-16-2015 |
20150109391 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a conveying device that conveys a recording medium; a droplets ejecting device that ejects droplets onto the recording medium being conveyed by the conveying device; a drying unit that dries the droplets that have been ejected on the recording medium being conveyed by the conveying device; and a varying unit that varies a conveyance path length from the droplets ejecting device to the drying unit in accordance with at least one of a conveyance speed of the recording medium and an ejected droplets permeation characteristic of the recording medium. | 04-23-2015 |
20150116432 | ELECTRON BEAM CURABLE INKS FOR INDIRECT PRINTING - The present disclosure provides an electron beam ink comprising a radiation curable material selected from the group consisting of a curable monomer, a curable oligomer, and mixtures thereof; and a surfactant, which is suitable for use in an indirect printing method. The present disclosure also provides a method of printing using an electron beam curable ink. | 04-30-2015 |
20150116433 | AQUEOUS INK FOR INKJET, INKJET RECORDER AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An aqueous ink for inkjet includes water; a hydrosoluble organic solvent; a pigment; and a particulate resin. The hydrosoluble organic solvent includes 2,3-butanediol and 1,2-propanediol at a weight ratio (2,3-butanediol/1,2-propanediol) of from 98/2 to 60/40. | 04-30-2015 |
20150124031 | INKJET INK SET, AND METHOD FOR FORMING IMAGE USING SAME - An inkjet ink set comprising: a color ink including a photocurable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, a gelling agent, and a colorant, the color ink undergoing a sol-gel phase transition depending on the temperature; and a clear ink including a photocurable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, and a gelling agent, the clear ink undergoing a sol-gel phase transition depending on the temperature. The viscosity (η) (CL) of the clear ink at 25° C. is less than ½ the viscosity (η) (CO) of the color ink at 25° C., and the viscosity (η) (CL) of the clear ink is 1×10 | 05-07-2015 |
20150124032 | RADIATION CURABLE INKJET INKS AND INDUSTRIAL INKJET PRINTING METHODS - An inkjet printing method includes, in order, the steps of a) jetting a radiation curable inkjet ink on the outside surface of a packaging including a substance for human or animal consumption or administration; b) curing the radiation curable inkjet ink on the outer surface of the packaging; and c) treating the radiation curable inkjet ink and the packaging including the substance with a heat treatment to kill micro-organisms present on the inside surface of a packaging; wherein the radiation curable inkjet ink includes at least 5 wt % of a (meth)acrylated silicone surfactant based on the total weight of the radiation curable inkjet ink. | 05-07-2015 |
20150130880 | LIGHTING UNIT WITH REFLECTOR - A lamp is provided including a first module ( | 05-14-2015 |
20150138288 | HIGH OPTICAL DENSITY INKJET PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printing method and system includes an arrangement that is adapted to repair a printed image using a combination of in-line imaging and feedback control of an inkjet printhead or printing with a redundant inkjet printhead. The inkjet printing method and system is further adapted to print at higher optical density than is normally possible by use of multi-pass capabilities. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138289 | ACTIVE RAY-CURABLE INKJET INK AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD USING SAME - An active ray-curable inkjet ink which contains a photocurable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, a gelling agent and a non-polymerizable liquid compound that is in a liquid state at 25° C., with the liquid compound being contained in an amount of 15-50% by mass relative to the mass of the ink. Since droplets of this active ray-curable inkjet ink are prevented from combining with each other after landing, this active ray-curable inkjet ink is capable of providing high quality images. Meanwhile, the surface gloss of printed images is increased, and printed images having less coating film thickness difference (namely, less relief-like texture) can be formed. | 05-21-2015 |
20150138290 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a transport drum that supports and transports a recording medium on an outer peripheral surface thereof, a recording head that is provided in a position so as to be capable of facing the outer peripheral surface and ejects ink onto the recording medium, and a drying unit that is provided in the inside of the transport drum and dries the ink. | 05-21-2015 |
20150145936 | Method and Device for Providing a Substrate with an Imprint and with a Transfer Coating, and Finished Substrate - In a method for providing a substrate with an imprint, in which liquid printing ink is first printed on a strip and there made to dry at least partially, and in which the at least partially dried printing ink is transferred from the strip (B) to the substrate (S), in addition to the printing ink a transfer coating (F), in particular a decorative transfer coating, is also applied to the substrate (S). In particular, the transfer coating (F) can likewise be applied to the strip (B) first and transferred from the strip (B) to the substrate (S). Printing ink can be provided on the strip (B) next to, but also under or over the transfer coating. | 05-28-2015 |
20150290952 | INK JET PRINTER - An ink jet printer including a transportation mechanism that transports a medium in a first direction; and a carriage that has a plasma irradiation mechanism configured to irradiate at least a portion of the medium with plasma generated in an electricity discharge portion and emitted from a plasma irradiation opening and a head configured to eject ink from a nozzle to the portion of the medium irradiated with the plasma, and that moves in a second direction intersecting the first direction, in which the plasma irradiation mechanism is provided on one side of the head in the second direction, a partition board is provided between the plasma irradiation opening and the head, and if a distance from a surface of the medium to the nozzle is (A), a distance from a surface of the medium to the plasma irradiation opening is (B), and a distance from a surface of the medium to the bottom edge of the partition board is (C), a conditional expression: (C)<(A)≦(B) is satisfied. | 10-15-2015 |
20150291847 | TRANSFIX SURFACE MEMBER COATING - An embodiment of the present disclosure is directed to an indirect printing apparatus. The indirect printing apparatus comprises an intermediate transfer member comprising a substrate and a surface layer disposed over the substrate. The surface layer comprises a fluoroelastomer-aminosilane grafted polymer and infrared absorptive filler materials. The indirect printing apparatus also comprises a coating mechanism for forming a sacrificial coating onto the intermediate transfer member and a drying station for drying the sacrificial coating. At least one ink jet nozzle is positioned proximate the intermediate transfer member and configured for jetting ink droplets onto the sacrificial coating formed on the intermediate transfer member. An ink processing station comprises a radiation source for at least partially drying the ink on the sacrificial coating formed on the intermediate transfer member. The indirect printing apparatus also comprises a substrate transfer mechanism for moving a substrate into contact with the intermediate transfer member. | 10-15-2015 |
20150298466 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CURING INK - According to one example there is provided apparatus for curing ink on a substrate. The apparatus comprises a substrate support, a curing sheet positionable above the substrate support to create a gap between a substrate on the substrate support and the curing sheet. The apparatus further comprises an oxygen-depletion mechanism for reducing the oxygen level in the gap and an ultra-violet, UV, radiation source to apply UV radiation through the curing sheet to a substrate on the substrate support. | 10-22-2015 |
20150298469 | INKJET PRINTING DEVICE AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - The disclosure provides a novel inkjet printing device advantageously equipped to prevent the occurrence of blocking. The inkjet printing device includes: an inkjet head for discharging an ink on a medium to carry out printing; a transferring roller for moving the medium and the inkjet head relative to each other; and a powdering applying unit for applying a powder on the medium, wherein the powdering applying unit is located on a downstream side relative to the inkjet head in a transferring direction by the transferring roller. | 10-22-2015 |
20150306887 | COLOUR IMAGING OF SECURITY DOCUMENT PRECURSORS - A method of producing a security document includes the steps of producing a first part of a colour image by colour laser marking a security document precursor; and producing a second part of the colour image by a second imaging technique different from laser marking. The resulting security document is more difficult to falsify. | 10-29-2015 |
20150314614 | LIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE, LIGHT IRRADIATION MODULE, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A light irradiation device for applying light to a target object under relative movement includes: a base; first light-emitting element groups located on an upstream side in a direction of object movement, and second light-emitting element groups located on a downstream side, which are arranged on one main surface of the base; and first lenses and second lenses which cover the respective first light-emitting element groups and the respective second light-emitting element groups, respectively. An optical axis of light emitted through each of the first lenses is inclined toward the downstream side in the direction of object movement with respect to a normal to the one main surface of the base. An optical axis of light emitted through each of the second lenses is inclined toward the upstream side. | 11-05-2015 |
20150314616 | PRINTER - Provided is a printer with a blower that is capable of easier maintenance than a conventional printer. In order for this, the printer comprising an access cover and a blower unit, when the access cover is in a closed state, the blower unit blows airflow on a sheet where ink has been applied, when the access cover is in an opened state, the part of the blower unit is/are open together with the access cover to be exposed. | 11-05-2015 |
20150315394 | INK COMPOSITION FOR ULTRAVIOLET CURABLE INK JETS, INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS USING THE SAME, INK JET RECORDING METHOD USING THE SAME, AND INK SET - An ink composition for ultraviolet curable ink jets including monomer A represented by a general formula (I): | 11-05-2015 |
20150315409 | FILM-FORMING HYDROPHILIC POLYMERS FOR TRANSFIX PRINTING PROCESS - Provided is a coating composition for an image transfer member in an aqueous ink imaging system. The coating composition can include at least one hydrophilic polymer, at least one of hygroscopic plasticizer, at least one surfactant, and water. | 11-05-2015 |
20150321487 | CONTROL OF PRINTING SYSTEMS TO APPLY TREATMENT - In some examples herein, control data is for application of treatment fluid on a treatment substrate location surrounding a substrate dot corresponding to a first pixel of the digital image. Treatment fluid is ejected on the treatment substrate location if a metric value computed from pixel values of a set of pixels in the neighborhood of the first pixel is above a threshold level. | 11-12-2015 |
20150321488 | INKJET PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - The object is to suitably satisfy a condition for preventing smearing of a printed object and a condition for endowing glossiness to the printed object. As a solution therefor, a plurality of inkjet heads ( | 11-12-2015 |
20150329730 | UV-CURABLE DIELECTRIC INKS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES - The invention relates to UV-curable dielectric ink formulations useful in digital manufacturing electric circuitry and devices. These compositions are useful in inkjet printing of electronic materials. | 11-19-2015 |
20150336400 | Post-Printing Treatment - A post-printing treatment for printed media includes a wax suspended in water. Particles of the wax to lie upon at least an inkjet ink image on the printed media to facilitate abrasion resistance of the image. | 11-26-2015 |
20150336401 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink jet recording method uses an ink jet recording apparatus including a plurality of heads arranged in parallel in a first direction, each of which ejects droplets of a different radiation-curable ink composition onto a recording medium, and first light sources provided for corresponding heads so as to be disposed at a predetermined side of the corresponding heads. The first light sources emit active radiation to irradiate the droplets on the recording medium. The method includes ejecting droplets of the ink compositions from the heads onto the recording medium, and performing a first irradiation by irradiating the droplets of each ink composition with the active radiation from the corresponding first light source at an irradiation energy within 500 ms after the droplets have landed. The irradiation energy is in the range of 5% to 10% of the energy E | 11-26-2015 |
20150343795 | LIGHT IRRADIATION APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A light irradiation apparatus which has excellent maintainability despite an increase in its length and size is provided. A light irradiation apparatus includes a plurality of light irradiation modules arranged; and a casing which houses at least part of the plurality of light irradiation modules. The plurality of light irradiation modules each includes a light irradiation device, a heat-dissipating member, a cooling piping for supply, a cooling piping for discharge which discharges a coolant from the flow channel, an electrical wiring, and a cover. The casing includes a side-cover and an under-cover. | 12-03-2015 |
20150343796 | INKJET PRINTING DEVICE AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - The invention has an object to provide a high-quality print. To achieve the object, an inkjet printing device ( | 12-03-2015 |
20150344249 | PAPER TRANSPORTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - When a distal end of a paper is gripped by a gripper of a chain gripper and transported, the paper is transported while being in sliding contact with a guide surface of a guide plate. On the guide surface of the guide plate, a groove is formed along a traveling route of the gripper, and by a claw member entering the groove, a height of the distal end of the paper gripped by the gripper and a height of the guide surface are matched. | 12-03-2015 |
20150367654 | System And Method For Forming Hydrophobic Structures In A Porous Substrate - An apparatus for distributing a hydrophobic material in a substrate includes a first roller, second roller that engages the first roller to form a nip, a heater operatively connected to the first roller and configured to heat the first roller to a first temperature that is greater than a second temperature of the second roller, and a substrate transport configured to move a substrate through the nip at a predetermined velocity. The first roller engages a first side of the substrate and the second roller engages a second side of the substrate to enable the hydrophobic material to penetrate into the substrate. | 12-24-2015 |
20150375530 | FORMATION OF GLOSS LEVEL AREAS HAVING A GLOSSY FINISH AND A MATTE FINISH IN AN IMAGE - A method includes printing an image on substrate by a printhead using ultraviolet (UV) curable ink. The method includes selectively applying a first amount of UV radiation by a first region of a light source to a first area of the image after a first amount of time passes from printing the first area to form a first gloss level area having a glossy finish. The method also includes selectively applying a second amount of UV radiation by a second region of the light source to a second area of the image after a second amount of time passes from printing the second area to form a second gloss level area having a matte finish. At least one of the second amount of UV radiation is greater than the first amount of UV radiation and the first amount of time is greater than the second amount of time. | 12-31-2015 |
20150375531 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus | 12-31-2015 |
20160001576 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS - Provided is a liquid discharging apparatus which includes a discharge portion which can discharge liquid, a medium support portion which has a support surface which can support a medium onto which the liquid is discharged, and a heating portion which can heat the medium supported by the medium support portion, in which at least a part of the medium support portion is constituted of a low thermal conductivity member having a thermal conductivity of 0.4 W/mK or less and the radiation rate of the support surface is set to a value equal to or greater than 0.7 and less than 1. | 01-07-2016 |
20160001577 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes: a printing plate having a recessed portion formed therein shaped corresponding to a pattern to be formed on a substrate; an inking unit including an inkjet head that performs an inking process of ejecting a liquid into the recessed portion, the liquid having particles as a material of the pattern dispersed therein; a laminating unit that performs a laminating process of laminating the substrate on a surface having the recessed portion formed therein after the inking process; a post-drying unit that performs a drying process on the liquid inside the recessed portion in a state in which the substrate is laminated on the surface having the recessed portion formed therein, thereby to reduce the fluidity of the liquid; and a peeling unit that peels off the substrate from the printing plate after the drying process by the post-drying unit. | 01-07-2016 |
20160001578 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD, ULTRAVIOLET-RAY CURABLE INK, AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording method includes ejecting an ultraviolet-ray curable ink of which a viscosity at 28° C. is 8 mPa·s or more from a head to a recording medium, and curing the ultraviolet-ray curable ink attached to the recording medium, wherein, in the ejecting of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink, the ultraviolet-ray curable ink is heated such that a temperature of the ejected ultraviolet-ray curable ink becomes 28° C. to 40° C., and a viscosity of the ultraviolet-ray curable ink at the temperature is 15 mPa·s or less. | 01-07-2016 |
20160009107 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND PRINTED MATERIAL MANUFACTURING METHOD | 01-14-2016 |
20160023476 | PRINTER CONVECTION DRYER - A printed sheet drying apparatus includes, among other components, a nozzle connected to a heated air supply, and an exhaust chamber connected to the nozzle and to a blower. The nozzle comprises a heated air outlet portion. The heated air outlet portion comprises a multi-planar surface having parallel slot openings tapering away from the printed sheet to prevent saturation at the boundary layer. The exhaust chamber has an exhaust opening that matches the shape of the multi-planar surface, and the exhaust opening is larger than the nozzle and is positioned to form an exhaust periphery gap surrounding a periphery of the nozzle. | 01-28-2016 |
20160031232 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD, PHOTOCURABLE INK JET INK COMPOSITION, AND INK JET RECORDING DEVICE - The ink jet recording method includes discharging liquid droplets of a photocurable ink composition including a solvent, a polymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator from a head to a recording medium to land the liquid droplets, thereby forming an image; evaporating the solvent included in the photocurable ink composition constituting the image; and irradiating the image after the second step with light, wherein when the irradiation is initiated in the third step, the content of the polymerizable compound included in the photocurable ink composition constituting the image after the second step is from 20 to 90% by mass, based on the total mass of the ink composition. | 02-04-2016 |
20160031258 | Glass Paneling With a Sublimated Image and Process For Making the Same - Disclosed herein is a glass sheet substrate and process for making the same with a first wear surface, an obverse, second surface including a thermoset image receiving coating having a complete, unitary sublimated ink image that is viewable with minimal loss of resolution and clarity from the first side through the thickness of the glass sheet substrate. | 02-04-2016 |
20160039221 | RECORDING METHOD - A recording method includes a first drying step of evaporating 50 to 85 wt % of ink adhering on a recording medium, the ink being ejected from a recording head onto a surface of the recording medium back side of which is supported on a medium-supporting unit which faces the recording head, and a second drying step of drying the recording medium, which has been subjected to the first drying step, at the downstream side of the medium-supporting unit in a feeding direction of the recording medium. | 02-11-2016 |
20160046134 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is an ink jet recording method including: discharging an ultraviolet ray-curable ink, which has a viscosity at 20° C. of 25 mPa·s or less and an average equivalent of polymerizable unsaturated double bond of 100 to 150, from a head onto a recording medium at a discharge temperature of 30° C. to 40° C.; and irradiating the ultraviolet ray-curable ink, attached onto the recording medium, with ultraviolet rays emitted from a light source to cure the ultraviolet ray-curable ink. | 02-18-2016 |
20160046136 | METHOD FOR CREATING TAMPER-EVIDENT LABELS - A method for creating a tamper-evident label is described. Embodiments of the method or process typically include four steps. In a first step, an ultraviolet cured ink mask can be printed onto a substrate by an inkjet printer. In a second step, once the printing is done and the mask has been formed, the substrate can be anodized in a weakened anodizing bath. In a third step, the ultraviolet cured ink can be removed from the substrate leaving a portion of the substrate unanodized. To remove the ultraviolet cured ink, the substrate can be heated to an elevated temperature and a cleaning solution and/or solvent can be applied to the ultraviolet cured ink mask. In a fourth step, the substrate can be anodized for a second time. | 02-18-2016 |
20160046816 | AQUEOUS INK FOR INKJET AND PRINTING METHOD - To provide an aqueous ink for inkjet which has superior printability to typical printing media, particularly media having high glossiness, such as coated paper, art paper, and vinyl chloride sheets, and which is capable of forming a high quality image by printing. An aqueous ink for inkjet, comprising a pigment, a pigment dispersing resin, an organic solvent, and water, wherein: the organic solvent contains (A) a water-soluble organic solvent having a boiling point of 100° C. or higher and 180° C. or lower, and (B) an organic solvent having a boiling point of 200° C. or higher and 280° C. or lower, and having a surface tension of 20 mN/m or more and 30 mN/m or less. | 02-18-2016 |
20160052298 | ADA-COMPLIANT BRAILLE SIGNAGE PRINTER AND METHOD OF PRINTING UV LED CURABLE INK USING A FLAT BED INK JET PRINTER - A printer includes a substrate and a print head. The print head is movable in a print direction. The print head includes an ink jet dispenser configured to jet ink toward the substrate. The print head further includes a UV source coupled to the ink jet dispenser in a following direction. The UV source is configured to emit UV irradiance. The plurality of mirrors are coupled to the UV source and configured to deflect UV irradiance from the UV source in a direction perpendicular to the print direction. | 02-25-2016 |
20160052299 | SYSTEM FOR INK-JET PRINTING WITH DRYING - The present invention relates to a system for ink-jet printing with drying, comprising a plurality of ink-injection heads ( | 02-25-2016 |
20160053124 | PHOTO-CURABLE INK COMPOSITION - A photo-curable ink composition obtained upon mixing a first printing liquid with a second printing liquid. The first printing liquid includes, at least, UV curable polyurethane dispersions and colorant; the second printing liquid includes, at least, hydrophobic radiation-curable monomers, water-soluble or water-miscible radiation curable monomers and photo -initiators. Also disclosed herein is a set of printing liquids including said first and second printing liquid; an inkjet printing system and a method for forming a printed article. | 02-25-2016 |
20160059583 | DRYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a drying device including a plurality of surface-emitting laser elements each having a plurality of laser elements and arranged along a feeding direction of a recording medium. First power supplying pads are respectively provided at both ends of an electrode on a laser illumination surface of each surface-emitting laser element in a width direction of the recording medium and a second power supplying pad is provided at one end of the electrode on a backside of each surface-emitting laser element in the feeding direction. The respective lust power supplying pads of the surface-emitting laser element arranged at an upstream-side in the feeding direction and the second power supplying pad of the surface-emitting laser element arranged at a downstream-side in the feeding direction are connected to each other by wires. | 03-03-2016 |
20160059584 | CONVEYING BELT ASSEMBLY FOR A PRINTING DEVICE - The present invention relates to a conveying belt assembly for a printing device. The assembly comprises an endless conveyor belt having a conveying part and a return part; an upstream and downstream sliding support having a surface curved in rotational direction of the conveyor belt; a driving roller arranged downstream of the conveying part in urging contact with the conveyor belt; a friction element arranged upstream of the conveying part in urging contact with the conveyor belt for tensioning the conveying part; and a control system for controlling the position of the conveying part with respect to the transverse direction. The control system comprises: a position sensing device; an upstream and/or downstream actuator device for moving the conveying part in transverse direction; and a controller for transmitting control signals, generated by the controller on the basis of the sensor signals, to the upstream and downstream actuator. | 03-03-2016 |
20160068695 | POLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION, INK COMPOSITION FOR INKJET RECORDING, INKKJET RECORDING METHOD AND RECORDED MATTER - A polymerizable composition including: a compound represented by the following Formula (1); a polymerization initiator; and a polymerizable compound having a chemical structure different from the compound represented by the following Formula (1), an inkjet ink composition including the polymerizable composition, an inkjet ink recording method using the inkjet ink composition, and recorded matter. | 03-10-2016 |
20160075148 | INKJET RECORDING METHOD, AND PRINTED MATERIAL - An inkjet recording method comprising, in order, as step a an application step of providing an undercoat layer by applying an undercoat composition onto a recording medium, as step b an image formation step of forming an image by discharging an ink composition onto the undercoat layer, as step c a curing step of irradiating the undercoat layer and the ink composition with actinic radiation so as to carry out curing, the undercoat composition comprising an isocyanate group-containing compound, a radically polymerizable monomer, and a radical polymerization initiator, and the ink composition comprising a radically polymerizable monomer, a radical polymerization initiator, and a colorant. | 03-17-2016 |
20160075149 | Method for Producing a Digitally Printed Decorative Coating on a Solid Surface - Method for producing a digitally printed decorative coating on a solid surface, comprising the steps of: applying solid pigment dye ( | 03-17-2016 |
20160075895 | ACTIVE ENERGY RAY CURABLE COMPOSITION, ACTIVE ENERGY RAY CURABLE INK, COMPOSITION STORED CONTAINER, TWO DIMENSIONAL OR THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, CURED MATERIAL, AND PROCESSED PRODUCT - An active energy ray curable composition includes a non-polymerizable resin; and polymerizable compounds comprising a mono-functional monomer having a single polymerizable unsaturated ethylene double bond, wherein the following relations are satisfied: ΔTg=|Tg | 03-17-2016 |
20160082749 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A first embodiment is an image forming method having a liquid composition applying step of applying a liquid composition to a recording medium, an ink applying step of applying an ink to the recording medium, and a heating step of heating the recording medium, in which the ink contains a self-dispersible pigment and resin particles, the liquid composition contains an agglomerating component and wax particles, the heating temperature T | 03-24-2016 |
20160083606 | SACRIFICIAL COATING FOR INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER OF AN INDIRECT PRINTING APPARATUS - A coating composition for an image transfer member in an aqueous ink imaging system. The coating composition includes at least one hydrophilic polymer, at least one hygroscopic material, at least one oil-in-water emulsion and at least one surfactant. | 03-24-2016 |
20160083609 | SACRIFICIAL COATING FOR INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER OF AN INDIRECT PRINTING APPARATUS - An embodiment of the present disclosure is directed to a sacrificial coating composition for an image transfer member in an aqueous ink imaging system. The coating composition is made from ingredients comprising: a latex comprising polymer particles dispersed in a continuous liquid phase; at least one hygroscopic material; at least one oil-in-water emulsion; and at least one surfactant. | 03-24-2016 |
20160089900 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejecting unit which can eject liquid in an ejecting region: and a medium support unit which can support a medium on a downstream side in a transport direction of the medium compared to the ejecting region, in which the medium support unit has a first region which has at least one face, and a second region which is located between the ejecting region and the first region, and has a plurality of bent portions, and in which the length of a face between the bent portions in the second region in the transport direction is shorter than the length of a face included in the first region in the transport direction. | 03-31-2016 |
20160089914 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND SKEW CORRECTING METHOD THEREBY - Provided is an inkjet printing apparatus discharging ink droplets onto a print medium to be transported successively for forming an image. The apparatus includes a print unit discharging the ink droplets onto the print medium to form the image, a heating roller disposed downstream of the print unit and winding the print medium for drying, and a downstream skew correcting device disposed downstream of the print unit and upstream of the heating roller, and correcting skew of the print medium. | 03-31-2016 |
20160090496 | INK COMPOSITION, INK JET RECORDING DEVICE, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR REUSING RECORDING MEDIUM - Recordation and removal of an image that can be removed from a recording medium are facilitated with suitable workability. | 03-31-2016 |
20160096377 | MODIFICATION DEVICE, MODIFICATION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A modification device includes: a plasma processing unit that performs plasma processing on a processed object such that a surface of the processed object has a predetermined water contact angle; and a cooling unit that cools the surface of the processed object at least from when the plasma processing is performed to when ink is discharged such that a surface temperature of the processed object during discharge of the ink to the processed object is a temperature at which a target water contact angle range is achieved. | 04-07-2016 |
20160101634 | INKJET PRINTER - When an inkjet printer includes suction means for sucking the outside air into the inkjet printer, a heated recording medium is rapidly cooled by the air flowing in a vicinity of a discharge port for the recording medium. This causes fluctuations in surface temperature, resulting in degraded image quality. Accordingly, the inkjet printer has both a configuration capable of directly sucking, into a carriage, the outside air sucked into an apparatus, and a configuration of preventing the air from passing through an inside of the carriage. Thus, a temperature of the inside of the carriage can be reduced effectively. In order to prevent a reduction in temperature of the recording medium in the vicinity of the discharge port, a heater is arranged so as to increase a heating capacity of heating. Through temperature control on the heater based on a temperature of a region that is easily reduced in temperature, a local reduction in temperature of the recording medium is suppressed. | 04-14-2016 |
20160101635 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DRYING DEVICE FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - 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. | 04-14-2016 |
20160102219 | INKJET PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printing method includes providing an inkjet composition, which includes a radiation curable monomer or oligomer, a photo-initiator, and an inhibitor present in an amount sufficient to prevent full curing of the radiation curable monomer or oligomer during an initial exposure to a curing energy. First drops of the inkjet composition are deposited onto a substrate. The curing energy is selected such that it is sufficient to substantially consume the inhibitor. The first drops are exposed to the curing energy, whereby the first drops retain substantially a same surface tension as a liquid drop of the inkjet composition. Second drops of the inkjet composition are deposited adjacent to the first drops. The first and second drops are exposed to the curing energy, whereby the first drops are at least partially cured and the second drops retain substantially the same surface tension as a liquid drop of the inkjet composition. | 04-14-2016 |
20160121624 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a dryer that heats and dries a print base material on which a print image is formed in a printing unit. The dryer includes a rotational drum that supports and transports the print base material, and a blower unit that blows hot air to the print base material supported by the rotational drum. The dryer includes a movement unit that displaces the blower unit to a first position which allows the print base material to be heated and to a second position which is away from the print base material while maintaining the blower unit in operation. | 05-05-2016 |
20160129698 | INK PRINTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD TO OPERATE AN INK PRINTING APPARATUS - In a method to operate an ink printing apparatus, and in an ink printing apparatus, a recording medium is directed through a printer. The recording medium is subsequently supplied to a dryer having at least one heating saddle and a drying channel arranged at the heating saddle. In the dryer the recording medium is directed past the heating saddle. A negative pressure is generated in the drying channel via an air exhaust arranged at one end of the drying channel. In the printing operation, in a region of the heating saddle a negative pressure is exerted on the recording medium in a direction of the heating saddle so that the heating saddle is then in contact with the recording medium in order to dry the ink on the recording medium. Upon interruption of the printing operation with braking of the recording medium, the negative pressure in the direction of the heating saddle is deactivated at a beginning of the braking. | 05-12-2016 |
20160129702 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing method uses a reaction liquid containing an aggregating agent capable of causing the aggregation of a color material. This printing method includes: applying a first reaction liquid to a recording medium; applying a background color ink that contains a color material for a background color to a region of the recording medium which is coated with the first reaction liquid; drying the recording medium coated with the background color ink by heating the recording medium; applying a second reaction liquid to a region of the dried recording medium which is coated with the background color ink; and applying an image forming ink that contains a color material having a color different from that of the background color ink to a region of the recording medium which is coated with the second reaction liquid. | 05-12-2016 |
20160129703 | PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device includes a device main body that has a feeding unit to feed a recording medium and a printing section to print by ejecting ink from a head onto the recording medium, and a heating unit disposed on a downstream side in a feed direction of the recording medium with respect to the device main body. The heating unit has a medium passage to pass the recording medium after printing therethrough, a heat generator disposed between the medium passage and the air passage in a sectional view of the heating unit to heat the recording medium after printing, and an air passage having an air aspirating port connected with the medium passage to aspirate air and an air discharging port to discharge air. The air aspirating port is located on an upstream side in a feed direction of the recording medium with respect to the air discharging port. | 05-12-2016 |
20160130456 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR HOT SEALABLE, INKJET PRINTABLE IMAGE TRANSFER MATERIAL - The present invention relates to a coating composition for a heat sealable, inkjet printable image transfer material, an article comprising said coating composition in form of at least one heat sealable, inkjet printable layer, a method for applying graphical information to a surface of an object using a heat sealable, inkjet printable image transfer material comprising said coating composition and a method of making such a coating composition. | 05-12-2016 |
20160136970 | METHOD FOR PRINTING ON AN OBJECT IN AN INKJET PRINTING PROCESS - A method for printing on an object, for instance on an object made of a foamed material, includes applying ink to a surface of the object in accordance with digital image information in an inkjet printing process and irradiating the ink by electromagnetic radiation, preferably containing an IR proportion, to cure or dry the ink. The ink is directly heated by the irradiation and the material of the surface is indirectly heated by the irradiation by thermal conduction from the ink, causing the material in a region to experience a volume change. In this way, it is possible to simultaneously print on the material and to provide the material with a relief structure/to digitally emboss it. | 05-19-2016 |
20160144633 | DRYING DEVICE, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND DRYING METHOD - A drying device for drying a medium that has had a liquid ejected thereon includes a guide that the medium that has had the liquid ejected thereon abuts against, a tension control section that is capable of providing tension to the medium that is abutted against the guide, a heating section capable of heating the medium, and a cooling section capable of cooling the medium that has been heated by the heating section, wherein the tension control section is capable of generating a pressing force that presses the medium against the guide, and the heating by the heating section and the cooling by the cooling section are performed on the medium while the tension and the pressing force are being applied to the medium. | 05-26-2016 |
20160144635 | INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INK JET RECORDING METHOD - An ink jet recording apparatus of the present invention includes a head, a first light source, a second light source. Liquid droplets of a photo-curable ink composition are applied to a recording medium. After one second or less elapses from the time when the liquid droplets are applied to the recording medium, the liquid droplets are illuminated with light of the first light source. After 0.1 second or more and one second or less elapses from the time when the liquid droplets are illuminated with light of the first light source, the liquid droplets are illuminated with light of the second light source. | 05-26-2016 |
20160152042 | PRINTING METHODS | 06-02-2016 |
20160152044 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD, ULTRAVIOLET CURABLE INK AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS | 06-02-2016 |
20160152046 | SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS WITH ROTARY DRUM | 06-02-2016 |
20160159084 | Coating for Aqueous Inkjet Transfer - An aqueous ink transfer process includes coating the surface of an image transfer member (ITM) with a coating composition to a first thickness, the coating composition including a hydrophilic composition and a surfactant, partially drying the coating composition to reduce its thickness and then applying aqueous ink onto the coating composition. The coating composition in the vicinity of the applied ink swells by absorbing water from the ink, and can further exhibit reduced adherence to the ITM. The ink is partially dried and then transferred onto a substrate. | 06-09-2016 |
20160159108 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND PRINTED-MATTER PRODUCTION METHOD - According to an aspect of the present invention, a printing apparatus includes a plasma treatment unit configured to acidify at least a surface of a print medium by applying plasma treatment to the surface of the print medium, a first primer applying unit configured to apply primer treatment by applying treatment liquid to the surface of the print medium having undergone the plasma treatment, and a first recording unit configured to perform recording by inkjet recording on the print medium having undergone the primer treatment. | 06-09-2016 |
20160159109 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING METHOD - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes (A) a carriage that moves a nozzle ejecting a liquid which is cured by irradiation of an electromagnetic wave in a moving direction, (B) a first irradiation section that is installed on the carriage and irradiates electromagnetic waves on dots formed by landing the liquid which is ejected from the moving nozzle, on a medium, and (C) a second irradiation section that is installed on the carriage and irradiates electromagnetic waves on the dots which are irradiated by the electromagnetic waves from the first irradiation section, in which an irradiance level of the electromagnetic waves from the second irradiation section is different from that of the electromagnetic waves from the first irradiation section. | 06-09-2016 |
20160159110 | METHOD FOR THE INDIRECT APPLICATION OF PRINTING LIQUID ONTO A PRINTING MATERIAL - A method for the indirect application of printing liquid onto a printing material provides an intermediate carrier, preferably a circulating belt, a liquid conditioning medium including a first substance applied onto the intermediate carrier and a printing liquid, in particular an inkjet ink, including a second substance applied onto the conditioning medium on the intermediate carrier. The printing liquid is situated as droplets or a layer substantially on the conditioning medium and the droplets or the layer form a contact region on their underside with the conditioning medium. The printing liquid is heated, preferably by way of a dryer and the printing liquid is transferred from the intermediate carrier onto the printing material. | 06-09-2016 |
20160159111 | MEDIUM DRYING DEVICE, MEDIUM DRYING METHOD, RECORDING APPARATUS, AND VAPOR REMOVING DEVICE - A medium drying device for drying a medium that is transported, the medium drying device includes a medium drying section that evaporates liquid attached to the medium; a first recovery chamber into which gas containing vapor generated by the evaporation enters; a second recovery chamber into which gas within the first recovery chamber flows; a pressure increasing section that makes the first recovery chamber be in a high pressure state to liquefy vapor by increasing a pressure within the first recovery chamber; a liquid separation section that is provided between the first recovery chamber and the second recovery chamber, and transmits gas to the second recovery chamber after separating liquid generated by the liquefaction; and a blowing section that blows dried gas within the second recovery chamber onto a surface of the medium to which the liquid is attached. | 06-09-2016 |
20160159113 | Apparatus and Techniques for Electronic Device Encapsulation - Apparatus and techniques for use in manufacturing a light emitting device, such as an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device can include using one or more modules having a controlled environment. The controlled environment can be maintained at a pressure at about atmospheric pressure or above atmospheric pressure. The modules can be arranged to provide various processing regions and to facilitate printing or otherwise depositing one or more patterned organic layers of an OLED device, such as an organic encapsulation layer (OEL) of an OLED device. In an example, uniform support for a substrate can be provided at least in part using a gas cushion, such as during one or more of a printing, holding, or curing operation comprising an OEL fabrication process. In another example, uniform support for the substrate can be provided using a distributed vacuum region, such as provided by a porous medium. | 06-09-2016 |
20160159119 | APPARATUS FOR PRINTING CLOSURE BODIES OF CONTAINERS - An apparatus for printing closure bodies of containers having, a transfer device that is associated in input with a feeder of closure bodies to be printed and in output with an unloader of printed closure bodies. The transfer device defines seats for a respective closure body to be printed which are provided with at least one resting region for at least one abutment portion that is defined on the outer lateral surface of the respective closure body. The seats are mutually spaced at preset distances and movable along a transfer trajectory. The apparatus includes a device for digital printing of the closure bodies to be printed which is arranged along the transfer trajectory). | 06-09-2016 |
20160167395 | PLANT FOR MANUFACTURING AND PRINTING CONTAINER CLOSURE BODIES | 06-16-2016 |
20160167399 | INKJET PRINTER, INKJET PRINTING METHOD, AND INKJET PRINTING SYSTEM | 06-16-2016 |
20160167400 | DIRECT PRINTING METHOD FOR ENAMELLING AND DECORATING | 06-16-2016 |
20160167401 | PRETREATMENT LIQUID APPLICATION DRYING DEVICE, PRINTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND PRINTING DEVICE | 06-16-2016 |
20160167402 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTED MATERIAL MANUFACTURING METHOD | 06-16-2016 |
20160167403 | DRYING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND DRYING METHOD | 06-16-2016 |
20160176202 | METHOD FOR APPLYING AN IMAGE USING A UV CURABLE PHASE CHANGE INK | 06-23-2016 |
20160177116 | IMAGE FORMING SET, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD | 06-23-2016 |
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