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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127224 | IMAGE REGISTRATION ON EDIBLE SUBSTRATES A method of making edible substrates that have an image registered on them in a consistent manner. The method comprises the steps of providing an edible substrate sheet, and an image source, wherein the image source has at least one image. Further, a trigger pulse signa... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105523 | RECORDING APPARATUS A recording apparatus including: a liquid ejection head which has an ejection surface; a conveying mechanism having a support surface, and configured to convey a recording medium; a first capping mechanism having an annular-shaped lip member disposed to surround the eje... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105522 | Valve Jet Printer With Inert Plunger Tip A valve jet printer includes a solenoid coil and a plunger rod having a magnetically susceptible shank. A first end of the shank and at least a portion of the shank are received within a bore of the solenoid coil. The printer also includes a nozzle including an orifice ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105524 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS A liquid ejection apparatus including: a first casing; a second casing; and a controller, wherein the first casing is movable between a close position close to the second casing and a distant position farther from the second casing than the close position, the first cas... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105521 | METHOD OF INKJET PRINTING PIXELS Aspects of the present invention provide a method of inkjet printing pixels, the method including: applying ink to a plurality of pixels using an inkjet printe; calculating a Transmittance Measurement System (TMS) value of each of the pixels, by measuring an amount of l... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105525 | INKJET INK AND INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEDIUM FOR INKJET PRINTING An inkjet ink (18) and an intermediate transfer medium (22) for inkjet printing are disclosed herein. During inkjet printing, the inkjet ink (18) forms ink drops (D1, D2) having a contact angle (θ) of less than or equal to 50Â... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081428 | Printing up to Edges of Printing Paper without Platen Soiling This invention allows images to be printed up to the edges of printing paper while preventing ink droplets from depositing on the platen. Ink droplets Ip are ejected from a print head 28 and printing is started when printing paper P is fed in the sub-scanning dir... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081433 | LIQUID DROPLET JETTING APPARATUS A liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes a liquid droplet jetting head which has a liquid droplet jetting surface provided with a plurality of nozzles opening thereon in order to jet liquid droplets of a liquid; a cap member which has a size to cover the openings of ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081427 | LIQUID DROPLET JETTING APPARATUS A liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes: a liquid droplet jetting head which has a liquid droplet jetting surface on which a plurality of nozzles including a first nozzle and a second nozzle are open to jet the liquid droplets; a cap member which covers the liquid d... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081426 | REGISTERING IMAGES DURING TWO-SIDED PRINTING Registering images during two sided printing is disclosed. An example is carried out by program code stored on non-transient computer-readable medium. The program code is executable by a processor for printing on a first side of a media a first plurality of plots and a ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069069 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS A liquid discharging apparatus includes a liquid discharging head having liquid discharging nozzles; a platen that retains a recording sheet; a liquid detection unit which can move between the liquid discharging head and the platen and detects liquid discharge states fr... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050361 | PRINT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A first rotator is provided on an upstream side of the carriage that holds a print head and a second rotator is provided on a downstream side of the carriage. The print head is allowed to move to a maintenance unit in a first state in which a sheet is in contact with bo... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050753 | DUPLICATION PREVENTION METHOD AND SYSTEM An invisible ink management method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor data associated with an image to be duplicated and a duplication command enabling reproduction of the image. The computer processor receives a command for enabling a dup... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050362 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD It is an object of this invention to provide an inkjet printing apparatus that can print an image with high uniformity in image clarity and gloss level irrespective of the gradation value of the image. The print head of this invention can eject color inks and an image q... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044287 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DRIVE OF NOZZLES IN INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS An inkjet printing apparatus that prints each raster in a multi-pass printing mode by causing a printhead having a plurality of nozzles forming a nozzle array to scan in a direction intersecting with the nozzle array is provided, in which the nozzles are divided into gr... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120026227 | INK JET PRINTING APPRATUS AND PRINTING METHOD An ink jet printing apparatus and printing method are provided that can, without the addition of a special structure, suppress density imbalance between the print images formed by ink ejected from each of the ejection ports formed on a print head. As for the plurality o... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026228 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD A controller for printing a single region in which a background image is formed by the upstream background color nozzle row and the downstream background color nozzle row or in which a color image is formed by the upstream color nozzle row and the downstream color nozzl... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026224 | INK COMPOSITION, DIGITAL PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHODS An ink composition has controlled conductivity, and a digital printing system and a method of printing an ink employ an offset inkjet printing platform. The ink composition includes pigment particles dispersed in an oil-based dielectric carrier fluid with an oil-soluble... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026226 | INKJET HEAD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME According to one embodiment, an inkjet head includes a head main body having a plurality of nozzles and drive elements which discharges ink from the plurality of nozzles, a control section which controls the drive elements, and a ceramic base on which the head main body... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120026225 | Line image forming method and apparatus A line image forming method includes the steps of: ejecting a plurality of droplets of liquid sequentially from an inkjet head, the liquid containing a functional component; and depositing the droplets of the liquid onto a non-permeable medium, the deposited droplets be... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120013662 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD A recording apparatus according to the present invention includes a temperature sensor to detect a temperature of a recording head and a control unit to control a pulse waveform, a pulse width forming a drive pulse, and a voltage. The drive pulse supplied to an electrot... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013660 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD The controller of the printing device sets the printing width in the secondary scanning direction of the region of the printing medium onto which ink is deposited by a single driving of the a printing unit, on the basis of the length in the secondary scanning direction ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013661 | AUTOMATED BEAM MARKER A beam marking system is disclosed for marking on beams with a marking device. The beam marking system includes a beam marking device configured to mark on the surface of a beam. A movable arm is coupled to the marking device. The movable arm has at least three movable ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120007903 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD An image forming apparatus includes an ejection device, a suction device, and a controller. The ejection device has a first nozzle and a second nozzle to eject a first liquid and a second liquid, respectively. The first liquid contains pigment particles dispersed in a d... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120007904 | PRINTING DEVICE A printing device includes a print head, a carriage moveable in a width direction of a medium, a carriage driver that drives the carriage to move back and forth in the width direction within a movement range, a detector that detects a position of the carriage, and a con... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120001969 | PRINT JOB DATA PROCESSING FOR MULTI-HEAD PRINTERS Techniques are disclosed for performing processing, such as striping, staggering, and stitching, on print data prior to printing by a multi-head printer. Subsets of the print data may be stored in multiple stages of buffers and processed in parallel to increase processi... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110316910 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD When distributing image data of a plurality of planes to a first chip and a second chip that constitute the same overlapped portion of a connected head, a distribution method is changed for at least a part of the plurality of planes.... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316913 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a support table, a printing head, and a cleaner. The support table rotates around an axis. The printing head faces the support table. The cleaner includes a web coming into contact with the support table.... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316911 | IMAGE PROCESSOR, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND INKJET PRINTER There is provided an image processing method in which in a full line type inkjet printer using a connecting head having an overlap region, even if a conveyance direction of a print medium is more or less inclined, a density change or degradation of graininess is not int... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316912 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD In a continuous liquid ejection apparatus, when pressurizing ink with a pump and initiating ejection, the problem of a stable ink column and droplets not being formed if ink is ejected in a low ink pressure state and large droplets or droplets with unstable flight direc... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310144 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIELECTRIC HEATING OF INK IN INKJET PRINTERS Dielectric heating is used to cause explosive nucleation of ink in an ink reservoir to expel a drop of ink from an inkjet print head. Conductive plates generate an alternating electric field at microwave frequencies across an ink reservoir causing the ink to heat. Since... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310146 | PRINTHEAD NOZZLE ARRANGEMENT WITH MAGNETIC PADDLE ACTUATOR A nozzle arrangement includes a nozzle chamber having a roof defining an ink ejection port and a floor defining an ink supply inlet; a magnetic coil arrangement positioned around the ink supply inlet of the nozzle chamber; bridge members spanning over the magnetic coil ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310145 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS A multifunction machine includes: a first feeding roller and a second feeding roller; an intermediate roller pair provided to a curved portion of a transport route; a main transporting roller pair; a recording head; a first drive motor and a second drive motor; and a co... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304662 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS A liquid ejecting head includes: a piezoelectric actuator having a first electrode, a piezoelectric body formed on the upper side of the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the upper side of the piezoelectric body; and an electrostatic actuator having the ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110304663 | DROPLET EJECTING APPARATUS AND CURRENT CONTROL METHOD A droplet ejecting component of the present invention includes an ejecting component having a charge and discharge characteristic, an applying component being provided with a transistor, and an increasing component. The ejecting component ejects a droplet. When a contro... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110298849 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS In a line-head type inkjet printing apparatus that ejects a plurality of types of inks, an inkjet printing apparatus is provided in which the change of its ejection properties different depending on the type of ink is prevented from occurring. The line-head type printin... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298850 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS In order to control smoothness depending on accumulation of a pigment ink in the multi-pass printing, an information processing apparatus for an image forming apparatus that forms an image on the same area in a print medium by a plurality of printing scans with the same... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292105 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD, LIQUID DISCHARGE CARTRIDGE, AND LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS A semiconductor device including segments, a power supply pad and conductive patterns is provided. Each segment includes driving units for discharging a liquid. Each driving unit includes a driving circuit and an element driven by the driving circuit to apply dischargin... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292104 | FILL-AND-LINE PRINT MODE An N-pass hybrid fill-and-line print mode is used to print an image on a print medium. In this mode, each sequence of N longitudinally overlapping printhead passes over said print media includes at least one transverse forward pass using a fill mask and at least one tra... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292106 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD BY THE SAME In general, according to one embodiment, an inkjet recording apparatus includes an inkjet head, a conveyance motor, a discharge motor, a printing medium surface sensor and a controller. The inkjet head ejects ink on a printing medium. The conveyance motor causes conveya... | 12/01/2011 |
