Abstract:
A heat sealable printing sheet includes a sheet-shaped base member, and an ink receiving layer disposed on a first surface of the base member and having a heat sealability. The heat sealable printing sheet further includes a heat sealable layer disposed on a second surface of the base member and made of a heat sealable resin material. The ink receiving layer contains inorganic fine particles, a water soluble resin, and a water dispersible resin. The water dispersible resin has a glass transition temperature (Tg) satisfying −35° C.≦Tg≦35° C.
Abstract:
A sheet feeding apparatus, including: a stacking unit; a feed unit having a contact portion to be brought into contact with a sheet stacked on the stacking unit and a noncontact portion kept out of contact with the sheet, the feed unit being configured to feed the sheet in a contact state in which the contact portion is in contact with the sheet, and then turn into a noncontact state in which the noncontact portion faces the sheet so as to be kept out of contact with the sheet; a conveyance unit arranged downstream of the feed unit; and a drive unit configured to drive the conveyance unit at a first speed in the contact state and to drive the conveyance unit at a second speed higher than the first speed in the noncontact state.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a dispersant excellent in the solubility to a solvent, the adsorption power to a coloring material, and the coloring material dispersibility, and reduced in the self-coloring property, a compound and a polymerizable compound for preparing the dispersant, and a toner using the dispersant.The dispersant has a structure in which a structure represented by the following specific formula (3) or a tautomer thereof is bonded with a polymer, and the toner contains the dispersant.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus comprising a reading unit, a detection unit, and a control unit, when the detection unit detects a closed state of the reading unit after the reading unit is opened in a reading operation by the reading unit, if the reading operation is able to be restarted from a state of suspension in which a conveyance of the document by the reading unit is suspended, the control unit controls the reading unit to restart the reading operation from the state of suspension.
Abstract:
There are provided a liquid accommodating container that has a sufficient volume for reserving waste ink and can accommodate therein a sufficient amount of ink used in printing with space-saving, a liquid ejecting device provided therewith and a liquid introducing method. Therefore non-print ink is discharged and reserved in a portion, in which unused ink for printing was reserved, in an ink tank for replacement of the unused ink.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, including: an image bearing member; a transfer member to which a transfer voltage is applied to transfer the toner image on the image bearing member to a recording medium; a transfer voltage applying unit configured to apply the transfer voltage to the transfer member to make a value of a current flowing through the transfer member into a set current value; and a control unit configured to control the transfer voltage applying unit by changing stepwise the set current value according to a resistance of the transfer member, wherein the control unit sets a set current value smaller than a target current value when a target voltage value is larger than a preset threshold voltage value, the target current value being set according to the resistance of the transfer member, the target voltage value being applied to flow a current of the target current value.
Abstract:
A liquid supply apparatus includes a supply passage for supplying a liquid stored in a liquid storage section to a liquid ejection head. The liquid supply apparatus further includes: a region set within a range including an inside of the liquid storage section and an inside of the supply passage, pressure applied to the liquid in the region varying according to an amount of the liquid remaining in the liquid storage section or in the supply passage; a gas chamber communicating with the region in such a manner that a pressure of gas in the gas chamber varies according to the pressure applied to the liquid in the region; and a pressure sensor detecting pressure in the gas chamber.
Abstract:
A printing apparatus includes a print head that ejects ink for printing, an ink tank from which ink is fed to the print head, a first channel provided between the print head and the ink tank to feed ink in the ink tank to the print head, a second channel through which the ink in the first channel is transferred, and a pump connected to the second channel to transfer the ink in the first channel. The pump allows air or the ink in the first channel to be discharged via the second channel.
Abstract:
A developing apparatus, including: a developer carrying member configured to carry developer; a blade configured to be deformed by contacting the developer carrying member; and an operation member provided on an opposite side to a side of the blade contacting the developer carrying member, the operation member being configured to contact the blade, which is deformed, so as to cause the blade to act on the developer carrying member at a predetermined pressure.
Abstract:
An ink-jet recording ink set includes: an ink (I) containing a dye D1, a compound C1 represented by the following formula and having a U+V of S1, and water; and an ink (II) containing a dye D2, a compound C2 represented by the following formula and having a U+V of S2, and water in which in case that a surface tension γL1 (mN/m) of an evaluation liquid L1 obtained by adding, to a 5 mass % aqueous solution of the dye D1, a compound C3 in an amount corresponding to 1 mass % of the aqueous solution, and a surface tension γL2 (mN/m) of an evaluation liquid L2 obtained by adding, to a 5 mass % aqueous solution of the dye D2, the compound C3 in an amount corresponding to 1 mass % of the aqueous solution satisfy a relationship of γL1−γL2≧10 (mN/m), the S1 and the S2 satisfy a relationship of 2≦S2−S1≦7.