Abstract:
A printing system includes a media transport assembly adapted to route media through a media path of the printing system, a motor adapted to drive the media transport assembly, and a power transmission arrangement operatively coupling the motor with the media transport assembly. The media transport assembly includes a pick assembly adapted to draw the media into the media path and a feed assembly adapted to feed the media through the media path. A portion of the power transmission arrangement is adapted to rotate in a first direction to couple the motor with the pick assembly and the feed assembly and rotate in a second direction opposite the first direction to couple the motor with the feed assembly and decouple the motor from the pick assembly.
Abstract:
An ink jet ink set and recording element combination including A) a porous ink jet recording element having a 60° specular gloss of at least about 5; and B) a pigment based inkjet ink set including at least two inks; wherein the RGD value is less than 40% when 60° is used as the specular angle and the RGD value is calculated according to Equation (A): RGD % = ∑ I = 1 N &LeftBracketingBar; Gloss ( Imaged Areas ) I - Gloss ( Non Imaged Areas ) &RightBracketingBar; ∑ I = 1 N Gloss ( Imaged Areas ) I Equation (A) Where I is a variable which identifies a certain color patch used in the evaluation, N is the total number of color patches used in the evaluation.
Abstract:
A recording apparatus is arranged to mount on the main body thereof an ink tank provided with a component of electrical conduction and an ink supply port, and structured to make ink supply and electrical connection possible. With the structure thus arranged, the adhesion of ink to the electric contacts is prevented in order to secure the reliability of electrical connection. The contacts are arranged on the side opposite to the hollow needle with a supporting member of a connector that supports plural contacts on the connector as reference.
Abstract:
There are provided a recording liquid that produces high-quality images having a very high image density and water resistance, and can be discharged continuously and stably; a method for manufacturing such a solution; and a method for recording images by the use of such a solution. The recording liquid for ink printers according to the present invention contains a pigment and at least two kinds of fine resin particles, wherein the dispersion polarity of the pigment is the same as the dispersion polarity of each of the two or more kinds of fine resin particles. The method for manufacturing a recording liquid for ink printers has the step of mixing an aqueous dispersion of a pigment, and an aqueous dispersion of the two or more kinds of fine resin particles each having a polarity the same as the polarity of the aqueous dispersion of the pigment. The method for recording images on a recording medium has the step of discharging droplets of the recording liquid from a recording head, wherein the above recording liquid is used as the recording liquid.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an ink composition for ink jet printing, a composition for color toner, and a composition for a color filter, all of which contain a dye represented by the following General Formula (1), and an ink jet recording method using the ink composition for ink jet recording. A—N═N—B In General Formula (1), A and B independently represent a heterocyclic group which may be substituted. At least one of A and B includes an alkyl chain having at least 4 carbon atoms, and no ionic hydrophilic group is included.
Abstract:
An ink set for ink-jet recording is provided, in which the color bleed is reduced at adjoining portions of inks and the deposition of dye or the like in a color ink is not caused when a plurality of colors are recorded on regular paper. The ink set for ink-jet recording, which is composed of inks of a plurality of colors, includes at least one first ink and at least one second ink having the following compositions respectively. The first ink contains at least one anionicity-added pigment. The second ink contains at least one anionic dye and at least one ethanolamine hydrochloride selected from the group consisting of monoethanolamine hydrochloride, diethanolamine hydrochloride, triethanolamine hydrochloride, and thioethanolamine hydrochloride.
Abstract:
In a method of forming an identification card printer a sheet feed printer is provided having a printhead and a sheet feed mechanism that is driven by a sheet feed drive to feed paper sheets to the printhead for printing. Next, the sheet feed mechanism is replaced with a card transport mechanism that is used to feed cards from a card supply to the printhead for printing. The card transport mechanism is then linked to the sheet feed drive through a feed drive link. Finally, a master controller for controlling the operation of the card transport mechanism is installed. Additional aspects of the present invention relate to an identification card printer formed in accordance with the above-described method.
Abstract:
A pigment-based ink set for ink jet printing is described, wherein each ink in the ink set has a normalized differential specular reflectance, N&Dgr;RS(X), of less than 1.25. N&Dgr;RS(X) is defined as the maximum value within a set of N&Dgr;RS(Xn) values in which each N&Dgr;RS(Xn) is the normalized specular reflectance for a density patch of a printed test image. The printed test image consists of a series of at least ten density patches printed such that the ink laydown of the patches increases incrementally, from no ink laydown to a maximum level generating a density of at least about 1.5; and wherein N&Dgr;RS(Xn) for each patch is determined according to: N Δ R S ( Xn ) = [ R Smax ( Xn ) - R Smin ( Xn ) ] R Smean ( Xn ) where, over the visible spectral region between 390 nm and 720 nm for patch Xn, RSmax(Xn) is the maximum, RSmin(Xn) is the minimum, and RSmean(Xn) is the average specular reflectance.
Abstract:
A recording apparatus has a sheet conveyor and platen provided with plural extrusions for supporting the sheet material in the recording area, the plural extrusions being arranged perpendicular to the conveying direction of the sheet material at designated intervals in a configuration of being extended in the conveying direction, plural sheet-discharging rollers downstream of each of the extrusions in the conveying direction and in the same position as each of the extrusions in the intersecting direction, plural first spurs for nipping a sheet material with the plural sheet-discharging rollers, and a second spur downstream of the first spur and between the plural sheet-discharging rollers in the intersecting direction, being driven to rotate following the movement of a sheet material to push down the sheet material between the plural extrusions, the lowest part of the second spur being arranged to be lower than the uppermost part of the sheet-discharging roller when the sheet material does not abut thereupon.
Abstract:
A negative image recording material on which an image is formable by exposure, comprising (A) a specific polymer compound that has at least one carbon—carbon double bond in a side chain thereof and a glass transition temperature of 80° C. or more, and is soluble in an aqueous alkaline solution, (B) a light-heat converting agent, and (C) a compound that generates radicals by exposure using light of a wavelength absorbable by the light-heat converting agent. The negative image recording material may also preferably includes (D) a radical-polymerizable compound. Preferably, the (A) specific polymer compound contains at least 1.5 meq/g of the carbon—carbon double bond in the side chain thereof.