Abstract:
Provided are a liquid droplet jetting apparatus and a manufacturing method of a printed article that maintain a good jetting state regardless of an ink to be used. A liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes: a liquid droplet jetting head that jets a liquid; a relative movement mechanism that moves a substrate and the liquid droplet jetting head relative to each other; and a control device that moves the substrate and the liquid droplet jetting head relative to each other and causes the liquid droplet jetting head to jet the liquid, to print an image on the substrate, in which a space between the liquid droplet jetting head and the substrate is a vacuum, the liquid droplet jetting head includes a circulation flow channel for circulating the liquid, and the control device circulates the liquid at least during printing.
Abstract:
The liquid supply system includes: a buffer tank (12) in which a liquid to be supplied to a liquid supply target device (15) is stored; a liquid level varying device (78, 82) that changes a liquid level height in the buffer tank; a liquid flow passage (16, 18) through which the liquid supply target device and the buffer tank communicate with each other; a pump (98A) provided in the liquid flow passage; and a valve (97A) for opening and closing the liquid flow passage, in which in a case in which the liquid supply target device is not in operation, the liquid is discharged from the buffer tank to lower the liquid level height in the buffer tank; and the pump and the valve are controlled to allow the liquid to flow into the buffer tank from the liquid flow passage.
Abstract:
The liquid ejection head has a structure in which three or more head modules including a plurality of ejection elements are arranged along a single direction, and the liquid ejection head includes a first head module, a second head module and a third head module which are arranged in ascending order of slope of ejection volume distribution in the single direction or are arranged in descending order of the slope of the ejection volume distribution in the single direction, the slope of the ejection volume distribution in the single direction being evaluated by subtracting an ejection volume at one end part in the single direction from an ejection volume at the other end part in the single direction.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that forms an image where occurrence of concentration unevenness caused by occurrence of mechanical crosstalk is suppressed are provided. According to the present invention, the distance from the boundary position of the inkjet head corresponding to the concentration boundary between the first concentration region and the second concentration region to the second concentration region end of the inkjet head is less than the reciprocal of the spatial frequency of the concentration unevenness. Accordingly, the length of the part in the first direction where the inkjet head forms the second concentration region is less than one period of the concentration unevenness. Even if crosstalk due to vibrations of the part where the inkjet head forms the first concentration region occurs, the visibility of the concentration unevenness occurring in the second concentration region can be reduced.
Abstract:
A printing data generation device may generate printing data of high productivity for laminating a three-dimensional structure with a liquid. A processor is configured to, in converting three-dimensional data of a three-dimensional structure to be formed using a liquid into a plurality of pieces of two-dimensional slice data in a lamination order of the liquid by dividing the three-dimensional data in a direction parallel to an installation surface of a substrate, perform any of processing of shifting data of a region of a component top surface in a lamination direction in the three-dimensional data to the lamination direction, processing of shifting the data of the region of the component top surface in the lamination direction in the plurality of pieces of two-dimensional slice data to the lamination direction, or processing of rearranging the lamination direction of the plurality of pieces of two-dimensional slice data.
Abstract:
In a case where a plurality of times of relative movement between a board and a liquid jet head are performed and liquid is jetted to the board from the liquid jet head during each relative movement to form a pattern on the board, a first relative movement is performed and the liquid is jetted from the liquid jet head to form a first pattern element on the board, a second relative movement is performed and the liquid is jetted from the liquid jet head to form a second pattern element at a position in contact with the first pattern element and to form the pattern including the first pattern element and the second pattern element, and a relative movement speed lower than a relative movement speed of the second relative movement is applied to the first relative movement.
Abstract:
A liquid ejection device includes a head driving unit that generates a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage in which whether or not there is ejection of liquid from a first ejection element in a case where the first driving voltage alone is applied to the first ejection element that is a detection target of a short circuit between ejection elements is different from whether or not there is ejection of liquid from the first ejection element in a case where the first driving voltage and the second driving voltage are applied to the first ejection element, supplies the first driving voltage to the first ejection element, and supplies the second driving voltage to the second ejection element suspected of a short circuit with the first ejection element.
Abstract:
A method for adjusting a head module of an inkjet head in which a plurality of head modules having nozzles capable of ejecting droplets are connected and linked together is disclosed. The inkjet head has an overlapping region in which an arrangement sequence of the head modules corresponding to the ejected droplets is alternate between adjacent head modules. The method includes the steps of: obtaining, among intervals between the droplet ejected by one of the head modules and the droplet ejected by another one of the head modules in the overlapping region, a largest interval between the droplets in a direction of alignment of the head modules based upon movement of the droplets caused by a landing interference; and adjusting the adjacent head modules in a direction to decrease the largest interval between the droplets.
Abstract:
The presently disclosed technology can evaluate a jetting state of a liquid jetting head using a transparent metal complex ink. The liquid jetting device includes a liquid jetting head that jets the metal complex ink, a relative moving mechanism that relatively moves the liquid jetting head and a substrate, an exposure machine that exposes the metal complex ink applied on the substrate, and at least one processor, in which the at least one processor forms a first pattern on the substrate by causing the metal complex ink to be jetted from the liquid jetting head, acquires a reading result obtained by reading the first pattern using an observation device after exposing the first pattern using the exposure machine, and evaluates the jetting state of the liquid jetting head from the reading result.
Abstract:
A printing device includes a jetting section that jets out ink, a storage section that stores the ink, a supply channel through which the ink flows from the storage section toward the jetting section, a recovery channel through which the ink flows from the jetting section toward the storage section, a filter provided on at least one of the supply channel and the recovery channel, a pump provided on at least one of the supply channel and the recovery channel, and a control section. The control section applies control to the pump to make a flow speed of the ink in a non-printing period smaller than a flow speed of the ink in a printing period, the printing period including a period from a printing start time to a printing completion time, and the non-printing period being outside the printing period.