A recording device includes a holding part that holds a roll body of a recording medium, a rotation mechanism that rotates the roll body, a pair of transport rollers that transport the recording medium by nipping and rotating the recording medium, a recording part that performs recording on the transported recording medium, a first detection part that detects a leading end of the recording medium, and a notification part that notifies information, wherein whether or not the leading end is detected by the first detection part is monitored in a first monitoring operation in a state in which nipping by the pair of transport rollers is released, and when the leading end has been detected by the first detection part, a first notification operation of causing the notification part to notify that the leading end has been detected by the first detection part is performed.

A printing apparatus, comprising a conveyance unit for conveying a sheet, a carriage mounted with a printhead and configured to scan the printhead in a sheet widthwise direction, a platen arranged so as to face the printhead, a detection unit mounted on the carriage and configured to detect a distance to a sheet, a support portion, for supporting a sheet from below, arranged on a downstream side of the carriage in a conveyance direction, movable between a first position at which the support portion forms a conveyance surface for a sheet and a second position at which the support portion protrudes above the conveyance surface, and a determination unit configured to determine, based on a detection result of the detection unit, whether the support portion is at the first position or the second position.

A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit including a pair of rotation members that nip a roll sheet, and configured to convey the sheet by rotation of the pair of rotation members, a printing unit, and a control unit configured to, upon executing a new print job, cause the conveyance unit to perform a preparatory operation in which the sheet is conveyed in a forward direction and then conveyed in a reverse direction and stopped. If a predetermined condition is met after completion of a previous print job, the control unit causes the conveyance unit to perform the preparatory operation, and if the predetermined condition is not met after completion of a previous print job, the control unit does not cause the conveyance unit to perform the preparatory operation.

An image forming apparatus comprises a conveyance unit configured to convey a long-shaped print medium in a longitudinal direction, an image forming unit configured to form an image on the print medium, a drying unit configured to dry the print medium on which an image has been formed in the image forming unit, and a control unit configured to, after interrupting image formation on the print medium by the image forming unit, control the image forming unit and the conveyance unit so as to convey and then stop at an ejection position at which the portion has been ejected from inside of the drying unit a portion of the print medium on which image formation has been performed.

A printer and corresponding method of printing an image on a surface of a plurality of food products by providing a system having a printer with an extendable and retractable receiving arm and a rotating food product delivery tray for continuously and automatically providing delivery of unprinted food products which are retracted into the printer, printed on, and returned by the receiving arm to the rotatable delivery tray and the tray further moves to deliver subsequent food products for printing.

The liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection section that ejects liquid onto a medium, a transport belt that transports the medium, a cleaning member that cleans the transport belt by coming into contact with the transport belt, the cleaning member being capable of switching between a contact state in which the cleaning member comes into contact with the transport belt and a separation state in which the cleaning member is separated from the transport belt, and a control section that controls an ejection operation of the liquid, a rotation operation of the transport belt, and switching a state of the cleaning member, when a cleaning operation of cleaning the transport belt by the cleaning member is executed, the control section executes a preliminary ejection that ejects in advance liquid from the liquid ejection section to the transport belt based on preset cleaning control information.

A method for operating a printing machine having a processor and a device for detecting features of printing substrates includes storing print jobs with the printing substrates appropriate thereto in a database. Features of at least one printing substrate are detected by using the device. The detected features of the at least one printing substrate are compared by the processor with the printing substrates of the print jobs from the database. The processor selects at least one print job in which the printing substrates of the print jobs from the database correspond to the at least one detected printing substrate or attain a predefined similarity. The at least one print job selected by the processor is subsequently executed on the printing machine.

Included are a printing unit configured to perform printing on a medium (P) being transported, a first nipping roller configured to nip the medium at a first nipping position downstream of the printing unit in a transport direction in which the medium is transported, a second nipping roller configured to nip the medium at a second nipping position upstream of the printing unit, and a control unit. During duplex printing for outputting a printed object being the medium after performing printing on a first surface and a second surface, the control unit causes the printing unit to start printing on the first surface of the medium (P) in a nipped state in which the medium is nipped by the first nipping roller and the second nipping roller, and to start printing on the second surface on the medium in the nipped state after printing on the first surface.

A medium drying device includes a transport roller pair as a transport unit that transports a medium and a heat roller pair as one heating unit that heats the medium transported by the transport roller pair and is provided in a transport direction of the medium, in which the medium is configured to be transported to a heating area by the heat roller pair a plurality of times.

A conveying device includes a pair of rotary bodies and a movable member. The pair or rotary bodies includes a first rotary body disposed in a first region, and a second rotary body disposed in a second region and facing the first rotary body across a sheet conveyance passage through which a sheet applied with liquid is conveyed. The movable member is disposed upstream from the first rotary body in a sheet conveyance direction. The movable member is configured to move between the first region and the second region with respect to the sheet conveyance passage. The movable member is configured to move to the second region in a middle of conveyance of the sheet between the first rotary body and the second rotary body.