If it is determined that a sheet on which image data of the front cover is to be printed is the particular sheet, a printing apparatus prints on sheets the image data of the body in an order from an end of the body toward a head of the body, discharges the printed sheets without reversing, finally prints image data of the front cover on the particular sheet, and discharges the particular sheet without reversing by the reversing unit, or firstly prints a mirror image of the image data of the front cover on the particular sheet, discharges the particular sheet without reversing, next prints on sheets the image data of the body in an order from the head of the body toward the end of the body, reverses these printed sheets and discharges these printed sheet.

An image processing device performs: breaking down a drawing command into horizontal line parameters each indicating a drawing parameter on a line-by-line basis; and reading, from a translucent image storage unit configured to store a translucent image including a translucency value indicating a transmission rate of a color value corresponding to pixel for each of a plurality of pixels, the translucency values of pixels corresponding to the horizontal line parameter, and writing color values designated by the horizontal line parameter directly into a color image storage unit configured to store a color image including a color value for each of a plurality of pixels as the color values of the respective pixels corresponding to the horizontal line parameter without reading the color values of the pixels corresponding to the horizontal line parameter from the color image storage unit, when all of the read translucency values indicate transparent.

A drop placement analyzer for an inkjet printer is described herein. The drop placement analyzer comprises a film support that has an opaque, optically non-interfering vacuum surface for immobilizing a film against the optically non-interfering vacuum surface and photographing drops disposed on the film from the same side of the film on which the drops are disposed.

A printing apparatus includes a feed unit that feeds a printing medium; a print unit including first and second arrays of print elements for applying first ink and second ink, respectively, onto the printing medium; and a fixation unit located downstream of the print unit in a feed direction to fixate an image printed on the printing medium. The print unit prints a first image on the printing medium by applying the first ink. The feed unit feeds the printing medium having the first image printed thereon to the fixation unit from upstream to downstream in the feed direction. The fixation unit fixates the first image. The feed unit back-feeds the printing medium having the first image fixated thereon to the print unit from downstream to upstream in the feed direction. The print unit prints a second image on the first image by applying the second ink.

The present printing system obtains a transparency of a sheet to be subjected to printing, and based on the obtained transparency of the sheet, restricts execution of post-processing by a discharging portion.

A printing data generation device generates printing data for printing only one part of a specific image in a solar cell module. The solar cell module includes a solar cell module body and a print layer that is formed further toward a light-receiving surface side than the solar cell module body by printing with a specific transparency in a specific region. A rear surface side is visible from the light-receiving surface side in at least part of the specific region. The specific transparency is set such that a condition A is satisfied, the condition A being that a spectral sensitivity integral ratio A defined by formula (1), shown below, is not less than 0.6 when printing is performed with a transparency resulting in a short circuit current ratio of 0.6,

[00001]$\begin{array}{cc}A=\frac{{}_{360}^{830}\left(f\left(\right)\right)d}{{}_{360}^{830}\left(f_{\mathrm{SC}}\left(\right)\right)d}& \mathrm{Formula}\left(1\right)\end{array}$

Disclosed is a smearing apparatus including a printer configured to print the machine-readable code on the slide glass to achieve both the continuation of smear specimen preparation and the identification of the slide glass. The smearing apparatus obtains, by the controller of the smearing apparatus, information regarding an availability of the machine-readable code printed by the printer, and performs, by the controller, a first control of printing the machine-readable code on the slide glass by the printer, or a second control different from the first control.

An inspection device includes: a holder that holds an inspection medium that is a medium on which an image is formed; an image sensor that reads the image on the inspection medium; and a controller that inspects the inspection medium by comparing, with a reference image, an inspection image obtained by performing image processing on a read image read by the image sensor. The holder has a non-plane surface as a holding surface, and the controller changes one or both of the inspection image and the reference image based on a transparency of the medium.

An ink jet recording method records an image on a recording medium using an aqueous ink containing a particle and a first resin particle. The method includes an ink application step of applying an aqueous ink to a recording medium and a heating step of heating the recording medium applied with the aqueous ink to a temperature that is equal to or higher than the glass transition temperature Tg ( C.) or melting point T.sub.M ( C.) of the first resin particle and is less than the glass transition temperature Tg ( C.) or melting point T.sub.M ( C.) of the particle. The particle has an average primary particle size D.sub.P0 (nm) of 150 nm or less, and in the heating step, the recording medium is heated to melt the first resin particle and to generate holes.

A substrate processing apparatus and method capable of responding to jetting abnormalities in real time are provided. The substrate processing apparatus includes: a first stage supporting a substrate; an inkjet head unit ejecting a substrate processing liquid onto the substrate as droplets; a gantry unit moving the inkjet head unit on the first stage; a droplet inspection unit inspecting the droplets; and a control unit performing compensation on the substrate based on results of the inspection of the droplets, wherein the inkjet head unit ejects the substrate processing liquid onto a usage area and a non-usage area of the substrate, and the droplet inspection unit inspects the droplets ejected onto the non-usage area.