A control method of a tape printing apparatus the method including performing a blade closing operation using a half cutter in a state in which rotation of a platen roller is stopped and subsequently performing a blade opening operation, causing a discharge feeding section to operate in a period from after the half cutter starts the blade opening operation and until the platen roller starts rotating, and determining presence or absence of a tape in a discharge feeding section based on a detection signal output from a discharge sensor during an operation of the discharge feeding section.

Systems and methods for producing printed goods from textile material to address shortcoming of existing approaches for article production. According to the systems and methods described herein, the harvested and woven cotton may be shipped directly to garment decorators who may perform all remaining steps to provide customers with finished goods. As such, the systems and methods herein may eliminate the steps of the blank goods trade and current manufacturing processes.

A printer configured to cut recording paper with a fixed blade and a movable blade has a push member configured to push out the movable blade or racks provided at both longitudinal ends of the movable blade, to expose a blade of the movable blade, and the push member is fixed in position while the blade is exposed.

An object of the present invention is to improve throughput of continuous printing in an image printing apparatus having a cutting device that needs to be returned to a standby position for a next cutting operation. One embodiment of the present invention is an image printing apparatus having a printing unit, a conveyance unit capable of conveying a printing medium in a conveyance direction or in a returning direction opposite to the conveyance direction; and a cutting unit provided at a cutting position on a downstream side in the conveyance direction of the printing unit and configured to cut the printing medium by moving in a first direction and return to a cutting standby position for a next cutting operation by moving in a second direction opposite to the first direction.

An image print apparatus capable of printing multiple pages on a rolled printing medium includes a conveyance unit that conveys the printing medium, a printing unit that prints on the printing medium, and a cutting unit that cuts out the printing medium. The conveyance unit performs a first conveyance operation to convey the printing medium by a predetermined length in a direction to discharge the printing medium and to stop the conveyance, which is carried out after completion of printing of one page by the printing unit and before settlement of a print start position of a next page, and a second conveyance operation including an operation to convey the printing medium in the direction to discharge until the print start position reaches a position of the printing unit, which is carried out after settlement of the print start position of the next page.

In an example of the disclosure, first and second print jobs are received at a printer. The first and second print jobs each include production frames. The first and second print jobs are printed with a media roll change occurring during printing. A first finishing device information nonproduction (“FDIN”) frame and a second FDIN frame are printed. The first and second FDIN frames include coded information regarding the first print job and the second print job, respectively. The coded information is for reading by a scanner at a finishing device. A press calibration nonproduction (“PCN”) frame that includes a printer calibration diagnostic is printed. A scanner at the printer is caused to capture the printer calibration diagnostic. A calibration operation is performed at the printer utilizing data or attributes captured from the printer calibration diagnostic.

According to one embodiment, a paper conveyance device includes a conveyance unit configured to convey long cut paper in a longitudinal direction, a measuring unit configured to measure a length of the cut paper in the longitudinal direction, which is conveyed by the conveyance unit, a reversal mechanism that reverses a front surface and a back surface to each other with conveying the cut paper, and a reversal unit configured to convey the cut paper in the reversal mechanism. The reversal unit conveys the cut paper at a first speed when the measuring unit measures that the length of the cut paper is less than a predetermined length, and conveys the cut paper at a second speed slower than the first speed when the measuring unit measures that the length of the cut paper is equal to or more than the predetermined length.

An image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus that forms a first image according to a job on a plurality of first sheets and inserts a second sheet between the plurality of first sheets; a cutting processor that sequentially performs cutting processing on the plurality of first sheets and the second sheet that are conveyed from the image forming apparatus; and a sheet discharging tray on which an output object obtained by the cutting processing on each of the plurality of first sheets and a slip sheet obtained by the cutting processing on the second sheet are stacked, wherein the cutting processor performs the cutting processing on each of the plurality of first sheets in accordance with a first cutting condition, and performs the cutting processing on the second sheet in accordance with a second cutting condition different from the first cutting condition.

An autonomous moving apparatus includes a handheld housing adapted to contain a printing head, an actuating mechanism adapted to move the housing on top of a printing surface, an audio sensor, and at least one non-audio sensor selected from a group comprising a distance sensor, a touch sensor, and an image sensor. Processing circuitry is adapted to execute a code for analyzing an audio signal captured by the audio sensor to detect a voice command; in response to the detection of the voice command, analyzing readings of at least one non-audio sensor to identify a triggering event; in response to the detection of the triggering event, instructing the actuating mechanism such that the housing moves along a printing pattern associated with the triggering event, and instructing the printing head to print media extracted from the readings, selected according to an analysis of the readings.

A method of cutting or scoring a substrate comprises: providing a substrate which has a maximum of radiation absorption at a first wavelength band; depositing on the substrate, in a predetermined pattern, a heating fluid which has a maximum of radiation absorption at a second wavelength band; and exposing a surface region of the substrate to electromagnetic radiation at the second wavelength band, the surface region including the predetermined pattern, to cut or mark the substrate along the predetermined pattern. The first wavelength band differs from the second wavelength band.