A printer including: (i) a guide device extending in a first direction; (ii) a carriage reciprocateable in the first direction, while being guided by the guide device; (iii) a recording head carried by the carriage; (iv) a feed device for feeding the recording medium in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; (v) a flexible ink-supply tube for supplying ink to the recording head; and (vi) a carriage movement detector including an encoder strip which extends in the first direction. The ink-supply tube has a U-shaped body including a pair of arm portions extending in the first direction and spaced apart from each other in the second direction. The guide device, the ink-supply tube and the encoder strip are located on respective different positions in a third direction that is perpendicular to the first and second directions. The ink-supply tube has a part that overlaps with the guide device and the encoder strip as seen in the third direction.

There is provided a motor driving system in which an encoder sensor is configured to move with a driven object with respect to an encoder scale and output an encoder signal. A controller is configured to control a motor based on the encoder signal, thereby controlling movement of the driven object. The controller estimates an obstructing area. In the obstructing area, the encoder sensor reads a part of the encoder scale where an obstacle is adhered. The controller calculates a control error of the motor in the obstructing area based on the encoder signal output after the encoder sensor passes through the obstructing area, and determines a compensation amount of a controlling input value input during a period while the encoder sensor passes through the obstructing area.

A carriage moving mechanism including a driving unit including a driving pulley, a driving motor, and a first support member for supporting both the driving pulley and the driving motor, a driven unit including a driven pulley and a second support member for supporting the driven pulley, and a third support member supporting both the driving unit and the driven unit, an annular belt that is wound around both the driving pulley and the driven pulley, a first outer peripheral surface and a second outer peripheral surface facing to the first outer peripheral surface, and a first carriage that is attached to the first outer peripheral surface, wherein the second support member, the third support member, and the first support member are aligned in this order in a first axis, and the third support member is disposed inside the annular belt.

A carriage is configured to move by receiving driving force from a carriage motor. A recording head is mounted on the carriage. A controller is configured to: control a power supply to supply a first driving current to a drive target, the first driving current being variable; when a second driving current for driving the carriage motor does not exceed a limiting current, control the power supply to supply the second driving current to the carriage motor, the second driving current being variable, the limiting current being obtained by subtracting the first driving current from an allowable current of the power supply; and when the second driving current exceeds the limiting current, control the power supply to supply a limited second driving current to the carriage motor, the limited second driving current being obtained by cutting a part of the second driving current, the part exceeding the limiting current.

A printing apparatus includes an ejection unit including a nozzle surface configured to eject a liquid droplet, the nozzle surface facing a printing surface of a medium, a transport unit configured to transport the medium in a transport direction, a steam application unit configured to apply steam to the printing surface, the steam application unit being provided upstream of the ejection unit in the transport direction, and a medium compression unit configured to compress the medium, the medium compression unit being provided upstream of the ejection unit in the transport direction and downstream of the steam application unit in the transport direction.

A printing apparatus includes a head to discharge liquid, a carriage to support the head and reciprocate in a forward direction and a backward direction, and a controller. The controller executes a printing process to print one image in a plurality of copies by discharging the liquid from the head while moving the carriage in the forward direction and the backward direction, based on a print job for printing the one image in the plurality of copies, and a first determining process to determine a moving direction of the carriage for second and following copies, based on a moving result of the carriage in printing for the first copy in the printing process.

An ink-jet printing apparatus includes: a conveying part that conveys a print medium; a plurality of discharge heads that is arranged along a direction of conveying the print medium, and discharges ink onto the print medium to perform printing an the print medium; a moving part that moves the discharge heads such that distances between the print medium and the discharge heads are changed from a set distance; and a hardware processor that controls printing on the print medium, wherein the hardware processor corrects a print distance such that the print distance is changed from a predetermined value in response to the discharge heads being moved in such a way as to change the distances between the print medium and the discharge heads, the print distance being a conveying distance of the print medium to be conveyed while printing on the print medium is performed by the discharge heads.

There is provided control system including: movement mechanism configured so that the movement mechanism is driven by motor; detector configured to detect position and speed of the movable member; and controller. The controller is configured to: control the motor so that the movement mechanism reciprocatively moves the movable member; and in a course to move the movable member to a returning point, control the movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the speed of the movable member so that the movable member is moved at a constant speed until a deceleration start point of time, and control the movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the position of the movable member so that the movable member is decelerated from the deceleration start point of time and stops at the returning point in accordance with a target position locus.

An adjusting mechanism includes an adjusting plate and a screw type adjuster. The adjusting plate is provided in at least one end of an interlocking shaft that interlocks a pair of driving belts provided in a second direction and is attached to an end of the interlocking shaft. The screw type adjuster is configured to be capable of adjusting a position of a moving body engaged to the pair of driving belts by being rotated to move the adjusting plate along a first direction different from the second direction.

There is provided control system including: movement mechanism configured so that the movement mechanism is driven by motor; detector configured to detect position and speed of the movable member; and controller. The controller is configured to: control the motor so that the movement mechanism reciprocatively moves the movable member; and in a course to move the movable member to a returning point, control the movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the speed of the movable member so that the movable member is moved at a constant speed until a deceleration start point of time, and control the movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the position of the movable member so that the movable member is decelerated from the deceleration start point of time and stops at the returning point in accordance with a target position locus.