A recording device includes a recording unit configured to eject a liquid onto a medium to record, a carriage including the recording unit and configured to move in an X direction corresponding to a medium width direction that intersects a Y direction corresponding to a medium transport direction, a liquid reservoir located in the carriage at a position above the recording unit, configured to contain a liquid, and having a fill port through which the liquid is supplied, a fill port unit located in the carriage at a position above the liquid reservoir and including a component for open/close operation of the fill port, and an operation unit through which the device is operated. The fill port unit and the operation unit partly overlap in a device front-rear direction that is parallel to the medium transport direction, when viewed in the X direction.

An inkjet printing apparatus, comprising a printing head, a carriage having the printing head, a first roller pair disposed upstream of the printing head and configured to nip and convey a printing medium, a second roller pair disposed downstream of the printing head and configured to nip and convey a printing medium, a first ink receiver disposed inside a printing region and configured to receive an ink from the printing head, and a second ink receiver disposed outside the printing region and configured to receive an ink from the printing head, wherein the printing head performs preliminary discharge on the first ink receiver in a first nip state, and performs preliminary discharge on the second ink receiver in a second nip state.

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus which includes a tank including a liquid storage chamber, an inlet, a liquid lead-out channel, and an atmosphere communication channel, a conveyance mechanism, a carriage, and a head. A lower end of the inlet is positioned at a lower side of the nozzles, and the liquid storage chamber is arranged at a position shifted from the nozzles, in a first-direction side of the front-rear direction, and shifted from the conveyance route, to a second-direction side of the left-right direction. The liquid storage chamber is connected to the liquid outflow channel at a position on a lower side of a center in a up-down direction of the liquid storage chamber, and in the first direction from a center in the front-rear direction of the liquid storage chamber, and on the second-direction side of a center in the left-right direction of the liquid storage chamber.

A metal member includes a first layer and a second layer. The second layer has an average crystal grain size different from an average crystal grain size of the first layer. An intermediate layer having an average crystal grain size smaller than the average crystal grain sizes of the first layer and the second layer is interposed between the first layer and the second layer.

Each of a first pressing member and a second pressing member is rotatable about a predetermined axis so as to be capable of changing its posture between a first posture and a second posture inclined upward at its end from the first posture, and is disposed on the mounting part in a rockable manner in a direction pressing the head unit, so as to press the head unit in the first posture.

There is provided an image recording apparatus including: a conveyor; a carriage; a recording head; and a controller. In a case that a moving direction in the scanning direction of the carriage in one of the two continuous recording passes is same as a moving direction in the scanning direction of the carriage in the other of the two continuous recording passes, the controller is configured to make a length in the conveyance direction of the overlap area to be a first length. In a case that the moving direction in the scanning direction of the carriage in the one of the two continuous recording passes is different from the moving direction in the scanning direction of the carriage in the other of the two continuous recording passes, the controller is configured to make the length in the conveyance direction of the overlap area to be a second length.

A printing apparatus includes: a head portion that discharges droplets toward a printing medium while reciprocating on the printing medium; and a controller that controls movement of the head portion during a printing operation such that a movement stop time of the head portion when a movement direction of the head portion is reversed at an endmost portion of a range in which the head portion moves is longer than the movement stop time of the head portion when the movement direction of the head portion is reversed on the printing medium.

An inkjet apparatus includes an inkjet head, a scanning mechanism, a surrounding portion surrounding a predetermined region in which the inkjet head is moved by the scanning mechanism in plan view of the substrate surface and which comprises a height at which a nozzle surface of the inkjet head is disposed in side view of the substrate surface, and a vapor supply portion provided outside the substrate surface and in the region surrounded by the surrounding portion in plan view of the substrate surface. The scanning mechanism is configured to control relative positions of the inkjet head and the substrate surface. The vapor supply portion is configured to supply a vapor of the same material as a component of a solvent contained in the ink to the region surrounded by the surrounding portion.

A method of printing is disclosed. The printing may involve printing on a printable medium using a print head having a plurality of nozzles, the printable medium having a leading edge and a defined zone adjacent to the leading edge. The print head may be to deposit print agent onto the printable medium via the plurality of nozzles during successive printing passes. The method may comprise: during a first printing pass, depositing print agent from a subset of the plurality of nozzles onto the printable medium outside the defined zone. The method may further comprise: advancing the printable medium by a defined distance. The method may further comprise: during a second printing pass, depositing print agent from a subset of the plurality of nozzles onto the printable medium within the defined zone.

A printing assembly includes: a print chassis having a fixed sleeve and a print module slidably and releasably mounted in a respective sleeve. The print module has a supply module and replaceable printhead cartridge, the printhead cartridge being slidably and releasably mounted to the supply module. The printhead cartridge is removable from the print module only when the print module is released from the fixed sleeve.