A liquid container includes a first liquid accommodating chamber 31, a filter 50, a filter chamber 42 in which the filter is disposed, and a partition wall 47 that divides the first liquid accommodating chamber and the filter chamber. The filter chamber is disposed on the Z side of the first liquid accommodating chamber, which is vertically below the first liquid accommodating chamber. The partition wall has a flow-out path 51, which has an outlet 106 covered by the filter and through which the liquid having passed through the filter flows to the liquid ejecting head, a first communication path 48 having a first communication port 111, and a second communication path 49 having a second communication port 112. The communication paths are provided at positions different from the position of the flow-out path and communicate with the first liquid accommodating chamber and the filter chamber.

When one of directions in which a carriage moves is a first scanning direction, and the other one of the directions is a second scanning direction, a tube extends in the first scanning direction, is bent in the second scanning direction with a curved portion, and is coupled to the carriage. The tube has a first portion, which is an immovable portion that does not move as the carriage reciprocates, and a second portion, which is a movable portion that moves as the carriage reciprocates. The first portion is fixed to a mounting plate, which is an example of a fixing section, the tube and a supporting member are held together by a holding member, and the mounting plate has a stepped portion, which is an example of a contact preventing portion configured to prevent contact with the holding member holding the movable portion of the tube.

A slide member slides in conjunction with reciprocation of a carriage. The slide member slides between a first position and a second position to cause a switch gear to move between a plurality of slide positions at which the switch gear engages respective ones of a plurality of transmission gears. The slide member at the second position is closer to a first end of a shaft than the slide member at the first position is. A first cover covers a first sliding contact portion of the shaft over an entire range of the first sliding contact portion in a main scanning direction. The slide member is in sliding contact with the first sliding contact portion when the slide member slides between the first position and the second position. The first sliding contact portion is closer to the first end than the slide member located at the first position is.

An application device and an application method are disclosed which enable a three-dimensional applying and drawing process to be performed without provision of any rotary mechanism on a discharge head. The application device comprises a discharge head that includes a discharge device having a discharge port opened in a Z direction, a stage that holds a workpiece, a set of XYZ relatively-moving devices that moves the discharge head and the stage relative to each other, an R-axis rotation device that rotates the stage about an R-axis parallel to an XY plane, a P-axis rotation device that rotates the stage about a P-axis parallel to the XY plane, the P-axis extending in a different direction from the R-axis, a control device, and a stand, wherein the P-axis rotation device is disposed under the R-axis rotation device, and the P-axis rotation device rotates the stage and the R-axis rotation device together.

In a printing method, such as inkjet printing, at least one layer, such as a decor, etc. is printed on a surface by actuating a subset of a total number of individually actuatable discharge openings defined in a discharge surface of a printhead to eject defined quantities of one or more liquids onto the surface. All of the discharge openings in the actuated subset are spaced from respective points of impingement of the liquids on the surface between minimum and maximum clearances (B, C) from the respective points of impingement. The minimum clearance (B) is a minimum flight distance that each of the defined liquid quantities respectively requires to transform from a liquid column ejected from the respective actuated discharge opening into a substantially spherical liquid droplet. The maximum clearance (C) exceeds the minimum clearance (B) by a predetermined distance (t).

There is provided a printing apparatus including: a platen; a head; a carriage moving in a first direction and a second direction; a sensor configured to detect the medium; a memory; and a controller. Before a certain printing pass starts, the controller is configured to get a first distance value in the first direction between the sensor and a most downstream nozzle and a second distance value between an end of the medium and a close landing position that is closest to the end of the medium. The controller is configured to continue the certain printing pass without stopping the movement of the carriage, when the controller has determined that the second distance value is larger than the first distance value, and when the controller has determined that the medium is supported by the platen.

An inkjet printer is provided, which is configured to acquire gap information related to a gap between an ink discharging surface and a recording sheet in each individual position of top-formed positions and bottom-formed positions within a predetermined wave-shape generating range, identify, when the predetermined wave-shape generating range includes a partial range in which the recording sheet is not placed, a top-formed position where the gap information has not been acquired and a bottom-formed position where the gap information has not been acquired, within the partial range, complement the unacquired gap information in the identified top-formed position with a value determined based on the respective pieces of gap information acquired in other top-formed positions, and complement the unacquired gap information in the identified bottom-formed position with a value determined based on the respective pieces of gap information acquired in other bottom-formed positions.

A posture adjusting apparatus includes: an ink ejector that has a detachable inkjet head that ejects ink; and a posture adjuster for adjusting a posture of the ink ejector. The ink ejector includes a head fixing member to/from which the inkjet head is attached and detached, and is movable between a first position where an image is formed on a recording medium by the inkjet head and a second position where the inkjet head is attached and detached, and the posture adjuster allows adjustment of an angle of the head fixing member in the second position.

A printing apparatus includes a discharge head configured to discharge a liquid toward a medium, a head control board configured to control the discharge head, a circuit case having a box-like shape configured to house the head control board, and a carriage configured to reciprocate in a scanning direction while supporting the discharge head and the circuit case. The circuit case includes an air intake port in one surface of the circuit case, with the one surface intersecting with the scanning direction, and an exhaust port in another surface of the circuit case, with the other surface intersecting with the scanning direction. At the exhaust port, an exhaust fan configured to exhaust, to outside of the circuit case, heat that is inside the circuit case is installed, the heat being generated by the head control board.

A head device includes a head and a holder. The head has a discharge port to discharge droplets to a medium. The holder is configured to hold the head and be rotatable about a first rotation shaft extending in a discharge direction of the droplets and rotatable about a second rotation shaft extending in a longitudinal direction of the head.