A printing apparatus includes a liquid absorption unit configured to absorb a liquid component from an ink image formed on a transfer member before transferring the ink image to a print medium. The liquid absorption unit includes a liquid absorbing member configured to absorb the liquid component, a support unit configured to support the liquid absorbing member to be movable cyclically, an applying unit arranged in a moving path of the liquid absorbing member and configured to apply a moisturizing liquid while contacting the liquid absorbing member, and a supply unit configured to supply the moisturizing liquid to the applying unit. The printing apparatus includes a control unit configured to control a supply amount of the moisturizing liquid to the applying unit by the supply unit.

According to an embodiment of this invention, liquid absorption performance of a liquid absorbing member is satisfactorily maintained while suppressing utilization of a moisturizing liquid. More specifically, before an ink image formed on a transfer member by ink discharged from a printhead is transferred, a cyclically movable liquid absorbing member absorbs a liquid component from the ink image formed on the transfer member. On the other hand, a recovery unit arranged on a moving path of the liquid absorbing member recovers absorption performance of the liquid absorbing member by applying the moisturizing liquid to the liquid absorbing member. When applying the moisturizing liquid, a condition on the surface of the liquid absorbing member is estimated and based on a result of the estimation, an application amount of the moisturizing liquid by the recovery unit is controlled.

A coating device for manufacturing an electrode on a substrate. A feed unit feeds a substrate into a pressing gap. A first metering unit accommodates a first powder and a second powder and parallel fills a first metering gap with the first powder and the second powder. A roller device has a first application roller, a first pressing roller unit, and a second pressing roller unit. The first metering gap is provided between the first application roller and the first pressing roller unit, and the pressing gap is provided between the first pressing roller unit and the second pressing roller unit. The first metering gap is provided for applying the first powder and the second powder, as a first at least two-ply layer to the first pressing roller unit via a first application force.

A coating head includes a fluid passage channel that opens into a fluid discharge region; a movable rod located in the fluid discharge region, arranged after the first edge of the fluid passage channel and close to the perimeter of a rotating roller on which a substrate is arranged; and an inlet lip provided with a straight internal side that is oblique to the perimeter of the rotating roller and that defines the second edge of the fluid passage channel, of a flat face facing the rotating roller and an external side, the latter provided with a step.

Provided is a technique capable of evenly smoothing powder supplied to the surface of a supply member. A powder coating apparatus includes a pair of press rollers, hoppers, and squeegee rollers disposed such that prescribed gaps are formed between the squeegee rollers and the press rollers, and adjusting thickness of the powder by smoothing the powder supplied to each outer circumferential surface of the press rollers. The powder coating apparatus presses the powder, smoothed by the squeegee rollers, between the press rollers to form compressed powder layers on both the surfaces of the web. The squeegee roller is formed in a column having an axis being parallel to the outer circumferential surface of the press roller and being orthogonal to a moving direction of the outer circumferential surface of the press roller.

An automated primer application system for producing attachment parts for means of transportation is disclosed. The system comprises an output reel, a take-up reel, an application head with a nozzle opening, and a high-pressure waterjet-consolidated polymer-cellulose nonwoven. The high-pressure waterjet-consolidated polymer-cellulose nonwoven is guided from the output reel over the application head to the take-up reel. The high-pressure waterjet-consolidated polymer-cellulose nonwoven is arranged in front of the nozzle opening. A primer liquid can be fed through the nozzle opening such that the primer liquid can be applied to a surface of a part via the polymer-cellulose nonwoven.

A material deposition system and method is disclosed for depositing material onto raised features on a surface of a substrate. The material deposition system and method are a contact deposition or printing system and method, which employs biased rollerball to deposit the material as it travels along the substrate and over the raised features.

A device includes a tank for storing a glue solution; a roll having a surface for transferring the glue solution onto an area of a corrugating medium of a single-faced corrugated fiberboard sheet in the width direction; scraping members for regulating adhesion of the glue solution outside the area on the surface of the roll; a movement mechanism for moving the scraping members in the width direction; and a control device for setting, on the basis of the cutting width dimension with which the double-faced cardboard sheet is to be cut after passing the roll, the area to be a region in which margins in the width direction have been added outside positions of the side edges of the cutting width dimension, and for controlling the movement mechanism to dispose the scraping members at positions corresponding to the positions of the side edges of the glue application region.

A clean version of the amended Abstract is shown as follows: There is disclosed a method of printing onto the surface of a substrate, which method comprises i) coating a donor surface with a monolayer of particles, ii) treating the substrate surface to render at least selected regions tacky, and iii) contacting the substrate surface with the donor surface to cause particles to transfer from the donor surface only to the tacky regions of the substrate surface. After printing on a substrate, the donor surface returns to the coating station where the continuity of the monolayer is restored by recovering with fresh particles the regions of the donor surface exposed by the transfer of particles to the substrate.

Aerosols can be created by filament stretching and breaking of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids by applying a strain to and stretching the fluid. The fluid is stretched along a strain pathway and forms a fluid filament. The fluid filament is caused to break into droplets that can be harvested to form a mist or aerosol. Such a system for aerosol creation can include a pair of counter-rotating rollers that are positioned adjacent to each other that stretch the fluid or a pair of pistons that move toward and away from each other to stretch the fluid.