An apparatus for the printing and radiation treatment of a curved surface of an object, such as a body part, includes a printing unit, preferably an inkjet print head, a radiation unit, preferably a UV dryer, and a movement unit, preferably a robot, either for moving the printing unit and the radiation unit at a working distance along the surface or for moving the object at a working distance along the printing unit and the radiation unit. A shielding unit can be adjusted and/or deformed relative to the printing unit and/or relative to the radiation unit and during the printing. Scattered radiation is shielded and damage to the printing unit is prevented as a result of the special configuration of the shielding unit.

An inkjet image forming apparatus include a head unit and a corona treatment unit. The head unit ejects ink on a printing base material conveyed in a predetermined conveyance direction. The corona treatment unit is disposed on an upstream side of the head unit in the conveyance direction and performs a corona discharge on the printing base material. The corona treatment unit includes a counter roller facing a corona discharge electrode. The counter roller has an inverted crown shape in which a diameter of a central portion is smaller than diameters of both end portions in a width direction crossing the conveyance direction.

Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide a print bar for organic vapor jet (OVJP) deposition is provided that includes a plurality of n print head segments, where each of the plurality of print head segments may have an OVJP print head. The print bar may include a plurality of distance sensors, where each of the plurality of distance sensors may be configured to measure a distance between a substrate disposed below the print bar and a portion of at least one of the print head segments. The print bar may include a plurality of not more than n+1 actuators configured to adjust at least one of a position and an orientation of one or more of the plurality of print head segments based upon one or more distances between the substrate and the print bar measured by one or more of the plurality of distance sensors.

The present teachings disclose various embodiments of a printing system for printing substrate, in which the printing system can be housed in a gas enclosure, where the environment within the enclosure can be maintained as a controlled printing environment. A controlled environment of the present teachings can include control of the type of gas environment within the gas enclosure, the size and level particulate matter within the enclosure, control of the temperature within the enclosure and control of lighting. Various embodiments of a printing system of the present teachings can include a Y-axis motion system and a Z-axis moving plate that are configured to substantially decrease excess thermal load within the enclosure by, for example, eliminating or substantially minimizing the use of conventional electric motors.

A controller drives a conveyer to start to convey a sheet of continuous paper and accelerates the sheet to a printing conveyance speed, and drives an inkjet head to start to perform a printing while driving the conveyer to convey the sheet at the printing conveyance speed. The controller drives a tension adjuster to adjust a tension of the sheet such that the tension of the sheet during acceleration after start of conveyance of the sheet is smaller than the tension of the sheet during the printing, and drives the head gap adjuster to adjust a head gap between the inkjet head and the sheet such that a first head gap during the acceleration of the sheet is greater than a second head gap during the printing.

A holding member has a hole with a front tapered shape in a sliding direction of a sliding portion, and the hole and the sliding portion engage with each other.

The present disclosure relates to a portable printer including a main body in a portable form which is capable of accommodating a cartridge having a nozzle for delivering a printing material to a target having a soft or hard surface, a seating part which is provided to be exposed to an outside from a lower portion of the main body to face the surface of the target and at least partially surrounds the nozzle, a roller provided respectively at the front and rear of the nozzle at the lower portion of the main body with respect to a direction in which the main body moves along the surface of the target to deliver the printing material to the target, and a printing adjustment unit configured to adjust a height difference between the nozzle and the roller to adjust a height difference between the nozzle and the surface of the target.

An inkjet recording apparatus includes a first adjustment portion and a second adjustment portion. The first adjustment portion adjusts a position of an inkjet head in a predetermined direction intersecting with an up-down direction. The second adjustment portion retains the first adjustment portion in a liftable manner and adjusts a position of the first adjustment portion in the up-down direction. The second adjustment portion includes a tilted member which has an upper surface tilted with respect to the predetermined direction and is slidable in the predetermined direction. The first adjustment portion includes a contact portion which protrudes downwardly and comes into contact with the upper surface of the tilted member.

A printing apparatus includes a head unit base holding unit including a first head unit base holding unit that holds one end of the head unit base, and a second head unit base holding unit that holds the other end of the head unit base, a first fixation member configured to fix the head unit base to the first head unit base holding unit, and a second fixation member configured to fix the head unit base to the second head unit base holding unit, wherein the head unit base and the head unit base holding unit are fixed to each other by placing the head unit base on a first upper surface of the first head unit base holding unit and a second upper surface of the second head unit base holding unit and sandwiching the head unit base between the first fixation member and the second fixation member.

A portable printer including a body accommodating a cartridge including a printing material, a nozzle configured to deliver the printing material to a target, a seating part facing a surface of the target, a roller on a lower portion of the body such that the body is moved on the surface of the target, and a printing adjustment part configured to maintain a height difference between the nozzle and the roller in a first height or a second height, wherein the printing adjustment part is configured to preset a height difference between the nozzle and the roller.