In order that it may be possible to form a strong-electric-field region at a level at which a electromagnetic waves are easily absorbed by an object to be heated 20 with low power in an electromagnetic-wave heating device 10 for heating the object to be heated 20 utilizing an electromagnetic waves, the electromagnetic-wave heating device 10 comprises: an oscillator 21 for outputting an electromagnetic waves; and a radiation antenna 22 being a conductor that radiates the electromagnetic waves outputted from the oscillator 21 and having a resonance structure in which resonance occurs in the conductor by the electromagnetic waves in a frequency band transmitted from the oscillator 21, and is configured that a strong-electric-field region for heating the object to be heated is formed along the radiation antenna 22 by the electromagnetic waves supplied from the oscillator 21 to the radiation antenna 22.

A method for printing a surface (1) with a printed pattern (2) includes printing a first partial structure (3) of the printed pattern (2), printing a second partial structure (3) of the printed pattern (2) at a distance from the first printed structure (3) and treating at least one region (7) between the first printed structure (3) and the second printed structure (3), and the irradiating the region (7) between the first printed structure (3) and the second printed structure (3) with electromagnetic waves and/or soundwaves.

The techniques described herein relate generally to reconfigurable support pads for fabric image transfers. Specifically, according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, reconfigurable support pads are provided for fabric image transfers (e.g., silk screening, heat transfer, direct-to-garment printing, etc.). In particular, the techniques herein provide for various adjustable configurations of portions of the fabric substrate support, which may be changed for different thicknesses of garments, and more particularly, that allow for varied thicknesses found on the same garment. For example, by configuring the support in a first “flat” configuration, a plain tee shirt may lay flat, and then configuring the support in a second “two-tiered” configuration, with one portion lower (or higher) than the other, allows for a hoodie with a thicker pocket portion at the “belly” of the garment to also lay flat. Other configurations are also available, whether manually adjusted or else dynamically controlled (e.g., using actuators) based on the type of garment selected on an associated control system.

A printing apparatus includes a head which discharges liquid onto a printing medium; and a light irradiation unit which is aligned with the head in a first direction and which irradiates the liquid on the printing medium with light. The light irradiation unit has light source arrays arranged in the first direction, each of the light source arrays includes light sources aligned in a second direction, and the light source arrays include a first light source array which is disposed most closely to the head in the first direction. The light, which is radiated by each of the light sources included in the first light source array, has an intensity that is smaller than an intensity of the light which is radiated by each of the light sources included in the light source arrays different from the first light source array.

A printer includes a print carriage including an ink head, a sub-carriage movable relative to the print carriage, a mount surface where a medium is to be mounted, a dryer to dry an ink ejected from the ink head onto the medium. The sub-carriage includes a temperature sensor and is movable relative to the print carriage to measure a temperature on or above the mount surface using the temperature sensor. The dryer is adjusted such that the temperature to be measured approaches a predetermined temperature.

An inkjet printing apparatus comprises: a conveyance section that conveys a cut sheet; an ink ejection section that ejects an ink to form an image when the sheet passes a predetermined position; a first heat source that is provided on a downstream side of the ink ejection section and dries an ink ejection face of the sheet; and a second heat source that is arranged to face the first heat source and comes into contact with a back surface of the sheet opposite to the ink ejection face to heat the sheet. The first heat source emits an electromagnetic wave to heat the ink ejection face by radiant heat.

An ink jet recording device includes the following. A conveyor conveys a recording medium. A recording operator ejects an ink to cause the ink to land on the recording medium in a middle of a conveyance path of the recording medium conveyed by the conveyor. A reverser returns the recording medium from a first position downstream of a landing position of the ink, which is ejected from the recording operator, to a second position upstream of the landing position along the conveyance path. A first temperature regulator that regulates a temperature of the recording medium in at least a part of a region from the second position to the landing position on the conveyance path. A hardware processor causes the recording operator not to eject the ink while the recording medium initially passes through the landing position.

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head, a drying unit, and circuitry. The liquid discharge head performs a liquid discharge operation that includes discharging liquid onto a medium. The drying unit radiates heat to dry the liquid adhering to the medium. The circuitry moves the liquid discharge head. Further, the circuitry changes a drying target position on the medium after the liquid discharge head performs the liquid discharge operation. The drying target position is an area where the heat from the drying unit reaches.

A heating device includes a heating unit that heats in a non-contact manner an upper surface of a transport material that is transported, and a blowing unit that blows air against a lower surface of the transport material via a blowing hole that is provided in an opposing surface opposing the lower surface of the transport material, the opposing surface being obliquely disposed with respect to a horizontal direction.

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a rotatable conveying member, and a suction device. The image forming device forms an image on a continuous recording medium. The conveying member has a hollow drum shape. The conveying member conveys the continuous recording medium. The suction device is disposed inside the hollow drum shape of the conveying member. The suction device sucks the continuous recording medium through the conveying member in a fixed region in which the continuous recording medium and the conveying member are in contact with each other.