A transport device includes a transport section configured to transport a medium, a medium guide section including a guide face for guiding, in a transport direction, the medium in a state of being transported by the transport section, a cover configured to be attached on the guide face, and a storage section configured to store in itself the cover in a state of being detached, and one edge side of the cover is secured to the storage section.

There is provided a printed medium manufacturing method for manufacturing a printed medium by performing printing with ink with respect to a permeable medium, which is a recording medium that permeates the ink, the method including an ink attaching process of attaching the ink to the permeable medium, a pigment fixing process of fixing a pigment in the ink to the permeable medium with a binder resin in the ink by heating the ink attached to the permeable medium in the ink attaching process, and a dye color developing process of causing the permeable medium itself to develop color with the dye in the ink by heating the ink attached to the permeable medium in the ink attaching process.

A recording device includes a recording head for performing recording on a recording medium, a transporter for transporting the recording medium, a platen for supporting the recording medium, a heater for heating the recording medium supported by the platen, and a control unit, wherein the control unit causes the heater to heat the recording medium at a predetermined and constant heating temperature, causes the recording head and the transporter to record a first test pattern of a predetermined recording density, and a second test pattern of a recording density different from the predetermined recording density on the recording medium, and the recording density of the first test pattern and the recording density of the second test pattern can be set in the heater, and are associated with heating temperature different from each other.

An image forming apparatus capable of executing a single-sided recording mode in which an image is recorded on one side of a recording medium and a double-sided recording mode in which an image is recorded on both sides of the recording medium, the image forming apparatus includes: a first temperature adjustment device that adjusts a temperature of the recording medium; an inkjet head that ejects ink onto a surface of the recording medium; a reverse unit that reverses front and back surfaces of the recording medium by switching a conveying direction of the recording medium when the double-sided recording mode is executed; a second temperature adjustment device that controls the temperature of the recording medium in which the front and back surfaces are reversed; and a control device that controls at least one of the first and second temperature adjustment devices.

A medium support unit for supporting a medium on which a printing apparatus performs printing includes a support portion having a support surface for supporting the medium, a heating portion heating the support portion, and a main body portion on which the support portion is mounted, wherein heat conductivity of a mounting portion as a portion of the main body portion on which the support portion is mounted is lower than heat conductivity of the support portion.

A printing device includes a heating section capable of heating paper P transported over a support platform, a head unit that is disposed at a position facing the support platform with a gap therebetween, and that is capable of rotating about a rotation shaft extending along width direction X, and a head cooling unit that is capable of cooling the head unit. The head unit is provided with a first head that includes a nozzle capable of ejecting ink, a second head that includes a nozzle capable of ejecting ink, and a third head that includes a nozzle capable of ejecting ink, with the heads provided around a rotation direction of the head unit with gaps between one another. When one head out of the respective heads faces the paper P, another head out of the respective heads can be made to face the head cooling unit.

An ink-jet recording apparatus includes an ink image forming unit configured to form an ink image on a recording medium, and a fixing apparatus configured to fix the ink image while pinching and conveying the recording medium, wherein the fixing apparatus includes a first belt configured to rotate and come into contact with the ink image, a second belt configured to form a nip portion by coming into contact with the first belt, a first roller unit including rollers that come into contact with an inner circumferential surface of the first belt, a second roller unit including rollers that come into contact with an inner circumferential surface of the second belt, a first heater unit arranged on the inner circumferential surface of the first belt and configured to heat the nip portion contactlessly, and a second heater unit configured to heat the inner circumferential surface of the second belt contactlessly.

A printing apparatus includes: a support section having heat transfer properties, the support section having a surface which serves as a support surface that can support a continuous sheet; a transporting section that transports the continuous sheet onto the support surface; and a print section that is disposed to face the support surface and performs printing onto the continuous sheet on the support surface. A plurality of suction holes are provided on the support section, at least one rib is provided to protrude at a position that does not interfere with the suction hole on a back surface of the support section, and a heat generator is provided on the rib.

The disclosure relates to the technical field of fabric printing, in particular to a waterless digital printing method, which includes: scanning and detecting a surface to be printed of a target fabric and determining a first type hydrophilic detection point and a second type hydrophilic detection point of the target fabric according to a yarn type; performing a primary hydrophilic detection on the first type hydrophilic detection point and the second type hydrophilic detection point and calculating a hydrophilicity stability parameter; determining a fabric preheating mode according to the hydrophilicity stability parameter, the fabric preheating mode including differential temperature preheating and uniform temperature preheating; performing digital ink-jet printing on the target fabric by a digital printing device when preheating is completed; and performing drying and curing in which the printed target fabric is placed into a drying chamber for heating and curing.

A container component decorating apparatus (10) delivers one or more art graphics to a plurality of container components in a manufacturing queue. A container component handling module (200) has one or more holders (204) which retain the container components to the apparatus (10). The apparatus (10) has a supply of one or more fluids which are to be deposited onto the container components; A source of thermal energy (240) is thermally couplable to the container component. A thermal energy is transferred from the source to the container component prior to one or more fluid droplets from the source fluid being deposited on a non-absorbent surface of the container component.