Disclosed is an electrohydrodynamic printing apparatus including: a nozzle configured to discharge liquid toward a substrate; a voltage applier configured to form an electric field between the nozzle and the substrate; and a laser beam emitter configured to emit a laser beam toward a position to which liquid is discharged on the substrate.

Thus, it is possible to accurately and stably form a microscale deposition structure.

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a drive signal generation circuit generating a drive waveform signal, a liquid ejecting head including a vibration plate, a drive element displacing the vibration plate by being supplied with the drive waveform signal, a cavity that is filled with a liquid and of which an internal pressure changes by the displacement of the vibration plate, and a nozzle that communicates with the cavity and that ejects the liquid by the change in internal pressure of the cavity, and an ejecting malfunction detection circuit that detects, specifies a cause of the ejecting malfunction based on the residual vibration signal. The ejecting malfunction detection circuit includes a detection unit detecting the residual vibration signal, an obtaining unit obtaining information indicating an ejecting state of the liquid ejected from the nozzle, and a learning unit machine learning a relationship between the residual vibration signal and the ejecting state.

A fluid ejection device includes a fluid slot, at least one fluid ejection chamber communicated with the fluid slot, a drop ejecting element within the at least one fluid ejection chamber, a fluid circulation channel communicated with the fluid slot and the at least one fluid ejection chamber, and a fluid circulating element communicated with the fluid circulation channel. The fluid circulating element is to provide on-demand circulation of fluid from the fluid slot through the fluid circulation channel and the at least one fluid ejection chamber.

A liquid ejecting head includes a flow passage member and an energy generating element. The flow passage member includes an individual flow passage including a nozzle and a pressure generating chamber communicating with the nozzle, a supply-side common flow passage, and a drain-side common flow passage. The energy generating element effects a pressure change in the liquid in the pressure generating chamber to discharge the liquid from the nozzle. The individual flow passage includes a supply-side individual flow passage between the supply-side common flow passage and the nozzle and a drain-side individual flow passage between the nozzle and the drain-side common flow passage. A second partition wall that separates a plurality of the drain-side individual flow passages from each other is thicker than a first partition wall that separates a plurality of the supply-side individual flow passages from each other.

A recording apparatus includes an electric field forming section including a conductive member and configured to form an electric field, and the conductive member includes at least one first portion and a second portion, each of the at least one first portion being disposed at a position being nearer the recording head than a position of the second portion and included in a corresponding one of at least one liquid discarding region each of which, in an execution of borderless recording, is used for the ejection of the liquid onto an outside of a corresponding one of at least one edge whose position corresponds to each of at least one predetermined size of a medium, the second portion being disposed in a recording region other than the at least one liquid discarding region.

An occurrence of leakage is prevented. An inkjet head jets ink. The inkjet head is provided with a head main body, a cooling pipe, a jet-side coupling member, and a cooling-side coupling member, wherein the head main body has a jet flow path through which the ink passes, the cooling pipe has a cooling flow path through which the ink passes as a cooling medium for cooling a drive circuit, the jet-side coupling member is coupled to the head main body, a jet-side branch path branches from an ink flow path into which the ink inflows from an outside of the inkjet head, or from which the ink outflows, the jet-side branch path is communicated with the jet flow path, the jet-side branch path is provided to the jet-side coupling member, and the cooling-side coupling member is coupled to the jet-side coupling member, and is provided with a cooling-side branch path which branches from the ink flow path, and which is communicated with the cooling flow path. The cooling-side coupling member has a coupling surface along one surface of the jet-side coupling member, and along a direction perpendicular to the cooling pipe.

A liquid discharge head includes: a nozzle plate having multiple nozzles; a diaphragm facing an inner face of the nozzle plate; multiple individual chambers between the nozzle plate and the diaphragm, the multiple individual chambers respectively communicating with the multiple nozzles; multiple actuators on a first face of the diaphragm opposite to a second face of the diaphragm facing the multiple individual chambers, the multiple actuators to deform the diaphragm to discharges a liquid in the multiple individual chambers from the multiple nozzles, respectively; a holder facing the multiple actuators and the diaphragm and joined to a peripheral portion of the diaphragm; a first joint at a first position around a periphery of the holder and joining the diaphragm and the holder; and multiple second joints joining the diaphragm and the holder at multiple second positions inside the first position, respectively.

The area necessary to install the liquid jet head to be positioned by a positioning mechanism is reduced. An inkjet head is provided with a head main body for jetting ink, a base member which supports the head main body, and is installed on an installation surface of a carriage, and a positioning mechanism which adjusts a position of the base member in a direction along the installation surface with respect to a positioning pin disposed on the installation surface, wherein the positioning mechanism is supported by the base member, and at least a part of the positioning mechanism is arranged inside an outer shape of the base member in a plan view of the installation surface viewed from a vertical direction thereof.

A liquid droplet ejecting apparatus includes a liquid droplet ejecting head that includes a plurality of nozzles from which a liquid supplied from a liquid supply source through a liquid supply path is ejected as a liquid droplet, and ejects the liquid droplet from the nozzle to a recording medium to perform a recording process, a first detecting section that detects a vibration waveform of the pressure chamber, which is vibrated when an actuator is driven to cause the pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle to vibrate, to detect a state inside the pressure chamber, and a second detecting section that reads a pattern formed on the recording medium by ejecting the liquid droplet from the nozzle to detect an ejection state of the liquid droplet.

Printheads for jetting a print fluid. In one embodiment, a printhead comprises a main body configured to attach to a stack of plates, where the stack of plates forms a row of jetting channels configured to jet droplets of a print fluid. The main body includes a supply manifold configured to provide a fluid path for the print fluid to the row of jetting channels, a cavity, and a semi-permeable membrane disposed between the cavity and the supply manifold.