There is disclosed a method of supplying an n-channel transistor, operating as a voltage regulator, with a supply voltage and providing a control voltage to the n-channel transistor. The n-channel transistor is controlled by the control voltage to output an operating voltage of a printhead at a predetermined voltage.

Provided are a head device, an ink jet printing device, and a driving voltage adjustment method capable of adjusting a driving voltage corresponding to a target jetting amount and suppressing unevenness of printing density occurring between head modules. A dead device includes an ink jet head including a plurality of head modules, and a driving voltage supply device that includes a processor and supplies a driving voltage to the ink jet head, in which the processor acquires a module characteristic, acquires an ink characteristic of ink applied to printing, derives a first voltage coefficient for adjusting a driving voltage corresponding to a target jetting amount for each head module based on the module characteristic and the ink characteristic, and adjusts the driving voltage by applying the first voltage coefficient for each head module.

An integrated circuit to drive a plurality of fluid actuation devices includes an interface, a digital circuit, an analog circuit, and control logic. The digital circuit outputs a digital signal to the interface. The analog circuit outputs an analog signal to the interface. The control logic activates the digital circuit or the analog circuit.

A memory circuit for a print component including a plurality of I/O pads, including an analog pad, to connect to a plurality of signal paths which communicate operating signals to the print component. The memory circuit includes a controllable selector connected in line with one of the signal paths via the I/O pads, the selector controllable to disconnect the corresponding signal path to the print component, and a memory component to store memory values associated with the print component. A control circuit, in response to a sequence of operating signals received by the I/O pads representing a memory read, to operate the controllable selector to disconnect the signal path to the print component to block the memory read of the print component, and provide an analog signal to the analog pad to provide an analog electrical value at the analog pad representing stored memory values selected by the memory read.

A heater device with a memory unit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a memory unit and a heater. The first terminal of the second transistor and the first terminal of the first transistor are electrically connected to each other. The memory unit is electrically connected to the second terminal of the first transistor. The heater is electrically connected to the second terminal of the second transistor.

A liquid ejecting apparatus with a recording element substrate including an ejection port that ejects liquid, and a heating element that heats the liquid in order to eject the liquid from the ejection port; and at least a first temperature detecting element and a second temperature detecting element. The first temperature detecting element and the second temperature detecting element are formed at target positions centered on the center of the heating element when the recording element substrate is viewed in plan view.

An inkjet recording apparatus includes a plurality of nozzles, a pressurizing element, a driver, a controller and a control circuit. The pressurizing element is provided for each of the nozzles. The driver drives the pressurizing elements. The controller generates image data indicating whether ink is ejected for each of the nozzles. The control circuit transmits ejection waveform data indicating a signal transmitted to the pressurizing element and the image data. After printing according to the image data transmitted to the driver is completed, in a non-printing state in which there is no image data to be subsequently printed, the control circuit transmits at least one of the image data indicating a blank sheet and the ejection waveform data in which the ink is not ejected, to the driver.

There is provided a printing apparatus including: a head having nozzles aligned in a first direction, a manifold, and a driving element; a first temperature sensor configured to detect, in the manifold, a temperature difference between a temperature of the ink at an upstream in the first direction and a temperature of the ink at a downstream in the first direction; and a controller. The nozzles have a first nozzle and a second nozzle. The controller is configured to execute: causing of the head to perform printing, and performing of position correction of correcting a discharge timing of the ink from the nozzles based on the temperature difference so that a distance between a landing position of the ink discharged from the first nozzle and a landing position of the ink discharged from the second nozzle becomes short in a second direction crossing the first direction.

An integrated circuit to drive a plurality of fluid actuation devices includes an interface, a first sensor, a second sensor, and control logic. The interface is to connect to a single contact pad of a host print apparatus. The first sensor is of a first type and is coupled to the interface. The second sensor is of a second type and is coupled to the interface. The second type is different from the first type. The control logic enables the first sensor or the second sensor to provide an enabled sensor. A voltage bias or a current bias applied to the interface generates a sensed current or a sensed voltage, respectively, on the interface indicating the state of the enabled sensor.

A die for a printhead is provided in examples. The die includes a number of fluidic actuator arrays, proximate to a number of fluid feed holes. A number of address lines are disposed proximate to a number of logic circuits on a low-voltage side of the fluid feed holes. An address decoder circuit is coupled to at least a portion of the address lines to select a fluidic actuator in a fluidic actuator array for firing. The address decoder circuit is customized to select a different address for each fluidic actuator in the fluidic actuator array. A logic circuit triggers a driver circuit located in a high-voltage side of the plurality of fluid feed holes opposite the low-voltage side, based, at least in part, on a bit value for the fluidic actuator array, the fluidic actuator selected by the address decoder circuit, and a firing signal.