A pattern formation device, a liquid ejection device, and an electrical fault detection method capable of detecting electrical fault of a liquid ejection head on the basis of an analysis result of an electrical fault detection pattern are provided. An electrical fault detection pattern having an arrangement of dot arrays satisfying an arrangement condition with an arrangement of a plurality of ejection elements in a liquid ejection head is formed by ejecting liquid from a liquid ejection head in which M rows of ejection element groups in which a plurality of ejection elements are arranged in a first direction are arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and M is an integer equal to or greater than 2.

There is provided a printing apparatus including: a mark detector which detects a mark that is formed on a recording medium and has a width in a first direction in a detection region thereof, and is supported to be rotatable around a rotation shaft that is parallel to a second direction intersecting with the first direction; a driving portion which drives the mark detector in the first direction; an angle determination portion which determines a rotation angle of the mark detector that considers the rotation shaft as a center; and a control portion which matches positions of the detection region and the mark in the first direction by adjusting a position of the mark detector in the first direction by the driving portion based on the rotation angle of the mark detector which is determined by the angle determination portion.

A print level information generating unit generates print level information representing the amount of ink to be applied to a predetermined area on a print medium. A print timing information generating unit generates print timing information indicating a timing, at which the ink is applied to the predetermined area. A print information combining unit outputs the print level information as the print information in a case where the amount of ink to be applied to the predetermined area is maximum or minimum. Moreover, the print information combining unit replaces a part of the print level information with at least a part of the print timing information so as to output, as the print information, information obtained by combining the print timing information and the print level information in a case where the amount of ink to be applied to the predetermined area is not maximum or minimum.

A printing apparatus includes: a plurality of heads configured to print mutually different colors; and a control unit configured to control the heads. The control unit operates the first head, configured to print a first color distinguishable from a surface color of an adjustment paper, to print a first correction pattern for performing alignment correction of the first head on the adjustment paper, and operates the second head, configured to print a second color distinguishable from the first color, to print a second correction pattern for performing alignment correction of the second head on the adjustment paper so as to at least partially overlap a first color area that is an area formed by the first head.

Forming functional layers including functional material in application regions by applying ink to the application regions then drying the ink, which contains the functional material, by causing nozzles to be scanned relative to the substrate along the row direction while, among the nozzles, only use-nozzles that are not selected as a defective nozzle eject the ink, the nozzles being arranged in the column direction over the substrate and including a nozzle selected in advance as a defective nozzle. Among the nozzles, when applying the ink, at least one reserve nozzle is present, a reserve nozzle being a nozzle that is not one of the use-nozzles, is not selected as the defective nozzle, passes over the application region, and does not eject the ink.

A liquid ejection device includes a head driving unit that generates a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage in which whether or not there is ejection of liquid from a first ejection element in a case where the first driving voltage alone is applied to the first ejection element that is a detection target of a short circuit between ejection elements is different from whether or not there is ejection of liquid from the first ejection element in a case where the first driving voltage and the second driving voltage are applied to the first ejection element, supplies the first driving voltage to the first ejection element, and supplies the second driving voltage to the second ejection element suspected of a short circuit with the first ejection element.

In accordance with an embodiment, an inkjet head comprises a counter, a plurality of comparators, a head drive signal generation section and a head main body. The counter counts a count value at a predetermined interval. The plurality of the comparators sets a comparative value obtained from the count value and an offset value if a first transmission start signal is input from a first device, and outputs a second transmission start signal to a second device if the count value becomes the comparative value. The head drive signal generation section outputs a head drive signal if the second transmission start signal is input. The head main body ejects an ink to a print medium if the head drive signal is input.

There is provided an ink-jet printer, including: a conveyor; a carriage; a recording head; a sensor; a cap; a cap shifter; a reference wall; a memory; a power supply; a command receiver; and a controller. The controller is configured to execute judging a state of the power supply section; changing a relative position of the recording head and the cap from the covering position to the separated position to take the cap off the recording head; switching the power supply from the sleep state to the drive state, changing a relative position of the recording head and the cap from the covering position to the separated position by taking the cap off the recording head, storing in the memory the position information, and recording an image on the sheet conveyed to the sheet facing area.

A method and apparatus for collecting sample data from a liquid droplet dispensation system is provided.

A print medium is conveyed in a first direction and a print head is provided with a reference side nozzle array and a plurality of nonreference side nozzle arrays. A relative position displacement amount between a reference printing position of a reference pattern printed by the reference side nozzle array and a nonreference printing position of each of nonreference patterns printed by each of the nonreference side nozzle arrays is detected. Based on a maximum value of a displacement amount of the reference printing position with respect to each of the nonreference printing positions in a direction opposite to the first direction, a first correction value for correcting displacement of the reference printing position is calculated. With reference to the reference printing position after corrected based on the first correction value, a second correction value for correcting displacement is calculated for each of the nonreference printing positions.