An information processing apparatus used to determine a waveform of a drive pulse applied to a drive element provided in a liquid discharge head for discharging a liquid includes a first reception unit that receives an input of first information regarding a first setting item for determining the waveform of the drive pulse, a second reception unit that receives an input of second information regarding a second setting item different from the first setting item for determining the waveform of the drive pulse, and a third reception unit that collectively receives the inputs of the first information and the second information from information stored in advance.

An information processing apparatus is used to determine a waveform of a drive pulse applied to a drive element provided in a liquid discharge head for discharging a liquid, by using results obtained by evaluating a first discharge characteristic and a second discharge characteristic of the liquid discharge head. The information processing apparatus includes a first reception unit that receives an input of first information for designating a voltage based on the evaluation result of the first discharge characteristic as a voltage of the drive pulse used to evaluate the second discharge characteristic, and a second reception unit that receives an input of second information for designating a voltage freely designated by a user, as the voltage of the drive pulse used to evaluate the second discharge characteristic.

According to an embodiment, an inkjet head includes a nozzle that ejects ink, an ink pressure chamber that connects to the nozzle, an actuator that changes a volume of the ink pressure chamber, and an actuator driving circuit that drives the actuator with a driving waveform. The driving waveform includes an ejection pulse portion that changes from a first voltage to a second voltage at which the ink pressure chamber expands and then changes from the second voltage to a third voltage at which the ink pressure chamber contracts so as to eject the ink from the nozzle. The third voltage is between that of the first and second voltages in potential level. The potential difference between the second and third voltages is greater than the potential difference between the third and first voltages.

A liquid ejection device includes a first head unit that includes a plurality of first ejection portions, a second head unit that includes a plurality of second ejection portions, a head controller that controls the first head unit and the second head unit, and a signal path via which determination information indicating whether or not a liquid ejection state of one first ejection portion among the plurality of first ejection portions is abnormal is transmitted from the first head unit to the second head unit without passing through the head controller.

A liquid discharge device including a discharge head, a head drive circuit that outputs a first drive signal, and a second drive signal, and a coupling member includes a first wiring that propagates the first drive signal, a second wiring that propagates the second drive signal, a third wiring that propagates a reference voltage signal, and a base material provided with the first wiring, the second wiring, and the third wiring, in which the first wiring and the second wiring are provided on a first surface of the base material, the third wiring is provided on a second surface different from the first surface of the base material, and at least one of the first wiring and the second wiring is located so as to overlap with at least a part of the third wiring in a first direction along a direction from the first surface to the second surface.

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a conveyer; head chips; a circulation channel; and a controller. Each head chip includes a manifold; a nozzle group, and actuators. Each head chip is configured to execute discharge drive and non-discharge vibration drive. The head chips include: an end head chip; a facing head chip facing the recording medium; and a non-facing head chip not facing the recording medium. The controller is configured to make at least one of a circulation flowing amount of a liquid in the circulation channel in the facing head chip and a frequency of the non-discharge vibration drive by an actuator included in the actuators in the facing head chip larger than those of the non-facing head chip.

A method for depositing droplets onto a medium, utilising a droplet deposition head is provided. The head used in the method includes: an array of fluid chambers separated by interspersed walls, each fluid chamber communicating with an aperture for the release of fluid droplets and each wall separating two neighbouring chambers. Each wall is actuable such that in response to a first voltage, it will deform so as to decrease the volume of one chamber and increase the volume of the other chamber, and, in response to a second voltage, it will deform so as to cause the opposite effect on the volumes of its neighbouring chambers. The method includes the steps of: receiving input data: assigning, based on such input data, all the chambers within the array as either filing chambers or non-firing chambers, so as to produce bands of one or more contiguous filing chambers separated by bands of one or more contiguous non-firing chambers; actuating the walls of certain of the chambers such that: for each non-firing chamber, either one wall is stationary while the other is moved, or the walls move with the same sense, or they remain stationary: and, for each firing chamber the walls move with opposing senses; such actuations result in each firing chamber releasing at least one droplet, the resulting droplets forming bodies of fluid disposed on a line on the medium, such bodies of fluid being separated on the line by respective gaps for each of the bands of non-firing chambers, the size of each such gap generally corresponding in size to the respective band of non-firing chambers. The actuations of the walls of said firing chambers in the actuating step are such that, if only one of the two walls of each firing chamber were actuated in such manner, no droplets would be ejected from that firing chamber. A droplet deposition apparatus, a droplet deposition head and a computer program product are also provided.

The invention relates to a print system comprising at least two page-wide arrays of ink jet print heads, positioned in a frame over a conveyor belt for transporting a substrate underneath the arrays, three sensors for reading markers on the conveyor belt and a control unit that is configured to derive control signals from encoder signals of the three sensors. Two sensors are directly connected to the frame and a third sensor is connected to one of the said two sensors by an element with virtually no thermal expansion, extending in transport direction. The control signals, comprising signals for controlling a transport speed of the conveyor belt and line pulses for the at least two print heads, are derived in such a way that an amount of thermal expansion of the frame is determined and an absolute print resolution is maintained.

A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a liquid discharge head configured to discharge a liquid from a nozzle; a drive waveform generator configured to generate a drive waveform including multiple drive pulses to be applied to the liquid discharge head, the multiple drive pulses successively including: a first drive pulse configured to cause the liquid discharge head to discharge the liquid; a second drive pulse configured to cause the liquid discharge head not to discharged the liquid while causing meniscus of the liquid in the nozzle in the liquid discharge head to vibrate; and a third drive pulse configured to cause the liquid discharge head to discharge the liquid; in time series.

There is provided a head unit including: a discharge section that includes a piezoelectric element driven by a first driving signal and discharges a liquid; a switching circuit that switches whether or not to supply the first driving signal; a first substrate that propagates the first driving signal and the discharge control signal to the switching circuit; a second substrate to which the first driving signal and the discharge control signal are supplied and which propagates the first driving signal and the discharge control signal to the first substrate; a first coupling member including a first conductive section that electrically couples the first substrate and the second substrate; and a second coupling member including a second conductive section that electrically couples the first substrate and the second substrate, in which a cross-sectional area of the first conductive section is larger than a cross-sectional area of the second conductive section.