A contacting member contacts a region of a contacted member to which a liquid composition has been applied. The contacting member contains a substrate, a fluororesin fiber layer, an adhesive layer, and a mixed layer. The fluororesin fiber layer contains a fluororesin fiber and is configured to contact the contacted member. The adhesive layer contains an adhesive member directly or indirectly fixing the fluororesin fiber layer to the substrate. In the mixed layer, the fluororesin fiber in the fluororesin layer and the adhesive member in the adhesive layer are mixed. A thickness of the mixed layer is from 5% or more and 60% or less with respect to a thickness of the fluororesin fiber layer.

A system and method for advancing sticky media through printers includes one or more feed rollers comprised of a grit roller. The grit roller contacts an adhesive side of liner-less label stock removed from a roll or stack for printing. The grit roller works cooperatively with an opposing, counter-rotating roller to remove the label stock from the roll and feed it to a printer.

A printer includes a curved path through which a medium is transported toward a line head, a transport roller pair provided in the curved path, pinching the medium by a driving roller and a driven roller at a pinching position, and transporting the medium, a gate portion having a contact surface configured to switch between a contact position located upstream of the pinching position in a transport direction in the curved path and a retreat position at which the contact surface does not contact with the medium, and a guide portion guiding a tip of the transported medium to the contact surface located at the contact position.

A conveying roller unit comprises a first unit, a second unit, and a lock mechanism. The first unit comprises: a roller section; and a hollow cylindrical holder section. The second unit can be removably mounted to the first unit, and comprises: a second connection section; a rod section inserted into the holder section. The lock mechanism includes: a first engagement section provided on the inner circumferential surface of the holder section; a second engagement section provided on the outer circumferential surface of the rod section; and a urging member for pressing the second unit in the direction in which the rod section comes out of the holder section. The urging member maintains the first engagement section and the second engagement section in an engaged state and restricts the position of the second unit relative to the first unit in both the circumferential direction and the rotation axis direction.

There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: an unwinding unit that holds a roll-shaped medium and unwinds the held medium; an ejecting unit that ejects liquid onto the medium unwound from the unwinding unit; a winding unit that winds the medium onto which the liquid is ejected; and a base member to which the unwinding unit and the winding unit are attached.

There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: an unwinding unit that holds a roll-shaped medium and unwinds the held medium; an ejecting unit that ejects liquid onto the medium unwound from the unwinding unit; a winding unit that winds the medium onto which the liquid is ejected; and a base member to which the unwinding unit and the winding unit are attached.

A roll excellent in abrasion resistance, which contains: a resin layer containing a first atom group having a plurality of sulfur atoms, a plurality of second atom groups having a carbon chain that has a plurality of carbon atoms arranged in a line and has an end bonded to any one of the plurality of sulfur atoms, and a plurality of third atom groups each of which has a urethane bond and is bonded to any one of the plurality of second atom groups; and a cylindrical foamed resin having an outer surface covered with the resin layer.

A roller shaft is inserted into a mold including molding members respectively having a first mold surface that defines an outer circumference of a roller portion and second and third mold surfaces that respectively define first and second flat portions of the roller portion, and the mold is then closed. A molding material is injected around the roller shaft to integrally mold the roller portion. The roller portion includes the outer circumference and the first and second flat portions rising from the roller shaft to the outer circumference. The roller shaft includes flange portions at portions corresponding to the first and second flat portions. The flange portions prevent the molding material from leaking outside the first and second flat portions when the roller portion is integrally molded around the roller shaft by injection molding.

A correction driving roller of a printing apparatus, which is used for transporting a paper sheet, includes at least one toothed roller that includes a plurality of wheels configured to be brought into contact with the paper sheet when the paper sheet is transported, and holders that hold the wheels, and is constructed such that the plurality of wheels are fixed to the holders while being arrayed in an axial direction orthogonal to the side surfaces of the wheels. Cut portions are formed on the wheel and are spaced away from each other when the toothed roller is viewed in the axial direction.

In order to enable a sheet to be properly guided to a nip portion in performing folding processing, a sheet processing apparatus for performing folding processing on a sheet is provided with a rotating body pair which nips the sheet by a nip portion to rotate, and thereby draws the sheet to perform folding processing, a folding blade that pushes the sheet to the nip portion of the rotating body pair, and a blade guide member including a guide portion for pushing the sheet to the nip portion when the folding blade pushes the sheet to the nip portion, where the folding blade and blade guide member are relatively shifted so that a distance from a push front edge portion to the guide portion when the folding blade pushes the sheet to the nip portion is longer than a distance from the front edge portion to the guide portion.