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The invention discloses a 3D (three dimensional) printing method and a 3D printer. The method includes the steps of: making use of 3D modeling software in a computer to conduct modeling for an object needing printing; controlling the rise of a lifting platform by the computer; controlling a constant upper surface height of the liquid UV light cured resin in a liquid storage tank by the computer; carrying out printing from a first layer to the shell of a last layer in order, and in the shell printing process, letting the computer control descending of the lifting platform by one layer height in order through a Z-axle motor, making the liquid UV light cured resin in the liquid storage tank flow into the shell, and filling the shell; at the end of shell printing, controlling a wire extrusion device and making it stop extruding pasty UV light cured resin by the computer, and controlling an ultraviolet lamp in terms of irradiating the shell for a period of time by the computer so as to make the liquid UV light cured resin in the shell cured. With high printing efficiency, the 3D printing method and the 3D printer provided in the invention can ensure that the printed object has high density and is easy to damage while guaranteeing the printing efficiency.

A fixing device includes at least one heater disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of an endless rotary body to heat the endless rotary body and a shield interposed between the endless rotary body and the at least one heater to shield the endless rotary body from heat radiated from the at least one heater. A first size recording medium passes over a first passage region of the endless rotary body and a second size recording medium passes over a second passage region of the endless rotary body. The shield includes a notch disposed opposite a lateral end of the second passage region of the endless rotary body in an axial direction thereof. The lateral end of the second passage region overlaps a non-passage region of the endless rotary body in the axial direction thereof where the first size recording medium does not pass.

A method of printing comprises providing a carriage-type inkjet printer having a printhead, with the printer being responsive to digital signals and capable of printing in a multi-pass printing mode, supplying the printer with pigment-based inks, supplying the printer with a receiver surface suitable for printing of photographic images, detecting a degree of texturing on the receiver surface, selecting a number of passes for the multi-pass printing mode based on the detected degree of texturing of the receiver surface, and passing the print head over the receiver surface in accordance with the selected number of passes.

In a liquid discharging apparatus for discharging droplets from a liquid discharge nozzle to a discharge object to be discharged and in a method for controlling the liquid discharging apparatus, cleaning effects for the ink discharge nozzle and the adjacent areas can be enhanced, and the time required for a series of performance maintaining operations can be reduced. The apparatus includes a platen plate for supporting recording paper as the discharge object, defining a positional relationship between the discharge object and the liquid discharge head, and receiving the droplets discharged from the liquid discharge head. Ink droplets are preliminarily discharged from the ink discharge nozzle to the platen plate.

After a skew of a sheet as a recording medium is corrected by correcting a sheet curve, exposure writing on a photosensitive drum is started synchronously with re-driving of resist rollers. When a sheet front edge is detected by a sensor, sheet conveyance is continued while adjusting a sheet conveying speed when an exposure start position reaches a transfer position at a pressure contact point between the drum and a transfer roller, thereby adjusting the time of arrival at the transfer position. A time/distance interval between the preceding and subsequent sheets are shortened, a conveying path is shortened, and the whole apparatus is miniaturized. Print processing efficiency is raised and stable printing without a variation is executed. A transfer start position of the sheet is made to accurately coincide with the exposure start position of the drum, thereby realizing a high print processing speed.

The invention belongs to the technical field of micro-fluidic chips and particularly discloses a preparation method for the polymer micro-fluidic chips on the basis of 3D hydrogel printing. The preparation method comprises the steps of preparing hot and reversible carrageenan or agar hydrogel, and improving the mechanical strength of the hydrogel, lowering the viscosity of the molten hydrogel and increasing the gelatinization speed after the hydrogel is cooled by adjusting the concentration of the hydrogel and using cross-linking agents; designing structural units such as channel networks, solution holes and reactors of the micro-fluidic chips through software, outputting the design documents to a high-accuracy 3D hydrogel printer and printing the hydrogel on a bottom plate for obtaining male hydrogel molds; mixing macromolecular prepolymers and curing agents for obtaining mold casting solutions, pouring the solutions on the male molds, covering the male molds with cover plates, enabling the gaps between the cover plates and the male molds to be filled with mold casting solutions, releasing the molds for obtaining micro-fluidic chip substrates after curing and obtaining finished products of the micro-fluidic chips after the substrates and cover sheets are packaged. According to the method, the polymer micro-fluidic chips made of polymethyl methacrylate, polydimethylsiloxane or epoxy resin can be processed.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a printing method, a printing device and a printer based on voice input. The printing method comprises following steps: collecting voice inputted by a user via a collector arranged in the printer; receiving inputted voice via a voice recognition chip arranged in the printer; displaying a voice recognition result to the user via a display screen arranged in the printer; and printing the text content of the voice recognition result via a printing execution assembly arranged in the printer when the user receives a confirmation instruction of the voice recognition result.The printing method, the printing device and the printer based on voice input have following beneficial effects: in intelligent combination of voice recognition technology and printing technology, the text content to be printed is inputted by voice so that high efficiency is obtained; the user determines whether the voice recognition result is correct or not by means of the display screen; printing errors are not easily made; printing time is saved; and during a printing process, no computer is needed so that cost is decreased.

A print data processing apparatus performs detection as to whether or not an identical resource is duplicated and described within print data. In a case where there is duplicated description, the duplicated resource is deleted from its second occurrence onward and the print objects are consolidated, the duplicated resources are deconstructed into individual resources and registered in a format that can be referenced in common from multiple print objects.

An image forming apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes (a) a print engine that performs secondary paper feed after primary paper feed, and generates an image based on image data and then transfers and fixes the image on a paper after the secondary paper feed, (b) a print job receiving unit that receives a print job and causes the print engine to start the primary paper feed and (c) an image forming unit that forms the image data based on the print job and outputs the image data to the print engine, and causes the print engine to start generating the image prior to the secondary paper feed after the primary paper feed.

The invention provides an intelligent 3D printing system and a printing method thereof. The system comprises a printing assembly, a controller and a model analysis processor, wherein the printing assembly is used for printing and spraying forming materials on a printing platform; the controller is used for outputting a control instruction to driving equipment of the printing assembly to control work of the printing assembly; the model analysis processor is used for receiving data of a 3D model to be printed, slicing the 3D model to form multiple slicing layers, obtaining printing conditions ofeach slicing layer, searching a printing database for printing parameters matched with the printing conditions, and outputting the printing parameters to the controller; and the printing database isa database arranged on a server or a local memorizer, and preset printing experience values or preferred data obtained through self-learning are stored in the printing database. The printing system isapplied to 3D printing in the method. By means of the intelligent 3D printing system and the printing method thereof, the printing quality of the 3D model can be improved, and forming materials are saved.

A liquid-droplet jetting apparatus such as an ink-jet printer makes a meniscus of an ink in a nozzle vibrate by applying a no-jetting drive pulse which does not jet the ink. An operation of outputting two no-jetting drive pulses in one cycle is repeated for 100 to 150, and then stopped for 100 to 150 cycles. A pulse width Tp of the no-jetting drive pulses, an interval Tw between two no-jetting drive pulses, and a time AL in which a pressure wave in an ink channel is propagated one way are set to be in a range 0.1 AL≦Tp≦0.2 AL, and 0.2 AL≦Tw≦4.5 AL. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent assuredly, thickening of a liquid such as an ink in the nozzle, and to reduce a generation of a defect in jetting of a liquid droplet.

This invention relates to a printing apparatus and control method thereof. In the printing apparatus and control method thereof, an image is input, and an envelope is conveyed so that the long edge of the envelope serves as the leading end in the conveyance direction. When the envelope is conveyed so that the long edge of the envelope serves as the leading end in the conveyance direction, it is controlled to shift the image by a set offset amount to be used to print an image on an envelope, and print the image on the envelope.

An image forming apparatus capable of shortening a printing time and providing convenience to a user and a method of controlling the same. The method includes scanning identification information of a document which identifies the document, determining whether the scanned identification information of the document is stored in a memory unit, and extracting document data corresponding to the identification information from the memory unit and printing the document data, according to whether the scanned identification information of the document is stored in the memory unit.

The invention provides an online real-time monitoring system for multiple monitoring devices for metal additive manufacturing, and the system comprises a high-speed camera detection module which detects the three-dimensional contour precision of an additive manufacturing part and the contour of a molten pool; a visible spectrometer detection module which is used for detecting the deflection angleof laser; a thermal infrared imager detection module which is used for detecting the temperature of the molten pool; an approaching visible hyperspectral camera detection module which detects spatialinformation and spectral information of the molten pool and sputtering; an interference imaging spectrometer detection module which is used for acquiring a two-dimensional space image and one-dimensional spectral information of the additive manufacturing part; a stress-strain detection module which is used for monitoring stress-strain data of the additive manufacturing part; a laser ultrasonic detection module which is matched with a rotary machining table to detect the surface and near-surface defects of the additive manufacturing part; an electronic computed tomography module which is matched with the rotary machining table to detect internal defects and internal geometric contours of the additive manufacturing part; a laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy detection module which is used for determining the material composition and content of the additive manufacturing part; and a central processing unit which finds out machining errors and metallurgical defects and then feeds back toa metal additive manufacturing machining end. According to the invention, the quality of finished products can be essentially improved.

A developing-transferring module includes a sub frame which is detachably mounted to a main frame, a plurality of photosensitive units which are disposed inside the sub frame with a predetermined interval and includes a photosensitive body to which a developer is attached, and a intermediate transferring unit which are provided inside the sub frame disposed opposite the plurality of photosensitive units so that the developer of the photosensitive units can be primarily transferred thereto and secondarily transfers the primarily transferred developer to a record medium of the main frame.

An image forming apparatus of an ink-jet type of the present invention is provided with an ink head section having a carriage that is composed of a plurality of ink head and scans so as to print. The ink head section is provided with black ink heads and a color ink head in such a manner that the black ink heads sandwich the color ink head. This eliminates the difference in blackness in printing, even if the carriage scans in two ways so as to print. Meanwhile, the ink heads are increased in number only by one, thereby limiting an increase in cost. In short, without a large increase in cost, it is possible to provide an image forming apparatus that forms a high-quality image, while printing time is shorted since the printing is carried out in two ways in a scanning direction.

A printer and a method of controlling the printer. The printer includes a color ink ribbon and a thermal head for forming images on recording sheets and an accommodating portion accommodating the ink ribbon and the thermal head therein. The printer includes several paths for conveying the recording sheet including a circular path around the accommodating portion. Depending on the length of the recording sheet, the printer conveys the recording sheet along one of the several paths during a printing operation.

The invention discloses color three dimensional curved surface ink jet printing equipment which is used for color curved surface ink jet printing of three dimensional objects. The equipment mainly comprises a control system, an ink jet system, an ink supply system, a printing platform, a drying system, a curing system, a monitoring system and an indicating and alarming system. A nozzle is motionless during ink jetting, so that the ink jet printing accuracy can be effectively improved; CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) four-color ink jet printing is sequentially performed on the conventional curved surface part of a printed object with a conventional nozzle and on the complex curved surface part of the printed object with a capillary nozzle through the synchronous motion of the equipment and the curved surface of the printed object during the ink jetting process. The combined ink jet printing mode of the equipment can not only realize complex curved surface ink jet printing, but also improve the curved surface printing quality and increase the curved surface printing speed, shortens the printing time, and obtains high-quality color three dimensional ink jet printing effect of the printed object.

The invention discloses a double-sprayer and dual-mode 3D printer and an operation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of 3D printing equipment. The printer comprises a bracket, a bottom platform device, a printed material fixing device, a driving motor I, a sprayer I, a sprayer II, a driving motor II and a central control unit, wherein the sprayer II is provide with two nozzles, and the two nozzles are respectively loaded with liquid A and liquid B in PU resin AB adhesive. The printer adopts a technology for constructing an object by replacing the mode of printing layer by layer through a mode of printing a casing and spraying the filler (PU resin AB adhesive), ensures that the strength of parts is improved, and reduces the part scrapping ratio. The weight mixing ratio of the liquid A to the liquid B in the PU resin AB adhesive is 1:1, as the liquid A and the liquid B can be cured in 1.5 to 2 minutes after being mixed, the curing speed is high, and the purpose of saving printing time is achieved. The printer adds new structure improvement design on traditional 3D printer equipment, and is low in improvement machining cost, and good in inheritability of manufacturing process and technical process.

The invention discloses a 3D printing digital model sectioning and interface designing method. The method comprises the following steps: sectioning a 3D printing digital model based on designated tangent planes, and repeating the step if the sectioning needs to be carried out for multiple times; designating interface positions on sections, obtaining boundary curves near interfaces through fitting,and calculating interface base points; iteratively calculating interface heights and selecting interface directions; calculating gap widths, and adding semi-circular structures at interface bulges and interface grooves; and splicing the interfaces on the model. The method provided by the invention has the advantages that through the sectioning of the 3D printing digital model, the problem that a3D printer cannot print internal information of the model is solved, and components obtained after disassembly can be spliced to recover an original appearance through the addition of the interfaces to the model; manual information interaction is utilized, so that sectioning positions and the interface positions can better meet user requirements; and furthermore, the maximum printable volume of the printer is increased, the weight of a finished product is reduced, and the model printing time is shortened.

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a printing head that ejects liquid to form dots on a recording medium; a head driving section that performs a main scanning for the printing head; a transporting section that performs a sub-scanning for the recording medium; an image forming section that forms an image, a first dot formation area and a second dot formation area; an overlap control section that performs overlap control for intermittently forming dots on the first and second dot formation areas so as to make the second dot formation area overlap with the first dot formation area and fill spaces between the dots intermittently formed on the first dot formation area; and a cancellation section that cancel the overlap control when a blank area exists in an image and a nozzle forming at least one of the first dot formation area and the second dot formation area.