A recording device includes a guide protruding from and retracting toward a platen and a discharge support protruding from and retracting toward the guide. With this arrangement, the process for fabricating the parts of the device is not complicated, a large space for the discharge support is not needed, and a required flatness of the upper surface of the platen is easily obtained even when the device includes the discharge support.

A printhead alignment sensor for an ink jet printer includes at least two terminals defining a gap therebetween. An electrical measuring device detects a change in an electrical parameter between two of the terminals when ink is in the gap between the at least two terminals.

A system and method for drying a printed medium includes a heated roll and a transport mechanism which moves the printed medium against the heated roll to dry the printed medium.

A laminating apparatus includes a lamination object conveying unit for conveying an object, a laminating film conveying unit for conveying the laminating film, and a heating-pressurizing unit for overlapping the object with the laminating film, and heating and pressurizing the object and the laminating film. A heat dissipating unit is disposed downstream from the heating-pressurizing unit in a conveying direction, with the heat dissipating unit dissipating heat from the object and the laminating...

A solid ink feed system for a phase change printer includes a solid ink feed channel that has formed in it a feed channel key that either blocks a solid ink stick from complete insertion into the feed channel, or blocks passage of an ink stick along the length of the feed channel, unless the ink stick has a key element corresponding to the feed channel key. A solid ink stick is formed of a three dimensional ink stick body with a key element that extends along a surface of the ink stick body thro...

A method for reducing rub-off from a substrate having a front side and a back side with at least one side bearing a toner image by depositing a substantially clear phase change composition on the toner image bearing side of the substrate by depositing the phase change composition onto a rotary brush in contact with the substrate using an ink jet printer with the phase change composition being transferred from the brush to the substrate in an amount sufficient to reduce rub-off from the toner ima...

A printing mechanism comprises a printhead that defines a printzone, and a tray adapted to support at least one sheet of print media. The tray is adapted to move through the printzone during printing by the printhead on the sheet.

An apparatus is operable to print both sides of a web using two sets of ink-jet printers. A first set of printers are aligned horizontally, and so are the second set, with a vertical spacing between the first set and the second set. Paid out from its roll, the web is first fed forwardly past the first set of ink-jet printers so as to be printed on one side thereof, then reversely past the second set to be printed on the other side. The web can be guided solely by parallel rollers without the use...

An ink stick for use in a solid ink feed system of a phase change ink jet printer includes at least first and second three dimensional ink stick body portions. Each ink stick body portion includes a perimeter section that is substantially the same as a corresponding section of a keyed insertion opening in the solid ink feed system. Each ink stick body portion also includes a joint perimeter section that is the complement of the joint perimeter section of the other ink stick body portion, so that...

A method and Apparatus for protection of semiconductor micromechanical devices that use circuits with dynamic logic addressing is disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a fail-safe circuit is provided for an ink jet print head integrated circuit which prevents a catastrophic consequence of the dynamic logic addressed integrated circuit losing its charge.