A laser illuminating apparatus for irradiating a linear spatial light modulator comprises a bar laser having a plurality of linearly arranged emitters; a lens array having a plurality of lens units less in number than the emitters and arranged parallel to the direction of arrangement of the emitters, for causing a collimated laser beam incident on the lens units to converge at the final surface of the lens units at least on a plane including the direction of arrangement of the emitters and the o...

A method of feeding dampening water includes a density measuring step for measuring densities of first and second detecting patches 101 and 102 printed adjacent each other on printed matter 100 and presenting a difference in density variations after printing with varied feed rates of damping water and ink, a dampening water feeding step for controlling the feed rate of dampening water based on the densities of the first and second detecting patches 101 and 102 measured in the density measuring s...

A substrate processing apparatus includes a coating section, a developing section, a heat-treating section and a transport mechanism. The coating section has first processing units each for performing a coverage process to supply a photoresist solution to a substrate and cover a surface of the substrate with the photoresist solution, a second processing unit for spinning the substrate, after the coverage process, at high speed to make the photoresist solution into a film, dry the photoresist fil...

The present invention carries out a desired image processing while using adjoining relationship between image parts. When each pair of image parts among a plurality of consecutive image parts drawn in a predefined drawing order have a difference in density value that is smaller than a threshold value and are located adjacent to one another, the consecutive image parts are recognized to constitute one combined image part. A desired image processing, such as trapping process, is carried out for th...

A removal liquid is supplied to a substrate on which a thin film formed is patterned by dry etching using a resist film as a mask, and cleaning is made with de-ionized water, thereby removing a reaction product generated on the surface of the substrate. After that, the processed substrate is heated, thereby completely drying the substrate from which the reaction product has been eliminated.

The present invention aims at providing a printing system and technique correctly reflecting supplied color information, and a technique of managing color information in a centralized manner thereby facilitating maintenance of data. The printing system has a color information database DB in which color information is registered, and the color information has respective items of "color name", "ink name", "printing order", "screen angle", "process colorization instruction", "pseudo color" and "ink...

First image data is converted into numerical values in accordance with an L*a*b* color coordinate system for regions of each ink key of an ink feeding unit to obtain reference color data. A print color data operating unit processes image data, obtained from actually printed image of the first image data, by the same technique as the reference color data operation to obtain print color data. The reference color data is compared with the print color data in each ink key region, to operate differen...

A gas mixture of dry steam and nitrogen gas serving as carrier gas is blown into a hot water mist injection port for rendering the nitrogen gas serve as a medium absorbing latent heat of condensation, thereby smoothly progressing condensation of water vapor and efficiently forming hot water mist. The water vapor is condensed in the hot water mist injection port formed by a cylindrical pipe for supplying latent heat of condensation to the nitrogen gas and dilating the same, thereby accelerating t...

An input agent system and a plurality of job-handling agent systems are connected using a network. One external apparatus is connected to each of the job-handling agent systems. Pieces of job information indicative of the processing contents of the external apparatuses are inputted to the input agent system, and each of the job-handling agent systems captures and evaluates a piece of job information from the input agent system, and then registers the piece of job information if the piece of job ...

A processing device in a printing apparatus includes a developer feed roller partly immersed in a developer stored in a developer tank, a fixer feed roller partly immersed in a fixer stored in a fixer tank, and a drive mechanism for rotating the developer feed roller and fixer feed roller. Each of the developer feed roller and fixer feed roller has positioning members mounted on opposite end portions thereof to position the surface of the roller at a slight distance from an image area of a print...