A printing apparatus includes a printing unit that performs printing on a medium and a heating unit that heats the medium in a heating region. The heating region includes a first portion and a second portion having a height lower than the first portion in a direction of gravity, and the heating unit is configured such that an amount of heat per unit area applied to the second portion is greater than an amount of heat per unit area applied to the first portion.

A printer includes a media feeder to feeding media in a feed direction, a print head to eject droplets of ink onto the media, heaters to heat the media, and a controller to perform a printing operation corresponding to received print data by causing the media feeder to feed the media heated by the heaters and causing the print head to eject the droplets of ink onto the media based on the print data, the controller being configured or programmed to move the media and/or the heaters during the print idle time before performing the printing operation.

A printing apparatus for performing printing on a medium includes a temperature sensor configured to detect temperature and a control unit configured to, in a case where an operation mode of the printing apparatus is a first mode, allow the temperature sensor to detect temperature of heat emitted by an external heater, and execute processing in relation to an adjustment of the external heater based on the detected temperature. The external heater is externally installed and is configured to heat the medium.

A printer includes an ink head, a first heater, a second heater, and a controller. The ink head includes first and second ink heads arrayed along a main scanning direction. The first heater is upstream of the platen in a sub-scanning direction, and heats the recording medium. The second heater is below the platen, and heats the recording medium placed on the platen. The controller includes a heater controller that controls the first and second heaters so that the surface temperature of a first region in which a first ink ejected from a first upstream nozzle array lands becomes higher than the surface temperature of a second region in which a second ink ejected from the second downstream nozzle array lands.

A printing apparatus includes: a support section having heat transfer properties, the support section having a surface which serves as a support surface that can support a continuous sheet; a transporting section that transports the continuous sheet onto the support surface; and a print section that is disposed to face the support surface and performs printing onto the continuous sheet on the support surface. A plurality of suction holes are provided on the support section, at least one rib is provided to protrude at a position that does not interfere with the suction hole on a back surface of the support section, and a heat generator is provided on the rib.

A printer that performs printing on a medium by an inkjet scheme includes an inkjet head, for ejecting droplets of an ink containing a solvent to be evaporated to fix the ink on the medium; and an ultraviolet light source that irradiates the ink with an ultraviolet light. The ink contains a colorant, the solvent, an exothermic polymerizable substance, and a polymerization initiator. The colorant develops a color of the ink. The exothermic polymerizable substance causes a polymerization reaction to generate heat. The polymerization initiator starts the polymerization reaction of the exothermic polymerizable substance in response to irradiation with ultraviolet light. The ultraviolet light source irradiates the ink adhered to the medium with ultraviolet light to make the exothermic polymerizable substance cause the polymerization reaction. Thus, the solvent in the ink is evaporated by the heat generated by the polymerization reaction to fix the ink on the medium.

A printing device includes a heating section capable of heating paper P transported over a support platform, a head unit that is disposed at a position facing the support platform with a gap therebetween, and that is capable of rotating about a rotation shaft extending along width direction X, and a head cooling unit that is capable of cooling the head unit. The head unit is provided with a first head that includes a nozzle capable of ejecting ink, a second head that includes a nozzle capable of ejecting ink, and a third head that includes a nozzle capable of ejecting ink, with the heads provided around a rotation direction of the head unit with gaps between one another. When one head out of the respective heads faces the paper P, another head out of the respective heads can be made to face the head cooling unit.

An ink jet recording method includes heating a recording medium, and discharging a water-based ink composition which contains a resin fine particle, water, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a surfactant from an ink jet head so as to adhere the water-based ink composition to the heated recording medium in the heating, in which the water-based ink composition has a contact angle of the water-based ink composition with respect to an ink film obtained by drying the water-based ink composition is equal to or larger than 25 at 100 ms, and is equal to or larger than 20 at 1000 ms.

Provided is a textile printing method that may effectively suppress the risk of ink smearing and that may allow a cured water-soluble, UV-curable resin to be adequately stripped off a fabric so as to dye the fabric in high quality color. A textile printing method includes a pretreatment step of discharging a treatment ink from an inkjet head for treatment toward a fabric to apply the treatment ink to the fabric; a dyeing step of discharging a textile printing ink from an inkjet head for textile printing toward the fabric to apply the textile printing ink to the fabric. In the dyeing step and the pretreatment step, the textile printing ink and the treatment ink are irradiated with ultraviolet light after a respective one of the inks is applied to the fabric.

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejecting unit which can eject liquid in an ejecting region: and a medium support unit which can support a medium on a downstream side in a transport direction of the medium compared to the ejecting region, in which the medium support unit has a first region which has at least one face, and a second region which is located between the ejecting region and the first region, and has a plurality of bent portions, and in which the length of a face between the bent portions in the second region in the transport direction is shorter than the length of a face included in the first region in the transport direction.