A drying device for drying a recording medium includes a medium guide part that guides the recording medium; a heating body that heats the medium guide part; a cover that is arranged opposing the medium guide part such that the medium carrying path intervenes between the cover and the medium guide part and an air flow path is formed with the medium guide part and the cover; a fan that generates an air flow; and (e) a duct that is configured to discharge the air in the air flow path together with a vapor generated as the recording medium is heated, wherein an air intake port that takes the air in the air flow path into the duct is formed on the downstream side of the flow direction with resect to the heating body.

An ink jet printing recording apparatus includes a belt which supports a recording medium; a heating portion which heats the belt; and an ink jet recording head which ejects an ink jet ink composition, the belt is provided with an adhesive layer, the ink jet ink composition contains a heat cross-linking component, and the belt is heated by the heating portion to a temperature lower than a reaction temperature of the heat cross-linking component.

A heating device includes a pre-heater configured to pre-heat a medium, onto which a liquid is discharged from a liquid discharger, at a first position upstream of the liquid discharger in a conveyance direction of the medium, a print-heater configured to heat the medium at a second position opposite the liquid discharger, a post-heater configured to post-heat the medium at a third position downstream of the second position in the conveyance direction, and circuitry configured to control a temperature of each of the pre-heater, the print-heater, and the post-heater. The pre-heater includes a first pre-heater and a second pre-heater disposed closer to the print-heater than the first pre-heater, and the circuitry controls a temperature of the second pre-heater to be between a temperature of the first pre-heater and the temperature of the print-heater.

An inkjet printing device includes an ink container accommodating a clear ink containing a resin and an organic solvent, a discharging head including a nozzle plate, the discharging head being configured to discharge the clear ink onto a substrate to form a printing layer on the substrate, and a heating device configured to heat the substrate, wherein the heating device heats the substrate satisfying the following relationship:

T.sub.matte (degrees C.)>T.sub.gloss (degrees C.), where T.sub.matte represents a temperature of the substrate in a first printing region when the clear ink is attached to the substrate in a first printing mode and T.sub.gloss represents a temperature of the substrate in a second printing region when the clear ink is attached to the substrate in a second printing mode, wherein the receding contact angle of the clear ink against the nozzle plate is 35 degrees or greater.

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a heater configured to heat a medium, a detector configured to detect a temperature of the heater, a conveyor configured to convey the medium during a printing operation, and circuitry configured to control the heater to heat the medium with a first output during a preheating operation before the printing operation, control the heater to heat the medium with a second output that is equal to or higher than the first output when the temperature of the heater reaches a predetermined threshold value to complete the preheating operation, and control the conveyor to start conveying the medium to start the printing operation.

A printing device performs printing through an inkjet system includes an inkjet head, an ultraviolet irradiator, and a controller. An ink ejected by the inkjet head contains a curable substance and a solvent. The controller is configured to: cause the inkjet head to perform an ejecting operation; cause the ultraviolet irradiator to perform a viscosity increasing operation and a curing operation; cause, in the viscosity increasing operation, the ultraviolet irradiator to irradiate the ink with ultraviolet light to evaporate at least a part of the solvent in the ink by heat of polymerization and increase the viscosity of the ink to a viscosity at which smearing does not occur on the medium; and cause, in the curing operation, the ultraviolet irradiator to irradiate the ink with ultraviolet light to cure the ink on the medium.

A recording device including a recording unit that performs recording on a medium by ejecting liquid, a transporting belt that has a base material having a first surface provided with an adhesive layer on which the medium is stuck and a second surface which is a surface opposite to the first surface, and the transporting belt transports the medium, a pressing unit that presses the medium against the transporting belt, a cleaning member that cleans the adhesive layer by contacting the adhesive layer, a storage unit in which water for cleaning the cleaning member is stored, and a cooling unit having a flow path through which water flows and a contacting unit that contacts the second surface. The contacting unit is coupled to the flow path, and contacts the second surface downstream of the pressing unit and upstream of the cleaning member in the revolving direction of the transporting belt.

A printing device includes an ink container, an ink in the ink container, the ink containing an aqueous clear ink and an aqueous color ink and a heating device configured to heat a substrate, wherein the relationship is satisfied, |S.sub.CLS.sub.C|5 mN/m, where S.sub.CL represents the surface tension of the aqueous clear ink and S.sub.C represents the surface tension of the aqueous color ink, wherein the printing device has a low gloss printing and a high gloss printing mode, wherein the heating device heats the substrate while satisfying the relationship: Tlow>Thigh, where Tlow represents the temperature of the substrate in a low gloss printing region in which the aqueous clear ink is printed in the low printing mode and Thigh represents the temperature of the substrate in a high gloss printing region in which the aqueous clear ink is printed in the high printing mode.

A liquid ejecting system includes an environmental information acquiring unit that acquires, as environmental information at least one of a temperature and a humidity, an ejecting unit that ejects a liquid onto a medium, a drying unit that dries the medium onto which the liquid is ejected by the ejecting unit, a control unit that controls the ejecting unit and the drying unit, and a storage unit that stores setting information. The control unit acquires drying information corresponding to medium type information and ejection amount information acquired as a liquid ejection condition and the environmental information acquired by the environmental information acquiring unit, based on the setting information stored in the storage unit, and performs drying control that controls the drying unit, based on the acquired drying information.

An integrated electrohydrodynamic jet printing and spatial atomic layer deposition system for conducting nanofabrication includes an electrohydrodynamic jet printing station that includes an E-jet printing nozzle, a spatial atomic layer deposition station that includes a zoned ALD precursor gas distributor that discharges linear zone-separated first and second ALD precursor gases, a heatable substrate plate supported on a motion actuator controllable to move the substrate plate in three dimensions, and a conveyor on which the motion actuator is supported. The conveyor is operative to move the motion actuator between the electrohydrodynamic jet printing station and the spatial atomic layer deposition station so that the substrate plate is conveyable between a printing window of the E-jet printing nozzle and a deposition window of the zoned ALD precursor gas distributor, respectively. A method of conducting area-selective atomic layer deposition is also disclosed.