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US 8,740,340 B2Granted
Printing device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsHiroshi Umetsu, Yoshitake Kobayashi
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Abstract
A printing device includes a camera position control mechanism is configured to control a position of a camera to switch between a first state, a second state, and a third state for photographing an alignment mark furnished on a substrate or a landing face for a liquid on a liquid landing member.
Claims4
A printing device comprising:
- a stage configured and arranged to support a substrate onto which droplets of liquid are ejected from nozzles of an ejection head;
- a supporting section configured and arranged to support a liquid landing member on which droplets ejected from the nozzles of the ejection head are caused to land;
- a camera configured and arranged to photograph an alignment mark furnished to the substrate, or to photograph a face of the liquid landing member on which the liquid lands;
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- a camera position control mechanism configured and arranged to control a position of the camera to switch between a first state enabling photographing of the alignment mark, and a third state enabling photographing of the face of the liquid landing member on which the liquid lands.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.