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A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a conveyor (31) to convey a medium in a conveyance direction; a liquid discharger (22) configured to discharge a liquid in a discharge direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction, onto a medium conveyed by the conveyor (31); and a heater (32) configured to heat the medium onto which the liquid has been applied, and the heater (32) includes: multiple near-infrared lamps (111) to irradiate the medium with near-infrared rays; and an infrared wavelength converter (114) to convert a wavelength of the near-infrared rays emitted from the multiple near-infrared lamps (111), and the infrared wavelength converter (114) is: disposed between the multiple near-infrared lamps (111) and the conveyor (31) in the discharge direction; and separated from the conveyor in the discharge direction.

A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a head (100) having nozzle surface (100a) having nozzles on the nozzle surface (100a), to discharge liquid from the nozzles in a discharge direction; a suction cap (201) having a lip contactable with the nozzle surface to cap the nozzle surface with the suction cap (201), the suction cap including an absorber (410) in the suction cap (201), a cap cleaner (231), having liquid absorbability, to contact with the lip and clean the lip of the suction cap (201); a support supporting the cap cleaner (231) to be movable in a capping direction opposite to the discharge direction; and a biasing member (340) configured to bias the cap cleaner (231) toward the suction cap (201) in the discharge direction.

An information processing apparatus (200) includes an input reception unit (201, 271) to receive input data from a terminal apparatus (300), a first prompt output unit (201, 274) to output a first prompt to a large language model (411). The first prompt requests generation of output data corresponding to the input data. The information processing apparatus (200) includes a first response acquisition unit (201, 273) to obtain, from the large language model (411). The first response data corresponds to the first prompt. The information processing apparatus (200) includes a second prompt output unit (201, 276) to output, to the large language model (411), a second prompt generated based on the first response data, referring to a policy storage unit (204, 230) that stores policy information associating a plurality of roles to be implemented by the large language model (411) with a plurality of policies. In a case where the first response data includes a role of policy update from among the plurality of roles and instruction content for the role of the policy update, the second prompt output unit (204, 230) outputs, to the large language model (411), the second prompt including the role of the policy update, the instruction content for the role of the policy update, and a policy associated with the role of the policy update from among the plurality of policies in the policy information stored in the policy storage unit (204, 230). In a case where the first response data includes another role from among the plurality of roles, for which another policy associated with said another role from among the plurality of policies in the policy information is updated, and instruction content for said another role, the second prompt output unit (204, 230) outputs, to the large language model (411), the second prompt including the instruction content for said another role and said another policy that is updated in the policy information stored in the policy storage unit (204, 230).

A drive waveform generator and a method of manufacturing a display device with a color conversion layer are provided. The drive waveform generator includes a drive waveform generation unit configured to generate a drive waveform including a plurality of driving pulses to be applied to a liquid discharge head. The plurality of driving pulses include a discharge pulse to cause a liquid to be discharged, for liquid discharge of a first drop, and a combination of the discharge pulse and an excitation pulse not to cause the liquid to be discharged before the discharge pulse, for liquid discharge of a second drop. A landing position of the second drop is different from a landing position of the first drop. The method includes forming the color conversion layer by a liquid discharged from the liquid discharge head, and applying the drive waveform to the liquid discharge head.

A drive waveform generator (400) includes a drive waveform generation unit (402, 403) to generate a drive waveform including a plurality of driving pulses to be applied to a liquid discharge head (100), and the driving pulses include a combination of a discharge pulse (P1) to cause a liquid to be discharged and an excitation pulse (P2) not to cause the liquid to be discharged after the discharge pulse (P1), for liquid discharge of a first drop, and the discharge pulse (P1), for liquid discharge of a second drop.

A head unit includes: a first head (1) and a second head (1). The first head (1) has a first nozzle array (12) and a second nozzle array (12) disposed downstream of the first nozzle array (12). The second head (1) is disposed downstream of the first head (1) and arranged adjacent to the first head (1) in a staggered manner. The second head (1) has a third nozzle array (12) and a fourth nozzle array (12) disposed downstream of the third nozzle array (12). Each of the first head (1) and the second head (1) has an overlapping region. The first nozzle array (12) of the first head (1) has a first nozzle density in the overlapping region. The fourth nozzle array (12) of the second head (1) has a second nozzle density larger than the first nozzle density in the overlapping region.

A liquid container (20, 164) includes an electrode pin (21, 22), a support (23), and a pressing member (24). The electrode pin (21, 22) includes a liquid level detector (39) to detect a liquid level of a liquid. The support (23) supports the electrode pin with the liquid level detector of the electrode pin inserted into the support. The pressing member (24) is at the support to press a flange (36) of the electrode pin against an outer peripheral surface of the support, the flange having a larger diameter than the liquid level detector.

An information generation apparatus (10) includes a calculation unit (11) to calculate, for each of a plurality of power consumption modes of an electronic apparatus (20), an actual value of power consumption of the electronic apparatus (20), and a generation unit (12) to generate a display image, the display image including visualization information and an operation component for selecting a setting item relating to the power consumption mode, the visualization information associating the actual value of the power consumption and the power consumption mode with each other.

A porous-film forming liquid composition includes polymerizable compounds and a solvent. The porous-film forming liquid composition is curable with active energy rays. The polymerizable compounds include a first polyfunctional monomer, in which a minimum number of atoms between a double bond in one functional group and a double bond in another functional group is 10 or greater and less than 15, and a second polyfunctional monomer, in which a minimum number of atoms between a double bond in one functional group and a double bond in another functional group is 15 or greater and 25 or less. An amount of the second polyfunctional monomer relative to a total amount of the polymerizable compounds is 10 percent by mass or greater.

An ink set for fabric is provided including: a pre-treatment liquid including a resin A and an organic acid; and a pigment ink including a resin B. A dried film of the pre-treatment liquid has a glass transition temperature TgA of 10°C or higher and 60°C or lower, and a dried film of the pigment ink has a glass transition temperature TgB of -20°C or lower.