US Patent Application 18324302. PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINTING APPARATUS simplified abstract

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PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINTING APPARATUS

Organization Name

BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor(s)

MASAHIRO Noda of Ogaki (JP)

ATSUSHI Ito of Nagoya (JP)

PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINTING APPARATUS - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18324302 titled 'PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINTING APPARATUS

Simplified Explanation

The patent application describes a printing apparatus that includes a head with nozzles, an irradiator with light sources, and a controller.

  • The nozzles are arranged in a row and are used to discharge clear ink onto a printing medium.
  • The light sources are arranged in a row and include an inner light source and two outer light sources.
  • The controller is responsible for coordinating the discharging of clear ink and the irradiation of the ink with light.
  • During the first discharging operation, the clear ink is discharged onto the printing medium.
  • During the first irradiating operation, the clear ink is irradiated with light.
  • The controller ensures that the intensity of light from the outer light sources is lower than the intensity of light from the inner light source when irradiating the clear ink.


Original Abstract Submitted

There is provided a printing apparatus including: a first head including first nozzles; a first irradiator including first light sources; and a controller. The first nozzles are arranged to constitute a nozzle row. The first light sources are arranged to constitute a light source row, and including an inner light source, and first and second outer light sources. The controller is configured to cause: the first head to execute a first discharging operation of discharging a clear ink to a printing medium; and the first irradiator to execute a first irradiating operation of irradiating the clear ink with a light. The controller is configured to make an intensity of the light, from each of the first and second outer light sources, with which the clear ink is irradiated smaller than an intensity of the light, from the inner light source, with which the clear ink is irradiated.

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