Inkjet printing apparatus and inkjet printing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8939528-B2
Application number	US-201113004071-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 11, 2011
Priority date	Feb 10, 2010
Publication date	Jan 27, 2015
Grant date	Jan 27, 2015

Abstract

An inkjet printing apparatus includes: a conveyance device which conveys paper; an inkjet head which ejecting droplets of colored ink onto the paper conveyed by the conveyance device so as to form an image on the paper; a transparent liquid deposition device which deposits a transparent liquid onto a blank background portion of the paper conveyed by the conveyance device; a transparent liquid deposition volume determination device which determines a deposition volume of the transparent liquid to be deposited onto the paper, according to printing information that is required for printing the image on the paper; and a transparent liquid deposition control device which controls the transparent liquid deposition device in such a manner that the transparent liquid with the deposition volume determined by the transparent liquid deposition volume determination device is deposited onto the blank background portion of the paper.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An inkjet printing apparatus comprising:
a conveyance device which conveys paper by suctioning, the conveyance device conveying the paper by suctioning the paper from leading end thereof;
an inkjet head which ejects droplets of colored ink onto the paper conveyed by the conveyance device so as to form an image on the paper;
a transparent liquid deposition device which deposits a transparent liquid only onto a blank background portion of the paper conveye…

Assignees

• Yamanobe Jun
• Fujifilm Corp

Inventors

• Yamanobe Jun

Classifications

• B41J2/2114

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J11/0015

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J3/60

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J29/38 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic