Printer and printing method
AssigneeRoland Dg Corporation
InventorsShinya Yamamoto, Tetsuhiro Kunifuji, Toshikazu Sugita, Yudai Chida
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Abstract
A printer includes a media feeder to feeding media in a feed direction, a print head to eject droplets of ink onto the media, heaters to heat the media, and a controller to perform a printing operation corresponding to received print data by causing the media feeder to feed the media heated by the heaters and causing the print head to eject the droplets of ink onto the media based on the print data, the controller being configured or programmed to move the media and/or the heaters during the print idle time before performing the printing operation.
Claims8
A printer comprising:
- a media feeder to feed media in a feed direction;
- a print head to eject droplets of ink onto the media;
- heaters to heat the media;
- and
- a controller configured or programmed to perform a printing operation corresponding to a received print data by causing the media feeder to feed the media heated by the heaters and causing the print head to eject the droplets of ink onto the media based on the print data, the controller being configured or programmed to move the media and/or the heaters during a print idle time before performing the printing operation, wherein
- the media feeder moves the media forward and backward repeatedly during the print idle time and while the heaters are heating the media.
A method of printing using a media feeder to feed media in a feed direction, a print head to eject droplets of ink onto the media, and heaters to heat the media, the method comprising:
- performing a printing operation corresponding to received print data by causing the media feeder to feed the media heated by the heaters and causing the print head to eject the droplets of ink onto the media based on the print data;
- and
- moving the media and/or the heaters during a print idle time before performing the printing operation, wherein
- the media feeder moves the media forward and backward repeatedly during the print idle time and while the heaters are heating the media.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.