Printing apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenji Matoba, Atsushi Ito
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes: a discharging head discharging, onto a print medium, at least one ink among a printing ink, a base layer ink and a protective layer ink; an obtaining section obtaining information regarding a shape of the print medium; and a controller. The controller executes an ink amount increasing processing by controlling a discharging operation of the discharging head so as to increase an amount per unit area of the at least one ink with respect to a ridge line present area including a ridge line as a boundary between one print surface and the other print surface which are adjacent to each other in the print medium than another area different from the ridge line present area, based on the information regarding the shape of the print medium obtained by the obtaining section.
Claims7
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a discharging head configured to discharge at least one ink among a printing ink of an ultraviolet curable type, a base layer ink for forming a base layer and a protective layer ink for forming a protective layer;
- an obtaining section configured to obtain information regarding a shape of a print medium;
- and
- a controller,
- wherein the controller is configured to execute an ink amount increasing processing by controlling a discharging operation of the discharging head so as to increase an amount per unit area of the at least one ink with respect to a ridge line present area including a ridge line as a boundary between one print surface and the other print surface which are adjacent to each other in the print medium than another area different from the ridge line present area, based on the information regarding the shape of the print medium obtained by the obtaining section, and
- in the ink amount increasing processing, the controller is configured to control the discharging operation of the discharging head to make a size of the ridge line present area as an object of discharge by the discharging head greater and to make a thickness of the underlying layer and a thickness of the protective layer greater, as an angle defined by the one print surface and the other print surface is smaller.
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a discharging head configured to discharge at least one ink among a printing ink of an ultraviolet curable type, a base layer ink for forming a base layer and a protective layer ink for forming a protective layer;
- an obtaining section configured to obtain information regarding a shape of a print medium;
- and
- a controller,
- wherein the controller is configured to execute an ink amount increasing processing by controlling a discharging operation of the discharging head so as to increase an amount per unit area of the at least one ink with respect to a ridge line present area including a ridge line as a boundary between one print surface and the other print surface which are adjacent to each other in the print medium than another area different from the ridge line present area, based on the information regarding the shape of the print medium obtained by the obtaining section, and in the ink amount increasing processing, the controller is configured to control the discharging operation of the discharging head to make a size of the ridge line present area as an object of discharge by the discharging head smaller and to make a thickness of the underlying layer and a thickness of the protective layer greater, as the print medium is harder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.