Printing device and printing method

A printing device comprising:

• a setting section configured to set a roll-like print medium;
• a winding section configured to wind up the print medium transported from the setting section;
• a print head configured to form an image by ejecting ink onto an image forming surface of the transported print medium;
• a control section;
• and
• a drying furnace that is disposed downstream of the print head in a transport direction of the print medium in a transport path of the print medium and that is configured to dry the ink ejected onto the print medium, wherein
• the drying furnace includes a blowing heating section configured to blow heated gas to the image forming surface,
• a print mode for forming the image on the print medium includes a first mode and a second mode,
• the control section is configured to set the airflow speed of gas blown by the blowing heating section in the second mode to be lower than the airflow speed of gas blown by the blowing heating section in the first mode, and
• the control section is configured to set the temperature of gas blown by the blowing heating section in the second mode to be higher than the temperature of gas blown by the blowing heating section in the first mode.

A printing method of a printing device, the printing device including

• a setting section configured to set a roll-like print medium;
• a winding section configured to wind up the print medium transported from the setting section;
• a print head configured to form an image by ejecting ink onto an image forming surface of the transported print medium;
• and
• a drying furnace that is disposed downstream of the print head in a transport direction of the print medium in a transport path of the print medium and that is configured to dry the ink ejected onto the print medium, wherein
• the drying furnace includes a blowing heating section configured to blow heated gas to the image forming surface,
• the blowing heating section includes a first blowing heating section and a second blowing heating section, which is disposed downstream of the first blowing heating section in the transport direction, and
• a print mode for forming the image on the print medium includes a first mode and a second mode,
• the method comprising:
• making the airflow speed of gas blown by the first blowing heating section in the second mode to be slower than the airflow speed of gas blown by the first blowing heating section in the first mode.