Liquid ejection device and method of controlling liquid ejection device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsSatoru Kobayashi, Masaaki Ando
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Abstract
A liquid ejection device includes a liquid ejection unit having a first nozzle group configured to eject a first liquid to a cloth conveyed, and a second nozzle group configured to eject a second liquid to the cloth, and a wiping unit configured to wipe a nozzle surface on which the first nozzle group is disposed, wherein the first liquid is aqueous ink and the second liquid is a liquid including a softening agent, and the second nozzle group executes a softening treatment of ejecting the second liquid to the cloth, and a water repellent treatment of making the second liquid adhere to the nozzle surface.
Claims13
A liquid ejection device comprising:
- a liquid ejection unit having a first nozzle group configured to eject a first liquid to a cloth conveyed, and a second nozzle group configured to eject a second liquid to the cloth;
- and
- a wiping unit configured to wipe a nozzle surface on which the first nozzle group is disposed, wherein
- the first liquid is aqueous ink and the second liquid is a liquid including a softening agent,
- the second nozzle group is configured to execute a softening treatment of ejecting the second liquid to the cloth, and a water repellent treatment of making the second liquid adhere to the nozzle surface, and
- the second nozzle group performs the water repellent treatment with the second liquid which is ejected as an atomized droplet.
A method of controlling a liquid ejection device including
- a liquid ejection unit having a first nozzle group configured to eject a first liquid to a cloth conveyed, and a second nozzle group configured to eject a second liquid to the cloth, and
- a wiping unit configured to wipe a nozzle surface on which the first nozzle group is disposed, wherein
- the first liquid is aqueous ink and the second liquid is a liquid including a softening agent, the method comprising:
- executing, by the second nozzle group, a softening treatment of ejecting the second liquid to the cloth;
- and
- executing, by the second nozzle group, a water repellent treatment of ejecting the second liquid to make the second liquid adhere to the nozzle surface, wherein
- the second nozzle group performs the water repellent treatment with the second liquid which is ejected as an atomized droplet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.