Liquid discharge apparatus and liquid discharge method
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorKeitaroh Sakai
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Abstract
A liquid discharge apparatus includes discharge nozzles, a carriage, a conveyor, and a controller. The discharge nozzles discharge liquid. The carriage holds the discharge nozzles. The conveyor conveys the carriage. The controller controls drawing of an object to be drawn, using the discharge nozzles. The controller draws an outer edge portion of the object using one discharge nozzle of the discharge nozzles in an outer-edge-portion drawing process, and draws a portion inside the outer edge portion of the object using another discharge nozzle of the discharge nozzles in an internal drawing process, the one discharge nozzle and said another discharge nozzle being different in characteristic.
Claims15
A liquid discharge apparatus, comprising:
- discharge nozzles to discharge liquid;
- a carriage that holds the discharge nozzles;
- a conveyor configured to convey the carriage;
- and
- a controller and a non-transitory computer-readable storage connected to the controller configured to control drawing of an object to be drawn, using the discharge nozzles,
- the controller being configured to:
- draw an outer edge portion of the object using one discharge nozzle of the discharge nozzles in an outer-edge-portion drawing process;
- and
- draw a portion inside the outer edge portion of the object using another discharge nozzle of the discharge nozzles in an internal drawing process while moving the another discharge nozzle over the outer edge portion, the one discharge nozzle and the another discharge nozzle being different in characteristic.
A liquid discharge method, comprising:
- drawing an outer edge portion of an object to be drawn, using one discharge nozzle of a plurality of discharge nozzles;
- and
- drawing a portion inside the outer edge portion of the object, using another discharge nozzle of the plurality of discharge nozzles while moving the another discharge nozzle over the outer edge portion, the one discharge nozzle and the another discharge nozzle being different in characteristic.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.