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US 2006/0066653 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus and method
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorMasaaki Konno
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Abstract
The image forming apparatus comprises: a first liquid ejection device which ejects droplets of a first liquid; a second liquid ejection device which ejects droplets of a second liquid; and a liquid volume ratio control device which controls a liquid volume ratio of the first liquid and the second liquid ejected from the first liquid ejection device and the second liquid ejection device, according to an image formed on a recording medium by the droplets of the first liquid and the second liquid on the recording medium.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a first liquid ejection device which ejects droplets of a first liquid;
- a second liquid ejection device which ejects droplets of a second liquid;
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- a liquid volume ratio control device which controls a liquid volume ratio of the first liquid and the second liquid ejected from the first liquid ejection device and the second liquid ejection device, according to an image formed on a recording medium by the droplets of the first liquid and the second liquid on the recording medium.
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An image forming method, comprising the steps of:
- ejecting droplets of a first liquid from a first liquid ejection nozzle;
- ejecting droplets of a second liquid from a second liquid ejection nozzle;
- determining an image formed on a recording medium by the droplets of the first liquid and the second liquid;
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- controlling a liquid volume ratio of the first liquid and the second liquid ejected from the first liquid ejection nozzle and the second liquid ejection nozzle, according to image determination results obtained in the image determination step,
- wherein an image is formed on the recording medium by ejecting droplets of the first liquid and the second liquid from the first liquid ejection nozzle and the second liquid ejection nozzle according to conditions controlled in the liquid volume ratio control step and an input image data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.