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US 2006/0125897 A1Published application
Ink-jet printer
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsKyung-chool Choi, Young-bok Ju
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Abstract
An ink-jet printer includes a printing head having a nozzle unit for discharging ink onto recording media. A first drying unit primarily dries ink discharged by the nozzle unit. A second drying unit is set at a temperature higher than that of the first drying unit to secondarily dry the ink discharged by the nozzle unit.
Claims20
An ink-jet printer, comprising:
- a printing head having a nozzle unit for discharging ink onto recording media;
- a first drying unit adapted to dry the ink discharged by the nozzle unit;
- and
- a second drying unit having a temperature set higher than that of the first drying unit to further dry the ink discharged by the nozzle unit.
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A method of drying ink in an ink-jet printer, comprising the steps of
- receiving an image signal;
- detecting an image data of the received image signal;
- setting temperatures of drying units corresponding to the image data of the image signal;
- increasing the temperatures of the drying units;
- and
- drying an image transferred onto a recording medium using the drying devices.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.