Recording apparatus and recording method
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroto Sugahara
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Abstract
To provide a recording apparatus for recording an image on a rotating recording medium, the recording apparatus including: a rotary driving unit which rotationally drives the recording medium; an ink-jet head for ejecting ink onto an image recording surface of the recording medium; and a control unit which switches between an image recording mode for ejecting ink onto the image recording surface by means of the ink-jet head while rotating the recording medium by the rotary driving unit, and a drying mode for drying the ink ejected onto the image recording surface by rotating the recording medium for a predetermined period of time by the rotary driving unit after the image recording mode. Accordingly, drying of the ink adhered to the recording medium is accelerated.
Claims15
A recording apparatus which records an image on a recording medium while rotating the recording medium, the recording apparatus comprising:
- a rotary driving unit which rotationally drives the recording medium;
- an ink-jet head for ejecting ink onto an image recording surface of the recording medium;
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- a control unit which switches between an image recording mode for ejecting the ink onto the image recording surface by the ink-jet head while rotating the recording medium by the rotary driving unit, and a drying mode for drying the ink ejected onto the image recording surface by rotating the recording medium for a predetermined period of time by the rotary driving unit after the image recording mode.
A recording apparatus which records an image on a rotating recording medium while rotating the recording medium, the recording apparatus comprising:
- a rotary driving unit which rotationally drives the recording medium;
- an ink-jet head which ejects ink onto an image recording surface of the recording medium;
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- a shielding member which is disposed in proximity to the image recording surface over an area ranging from the vicinity of a center of rotation of the recording medium to an outer peripheral portion of the recording medium.
A method of recording an image on a recording medium having a data recording surface on which data is recorded and an image recording surface on which an image is recorded with a recording apparatus having a data-recording head and an ink-jet head, the method comprising the steps of:
- recording data on the data recording surface with the data-recording head while rotating the recording medium;
- recording an image on the image recording surface with the ink-jet head while rotating the recording medium;
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- drying the image recorded on the image recording surface by rotating the recording medium, wherein
- a rotation speed of the recording medium when recording an image on the image recording surface is different from the rotation speed of the recording medium when drying the image recorded on the image recording surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.