Printer and transferring body
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroto Sugahara
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Abstract
On a transferring surface of a transferring body, lyophilic areas arranged in a scanning direction and in a circumferential direction of the transferring body, and a liquid repellent area which surrounds the lyophilic areas are formed. In a circumferential area between one of the lyophilic areas and the liquid repellent area, a proportion of the liquid repellent area increases progressively at positions away from a center of the lyophilic area. An ink droplet which is jetted from a nozzle, and is adhered to the circumferential area moves toward the center of the lyophilic area till a center of the liquid droplet coincides with the center of the lyophilic area. Therefore, it is possible to prevent a position shift in a final adhering position.
Claims20
A printer which performs printing on a recording medium by discharging liquid droplets, comprising:
- a liquid droplet discharging section which has a plurality of discharge ports;
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- a transferring body which transfers, to the recording medium, the liquid droplets discharged from the discharging ports, and which has on a surface thereof a plurality of lyophilic areas, a plurality of circumferential areas surrounding the lyophilic areas, and a liquid repellent area surrounding the circumferential areas;
- wherein a liquid repellent property on the circumferential areas is progressively increased at positions away from a center of the lyophilic area.
A transferring body which transfers, to a recording medium, a liquid droplet discharged from a liquid droplet discharging section, comprising:
- a first area which is formed on a surface of the transferring body;
- a transition area which is formed on the surface of the transferring body, and which surrounds the first area;
- and
- a second area which is formed on the surface of the transferring body, and which surrounds the transition area,
- wherein a liquid repellent property on the transition area is higher than a liquid repellent property of the first area, and is lower than a liquid repellent property of the second area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.