US 2010/0141707 A1 · IMAGING APPARATUS

Abstract

An imaging apparatus is disclosed that includes plural heads that are arranged in a main scanning direction, the heads including plural nozzle arrays that are arranged in the main scanning direction and configured to discharge droplets of recording liquids in at least three different colors including a yellow recording liquid. At least two of the nozzle arrays that are configured to discharge the yellow recording liquid are separately arranged in at least two of the heads. At least two of the nozzle arrays that are configured to discharge a first recording liquid of the recording liquids in a first color other than yellow are arranged together in one of the heads. At least two of the nozzle arrays that are configured to discharge a second recording liquid of the recording liquids in a second color other than yellow are arranged together in one of the heads.

Claims7

Dependent claims

1-11. (canceled)

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/704,250Filed 11 Feb 2010

Priority

JP 2005-14401617 May 2005

Published

10 Jun 2010

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

B41J 2/145
Nozzles: arrangement thereof
B41J 2/2103
For multi-colour printing: features not dealing with the colouring process per se, e.g. construction of printers or heads, driving circuit adaptations
B41J 19/147
With a reciprocating print head printing in both directions across the paper width: colour shift prevention
B41J 3/60
Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed: for printing on both faces of…

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Abstract

Claims7