Liquid Discharge Recording Apparatus and Method for Recovering Liquid
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNoriaki Satoh, Junichiro Sugimoto, Akihiko Taniguchi, Ayako Ohishi
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Abstract
A liquid discharge recording apparatus includes a first liquid containing first 1,2-alkanediol; a liquid discharge head configured to discharge the first liquid; a second liquid containing second 1,2-alkanediol of which vapor pressure is lower than that of the first 1,2-alkanediol; and an absorber which contains the second liquid and which is configured to absorb the first liquid exited from the liquid discharge head.
Claims19
A liquid discharge recording apparatus comprising:
- a first liquid containing first 1,2-alkanediol;
- a liquid discharge head configured to discharge the first liquid;
- a second liquid containing second 1,2-alkanediol of which vapor pressure is lower than that of the first 1,2-alkanediol;
- and
- an absorber which contains the second liquid and which is configured to absorb the first liquid exited from the liquid discharge head.
A liquid-recovery method for recovering a liquid in a liquid discharge recording apparatus, the method comprising:
- causing a first liquid containing first 1,2-alkanediol to exit from a liquid discharge head of the liquid discharge recording apparatus;
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- recovering the first liquid by absorbing the first liquid exited from the liquid discharge head with an absorber which is provided in the liquid discharge recording apparatus and which contains a second liquid containing second 1,2-alkanediol having lower vapor pressure than that of the first 1,2-alkanediol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.