Inkjet printer
AssigneeMimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.
InventorAkira IKEDA
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Abstract
An inkjet printer is provided. The inkjet printer can improve the efficiency of heating of a platen by a heater as compared to that in the related art. The inkjet printer includes: a print platen that has a supporting surface for supporting a recording medium onto which a recording head ejects ink, and a plurality of through-holes formed in the supporting surface; a print heater that heats the print platen; a fan that produces a flow of gas by making gas existing on a side of the supporting surface with respect to the through-holes move through the through-holes; and a sheet that is able to cover at least a part of the supporting surface, thereby shielding at least a part of the plurality of through-holes, and is able to change an area to cover the supporting surface.
Claims10
An inkjet printer, comprising:
- a recording head, ejecting an ink;
- a platen, supporting a recording medium onto which the recording head ejects the ink;
- a heater, heating the platen;
- a fan, producing a flow of gas;
- and
- a sheet, being able to cover at least a part of the platen,
- wherein the platen has a supporting surface for supporting the recording medium, and a plurality of through-holes formed in the supporting surface,
- the fan produces the flow of gas by making gas existing on a side of the supporting surface with respect to the through-holes move through the through-holes, and
- the sheet is capable of covering at least a part of the supporting surface to shield at least a part of the plurality of through-holes, and is capable of changing an area to cover the supporting surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.