Inkjet recording apparatus with tank including notification features
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuki MATSUI, Kenta HORADE, Mana HONOKI, Tomoya OGUCHI
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Abstract
An inkjet recording apparatus includes a tank forming an ink chamber and including an injection inlet, a recording head, a cover, a monitor, a cover sensor, an operation panel, and a controller. The controller controls operation of the recording head and the monitor. The controller performs decision processing deciding whether ink injection into the ink chamber after complement of an initial process is completed, and counts an amount of ink discharged from the recording head. The controller controls the monitor to display notification depending on the decision processing and the counted amount of discharged ink.
Claims6
An inkjet recording apparatus, comprising:
- a tank forming an ink chamber and including an injection inlet;
- a recording head configured to discharge ink from the ink chamber;
- an alarm configured to indicate a prompt to inject ink into the ink chamber;
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- a controller configured to control operation of the recording head and the alarm, wherein the controller is configured to:
- decide whether ink injection into the ink chamber via the injection inlet has been performed after execution of an initial process, the initial process corresponding to filling a flow path from the ink chamber to the recording head with ink;
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- based on decision whether or not the ink injection into the ink chamber has been performed after execution of the initial process, change timing for giving the alarm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.