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US 6,050,672 AGranted
Cartridge for ink jet printer and ink jet printer
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorKunihiko Matsuhashi
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AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorKunihiko Matsuhashi
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A cartridge for an ink jet printer capable of directly or indirectly reducing the capacity of a wasted ink recovery unit without causing any restraint to a printing function, an ink jet printer adapted to accommodate this cartridge, and an ink jet printer capable of reducing a printing time without causing any restraint to the printing function are provided. In the cartridge for an ink jet printer, containing a printing article and removably mounted in an ink jet printer, a wasted ink recovery unit for storing wasted ink produced in the ink jet printer is provided in a cartridge case. This allows the capacity of the wasted ink recovery unit to be determined on the basis of a cartridge exchanging frequency. The ink jet printer adapted to accommodate this cartridge does not require a wasted ink recovery unit, so that its size can be reduced correspondingly.
A cartridge for an ink jet printer, said cartridge containing a printing article for recording of desired image data thereon by the ink jet printer and removably mounted in the ink jet printer, characterized by:
An ink jet printer having a function of flushing a printing head and capable of setting a print available region to a wider region than a printing article, characterized by comprising:
An ink jet printer having a function of flushing a printing head and capable of setting a print available region to a wider region than a printing article characterized by comprising:
An ink jet printer having a function of flushing a printing head and capable of setting a print available region to a wider region than a printing article, characterized by comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.