Printing apparatus, printing method, and recording medium

A printing apparatus comprising:

• rollers constituted to be able to supply recording media;
• a roller motor for driving said rollers on the basis of a roller driving signal;
• a surface modification head constituted to be able to expel surface modifier on the basis of a surface modification signal;
• a head motor for driving said surface modification head to an arbitrary position on said recording medium on the basis of a head driving signal;
• a heater disposed to be able to dry the surface modifier expelled on said recording medium on the basis of a heating signal;
• and
• a control apparatus constituted to be able to output said roller driving signal, said head driving signal, and said heating signal;
• wherein said control apparatus is constituted to be able to determine a surface modification area, which is the surface of the recording medium to be modified, on the basis of printing information for effecting printing on said recording medium, and to cause said recording medium to be supplied, and to cause surface modifier to be expelled from said surface modification head on the surface modification area, wherein, when printing information for printing includes image information, the control apparatus determines an area of the recording medium corresponding to the image information as said surface modification area.

A method for printing on a recording medium using a printing apparatus, the method comprising the steps of:

• supplying a recording medium;
• coating surface modifier on a surface modification area of the surface of said supplied recording medium to be modified;
• causing the drying of the surface modifier coated on said surface modification area;
• and
• effecting printing, including printing on said surface modification area, of the recording medium after said surface modifier coated on the surface of said recording medium is dried,
• wherein, when information to be printed on the recording medium includes image information, coating surface modifier includes determining an area of the recording medium corresponding to the image information as said surface modification area.