Image recording apparatus for a cloth recording medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshihiro Takada, Akio Suzuki, Yasushi Miura, Yasuyuki Takanaka, Nobuhiko Ogata
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Abstract
An image recording apparatus for moving, relatively to a cloth recording medium, a recording head for discharging ink so as to record an image. The image recording apparatus is arranged such that the operation conditions of the recording head can be changed at the time of the recording operation in accordance with the thickness of the cloth, or the diameter of the fiber or the pitch of weaving the fiber of the cloth, so that the quantity of ink to be supplied to the cloth to record an image is controlled so that a high quality recorded image can be obtained regardless of the type of the cloth.
Claims29
An image printing apparatus for moving, relatively to a recording medium which is a of cloth made of woven fibers, a recording head for discharging ink so as to record an image, said apparatus comprising:
- detecting means for generating an instruction signal based on a detected diameter of a fiber forming the cloth and a detected weaving pitch of the fibers of the cloth;
- and
- recording control means for changing operation conditions of the recording head in accordance with the instruction signal generated by said detecting means.
An image recording method comprising the steps of:
- providing an image recording apparatus for moving, relatively to a recording medium which is a of cloth made of woven fibers, a recording head for discharging ink so as to record an image;
- detecting a diameter of a fiber forming the cloth and a weaving pitch of the fibers of the cloth;
- changing operation conditions of the recording head in accordance with a detection result in said detecting step;
- applying ink to the cloth using the image recording apparatus;
- and fixing the applied ink to the cloth.
An image recording apparatus for moving, relatively to a recording medium which is a of cloth made of woven fibers, a recording head for discharging ink so as to record an image, said apparatus comprising:
- detection means for detecting one of a diameter of a fiber of the cloth and a weaving pitch of the fibers of the cloth;
- generating means for generating a detection signal according to a detection by said detection means;
- and
- recording control means for changing operation conditions of the recording head in accordance with the detection signal generated by said generating means.
An image recording method comprising the steps of:
- providing an image recording apparatus for moving, relatively to a recording medium which is a of cloth made of woven fibers, a recording head for discharging ink so as to record an image;
- detecting one of a diameter of a fiber of the cloth and a weaving pitch of the fibers of the cloth;
- generating a detection signal according to a detection by said detecting step;
- changing operation conditions of the recording head in accordance with the detection signal generated in said generating step;
- applying ink to the cloth using the image recording apparatus;
- and
- fixing the applied ink to the cloth.
An image recording apparatus for moving, relatively to a recording medium in the form of a cloth, a recording head for discharging ink so as to record an image, said apparatus comprising:
- determining means for determining a type of the cloth recording medium based on a diameter of a fiber forming the cloth and a weaving pitch of the fibers of the cloth;
- heating means for heating the recording head;
- temperature detection means for detecting a temperature of the recording head;
- and
- heating control means for controlling said heating means so as to maintain the temperature of the recording head at a desired level in accordance with the type of the recording medium determined by said determining means.
An image recording method comprising the steps of:
- providing an image recording apparatus for moving, relatively to a recording medium which is a of cloth, a recording head for discharging ink so as to record an image;
- determining a type of the recording medium based on a diameter of a fiber forming the cloth and a weaving pitch of the fibers of the cloth;
- heating the recording head;
- detecting a temperature of the recording head;
- controlling the heating so as to maintain the temperature of the recording head at a desired level in accordance with the type of the recording medium determined in said determining step;
- applying ink to the recording medium using the image recording apparatus;
- and
- fixing the applied ink to the recording medium.
An image recording apparatus for moving, relatively to a recording medium which is a of cloth, a recording head for discharging ink so as to record an image, the apparatus comprising:
- judging means for judging a type of the cloth recording medium based on an ink absorption characteristic;
- and
- changing means for changing an operation frequency of the recording head in accordance with the type of the cloth recording medium judged by said judging means.
An image recording apparatus for moving, relatively to a recording medium which is a of cloth, a recording head for discharging ink so as to record an image, the apparatus comprising:
- determining means for determining a type of the cloth recording medium based on an ink absorption characteristic;
- changing means for changing an operation frequency of the recording head in accordance with the type of the cloth recording medium determined by said determining means;
- and
- control means for controlling a number of times the recording head is moved relatively to the cloth recording medium in order to record a predetermined region in accordance with the type of cloth recording medium determined by said determining means.
An image recording apparatus for moving, relatively to a recording medium which is a of cloth, a recording head for discharging ink so as to record an image, the apparatus comprising:
- determining means for determining a type of the cloth recording medium based on an ink absorption characteristic;
- and
- changing means for changing an operation frequency of the recording head in accordance with the type of the cloth recording medium determined by said determining means, wherein said determining means determines a thickness of a fiber of the cloth recording medium.
An image recording apparatus for moving, relatively to a recording medium which is a of cloth, a recording head for discharging ink so as to record an image, the apparatus comprising:
- determining means for determining a type of the cloth recording medium based on an ink absorption characteristic;
- and
- changing means for changing an operation frequency of the recording head in accordance with the type of the cloth recording medium determined by said determining means, wherein said determining means determines a weaving pitch of fibers of the cloth recording medium.
An image recording method comprising the steps of:
- providing an image recording apparatus for moving, relatively to a recording medium which is a of cloth, a recording head for discharging ink so as to record an image;
- determining a type of the cloth recording medium;
- changing an operation frequency of the recording head in accordance with the type of the cloth recording medium determined in said determining step;
- applying ink to the recording medium by using the image recording apparatus;
- and
- fixing the applied ink to the recording medium.
A method for determining operation conditions of a recording head for image recording on a recording medium which is a of cloth made of woven fibers, said method comprising the steps of:
- determining information relating to one of a diameter of a fiber of the cloth and a weaving pitch of the fibers of the cloth;
- and
- determining operation conditions of the recording head in accordance with the information determined in said information determining step.
An image recording apparatus for moving, relatively to a recording medium which is a cloth made of woven fibers, a recording head for discharging ink so as to record an image, said apparatus comprising:
- judging means for judging a type of the recording medium based on an ink absorption characteristic;
- and
- changing means for changing a driving operation of the recording head in accordance with the type of the recording medium judged by said judging means,
- wherein one type of the recording medium and another type of recording medium have a difference including at least one of a diameter of a fiber of the cloth and a weaving pitch of the fiber of the cloth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.