Ink jet apparatus and waste liquid absorbing method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroshi Yoshino
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Abstract
Printing on a printing medium with ink and treatment liquid having a function of setting ink, by using an apparatus which includes an ink ejection port for ejecting ink, a treatment liquid ejection port for ejecting treatment liquid, a waste liquid accommodating substance for accommodating waste liquid, a first introducing path for introducing waste ink discharged by recovery operation from the ink ejection port into a first portion of the waste liquid accommodating substance, and a second introducing path for introducing, independently of waste ink, waste treatment, liquid discharged by recovery operation from the treatment liquid ejection port into a second portion separated from the first portion of the waste liquid accommodating substance.
Claims6
An ink jet apparatus for printing on a printing medium with ink and treatment liquid having a function of setting ink, said apparatus comprising:
- an ink ejection port for ejecting ink;
- a treatment liquid ejection port for ejecting treatment liquid;
- a waste liquid accommodating substance for accommodating waste liquid;
- a first introducing means for introducing waste ink discharged by recovery operation from said ink ejection port into a first portion of said waste liquid accommodating substance;
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- a second introducing means for introducing, independently of waste ink, waste treatment liquid discharged by recovery operation from said treatment liquid ejection port into a second portion separated from said first portion of said waste liquid accommodating substance.
An ink jet apparatus for printing on a printing medium with a first liquid and a second liquid different from the first liquid, the first liquid and the second liquid reacting to each other, said apparatus comprising:
- a first ejection port for ejecting the first liquid;
- a second ejection port for ejecting the second liquid;
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- a waste liquid accommodating substance for accommodating waste liquid,
- wherein said waste liquid accommodating substance receives the first liquid discharged by recovery operation from said first ejection port at a first portion of said waste liquid accommodating substance and receives, independently of the first liquid, the second liquid discharged by recovery operation from said second ejection port at a second portion of said waste liquid accommodating substance separated from said first portion of said waste liquid accommodating substance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.