Ink-jet printer
AssigneeRiso Kagaku Corporation
InventorsRyota Yamagishi, Tomohiko Shimoda, Naoki Akihiro
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Abstract
An ink-jet printer comprises: a platen plate including a plurality of recesses, which are formed and regularly arranged in a front surface by digging from the front surface toward the back surface, and a suction hole extending from a part of the bottom surface of the recess through the back surface; and a print head having ink-discharging nozzles arranged in a nozzle face which is arranged in a position facing the front surface of the platen plate. The ink-discharging nozzles are arranged between an opening end of the recess and an opening end of the suction hole excluding an area directly above the suction hole of the platen plate.
Claims11
An ink-jet printer comprising:
- a platen plate including a plurality of suction holes extending from a front surface through a back surface and a recess which is opened toward the front surface around each suction hole;
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- a plurality of print heads each having an ink-discharging nozzle provided in a nozzle face which is arranged in a position facing the front surface of the platen plate, wherein
- the ink-discharging nozzle of each of the print heads is arranged in an area overlapping with some of the recesses of the platen plate.
An ink-jet printer comprising:
- a platen plate including a plurality of first suction passages extending from a front surface through a back surface and a plurality of second suction passages extending from the front surface through the back surface, the second suction passage having a small suction force as compared with that of the first suction passage;
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- a plurality of print heads each having an ink-discharging nozzle provided in a nozzle face which is arranged in a position facing the front surface of the platen plate, wherein
- the ink-discharging nozzle of each of the print heads is arranged in a position facing some of the second suction passages of the platen plate, and wherein
- a part of a periphery of the nozzle face of each of the print heads is arranged in a position facing some of the first suction passages of the platen plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.