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US 8,474,968 B2Granted
Inkjet apparatus and heating device
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshinori Yamaguchi
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Abstract
In a stopped state where a sheet is not moving, control is performed so that at a location, the sheet is heated by a heating unit and cooled by a cooling unit at the same time. When the sheet starts moving after the stopped state in order for the inkjet head to apply ink to the sheet, control is performed so that at the location, the sheet continues to be heated by the heating unit and is cooled by the cooling unit at a lower power than in the stopped state.
Claims5
An inkjet apparatus comprising:
- a roller pair that moves a sheet in a direction;
- an inkjet head that applies ink to the sheet being conveyed by the roller pair;
- a heating unit that heats the sheet at a location downstream of the roller pair in the direction;
- a cooling unit that cools the sheet at the location;
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- a control unit that, in a stopped state where the sheet is not moving, performs control so that the sheet is heated by the heating unit and cooled by the cooling unit at the same time and that, when the sheet starts moving after the stopped state in order for the inkjet head to apply ink to the sheet, performs control so that the sheet continues to be heated by the heating unit and is cooled by the cooling unit at a lower power than in the stopped state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.