Adhesive application apparatus and control method of the same
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorMasaru Hoshino
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Abstract
An adhesive application apparatus sets a dot pattern such that an amount of paste applied to an area on the reverse side of an area on which an image is formed and an amount of paste applied to an area on the reverse side of an area on which the image is not formed are different from each other, and controls a paste discharge head so that the dot pattern having been set is formed on an adhesion surface of paper. Through this, the amount of paste applied to paper can be changed between an area where an image is formed and an area where the image is not formed, thereby making it possible to apply the paste to paper more appropriately in accordance with the state of image formation.
Claims7
An adhesive application apparatus that discharges an adhesive from a discharge head so as to apply the adhesive in dot-pattern form to a reverse side of a sheet of paper on which an image is formed using a colorant, the apparatus comprising:
- a dot pattern setting unit configured to set a dot pattern such that a first amount of the adhesive discharged to an first area on the reverse side of an image area on which the image is formed and a second amount of the adhesive discharged to a second area on the reverse side of a blank area on which the image is not formed are different from each other, wherein the dot pattern is based at least on reversal data obtained by reversing print data for the image;
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- a control unit configured to control the discharge head so that the dot pattern having been set by the dot pattern setting unit is formed on the reverse side of the paper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.