Liquid ejecting apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsHiroshi Yoshida, Toru Hayashi, Tsuneyuki Sasaki
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Abstract
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejecting unit which can reciprocate with respect to a continuous paper, and ejects ink onto the continuous paper; a heating unit which heats a liquid ejecting region which is a region in which the ejecting unit can eject the ink to the continuous paper; an IR sensor which detects a temperature of the liquid ejecting region based on infrared light in the liquid ejecting region; and a control device which controls the heating unit based on a first detection temperature of the IR sensor. The control device controls the heating unit without using the first detection temperature which is detected by the IR sensor, when the ejecting unit is located in a temperature detecting region of the IR sensor.
Claims6
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising:
- an ejecting unit which can reciprocate with respect to a medium, and ejects liquid onto the medium;
- a heating unit which heats a liquid ejecting region which is a region in which the ejecting unit can eject the liquid to the medium;
- a temperature detecting unit which detects a temperature of at least a part of the liquid ejecting region based on infrared light in the liquid ejecting region;
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- a control unit which controls the heating unit based on a detection temperature of the temperature detecting unit,
- wherein the control unit controls the heating unit without using the detection temperature which is detected by the temperature detecting unit, when the ejecting unit is located in a temperature detecting region of the temperature detecting unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.