PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD

• Main Author: IHARA SEIJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 08.06.2023
• Subjects: CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To promote evaporation of liquid components of an ink adhering to a nozzle surface without interruption of printing.SOLUTION: A printing apparatus 1 includes a platen 46 that supports a recording medium S, a printing head 41 that reciprocates along the platen 46 and discharges a droplet onto the recording medium S supported by the platen 46 at least in a forward route or a backward route of the reciprocation so as to perform printing, and an air blowing unit 8 disposed on at least one of two sides of the platen 46 in a reciprocation direction X, which is a direction in which the printing head 41 moves along with the reciprocation, and blows an airflow A1 to a nozzle surface 41A of the printing head 41 that reciprocates.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5 【課題】印刷を中断せずにノズル面に付着したインクの液体成分の蒸発を促進する。【解決手段】印刷装置１は、印刷媒体Ｓを支持するプラテン４６と、プラテン４６に沿って往復移動を行うと共に、往復移動の少なくとも往路または復路においてプラテン４６に支持された印刷媒体Ｓに液滴を吐出して印刷を行う印刷ヘッド４１と、往復移動に伴い印刷ヘッド４１が移動する方向である往復移動方向Ｘにおけるプラテン４６の２つの側方のうちの少なくとも一方に配置され、往復移動する印刷ヘッド４１のノズル面４１Ａに気流Ａ１を送風する送風部８と、を備える。【選択図】図５