Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Soartec Corporation

Ichiro Sano

Mamoru Hayamizu

Toshiaki Sakai

A recording apparatus having a printing head, comprises a support having heating elements, a film being contacted the support to face the elements and having nozzle holes on a region facing the elements, an ink holder, arranged near the holes and on one of opposing surfaces of the film and the support, for holding externally supplied ink, and a vibrator for vibrating the support to supply ink to the holes from the ink holder through a gap between the opposing surfaces of the film and the support. In another embodiment a drive unit may reciprocally move the nozzle member in the alignment direction. In a further embodiment the drive unit may reciprocally move the film and spacer relative to the support and the ink supplier.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Ichiro Sano