Mimaki Engineering Company, Ltd.

Osamu Saito

Hironori Hashizume

Kazuki Ohara

Kazuki Bando

To provide an inkjet printing apparatus that improves the smoothness of the ink layer surface and improves the image quality. Provided is an inkjet printing apparatus that prints with a UV curable ink, the inkjet printing apparatus including: an ejection unit configured to eject the UV curable ink onto the surface of a print medium; and a control unit configured to control the ejection of the UV curable ink from the ejection unit, the UV curable ink containing a thixotropy-imparting agent, and the control unit setting the viscosity of the UV curable ink to 1 mPa&#xb7;s to 20 mPa&#xb7;s at the time of ejection and to at least 80 mPa&#xb7;s within five seconds of landing on the print medium.

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Nagano, Japan

Osamu Saito