Konica Minolta, Inc.

Taiya Munenaka

Kuniya Matsuura

Yusuke Nishisaka

Kuniaki Kashiwakura

Yoshiyuki Hashimoto

Midori Shimomura

Yukimasa Azuma

Teruaki Yagura

An image forming method, includes: forming a precoat layer by applying a precoat agent onto a front surface of an intermediate transfer body; forming an ink layer by applying an ink onto a front surface of the formed precoat layer, according to an ink jet method; and transferring the formed precoat layer and ink layer to a recording medium, wherein a contact angle of the precoat agent with respect to the front surface of the intermediate transfer body is less than a contact angle of the ink with respect to the front surface of the intermediate transfer body, and a viscosity of the precoat agent is lower than a viscosity of the ink.

Image forming method and image forming apparatus

The three-dimensional fabrication apparatus is provided with: a first discharge section and a second discharge section, which have multiple discharge nozzles disposed in rows and which discharge molding material from the discharge nozzles toward a fabrication stage; a guide member of a head unit-moving unit, which is equipped with the guide member to guide the movement of the first discharge section and the second discharge section in the main scanning direction (X-direction) that is orthogonal to the direction in which the discharge nozzles are disposed and which moves the first discharge section and the second discharge section relative to the fabrication stage along said guide member; and a stage rotating unit for changing the rotational position of the main scanning direction of the first discharge section and the second discharge section relative to the fabrication stage.

Two-dimensional image-forming apparatus, three-dimensional fabrication apparatus, two-dimensional image-forming method and three-dimensional fabrication method

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Fuchu, Japan

Taiya Munenaka