Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yohji Hirose

Junji Nakai

Kunihiro Yamanaka

Masakazu Yoshida

Toshitaka Osanai

A processing object reforming apparatus includes a plasma processing unit that acidifies at least a surface of a processing object by processing the surface of the processing object by using plasma; and a control unit that controls the plasma processing unit to plasma-process the processing object with a plasma energy amount based on a type of the processing object.

Processing object reforming apparatus, printing apparatus, processing object reforming system, printing system, and manufacturing method of printed matter

A printing apparatus includes a plasma processing unit that processes a surface of a processing object by using plasma; a recording unit that performs ink jet recording on the surface of the processing object, which has been plasma-processed by the plasma processing unit; a setting unit that sets a print mode of an image to be recorded by the recording unit, the print mode corresponding to the processing object; and a control unit that controls the plasma processing unit to plasma-process the processing object with a plasma energy amount based on the print mode set by the setting unit.

Printing apparatus, printing system, and manufacturing method of printed matter

A printing apparatus includes a plasma treatment unit that performs plasma treatment on a surface of a treatment object to acidify at least the surface of the treatment object, a recording unit that performs an inkjet recording process on the surface of the treatment object subjected to the plasma treatment by the plasma treatment unit, and a control unit that adjusts plasma energy for the plasma treatment according to a type of an ink used in the inkjet recording process.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Yohji Hirose