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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
May. 17, 2016
Applicant:
Shino Sasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Shino Sasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/16585 (2013.01); B41J 2/16526 (2013.01);
Abstract
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head and a dummy discharge controller. The liquid discharge head includes nozzles to discharge liquid onto a continuous medium. The dummy discharge controller controls a dummy discharge operation to discharge dummy discharge droplets onto the continuous medium. The dummy discharge controller controls the liquid discharge head to perform a pre-first-page dummy discharge operation to discharge dummy discharge droplets onto the continuous medium in a period from a start of feeding of the continuous medium to a start of printing of a first page.