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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2016
Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Akihiro Onodera, Nagano, JP;
MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Nagano, JP;
Abstract
A gap adjustment method of an ink jet device includes a head unit with an ink discharge port that discharges ink, a carriage that is provided with the head unit and moves in a main scanning direction, a print medium provided with a gap with respect to the ink discharge port, and a gap driving unit that adjusts a length of the gap. The gap adjustment method includes a discharging process (step ST) and a gap adjusting process (step STto step ST). In the discharging process (step ST), ink is discharged in each of a forward path and a backward path while reciprocating the carriage in the main scanning direction. In the gap adjusting process, a forward path landing position and a backward path landing position, and an optimum landing position determined in advance are compared, and the length of the gap is adjusted with the gap driving unit.