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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2017
Roland Dg Corporation, Hamamatsu-shi, Kita-ku, JP;
Shinya Yamamoto, Hamamatsu, JP;
Tetsuhiro Kunifuji, Hamamatsu, JP;
Toshikazu Sugita, Hamamatsu, JP;
Yudai Chida, Hamamatsu, JP;
ROLAND DG CORPORATION, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
A printer includes a media feeder to feeding media in a feed direction, a print head to eject droplets of ink onto the media, heaters to heat the media, and a controller to perform a printing operation corresponding to received print data by causing the media feeder to feed the media heated by the heaters and causing the print head to eject the droplets of ink onto the media based on the print data, the controller being configured or programmed to move the media and/or the heaters during the print idle time before performing the printing operation.