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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2019
Hiroaki Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiminori Masuda, Tokyo, JP;
Mio Akima, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing device includes an ink container, an ink in the ink container, the ink containing an aqueous clear ink and an aqueous color ink and a heating device configured to heat a substrate, wherein the relationship is satisfied, |S−S|≤5 mN/m, where Srepresents the surface tension of the aqueous clear ink and Srepresents the surface tension of the aqueous color ink, wherein the printing device has a low gloss printing and a high gloss printing mode, wherein the heating device heats the substrate while satisfying the relationship: Tlow>Thigh, where Tlow represents the temperature of the substrate in a low gloss printing region in which the aqueous clear ink is printed in the low printing mode and Thigh represents the temperature of the substrate in a high gloss printing region in which the aqueous clear ink is printed in the high printing mode.