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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2019
Applicant:
Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Inventor:
Masaru Ohnishi, Nagano, JP;
Assignee:
MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Nagano, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/085 (2006.01); B41J 2/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/0015 (2013.01); B41J 2/085 (2013.01); B41J 2002/022 (2013.01);
Abstract
A printing apparatus is provided and includes: a platen that supports a medium; an inkjet head provided to face the medium, the inkjet head ejecting an ink containing a charge controlling agent toward the medium by driving a drive element to land the charged ink droplet, which becomes a polarity of one of the positive polarity and the negative polarity, on the medium; and a voltage applying part that applies to at least one of the platen and the medium to have the other polarity of the positive polarity and the negative polarity.