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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2019
Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Kenji Harayama, Nagano, TW;
MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Nagano, JP;
Abstract
A shaping apparatus, a shaping method and a shaped object are provided. The shaping apparatus for shaping a shaped object that is stereoscopic and in which at least one part is colored is provided and includes: inkjet heads which are coloring heads that eject a coloring ink; an inkjet head which is a light reflective material head that ejects a white ink to become a light reflective material; and a controller. The shaped object including a region to be colored is shaped as the shaped object. At least a part of the region to be colored is formed by arranging a plurality of color cells set in advance as a unit of coloring. Each of the color cells includes a reflective core formed of the white ink, and an outer peripheral portion formed of the coloring ink.