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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2021
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Hirofumi Kondo, Mie-ken, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a printer including: a carriage; a head; a position sensitive detector having a light-emitter and a light-receiver; and a controller. The head has: a first nozzle from which a printing ink is discharged, and a second nozzle from which a liquid scattering a light emitted from the light-emitter is discharged. The controller is configured to execute: formation of a scattering film on the object by discharging the liquid from the second nozzle onto the object; measurement of a distance between the head and the object, with the light emitted from the light-emitter and irradiated onto the scattering film; and adjustment, based on the measured distance, of a discharging condition of discharging the ink from the first nozzle, and performing printing on the object.