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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2023
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tadashi Aizawa, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A heating control section for controlling a voltage applying section and a moving section for reciprocate a carriage on which the first electrode unit is mounted executes heating control for heating a medium while moving the first electrode unit in a scanning direction in at least one of an outgoing path in which the first electrode unit moves in one direction of the scanning direction and a return path in which the first electrode unit moves in the opposite direction. In the heating control, when the first electrode unit is positioned at a first point overlapping with one end section of the medium, the heating control section sets the electric field strength of the first electrode unit to a first electric field strength, when that is positioned at a second point overlapping with center portion of the medium, the second electric field strength is set to be stronger than the first electric field strength, and the movement speed of the first electrode unit at the first point is slower than the movement speed at the second point.