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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1991
Masao Sugimori, Hirakata, JP;
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
A plurality of fixing heaters for heating recording paper after printing to speed up drying of ink are disposed side by side in a direction at right angles to the direction in which recording paper is fed. The total number of printed dots by region corresponding to each of the fixing heaters is stored for every one or a plurality of lines of the recording paper. Each of the fixing heaters is driven by power proportional to the total number of printed dots in a corresponding region on the basis of the total number of printed dots by region corresponding to each of the fixing heaters for one or a plurality of lines of the recording paper which is in a position to be heated by the fixing heaters. According to the present invention, even when the printing density in the line direction varies, an inkjet recording apparatus is obtained in which no unfixed portion of ink occurs and the driving efficiency of the fixing heaters is high.