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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 21, 1996
Hiroshi Asawa, Nagano, JP;
Toshio Kumagai, Nagano, JP;
Toru Fukushima, Nagano, JP;
Eiji Kumai, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Data is printed on a recording sheet by heating the recording sheet at a pre-printing heating region of a heat roller 20, and the recording sheet is further heated at a post-printing heating and fusing region to thereby be dried and fused. In the meantime, air introduced from an exhaust fan 50 is blown into a data writing section from bottom up in the same direction as a recording sheet feeding direction, so that not only the vapor generated from the recording sheet during the heating and the vapor generated from the ink during the printing are eliminated, but also a recording head 40 is cooled.