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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1997
Susumu Hirata, Ikoma-gun, JP;
Hirotsugu Matoba, Sakurai, JP;
Yorishige Ishii, Yamatotakada, JP;
Shingo Abe, Tenri, JP;
Tetsuya Inui, Nara, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A recording device having a highly integrated recording head, which can perform high-quality high-speed printing of halftone image and which is compact and inexpensive to manufacture and can work at reduced running cost (with no need of replacing its recording head due to contamination with ink) and at saved power consumption. The recording device comprises an ink feeding unit for applying ultraviolet curing ink to an image transfer intermediate, an ultraviolet ink-curing head for selectively ultraviolet curing ink applied to the image transfer intermediate according to an image pattern, a platen for pressing a recording medium against the image transfer intermediate to transfer not-cured ink from the image transfer intermediate onto the recording medium, ultraviolet thermal ink-curing unit for fixing the ink on the recording medium and an ink removing unit for removing residual ink from the image transfer intermediate.