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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nobuo Matsumoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Eiichi Kito, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiyotaka Kaneko, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuyuki Hosono, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Photo FIlm Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 ;
Abstract
An ink jet printer has an ink jet printing head including plural nozzles arranged in a main scan direction, for ejecting ink. A feeder rollers move continuous recording sheet relative to the printing head in a sub scan direction, to print plural images to the continuous recording sheet. A system controller operates to clean the printing head in a beginning or ending position of respectively the plural images. The printing head prints a cutting indicia to the recording material upon being cleaned. The cutting indicia is adapted to separating the images.