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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2003
Wataru Ishikawa, Hachioji, JP;
Wataru Ishikawa, Hachioji, JP;
Konica Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
There is described inkjet recording method and apparatus capable of printing very fine images stably on every type of printing material. The apparatus includes an ink-heating section to heat ink; an ink-jetting head having an ink channel, a volume of which is expanded and shrunken by applying a first electronic pulse and by successively applying a second electronic pulse, to emit an ink particle from a nozzle of the ink channel onto a recording medium so as to form the image on the recording medium; and an ultraviolet light irradiating section to irradiate ultraviolet light onto the recording medium for fixing the image; wherein, at a time after the ink particle is emitted by applying a first driving pulse to the ink channel and before an ink meniscus, formed at the nozzle, grows to an original stable state, a next ink particle is emitted by applying a second driving pulse.