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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2004
Satoshi Nishino, Sayama, JP;
Satoshi Nishino, Sayama, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet printer has a white ink recording head for jetting white ink onto a recording medium; a color ink recording head for jetting color ink onto the recording medium; a sucking device for providing ink nozzles of the white ink recording head and ink nozzles of the color ink recording head with sucking forces to suck ink in a white ink supply path and in a color ink supply path respectively, the paths communicating with the ink nozzles of the respective recording heads; and a controlling section for controlling sucking forces, wherein, the controlling section controls the sucking forces in such a manner that a sucking force applied to white ink is greater than a sucking force applied to color ink.