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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2006
Takaichiro Umeda, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroaki Yazawa, Nagoya, JP;
Hisaki Sakurai, Aichi-ken, JP;
Hikaru Kaga, Aisai, JP;
Takaichiro Umeda, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroaki Yazawa, Nagoya, JP;
Hisaki Sakurai, Aichi-ken, JP;
Hikaru Kaga, Aisai, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording apparatus configured as a multi-function device is provided. The multi-function device can have four ink tanks, which store black ink, cyan ink, yellow ink and magenta ink. The multi-function device may have greater than four sub-tanks, which can be held in a scanning carriage and configured to move with a recording head. By moving the scanning carriage, the positions of the ink tanks can be aligned with the positions of the sub-tanks. In this manner, the basic inks can be supplied from the ink tanks into basic ink sub-tanks, and predetermined combinations of basic inks can be supplied into the other sub-tanks to create mixed inks.