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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2009
Takashi Miyagi, Miyagi, JP;
Naoki Okazaki, Miyagi, JP;
Wataru Takahashi, Miyagi, JP;
Yoshinari Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Miyagi, Miyagi, JP;
Naoki Okazaki, Miyagi, JP;
Wataru Takahashi, Miyagi, JP;
Yoshinari Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a recording head including heads containing arranged nozzles to discharge a droplet, the heads are arranged in a zigzag form along a nozzle array direction; a conveyer belt with suction holes to convey a printing medium in a direction intersecting a head array direction; and a control unit to control an blank discharging; wherein suction hole arrays including the suction holes arranged in the head array direction, are arranged at a predetermined interval; wherein one of the suction hole arrays is a reference suction hole array including the suction hole to pass a position facing the nozzle of a nozzle array end and the nozzle in an overlapping part of two heads in the nozzle array direction; and wherein the control unit makes each nozzle discharge a blank discharging droplet to the suction holes, using the reference suction hole array as a standard.