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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2010
Naoki Akihiro, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Tomohiko Shimoda, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Yoshiyuki Okada, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Naoki Akihiro, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Tomohiko Shimoda, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Yoshiyuki Okada, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Riso Kagaku Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An inkjet printer includes a printing unit, a transfer route, a heating chamber, and a heater. The printing unit ejects ink onto a sheet through nozzles of the inkjet heads. The transfer route transfers the sheet as printed at the printing unit. The heating chamber accommodates at least part of the transfer route to heat the sheet as transferred in the transfer route. The heater heats inside the heating chamber. The heating chamber is sectioned into sub-chambers along the transfer route, including a first sub-chamber to be heated by the heater and a second sub-chamber to be lower in temperature than the first sub-chamber and located between the printing unit and the first sub-chamber.