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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2013
Applicant:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Ohta-ku, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/393 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41M 5/00 (2006.01); H05H 1/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/0015 (2013.01); B41M 5/0011 (2013.01); H05H 1/2406 (2013.01); B41M 5/0041 (2013.01); B41M 5/0047 (2013.01); B41M 5/0064 (2013.01); H05H 2001/2412 (2013.01); H05H 2001/2431 (2013.01);
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a plasma treatment unit that performs plasma treatment on a surface of a treatment object to acidify at least the surface of the treatment object, a recording unit that performs an inkjet recording process on the surface of the treatment object subjected to the plasma treatment by the plasma treatment unit, and a control unit that adjusts plasma energy for the plasma treatment according to a type of an ink used in the inkjet recording process.