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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2013
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hidenori Usuda, Matsumoto, JP;
Takayoshi Kagata, Shiojiri, JP;
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a first nozzle through which to eject color ink, a second nozzle through which to eject clear ink, a control unit that performs control, in a manner that ejects the color ink onto a glittering layer through the first nozzle, and ejects the clear ink onto the color ink through the second nozzle, at the time of forming an image on a medium on which the glittering layer is formed, in which the control unit controls ejection of the clear ink through the second nozzle in such a manner that an amount of the clear ink to be ejected onto the color ink varies according to a light absorption rate of the color ink.