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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroaki Sakai, Chino, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/015 (2006.01); B41J 2/01 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 3/4078 (2013.01);
Abstract
A textile-printing apparatus includes a pre-treatment agent-applying section that applies a pre-treatment agent to a textile-printing medium, a press section that compresses, while heating the textile-printing medium, the textile-printing medium to which the pre-treatment agent has been applied, a printing liquid discharge section that discharges a printing liquid to the textile-printing medium that has been compressed while being heated by the press section, and a heater that heats the textile-printing medium to which the printing liquid has been discharged.