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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2015
Yoshitaka Akiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryuuta Katoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuki Yasu, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinari Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshitaka Akiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryuuta Katoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuki Yasu, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinari Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image formation apparatus includes a first discharge unit to form an image on a recording medium; and a second discharge unit including a nozzle line that discharges transparent droplets on the image formed on the recording medium. The second discharge unit moves in a first direction relative to the recording medium and the nozzle line has nozzles in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. After the image formation, the second discharge unit discharges the transparent droplets from the nozzles spaced at m−1 nozzle intervals to form a row of dots in the second direction, and repeats the forming while moving to form m rows in the first direction, such that the dots in the rows are formed at m−1 nozzle intervals and positions of the dots between n-th and n−1-th rows are displaced together by one nozzle in the second direction.