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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2015
Screen Holdings Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Yuji Kurokawa, Kyoto, JP;
Atsushi Imamura, Kyoto, JP;
SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd., , JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., , JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is an inkjet printing apparatus including a printing head, an overcoating head discharging an overcoating agent, and a controller operating the printing head and the overcoating head to perform printing to a print medium. The controller operates in a normal discharge mode having a printing rate in the print medium relative to a given area of less than 100% for printing to the print medium, and an inspecting discharge mode having a printing rate in the print medium relative to the given area higher than the printing rate of the normal discharge mode for confirming a discharge state of the overcoating agent. In the inspecting discharge mode, the controller operates the printing head to form an inspecting region on the print medium, and operates the overcoating head to discharge the overcoating agent onto the inspecting region, whereby an overcoating inspecting chart is formed.