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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2015
Riso Kagaku Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Takata, Ibaraki, JP;
RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An inkjet printer includes a determination unit, a maintenance setting value decision unit, and a controller. The determination unit determines whether or not an ink cartridge has passed the recommended time limit, based on the manufacturing date or the start-of-use date, the normal consumption period of the ink cartridge, and the elapsed period from the manufacturing date or the start-of-use date of the ink cartridge. The maintenance setting value decision unit reads the cycle and the strength of a maintenance operation for each type of ink from the memory, in a case where the determination unit determines that the recommended time limit has passed, and selects and decides the shortest cycle and the strongest strength, as maintenance setting values. The controller causes a pressure regulator and a pressure regulating drive unit to execute a purge operation, based on the determined maintenance setting values.