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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2016
Applicant:
Yoshiaki Hoshino, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshiaki Hoshino, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/002 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a drier, and a heater temperature control. The image forming unit includes nozzles to discharge droplets onto a web medium to form an image on the web medium. The drier includes a plurality of heaters over which the web medium is stretched to form an arc-shaped feed path. The heater temperature control is configured to control a temperature of an upstream heater of the plurality of heaters on the feed path to be higher than a temperature of a downstream heater of the plurality of heaters on the feed path.