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Ink jet printer, ink jet printing method and continuous recording sheet

US6575546B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 25, 2001
Grant dateJun 10, 2003
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Expiry dateMay 25, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41J2203/011
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An ink jet printer forms an image frame in a continuous recording sheet at a size PL with reference to a feeding direction. The continuous recording sheet includes plural recording sheets, and a splicing portion for splicing the plural recording sheets to one another in one line. In ink jet printing, the image frame is printed to the continuous recording sheet with a printing bead while the continuous recording sheet is fed in the feeding direction. It is detected whether the splicing portion comes past a predetermined position upstream from the printing head at a distance L1. The printing head is inhibited from printing the image frame if an unavailable region including the splicing portion is estimated to overlap on a region of the image frame according to a detection signal from the detecting step.

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