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Title:
PRINTER, AND PRINTING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2013010189
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a printer which permits a glossy area and an emboss touch area to be intermingled and image expressions to be broadened.

The printer has a carriage 14 that can be moved in a first direction with respect to a medium, a recording head discharging color ink or clear ink hardened by irradiation with light, rows 151 to 154 of color ink nozzles provided in the recording head and a first row 155 of clear ink nozzles discharging clear ink kept at a first temperature, and a second row 156 of clear ink nozzles discharging clear ink kept at a second temperature, forms a color image on the medium by discharging the color ink from the rows of color ink nozzles, hardening the color image by irradiating light from a light irradiation section 160, forms a clear ink layer on the medium by discharging the clear ink from either the first row of clear ink nozzles or a second row of clear ink nozzles and hardens the clear ink by irradiating the clear ink layer with light.


Inventors:
USUDA HIDENORI
KAMOSHITA SHINICHI
Application Number:
JP2011142741A
Publication Date:
January 17, 2013
Filing Date:
June 28, 2011
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Assignee:
SEIKO EPSON CORP
International Classes:
B41J2/01
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Teiji Tanaka
Ryukichi Abe
Takashi Koyama
Hideo Sugai
Kenji Aoki
Hiroshi Nagisawa
Akira Yonezawa
Yoshiaki Minami
Takehiko Katayose