US 11,938,735 B2
Printer, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium
Akihiro Kobayashi, Yokkaichi (JP); and Kosuke Nukui, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/834,688.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-095922 (JP), filed on Jun. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0388319 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/165 (2006.01); B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 2/17 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/165 (2013.01) [B41J 2/04563 (2013.01); B41J 2/1707 (2013.01); B41J 11/00212 (2021.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printer performing printing on an object to be printed based on predetermined print data, the printer comprising:
a head configured to eject photocurable ink onto the object to be printed supported by a platen;
a lamp configured to irradiate light onto the object to be printed on which the ink is ejected;
a first sensor provided inside the printer, and configured to detect a temperature inside the printer;
a processor; and
a memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform processes comprising:
causing the first sensor to acquire the temperature inside the printer;
acquiring, based on the print data, a duty ratio indicating a printing ratio when ejecting the ink onto an ejection region of the object to be printed; and
increasing a number of times of a flushing operation compared to a predetermined reference number of times, when the acquired duty ratio is a low duty ratio lower than a predetermined reference duty ratio used as a reference, and the temperature detected by the first sensor is higher than a predetermined reference temperature.