US 11,787,198 B2
Printing apparatus having a head configured to separately eject a first type of liquid to form a background and a second type of liquid to form an image
Takashi Kanzaki, Nagoya (JP); and Shuhei Suzuki, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Feb. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/651,909.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-027095 (JP), filed on Feb. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0266602 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/21 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/2121 (2013.01) [B41J 11/0021 (2021.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a head configured to separately eject a first type of liquid and a second type of liquid toward a printing medium;
an energy applying device configured to cure the first type of liquid and the second type of liquid on the printing medium; and
a controller configured to set a print mode to a first mode or a second mode,
wherein, in the first mode, the head ejects the first type of liquid onto the printing medium and the energy applying device applies energy to the first type of liquid on the printing medium so that the first type of liquid is cured and fixed on the printing medium to form a background, and subsequently the head ejects the second type of liquid onto the background and the energy applying device applies energy to the second type of liquid on the background so that the second type of liquid is cured and fixed on the background and an image is formed on the background,
wherein, in the second mode, the head ejects the second type of liquid onto the printing medium without forming the background, the background being formed by ejecting the first type of liquid onto the printing medium with the head and applying energy to the first type of liquid on the printing medium with the energy applying device in the first mode, and the energy applying device applies energy to the second type of liquid on the printing medium so that the second type of liquid is cured and fixed on the printing medium and an image is formed on the printing medium,
wherein the controller is further configured to perform setting a quantity of the second type of liquid, which is to be used when the image is formed in the first mode, to be greater than a quantity of the second type of liquid to be used when the same image is formed in the second mode.