US 12,240,223 B2
Printer
Kazutaka Ikeuchi, Kyoto (JP); and Tamio Fukui, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., Ltd., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Jan. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/160,421.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-012730 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0241903 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/0015 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printer comprising:
a transport mechanism that transports a base material downstream in a predetermined transport path;
a primer ejector that ejects a primer to the base material transported by the transport mechanism;
a first ink ejector that ejects first ink to the base material on a downstream side of the primer ejector;
a precuring part that precures the first ink applied to the base material on a downstream side of the first ink ejector;
a second ink ejector that ejects second ink to the base material on a downstream side of the precuring part; and
a controller that controls an amount of the primer that is ejected to a unit region of the base material by the primer ejector, an amount of the first ink that is ejected to the unit region by the first ink ejector, and an amount of the second ink that is ejected to the unit region by the second ink ejector,
wherein the controller is capable of executing:
processing for determining a first primer amount in accordance with the amount of the first ink;
processing for determining a second primer amount in accordance with the amount of the second ink; and
processing for determining the amount of the primer in accordance with a sum of the first primer amount and the second primer amount.