US 12,304,192 B2
Printer and printing method
Sho Matsumoto, Hamamatsu (JP)
Assigned to ROLAND DG CORPORATION, Shizuoka (JP)
Filed by Roland DG Corporation, Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed on Apr. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/136,376.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-069368 (JP), filed on Apr. 20, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0339237 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/00212 (2021.01) [B41J 11/00216 (2021.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printer comprising:
a print carriage including an ink head;
a sub-carriage movable relative to the print carriage;
a mount surface where a medium is to be mounted;
a dryer to dry an ink ejected from the ink head onto the medium; wherein
the sub-carriage includes a temperature sensor;
the sub-carriage is movable relative to the print carriage to measure a temperature on or above the mount surface using the temperature sensor; and
the dryer is adjustable such that the temperature to be measured approaches a predetermined temperature.