US 12,076,977 B2
Image printing apparatus, image printing method, and medium storing image printing program
Kenta Hasebe, Nagoya (JP); Kosuke Nukui, Nagoya (JP); Yasuhiro Taga, Kani (JP); 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 Dec. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/553,084.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-214148 (JP), filed on Dec. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0194104 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/135 (2006.01); C09D 11/101 (2014.01)
CPC B41J 11/00214 (2021.01) [B41J 2/135 (2013.01); C09D 11/101 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image printing apparatus comprising:
a jetting head being movable in a main scanning direction and including nozzles configured to jet an ultraviolet-curable type ink onto a printing medium;
a light source configured to irradiate the ultraviolet-curable type ink jetted onto the printing medium with an ultraviolet ray;
a movement mechanism configured to relatively move the printing medium with respect to the jetting head in a subsidiary scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction; and
a controller configured to accept a printing job including information to instruct:
a low gap printing mode in which printing is performed with a low gap in a direction orthogonal to both the main scanning direction and the subsidiary scanning direction or
a high gap printing mode in which the printing is performed with a high gap, which is larger than the low gap, in the direction orthogonal to both the main scanning direction and the subsidiary scanning direction,
wherein in a case of accepting the printing job including the information to instruct the high gap printing mode, the controller is configured to cause the ink contained in the jetting head to be agitated without jetting the ink at least during irradiation with the ultraviolet ray by the light source.