US 12,441,123 B2
Conveyance control device, conveyance control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer readable instructions
Kodai Mizuno, Hekinan (JP); Shuichi Tamaki, Nagoya (JP); Takeshi Watanabe, Nagoya (JP); Akira Shinoda, Obu (JP); and Kenji Sato, Yokkaichi (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Dec. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/132,907.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-234066 (JP), filed on Dec. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0198062 A1, Jul. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. B41J 3/54 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01); B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B65G 37/02 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 3/543 (2013.01) [B41J 11/0015 (2013.01); B41J 13/0009 (2013.01); B41J 29/38 (2013.01); B65G 37/02 (2013.01); B41J 3/4078 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conveyance control device comprising:
a processor configured to control a conveyance portion, the processor being communicatively connected to the conveyance portion, the conveyance portion being configured to convey a platen from a conveyance start position of the platen to one of a plurality of printers via a pretreatment device, the pretreatment device being configured to perform pretreatment on a recording medium placed on the platen; and
a memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform processes including:
performing determination processing of determining which of the plurality of printers the platen is to be conveyed to such that printing is performed by a determined printer and is not performed by undetermined printer before being performed by the determined printer, wherein one of the plurality of printers is configured with a plurality of print heads aligned in a horizontal direction, each of the print heads is configured to eject a different specific color of ink, another of the plurality of printers is configured with a plurality of print heads aligned in a horizontal direction, each of the print heads is configured to eject the different specific color of ink,
wherein the conveyance portion comprises:
a first conveyance mechanism; and
a plurality of second conveyance mechanisms branched from the first conveyance mechanism,
each of the plurality of the second conveyance mechanisms having one end connected to the first conveyance mechanism and another end opposite to the one end connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of printers such that whichever one of the plurality of the printers the platen is conveyed to is conveyed via the second conveyance mechanism connected to the determined printer and is not conveyed via the second conveyance mechanism connected to the undetermined printer.