US 6,981,766 B2
Ink-jet printer
Masaaki Tsuji, Wakayama (Japan)
Assigned to Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd., Wakayama (Japan)
Filed on Jan. 07, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/752,083.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-005131 (JP), filed on Jan. 10, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2004/0169712 A1, Sep. 02, 2004
Int. Cl. B41J 11/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 347—104 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ink-jet printer comprising:
a conveyance mechanism that conveys a printing medium;
an ink ejecting member capable of ejecting ink to the printing medium;
a supporting member having plural holes formed therein and supporting the printing medium in a region confronting the ink ejecting member;
a suction member capable of sucking air through the holes from a printing medium supporting side of the supporting member to an opposite side thereof;
an airflow restriction member that moves in a conveyance direction of the printing medium and reduces at least one of an amount and a speed of air flowing into at least one hole; and
means for controlling a relationship between a movement of the airflow restriction member and a movement of the printing medium so that the airflow restriction member reduces at least one of an amount and a speed of air flowing into at least the hole closest to the edge of the printing medium among holes located downstream of a downstream edge of the printing medium in the conveyance direction.