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 |
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.
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