Patent ID: 11964467
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 8:
9. An image forming method comprising:
discharging a liquid onto a recording medium, the liquid including a metallic ink and a color ink;
irradiating the liquid on the recording medium with light;
performing a main scanning movement and a sub-scanning movement, the main scanning movement in which positions where the liquid is discharged and the light is emitted are moved relative to the recording medium in a main scanning direction, the sub-scanning movement in which the positions where the liquid is discharged and the light is emitted are moved relative to the recording medium in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction;
discharging the metallic ink in a region of the recording medium in the main scanning movement;
discharging the color ink in the region in which the metallic ink has been discharged, in the same main scanning movement in which the metallic ink is discharged; and
irradiating the region in which the metallic ink and the color ink have been discharged, with the light in the same main scanning movement.