Patent ID: 11872810
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 7:
8. An ink discharge apparatus comprising:
a discharge head having a plurality of nozzle rows arranged in a first direction, each of the nozzle rows including a plurality of nozzles aligned in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; and
a controller;
wherein the controlleer is configured to execute;
a mode determining process to receive a print job and to determine whether a print mode is a low gap print mode or a high gap print mode based on the print job, the low gap print mode being a print mode where a distance between the nozzles and a discharge target medium is low gap, the high gap print mode being a print mode where ithe distance between the nozzles and the discharge target medium is high gap larger than the low gap; and

a number of discharge reducing process to reduce a total number of discharging ink per unit time from the nozzles as compared with the case of the low gap print mode, if the print mode is determinied as the high gap print mode,
wherein the ink includes a white ink and a clear ink,
the controller is configured to determine whether to discharge the white ink and to discharge the clear ink based on the print job, and
in a case of determining that the clear ink is to be discharged from the nozzles and in a case of determining that the white ink is to be discharged from the nozzles for forming the base color, the controller is configured to cause the total number of discharging ink per the unit time from the nozzles of the nozzle rows to be equivalent to the case of the low gap print mode.