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

Claim 4:
5. The ink discharge apparatus according to claim 1,
wherein the discharge head is provided with a plurality of nozzle row groups in the first direction,
in each of the nozzle row groups, L1 is defined as an interval between adjacent nozzles in the second direction in each of the nozzle rows and L3 is defined as an interval between adjacent nozzle rows in the first direction,
each of the nozzle row groups includes three of the nozzle rows extending respectively in the second direction and arranged in the first direction,
the nozzles include target nozzles to be targets in the number of discharge reducing process, the target nozzles being provided in two nozzle rows among the three nozzle rows in each of the nozzle row groups, and
if L1 is larger than two times the value of L3, the controller is configured to execute the number of discharge reducing process such that the ink is not discharged from the target nozzle.