Patent ID: 11938735
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A printer performing printing on an object to be printed based on predetermined print data, the printer comprising:
a head configured to eject photocurable ink onto the object to be printed supported by a platen;
a lamp configured to irradiate light onto the object to be printed on which the ink is ejected;
a first sensor provided inside the printer, and configured to detect a temperature inside the printer;
a processor; and
a memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform processes comprising:
causing the first sensor to acquire the temperature inside the printer;
acquiring, based on the print data, a duty ratio indicating a printing ratio when ejecting the ink onto an ejection region of the object to be printed; and
increasing a number of times of a flushing operation compared to a predetermined reference number of times, when the acquired duty ratio is a low duty ratio lower than a predetermined reference duty ratio used as a reference, and the temperature detected by the first sensor is higher than a predetermined reference temperature.