Patent ID: 11912051
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Basic materials chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  C | IPC B  C

Claim 10:
11. An ink jet apparatus comprising:
an ink jet head to configured to eject a plurality of ink jet compositions containing colorants and polymerizable compounds to be cured with radioactive rays; and
a light source adjacent to the ink jet head that is configured to emit the radioactive rays to cure the polymerizable compounds of each of the plurality of ink jet compositions,
wherein the ink jet compositions include at least an orange ink composition and a red ink composition, and
the ink jet head is configured to eject the plurality of ink jet compositions to a recording medium during one printing operation,
wherein the one printing operation includes supplying a recording medium to a printer, forming a printed matter on the recording medium by depositing each of the orange ink composition and the red ink composition to the recording medium using the ink jet head, and then curing each of the orange ink composition and the red ink composition on the recording medium using the light source, and then removing the printed matter from the printer.