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

Claim 3:
4. 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,
the nozzles include a target nozzle to be a target in the number of discharge reducing process, the target nozzle being provided in a predetermined nozzle row in each of the nozzle row groups, and
if L1 is larger than L3, the controller is configured to execute the number of discharge reducing process such that the ink is not discharged from the target nozzle.