Patent ID: 11964467
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a liquid discharge head configured to discharge a liquid onto a recording medium, the liquid including a metallic ink and a color ink;
an irradiation unit configured to irradiate the liquid on the recording medium with light;
a carriage on which the liquid discharge head and the irradiation unit are mounted;
a moving unit configured to perform a main scanning movement and a sub-scanning movement, the main scanning movement in which the carriage is moved relative to the recording medium in a main scanning direction, the sub-scanning movement in which the carriage is moved relative to the recording medium in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction; and
a controller configured to:
control the liquid discharge head to discharge the metallic ink in a region of the recording medium in the main scanning movement,
control the liquid discharge head to discharge the color ink in the region in which the metallic ink has been discharged, in the same main scanning movement in which the metallic ink is discharged, and
control the irradiation unit to irradiate the region in which the metallic ink and the color ink have been discharged, with the light in the same main scanning movement.