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

Claim 3:
4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 3,
wherein the main scanning movement includes a forward main scanning movement in which the carriage is moved forward in the main scanning direction and a backward main scanning movement in which the carriage is moved backward in the main scanning direction, and
wherein the color ink discharge head is configured to discharge the color ink after the metallic ink discharge head has discharged the metallic ink, in each of the forward main scanning movement and the backward main scanning movement, and
wherein the irradiation unit is configured to irradiate the region in which the metallic ink and the color ink have been discharged with the light in each of the forward main scanning movement and the backward main scanning movement.