Patent ID: 9566797
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: B41J

Claim:
1. An inkjet printer comprising: an inkjet head that has a nozzle surface on which nozzles for ejecting ink are opened; a first tank that stores ink to be supplied to the inkjet head; a second tank that receives ink that is not consumed by the inkjet head; an ink circulation path through which ink is circulated among the inkjet head, the first tank and the second tank; a third tank that is directly or indirectly connected with a path from the second tank to the first tank on the ink circulation path, and stores ink; and a hermetic sealer that makes the first tank and the second tank in a hermetically-sealed state that is hermetically sealed from atmosphere, wherein the first tank and the second tank are made in the hermetically-sealed state by the hermetic sealer in a waiting mode in which ink is not circulated, and the third tank is made in an atmospherically-released state in the waiting mode.