Patent ID: 8500235
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus comprising: a transportation mechanism that transports a recording material; a recording head that reciprocates in a direction intersecting a transporting direction of the recording material, the recording head having a nozzle row discharging photoactive liquids onto the recording material being transported; a light irradiation section that has a light emitting device row where a plurality of light emitting devices are arranged in an extending direction of the nozzle row, the light emitting devices chemically changing the photoactive liquids by irradiating the discharged photoactive liquids with light; a failure detection section that detects failure of the light emitting devices constituting the light emitting device row; and a control section that controls respective operations of the transportation mechanism, the recording head, and the light irradiation section, wherein the control section has a failure event mode into which the control section goes when the failure detection section detects failure of at least one of the light emitting devices, and the failure event mode is configured to execute recording by masking at least one of nozzle openings constituting the nozzle row which corresponds to the failed light emitting device.