Patent ID: 9180681
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: B41J,B41M,B42D

Abstract:
1. A print apparatus that performs printing on a print medium, wherein said print medium comprises a lenticular lens and an ink absorption layer that is located on a surface opposite to a surface where the lenticular lens is located, said lenticular lens and ink absorption layer being separated by an intermediate layer extending across the entire surface of said ink absorption layer, such that the absorption layer can be seen through the lenticular lens, the print apparatus comprising: a plurality of types of ink; a print head that ejects the plurality of types of ink onto the surface of the ink absorption layer opposite the lenticular lens; and a control section that controls driving of the print head, wherein in a case in which at least one type of ink among the plurality of types of ink installed in the print apparatus is a first ink, the visibility of which is reduced after the first ink is absorbed in the ink absorption layer as compared with the visibility before the absorption, when the first ink is ejected from the print head to the ink absorption layer of the print medium, the control section controls a second ink, different from the first ink, to be ejected to at least a location to which the first ink has been ejected before the first ink dries wherein, the control section controls the second ink to be further ejected to a location to which the first ink and the second ink have been ejected and the first ink has dried, wherein the second ink is placed on an upper side of the ink absorption layer when the first ink is placed on a lower side of the ink absorption layer, which is located on the same side as the lenticular lens, wherein the first ink before drying is moved by being pushed down to the lower side by the second ink.