Patent ID: 9186914
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An ink jet recording apparatus that prints an image onto a recording medium using an ink which is composed of an aqueous ink vehicle containing latex as a binder resin, the ink jet recording apparatus comprising: a print heater that is a platen heater that heats the recording medium from a lower side of the recording medium, a carriage on which a recording head for discharging ink droplets onto the recording medium is mounted and that moves relative to the recording medium, wherein an infrared heater that is disposed opposite to the recording medium and heats the recording medium from an upper side of the recording medium is mounted on the carriage, and the infrared heater is disposed to be distant from the recording head in a moving direction of the recording medium, wherein the recording medium is heated from the lower side with the platen heater and from the upper side with the infrared heater, each heating temperature of the platen heater and the infrared heater is reduced than a heating temperature which the recording medium is heated only by the platen heater or only by the infrared heater.