Patent ID: 8814311
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An inkjet printer comprising: a medium retaining part configured and arranged to retain a printing medium on which a photocuring liquid is disposed and printing is performed; an ejection head configured and arranged to eject the liquid towards the printing medium retained by the medium retaining part; a curing-light-emitting part configured and arranged to emit curing light at the printing medium retained by the medium retaining part to facilitate curing of the liquid; a head retaining part configured and arranged to retain the ejection head and the curing-light-emitting part; a relative scanning part configured and arranged to perform relative movement of the printing medium and the ejection head, and to perform relative movement of the head retaining part and the medium retaining part in an ejection scanning direction which is a direction of relative movement of the ejection head and the printing medium during ejection scanning in which the liquid is ejected from the ejection head and made to land on the printing medium; a drive output detecting part configured and arranged to detect an output of a drive source of the relative scanning part; and a curing-light-emission-control part configured to control the curing-light-emitting part to emit the curing light, the curing-light-emission-control part being configured to place the curing-light-emitting part in an emission-enabled state in which the curing light is emitted or in an emission-disabled state in which the curing light is not emitted based on a detection result from the drive output detecting part, wherein the curing-light-emission-control part is configured to place the curing-light-emitting part in the emission-enabled state when the output of the drive source is equal to or greater than a first output value.