Patent ID: 7654199
Filing Date: 2010-02-02
Classification: B41L

Abstract:
1. A printing device capable of printing with either UV curable ink or non-UV curable ink, the printing device comprising: ink detection means for detecting prior to printing with ink, whether the ink installed in a print drum is the UV curable ink or the non-UV curable ink; master detection means for detecting whether a master installed in the printing device is a master for UV curable ink or a master for non-UV curable ink; a removed-master storage device detection means for detecting whether a removed-master storage device installed in the printing device is a removed-master storage device for UV-curable ink or a removed-master storage device for non-UV curable ink; and control means for performing control prior to printing of executing at least one of a warning report and disabling a printing operation, when the type of the ink identified by the ink detection means is not consistent with at least one of the type of the master identified by the master detection means and the type of removed-master storage device identified by the removed-master storage device detection means.