Patent ID: 7753462
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an applying device that applies a first liquid containing a diffusion preventing agent for a coloring material, onto a recording medium; a droplet depositing device that deposits a second liquid containing the coloring material, onto the recording medium onto which the first liquid has been applied; a radiation irradiating device that radiates radiation onto the recording medium onto which the second liquid has been deposited; and a controlling device that controls a dot diameter of the second liquid by adjusting a time from the second liquid being deposited to the second liquid being irradiated with the radiation, according to deposition data for the droplet depositing device, wherein the first liquid prevents the coloring material of the second liquid from permeating through the recording medium in a direction of thickness of the recording medium while the coloring material of the second liquid continues to spread out on the recording medium in a direction parallel to a surface of the recording medium until the coloring material of the second liquid is cured.