Patent ID: 6840596
Filing Date: 2005-01-11
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An ink-jet image forming method which is adapted to use a fast-drying ink together with a slow-drying ink, and which successively forms images with the fast-drying ink and the slow-drying ink on a plurality of recording sheets which are successively fed, and discharges the recording sheets so that a subsequent recording sheet is stacked on preceding recording sheet, wherein: a drying time which is required to dry an ink applied to each of a plurality of image forming areas on the preceding recording sheet is controlled by adjusting, with respect to each image forming area, a ratio of the fast-drying ink to the slow-drying ink which are used to form an image, so that a rest time of the ink, which is a time period from an application of the ink to a time the subsequent recording sheet is stacked, is equal to or greater than the drying time with respect to each image forming area of the preceding recording sheet, and wherein the drying time is controlled by adjusting independently, with respect to each image forming area a ratio of the fast-drying ink to the slow-drying ink which are used to form an image.