Patent ID: 8585198
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a first nozzle which ejects a first ink used to print an image on a medium and cured by irradiation of light; a pre-curing light source which emits a pre-curing light to dots formed as the first ink ejected from the first nozzle lands onto the medium; a second nozzle which ejects a second ink used to coat a surface of the medium and cured by irradiation of light onto the medium after the dots formed by the first ink are irradiated by the light from the pre-curing light source; and a main-curing light source which emits a main-curing light to the medium, wherein irradiation energy of the light emitted to a unit area of the medium from the pre-curing light source in a case where the second ink is ejected from the second nozzle is larger than the irradiation energy of the light emitted from the pre-curing light source in a case where the second ink is not ejected from the second nozzle.