Patent ID: 7261408
Filing Date: 2007-08-28
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing device comprising: a carriage which is moveable in reciprocation in a main scanning direction, at least one print head having a plurality of discharging elements arranged in arrays for image-wise forming image dots of a marking substance on an image-receiving member, said print head being mounted on the carriage so that the arrays of discharging elements are aligned in a sub scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction, displacement means for establishing relative movement between the carriage and the image-receiving member in the sub-scanning direction, and at least one radiation source which is movable in reciprocation in a main scanning direction for irradiating the image dots of marking substance formed on the image-receiving member, said radiation source being mounted adjacent the print head, and having a dimension in the sub-scanning direction equal to or greater than the swath width of image dots formed by the print head on the image-receiving member in a traverse of the carriage across the image-receiving member in the main scanning direction, and said radiation source being designed such that the image-receiving member with the dots formed thereon receives in said traverse a radiation dose which increases towards an edge of the dimension in the sub scanning direction of the area irradiated by the radiation source in the traverse.