Patent ID: 8820873

Claim:
A printing apparatus for depositing ink droplets on a surface of a medium to form an image, the printing apparatus comprising: a medium-conveying part, nozzles, a light-irradiation part, a medium-deforming part, and a controller for controlling the parts, the medium-conveying part conveying the medium so that the medium supplied from an upstream side is released on a downstream side; the nozzles discharging ink droplets curable by light irradiation onto the medium; the light-irradiation part irradiating the medium with light; the medium-deforming part including a pair of rollers arranged on the downstream side of the light-irradiation part, with the pair of rollers being configured to sandwich the medium from above and below with respect to a conveying direction to deform the medium so that an irregular shape is formed in cross section; the controller performing an image-forming step, a light-irradiating step, and a medium-deforming step; in the image-forming step, the ink droplets being discharged by the nozzles to form an image on the surface of the medium; in the light-irradiating step, the ink droplets discharged onto the medium being irradiated with light by the light-irradiation part to cure the droplets; and in the medium-deforming step, the medium being released by the medium-conveying part after the medium is deformed by the medium-deforming part.