Patent ID: 6964474

Claim:
An ink expelling apparatus comprising: a coating device including: an ink coating part for coating an ink-coating surface with ink; and a surface modifier coating part for coating a surface modification area of the ink-coating surface with a surface modifier; a controlling circuit for controlling said ink coating part and said surface modifier coating part; a supplying device for supplying a recording medium having a recording surface as said ink-coating surface; and a drying device for drying said surface modifier applied to said surface modification area; wherein said controlling circuit determines an image information area which is included in said ink coating information area being applied on said ink-coating surface, and said controlling circuit produces a controlling signal which controls said surface modifier coating part to coat said image information area as said surface modification area; said ink coating part is comprised of print heads for printing on said recording surface; said print heads effect printing on said recording surface of said recording medium, including printing on sai surface modification area which is coated with said surface modifier and dried with said drying device; said supplying device supplies said recording medium to said print heads after said surface modifier applied to said surface modification area is dried with said drying device; and said print heads effect printing, including printing on said surface modification area, on said recording medium supplied by said supplying device.