Patent ID: 8109625

Claim:
An application apparatus comprising: a supply device which supplies a liquid in which a treatment agent having a prescribed function is dissolved; an application device which applies the liquid supplied from the supply device, onto a medium; and a condensing device which condenses the liquid supplied to the application device from the supply device during a period until the liquid is applied to the medium, wherein: the application device is a roller that rotates and abuts against the medium which is traveling so as to apply the liquid deposited on an outer circumferential surface of the roller onto the medium; the supply device deposits the liquid on the outer circumferential surface of the roller so as to supply the liquid; and the condensing device is provided after a position where the supply device supplies the liquid and before a position where the application device applies the liquid onto the medium in such a manner that the condensing device condenses the liquid which has been deposited on the outer circumferential surface of the roller by the supply device, during the period until the liquid is applied to the medium.