RECORDING APPARATUS

The amount of waste ink is significantly reduced as compared with the related art in which color printing is performed using waste ink. There is provided a recording apparatus that includes a recording head 3 which ejects different types of ink on a medium, a reuse collection ink tank 17 which colle...

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1. Verfasser: HOSOMI, Hiroaki
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:The amount of waste ink is significantly reduced as compared with the related art in which color printing is performed using waste ink. There is provided a recording apparatus that includes a recording head 3 which ejects different types of ink on a medium, a reuse collection ink tank 17 which collects and stores ink ejected from the recording head 3 for each of ink types, a virgin ink tube 28 which supplies virgin ink to the reuse collection ink tank 17 according to the amount of the ink collected from the recording head 3 to the reuse collection ink tank 17, a diluted solution tube 25 which supplies a diluted solution to the reuse collection ink tank 17 according to viscosity of the ink of the reuse collection ink tank 17, and a return tube 22 which supplies the ink stored in the reuse collection ink tank 17 to the recording head 3.