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(11) EP 0 571 968 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
02.02.1994 Bulletin 1994/05

(43) Date of publication A2:
01.12.1993 Bulletin 1993/48

(21) Application number: 93108481.8

(22) Date of filing: 26.05.1993
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: B41J 2/155
(84) Designated Contracting States:
BE CH DE ES FR GB IT LI NL

(30) Priority: 29.05.1992 JP 138864/92

(71) Applicant: YKK CORPORATION
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Yamakita, Yoshimichi
    Uozu-shi, Toyama-ken (JP)

(74) Representative: Casalonga, Axel et al
BUREAU D.A. CASALONGA - JOSSE Morassistrasse 8
80469 München
80469 München (DE)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Ink jet printer for continuously travelling belt shaped article


    (57) An ink jet printer, equipped with a number of multinozzle heads each having n number of nozzles at regular spaces of p mm, for printing color patterns or symbols in a width of w (mm) onto a continuously travelling belt shaped article, wherein the total quantity of the multinozzle heads is w/(nXp) pairs, the nozzles of each of the multinozzle heads being arranged in a direction perpendicular to the direction of travel of the belt shaped article, all of the multinozzle heads being positioned successively along the path of travel of the belt shaped article, the nozzles of each pair of the multinozzle heads being shifted down by 0.5Xp (mm), the nozzles of all of the multinozzle heads being staggered so as not to overlap one another transversely of the path of travel of the belt liked article.






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