A light irradiator and a printer using the light irradiator

摘要

To prevent clogging of a nozzle of a printing head, a light irradiator for an ink jet printer is composed of a short arc type discharge lamp (10) and optical elements used for linearly condensing light from the lamp (10), e.g., an elliptic light condensing mirror (20) and a rod lens (30) in order to linearly condense light emitted from the lamp onto a substrate (5). A slit-type light outlet (40) is provided on a bottom plate (60) of a housing (8) so that the direct light from the lamp cannot reach places on the substrate (5) in the vicinity of the nozzle (4) of a printing head (4), and antireflection material (70) is provided on the surface of the bottom plate (60) facing the substrate (5) so that the light emitted from the light irradiator and reflected by the substrate (5) can be absorbed by the antireflection material (70).