摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ink thickening inspection method which is low-cost, simple, and highly reliable. SOLUTION: The inkjet recorder, performing printing by discharging ink from a print head 416, has an ink supplier 600 for supplying the print head 416 with ink, a pressure adjustment pump 605 for adjusting ink pressure in the print head, a heater for adjusting an ink temperature in the print head, a head recovery means for performing a recovery operation for discharging ink from the print head, a CPU for performing the test printing which shows that a predetermined pattern is printed by changing the ink pressure after the recovery operation and enables changes in the printing operation based on the ink information acquired by the test print. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT |