Method and apparatus for image recording by emitting evaporated ink onto a recording medium

摘要

A second heating device (2b) heats an inner wall of an ink chamber (1a) of a print head (1) to a temperature not lower than the melting point but not higher than evaporating temperature of ink 3, for a prescribed time period after the end of printing, based on a signal from a second heating control device (16b). Consequently, the ink solidified and deposited on the inner wall of ink chamber and not used for printing is liquefied and recovered to the ink chamber to be used for the next printing. <IMAGE>