| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ink-jet recorder and a method for supplying ink thereto whereby good printing is realized and the whole of a sub tank can be made compact. SOLUTION: There are provided a recording head 6 for discharging ink drops correspondingly to printing data, a main tank for supplying ink to the recording head 6, and the sub tank 7 having upper and lower two tanks 7A and 7B connected to the main tank and the recording head 6 and communicating with each other. The upper tank 7A of the sub tank 7 is formed by an ink tank having an ink outlet 33 for leading out the ink to the recording head 6, and the lower tank 7B is formed by an ink tank which has an ink inlet 39 for leading in the ink from the main tank 9 by a pump pressure and which elastically deforms in accordance with a change of an internal pressure. |
