Active energy ray curable inkjet apparatus
An active energy ray curable inkjet apparatus 100 comprising: an inkjet head 45 adapted to discharge ink, which is curable by active energy rays, to a recording medium S; and a displacement unit 43 adapted to cause the recording medium S and the inkjet head 45 to perform relative displacement, wherein the active energy ray curable inkjet apparatus 100 further comprises: an ink collection sheet supply unit 67 adapted to perform face-to-face supply of a spitting ink collection sheet to nozzles of the inkjet head 45.
1 . An active energy ray curable inkjet apparatus comprising:
an inkjet head adapted to discharge ink, which is curable by active energy rays, to a recording medium; and
a displacement unit adapted to cause the recording medium and the inkjet head to perform relative displacement,
wherein the active energy ray curable inkjet apparatus further comprises:
an ink collection sheet supply unit adapted to perform face-to-face supply of a spitting ink collection sheet to nozzles of the inkjet head.
2 . The active energy ray curable inkjet apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the ink collection sheet supply unit is provided at the inkjet head.
3 . The active energy ray curable inkjet apparatus according to claim 1 , which further comprises:
a band-like ink collection sheet intervened between the recording medium and the inkjet head; and
a pair of sheet winding rollers adapted to take up and draw out both ends in a longitudinal direction of the band-like ink collection sheet,
wherein a drawing hole, through which nozzles juxtaposed in the inkjet head are exposed, is formed in the band-like ink collection sheet.
4 . The active energy ray curable inkjet apparatus according to claim 1 , which further comprises:
a band-like ink collection sheet intervened between the recording medium and the inkjet head; and
a pair of sheet winding rollers adapted to take up and draw out both ends in a longitudinal direction of the band-like ink collection sheet,
wherein the pair of sheet winding rollers is movable along a recording medium conveying direction by at least a distance by which the ink collection sheet deviates from the nozzles of the inkjet head.
5 . The active energy ray curable inkjet apparatus according to claim 3 , which further comprises:
a cleaning unit adapted to clean ink landed onto the band-like ink collection sheet.
6 . The active energy ray curable inkjet apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein a thickness of a downstream edge in a recording medium conveying direction, which extends in a width direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the band-like ink collection sheet, is thinner than a thickness of an upstream edge in the recording medium conveying direction of the band-like ink collection sheet.