Ink cartridge tank

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE:To provide and ink cartridge tank capable of saving ink and of facilitating cartridge replacement by partitioning an ink tank into multiple ink cartridges of a various capacities corresponding to the respective consumption rates of colors. CONSTITUTION:In two-color printing with red and black inks, for instance, an ink tank is partitioned into a chamber 2-3 for black ink and a chamber 2-4 for red ink. The ratio between the chambers 2-3 and 2-4 is dependent on the ratio between the consumption rates of the black and red inks. The inks are supplied to a black and red printing heads 1-1 and 1-2 for printing.

Inventors

• 👤 Yuji Tanaka

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