[54] METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INK-JET PRINTING
[75] Inventors: Masao Kato, Yokohama, Japan;
Hiromitsu Hirabayashi, Irvine, Calif.;
Jiro Moriyama, Kawasaki, Japan;
Hiroshi Tajika; Toshiharu Inui, both
of Yokohama, Japan; Yutaka
Kurabayashi, Tokorozawa, Japan;
Hitoshi Sugimoto, Yokohama, Japan;
Masaya Uetsuki, Yokohama, Japan;
Minako Kato, Yokohama, Japan
[73] Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo,
Japan
[ * ] Notice: This patent issued on a continued prosecution application filed under 37 CFR 1.53(d), and is subject to the twenty year patent term provisions of 35 U.S.C. 154(a)(2).
[21] Appl. No.: 08/598,842
[22] Filed: Feb. 9, 1996
[30] Foreign Application Priority Data
Feb. 13, 1995 [JP] Japan 7-023863
Feb. 13, 1995 [JP] Japan 7-023910
Feb. 13, 1995 [JP] Japan 7-024442
Feb. 13, 1995 [JP] Japan 7-024443
Feb. 7, 1996 [JP] Japan 7-021455
[51] Int. C I. B41J 2/01
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Primary Examiner—Peter S. Wong
Assistant Examiner—Gregory J. Toatley, Jr.
Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper &
Scinto
[57] ABSTRACT
An ink jet printing method for performing printing onto a printing medium with the use of both of a colored ink ejected from an ink jet head and a printing property improving liquid to be applied to the printing medium for improving a printing property for an ink jet printing apparatus, having the steps of: at least one time or more printing a first colored ink on the printing medium, at least one time or more applying the printing property improving liquid onto a region printed with the colored ink, and at least one time or more printing a second colored ink on a region where the printing property improving liquid is applied.
81 Claims, 55 Drawing Sheets
