US Patent Issued on April 14 for "Image forming apparatus and method of manufacturing printed material" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,156, issued on April 14.

"Image forming apparatus and method of manufacturing printed material" was invented by Yoshiyuki Okayama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image forming apparatus 1 includes: a transport mechanism 11 that transports a recording medium P; a coating device 24 that coats the recording medium P with a pretreatment liquid; an ink jet head 46; and a processor 300, in which the processor 300 is configured to, in a case where the recording medium P is transported at a first transportation speed and an ink is jetted from the ink jet head 46 to form an image on the recording medium P, perform control...