US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on July 14 for "Printing system including a pretreatment-head capping mechanism with dual-position operation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,095, issued on July 14, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing system including a pretreatment-head capping mechanism with dual-position operation" was invented by Noriyuki Kawamata (Nagoya, Japan) and Akihito Kobayashi (Konan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a printing apparatus including: a platen configured to convey, in a conveying direction, a printing medium to be subjected to a pretreatment for applying a pretreatment agent before or after the platen is located at a set position; an ejection head having a nozzle surface provided with a nozzle and configured to perform an ejection p...