US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 30 for "Printing device and control method of printing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,071, issued on June 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing device and control method of printing device" was invented by Hiroaki Houjou (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuji Asano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a printing device and a control method of a printing device that prevent accumulation of dirt on a drying device caused by a pretreatment liquid. In a printing device including an ink applying device that applies an ink to a printing surface of a long transported substrate, a pretreatment liquid applying device that applies a pretreatment liquid to the printing surface, and a first drying devi...