US Patent Issued to Ricoh on July 14 for "Printing apparatus, printing system, printing method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,123, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, printing system, printing method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Jun Hitosugi (Tokyo), Masayuki Tsuchiya (Tokyo), Yoshihito Tsuboi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenji Ishii (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a print execution device and an illumination device. The print execution device includes a plurality of heads to print an image on a print medium based on print data. The illumination device irradiates the printed image on the print medium with illumination light from behind a printed face ...