US Patent Issued to MIMAKI ENGINEERING on Dec. 2 for "Printing device, ink supply device, printing method, and ink supply method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,676, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MIMAKI ENGINEERING Co. Ltd. (Nagano, Japan).

"Printing device, ink supply device, printing method, and ink supply method" was invented by Shin Endo (Nagano, Japan) and Shunsuke Akuta (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention more appropriately manages maintenance executed on an inkjet head. A printing device that performs printing through an inkjet method includes an inkjet head, a sub-tank 202, an ink amount detection unit, and a maintenance determination unit (maintenance controller). When the amount of ink in the sub-tank 202 is equal to or larger than a first thresho...