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Abstract

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a rotator rotatable around a shaft to carry a recording medium on an outer circumferential surface of the rotator to convey the recording medium in a conveyance direction; multiple discharge units to discharge liquid onto the recording medium; a sheet detector to detect the recording medium; an encoder wheel on the shaft of the rotator; a first encoder sensor to read the encoder wheel; an encoder scale on the outer circumferential surface of the rotator; a second encoder sensor to read the encoder scale; and circuitry configured to determine a discharge start timing of at least one of the multiple discharge units based on detection results of the sheet detector, the first encoder sensor, and the second encoder sensor.

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