Title:
PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2015/194177
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
A printing apparatus having a plurality of print element arrays including a plurality of printing elements that are time-share driven achieves both improvement of quality at an image edge, and maintenance of uniformity with respect to inclination error between print element arrays. In a case where the plurality of printing elements of the print element array that discharges ink having the highest density are driven, and dots of image data in the array direction of the printing elements are printed so that the dots are arranged along a specified line in the array direction of the printing elements. Whereas the plurality of printing elements of a different print element array are driven, and dots of the image data in the array direction of those printing elements are printed so that each dot is displaced by a displacement amount for the each dot with respect to the specified line.
Inventors:
HONDA YOSHIYUKI (JP)
NISHIKORI HITOSHI (JP)
MASUYAMA ATSUHIKO (JP)
NISHIKORI HITOSHI (JP)
MASUYAMA ATSUHIKO (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2015/003043
Publication Date:
December 23, 2015
Filing Date:
June 17, 2015
Export Citation:
Assignee:
CANON KK (JP)
International Classes:
B41J2/045
Domestic Patent References:
| WO2001053102A1 | 2001-07-26 |
Foreign References:
| US20120044291A1 | 2012-02-23 | |||
| US20090033702A1 | 2009-02-05 | |||
| US20060158471A1 | 2006-07-20 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
TANI & ABE, P.C. (Akasaka 2-chome Minato-k, Tokyo 52, JP)
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