Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Printer and printing method
- Patent Title (中): 打印机和打印方式
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Application No.: US11941843Application Date: 2007-11-16
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Publication No.: US07802869B2Publication Date: 2010-09-28
- Inventor: Shinya Nakano
- Applicant: Shinya Nakano
- Applicant Address: JP Nagano
- Assignee: Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagano
- Agency: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.
- Priority: JP2006-316680 20061124
- Main IPC: B41J29/38
- IPC: B41J29/38 ; B41J2/145 ; B41J2/15

Abstract:
An inkjet printer includes a printing head having nozzle units, a main scanning control unit, a sub scanning control unit, and a printing pass setting unit. Each nozzle unit includes a nozzle array where the nozzles are arranged in a nozzle array direction. The main scanning control unit makes the printing head to scan in a main scanning direction while the nozzle units discharge ink drops. The sub scanning control unit relatively moves the printing head with respect to the medium in a sub scanning direction. The printing pass setting unit correlates each of the nozzles with each of multiple printing passes to be printed at once by a scanning of the printing head in the main scanning direction, and sets discharging nozzles among the nozzles to discharge ink drops to the printing passes not to overlap boundaries of the printing passes with boundaries of the nozzle units.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090174740A1 PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD Public/Granted day:2009-07-09
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