Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Printing apparatus and printing method
- Patent Title (中): 印刷装置和印刷方法
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Application No.: US12620997Application Date: 2009-11-18
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Publication No.: US08480197B2Publication Date: 2013-07-09
- Inventor: Hideki Nakanishi , Hiroshi Uemura
- Applicant: Hideki Nakanishi , Hiroshi Uemura
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2008-317706 20081212
- Main IPC: B41J29/38
- IPC: B41J29/38 ; B41J2/205 ; B41J29/393
Abstract:
A printing apparatus which prints by discharging ink droplets from a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array based on print data using a printhead including the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array for discharging ink droplets of the same color and different discharge amounts, the apparatus comprising: a specifying unit configured to specify a discharge failure nozzle in the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array; and a controller configured to assign print data corresponding to the discharge failure nozzle specified by the specifying unit to a nozzle of a nozzle array different from a nozzle array to which the discharge failure nozzle belongs, out of the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100149240A1 PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD Public/Granted day:2010-06-17
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