Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and image forming method
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置及图像形成方法
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Application No.: US13410564Application Date: 2012-03-02
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Publication No.: US08777355B2Publication Date: 2014-07-15
- Inventor: Takayoshi Kagata , Tsuyoshi Sano
- Applicant: Takayoshi Kagata , Tsuyoshi Sano
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
- Priority: JP2011-047982 20110304
- Main IPC: B41J29/38
- IPC: B41J29/38

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a head unit that ejects ink and a control unit that forms a metallic image by causing metallic ink that includes metallic particles to be ejected onto a medium from the head unit are provided, wherein the control unit changes the amount of the metallic ink that is ejected per unit area of the medium based on the gradation values of the pixels that configure the metallic image while causing the metallic image to have a predetermined width or greater.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120223984A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD Public/Granted day:2012-09-06
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