Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

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Shigeyasu Nagoshi

Hitoshi Sugimoto

Hiromitsu Hirabayashi

Miyuki Matsubara

Noribumi Koitabashi

Fumihiro Gotoh

Yuji Akiyama

Masao Kato

Yoshiaki Murayama

Minako Kato

Atsushi Arai

Okinori Tsuchiya

Satoshi Azuma

Masaya Uetuki

Masaya Uetsuki

Yutaka Kano

Takeshi Murase

Minoru Teshigawara

Susumu Hirosawa

Kentarou Muro

Kiichiro Takahashi

Jiro Moriyama

Akihiko Nakatani

Hiroshi Tajika

Masami Ikeda

Sadayuki Sugama

Masahiko Higuma

Tsutomu Abe

Shinichi Sato

Eiichiro Shimizu

Makoto Torigoe

Naohito Asai

Takahiro Mori

Akitoshi Yamada

Miyuki Fujita

Rie Kajihara

Hitoshi Nishikori

Fumitaka Goto

Mitsuhiro Ono

Fumihiro Goto

Toshiharu Inui

Tomokazu Ishikawa

Osamu Iwasaki

Naoji Otsuka

Kentaro Yano

Koji Terasawa

Ayumi Sano

Kenjiro Watanabe

Makoto Takemura

Hideo Fukazawa

Daisuke Ishii

Takayuki Murata

Naoki Sumi

Tetsuji Kurata

Takashi Nakamura

Hiroshi Yoshino

Shigeru Yoshimura

Kei Kosaka

Shigeru Okamura

Suzuko Fukao

Toshio Kashino

Hidehiko Kanda

Makoto Aoki

Tetsuya Suwa

Nobuyuki Hirayama

Hiroshi Sato

Hiroki Tajima

Koichiro Kawaguchi

Takeshi Okazaki

Hideki Yamaguchi

Manabu Yamazoe

Noboru Koumura

Shinji Kanemitsu

Tetsuhiro Nitta

Yoshihisa Takizawa

Koichiro Nakazawa

Masafumi Wataya

Makoto Kashimura

Hideto Yokoi

Shinya Matsui

Mayumi Yamamoto

Yugo Mochizuki

Masaru Sato

Yasuhiro Unosawa

Hiroshi Fukui

Noriaki Ito

Kazuhiko Shinoda

Masaya Kikuta

Toshiyuki Onishi

Kenji Kubozono

Takayuki Fujita

Hisashi Morioka

Toshiyuki Ohnishi

Satoshi Tada

Fumiyuki Mikami

Tetsurou Inoue

A printing apparatus includes a printhead having a plurality of chips each including a plurality of nozzle arrays which are arranged in a predetermined nozzle array direction and each of which is formed from a plurality of nozzles and energy generation elements provided in correspondence with the nozzles of each nozzle array and each configured to generate energy used for discharging ink. The apparatus relatively moves the printhead and a print medium in a direction intersecting the nozzle array direction, reads a predetermined test pattern printed on the print medium by driving the printhead, analyzes the read test pattern, calculates a slant of the printhead with respect to a reference based on a result of the analysis, and corrects the calculated slant of the printhead by moving the printhead.

Printing apparatus and correction method therefor

A printing apparatus includes a printhead having a plurality of chips, each including a plurality of nozzle arrays which are arranged in a predetermined nozzle array direction and each of which is formed from a plurality of nozzles and energy generation elements provided in correspondence with the nozzles of each nozzle array and each configured to generate energy used for discharging ink. The apparatus relatively moves the printhead and a print medium in a direction intersecting the nozzle array direction, reads a predetermined test pattern printed on the print medium by driving the printhead, analyzes the read test pattern, calculates a slant of the printhead with respect to a reference based on a result of the analysis, and corrects the calculated slant of the printhead by moving the printhead.

An inkjet printing apparatus obtains data of a second image by correcting, using shading data, signal values of pixels in an image of a read test pattern so that a signal value of a pixel lower than a value of the shading data becomes a value corresponding to a lowest luminance; specifies an area of a pattern of each of the plurality of inks in the image of the test pattern using the data of a first image and the data of the second image; and calculates a position deviation amount of a printhead based on a position of the pattern of the specified area.

Inkjet printing apparatus and control method therefor

According to an embodiment, a printing apparatus for printing an image on a print medium by a printhead while relatively scanning the printhead, and discharging ink from the printhead to the print medium is controlled as follows. That is, a time corresponding to a print resolution in a scanning direction of the printhead is divided into a plurality of times, and these print elements are time-divisionally driven by using the divided times as driving timings. At this time, it is controlled to form a plurality of groups each including a predetermined number of adjacent print elements of the print elements, and change the driving timings for each of the groups using the divided time as a unit.

Printing apparatus and control method therefor

A printing apparatus includes a full-line printhead in which a plurality of chips, on each of which a plurality of nozzle arrays are juxtaposed, are arranged in the nozzle arrayed direction, and which prints by the entire width of a printing medium using a plurality of nozzles arranged on the plurality of chips. The printing apparatus discharges ink from a predetermined number of successive nozzles on each nozzle array of each chip toward a printing medium during conveyance, thereby forming a plurality of first patterns corresponding to at least one nozzle array of each chip on the printing medium in the nozzle arrayed direction, reads the plurality of first patterns from the printing medium during conveyance using a sensor, calculates the shift amount of an ink attached position based on the plurality of read first patterns and corrects the attached position of ink based on the shift amount.

Printing apparatus and processing method therefor

A first humidified gas is supplied through a first supply port to a sheet. A second humidified gas is supplied to a space where nozzles of an inkjet recording head are exposed through a second supply port located at a position closer to the recording heads than the first supply port, to increase atmosphere humidity in the space. The sheet portion having a moisture content increased by the humidification in advance is advanced into the space having the increased atmosphere humidity, to record on the sheet using the inkjet recording head. An amount of humidification with the first humidified gas is set according to at least one recording condition.

Recording method and recording apparatus

To provide an inkjet printing apparatus that suppresses occurrence of image deterioration, such as a texture, a moire, and a streak in a printing result. In order for this to be achieved, a level is set up to a overlapping portion of a chip of a print head depending on dot impact accuracy, and a print data distribution rate of each chip in the overlapping portion is determined according to the level.

Inkjet printing apparatus with dot impact accuracy information

In image processing, it is possible to suppress density fluctuation and keep graininess low as well as obtain a good balance of the processing load. More specifically, when dividing multi-valued data and generating two-pass multi-pass printing data, divided multi-valued data that is common to the two passes is generated in addition to the divided multi-valued data for each of the two passes. Moreover, quantized data of that common multi-valued data is reflected on the quantized data for each pass. Furthermore, when generating quantized data, a process of generating common data by the aforementioned data division, or a process of performing quantization first without dividing the multi-valued data and then dividing the quantized 2-pass data is selectively performed according to the printing position on printing medium.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

A process of detecting a defective recording element and a process of correcting the defective recording element are performed with appropriate processing loads. When the detection process and the correction processes are performed with small loads, for example, at a time of recording, a resolution used for reading an inspection pattern is set lower than that set in a case where the processes can be performed with small loads, for example, at down time before recording. The reading resolution to be set may be determined by an apparatus in accordance with a processing load or may be arbitrarily determined by a user.

Recording apparatus and recording system

In a line-head type inkjet printing apparatus that ejects a plurality of types of inks, an inkjet printing apparatus is provided in which the change of its ejection properties different depending on the type of ink is prevented from occurring. The line-head type printing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that counts the ejection number of liquid from each of print heads in each of a plurality of print heads. Furthermore, the printing apparatus compares the ejection number of liquid from each of the print heads counted by the acquisition unit with a threshold value set for each of the print heads. The printing apparatus includes a change unit that can move a holder in the main scanning direction when the counted ejection number of liquid exceeds the threshold value set for the print head.

Inkjet printing apparatus for changing a range of used ejection ports according to ejection port usage

A printing method is performed on a plurality of inkjet print heads to which humidified air is supplied to retain the humidity in the print heads. Ink colors for the plurality of heads are arranged in a sequence corresponding to ink characteristics. The plurality of print heads is divided into groups, with one of the groups being subjected to preliminary ejection on a sheet. The other print head group not subjected to preliminary ejection is located in a more upstream area with respect to a conveyance direction of the sheet.

Inkjet printing method

When an image is recorded using a multichip recording head including a plurality of chips each having a plurality of nozzle arrays, a change in image density can occur due to a registration error between chips in an overlapping part where two chips are connected. To suppress the change in image density, input image data is distributed to two chips such that there are dots overlapping each other between the two chips in the overlapping part.

A first reading unit that reads a pattern or an image formed on a sheet by a print unit for recognizing a print unit state, a second reading unit that reads a cut mark formed on the sheet on a downstream thereof, a cutter that cuts the sheet on a downstream thereof, and a reverse unit that reverses the sheet fed to the print unit again are provided. In duplex printing, the sheet where images are sequentially printed on a first surface is led to the reverse unit, the front and rear faces are reversed, and the sheet is fed to the print unit again. The sheet where images and cut marks are sequentially printed on a second surface is cut by the cutter for each piece and discharged. The sheet is cut on the basis of a reading of the cut mark by the second reading unit.

Print apparatus

A printing apparatus conducts inspection associated with printing by changing a relative positional relationship between a line print head and a sheet feeding position for a sheet in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the sheet is fed, forming an image on the sheet using the line print head a plurality of times, and reading the formed images using a reading unit.

Printing apparatus

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Yokohama, Japan

Shigeyasu Nagoshi