Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takayuki Ninomiya

Masashi Kamada

Kazuhiko Morimura

Tadashi Matsumoto

Kota Kiyama

Masaaki Naoi

Yuji Akiyama

Toshiharu Inui

Midori Yasuda

Noribumi Koitabashi

Hitoshi Nishikori

Sadayuki Sugama

Makoto Torigoe

Masashi Matsumoto

Yasuhiro Unosawa

Masaya Uetuki

Fumiyuki Mikami

A recording apparatus that performs recording by ejecting ink onto a recording medium from a plurality of recording heads include a conveying roller that conveys the recording medium that is continuously fed; the plurality of recording heads arranged in the conveying direction of the conveying roller; a skew sensor that detects the amount of displacement of the position of the recording medium skewed in the widthwise direction perpendicular to the conveying direction relative to the recording heads when the recording medium is skewed with respect to the conveying direction; and an angle adjusting mechanism that rotates the recording heads relative to the recording medium on the basis of the amount of displacement detected by the skew sensor.

Recording apparatus and recording method

In an ink jet printing apparatus using a plurality of printing heads arranged in a convey direction of a printing medium, an inclination angle of the printing medium to a predetermined convey direction is detected to adjust, in accordance with the resultant inclination angle, timings at which ink is jetted from the plurality of printing heads. This allows, even when the printing medium being subjected to a printing operation has a slight meander shape, an image to be formed on a printing medium so that printing positions of the plurality of printing heads have no dislocation.

Printing apparatus and control method of the printing apparatus

A method for controlling a printing position for a printing apparatus for using a plurality of printing heads to print an image is provided. This method prevents, even when a conveyed print medium has deformation such as deflection, a printing position of a print medium from being dislocated. To realize this, componentstofor detecting the conveyance speed of a print medium and componentstoadjusting the driving timing at which the respective plurality of printing heads eject ink in accordance with the resultant conveyance speed are provided. As a result, even when a conveyed print medium has deformation such as deflection, the control can be provided that prevents the print medium from having a dislocated printing position.

Ink jet printing apparatus and method

Ink jet printing apparatus and method for controlling print position on deflected print medium

This invention provides a printing apparatus which has an ink ejection head capable of forming an image at high resolution and still can reliably identify a location where an ink ejection error has occurred without using an expensive image reading device. This printing apparatus has a distance adjusting device to change a distance between the ink ejection head and the print medium, and a controller to set a plurality of different distances by controlling the distance adjusting device. The controller controls the distance adjusting device to selectively set either a first distance that produces a normal printed image having within a predetermined range a landing error on the print medium of ink droplets ejected from the print head or a second distance that produces a landing error greater than the predetermined range.

Ink jet printing appartus for identifying ejection error

A host computer acquires information about an amount of remaining ink of a printer. In response to the acquired information about the amount of remaining ink, the host computer displays a message on a display screen so that a user can select whether an ink cartridge is to be replaced with a new one or the process is to return to a previous routine without replacing the ink cartridge.

Information processing apparatus which obtains information concerning residual ink amount from an attached ink jet printer

A printing apparatus, which performs printing by using a full-line type printhead, prints an image in accordance with an attachment angle of the printhead, and automatically performs registration adjustment when using plural printheads. In the apparatus, an angle of the printhead relative to a transfer direction of a print medium is detected, image data received in raster format is divided into plural pixel blocks, the divided pixel blocks are stored into a memory, the order of reading the pixel blocks from the memory is determined based on the detected relative angle, and the read data is transmitted to the printhead and used for printing.

Printing apparatus and image data processing method therefor

When image data is generated based on a drawing command by an inkjet printing apparatus which performs printing on a print medium with the use of an inkjet printhead discharging ink, an area of a graphic to be drawn is calculated based on the received drawing command, and it is determined whether or not the area exceeds a predetermined value, and whether or not a density value of the graphic exceeds a predetermined density value based on the drawing command. In accordance with the two determination results, the density value is converted, and image data is generated based on the converted apparatus value. Accordingly, occurrence of cockling can effectively be prevented without largely increasing a load imposed on hardware.

Inkjet printing apparatus and image data generation method of said apparatus

A bus arbiter capable of avoiding needless increase in circuit scale is provided. The bus arbiter controls a bus shared by a CPU (central processing unit) and a plurality of apparatuses for generating addresses. The bus arbiter includes a determination unit for determining if a request of an address is a request of an address where no corresponding device is present, and a processor for passing the request by transmitting an ACK signal without performing a writing operation for a request of a writing operation, and transmitting dummy data and an ACK signal without performing a reading operation for a request of a reading operation, when the determination unit has determined that the request is a request of an address where no corresponding device is present.

Bus arbiter

An ink jet printing apparatus includes a plurality of heads for discharging liquids used for plural types of prints each exhibiting a different attribute. Further the apparatus includes a control apparatus for adjusting and controlling a timing of a preliminary discharge for maintaining a discharge not contributing to records by said plurality of heads, per attribute of the liquids to be discharged in such a manner that droplets of the liquids exhibiting the same attribute are discharged to the same position.

Ink jet printing apparatus with preliminary discharge control

A recording apparatus records at a higher density than the density of arranged recording elements of a recording head by interlace recording. A scanning section makes the recording head sub-scan in order to enable the recording head to interlace record between lines of dots recorded in main scannings. A read-out section reads out the same recording data from a memory two or more times. With every reading of the recording data, a selector complementarily selects recording data from the recording data read out from the memory and supplies the selected recording data to the recording head.

Interlace recording apparatus and method

Bus arbiter operable as a DRAM controller

According to the present invention, there is provided an ink jet recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium by discharging ink to the surface of the recording medium, wherein ink is reserved in an ink tank including a negative pressure generating member, such as an absorber and a foaming member, and a function of accurately detecting the residual quantity such that depletion to a predetermined level can be detected is realized. Light emitted by a photointerrupter is allowed to pass through a portion of a wall surface of the ink tank made of transparent plastic or the like which is transmissible with respect to detection light emitted by the photointerrupter to detect change in the light reflectance in the boundary portion between the wall surface and the ink absorber. In accordance with reflectance obtained in a case where no ink exists in the detected portion and that obtained in a case where ink exists, the residual quantity of ink can be detected.

Ink jet recording apparatus having residual quantity detection unit and

When a position deviation of more than 1/2 pitch of ejection port pitch is generated by a difference in thermal expansion between ejection ports of a low temperature line head and ejection ports of high temperature line head, a dummy data is inserted in part of ejection data arrangement, so that ejection data inherent in the arrangement is shifted by one ejection port unit to be assigned to other ejection ports This reduces position deviation between dots formed by individual heads according to the data to less than 1/2 pitch.

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Ichikawa, Japan

Takayuki Ninomiya