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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2017
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Tokunaga, Nagano, JP;
Tetsuji Takeishi, Nagano, JP;
Shota Hiramatsu, Nagano, JP;
Hiroki Chino, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a transporting device that transports a medium and a printing unit that prints onto the medium. In addition, the printing apparatus includes an image sensor that images the medium and a controller that detects a displacement amount of the medium in an intersecting direction which intersects a surface to be printed of the medium based on a plurality of images obtained by imaging the medium by the sensor at different times and that controls the transporting device and the printing unit according to the displacement amount.