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Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 10, 2018
Applicant:

Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Naoki Kayahara, Nagano, JP;

Tatsuya Nakano, Nagano, JP;

Eishin Yoshikawa, Nagano, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01); B41J 2/145 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/04543 (2013.01); B41J 2/04581 (2013.01); B41J 2/145 (2013.01); B41J 2/2114 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is provided a printing apparatus including a print head that has a color nozzle row for applying ink to a roll paper and a working liquid nozzle row, a main scanning unit that relatively moves the print head with respect to the roll paper in the main scanning direction (X-axis direction), a sub-scanning unit that relatively moves the roll paper in the sub-scanning direction (Y-axis direction) intersecting the main scanning direction (X-axis direction) with respect to the print head, and a control device that controls a relative position between a use area of the nozzle included in the color nozzle row in the sub-scanning direction (Y-axis direction) and a use area of the nozzle included in a working liquid nozzle row, based on the attribute information of the roll paper.


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