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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 02, 2018
Applicant:

Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yoshio Okumura, Nagano, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01); H04N 1/60 (2006.01); B41J 2/015 (2006.01); B41M 5/50 (2006.01); H04N 1/04 (2006.01); B41J 29/393 (2006.01); B41J 2/205 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/0015 (2013.01); B41J 2/015 (2013.01); B41J 2/2121 (2013.01); B41J 2/2132 (2013.01); B41M 5/502 (2013.01); H04N 1/0402 (2013.01); H04N 1/605 (2013.01); B41J 2002/2058 (2013.01); B41J 2029/3935 (2013.01);
Abstract

A printing apparatus includes a printing section, an imaging section, a color measurement section, and a discharge amount upper limit determining section. The imaging section is configured to capture an image of a test medium on which a test pattern has been printed. The color measurement section is configured to execute color measurement on the test medium. The discharge amount upper limit determining section is configured to determine an upper limit of an amount of ink to be discharged based on at least one of a color saturation suppression upper limit calculated based on color measurement information of the test medium obtained by the color measurement section and at least one of an overflowing suppression upper limit, a bleeding suppression upper limit, and an aggregation suppression upper limit calculated based on imaging information of the test medium obtained by the imaging section.


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