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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2016
Applicant:
Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Inventors:
Eiichi Ohara, Nagano, JP;
Akira Takatsu, Nagano, JP;
Assignee:
MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Nagano, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/205 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01); B41J 2/52 (2006.01); B41J 2/525 (2006.01); G06K 15/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/205 (2013.01); B41J 2/2054 (2013.01); B41J 2/21 (2013.01); B41J 2/2132 (2013.01); B41J 2/52 (2013.01); B41J 2/525 (2013.01); G06K 15/107 (2013.01); G06K 2215/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract
A printing apparatus performing printing by an inkjet scheme includes: an inkjet head; and a controller, configured to control the operation of a main scan driver and a sub scan driver to perform a main scanning operation multiple times on each position on a medium. In the main scanning operation, for at least part of ejection positions serving as ejection targets of ink droplets in the main scanning operation, the controller causes the inkjet head to eject an ink droplet in accordance with a mask for selecting part of the at least part of ejection positions.