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Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 03, 2017
Applicant:

Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Eishin Yoshikawa, Nagano, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/21 (2006.01); B41J 2/045 (2006.01); G06K 15/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/2139 (2013.01); B41J 2/04543 (2013.01); B41J 2/2132 (2013.01); G06K 15/105 (2013.01);
Abstract

A liquid discharging apparatus is provided with a head including a plurality of nozzle groups, a main scanning portion that scans the head in a main scanning direction, a sub-scanning portion that relatively moves the head and the medium in a sub-scanning direction, which intersects the main scanning direction, and a control portion, in which the control portion generates supplementing printing data, which corrects printing data in a manner in which it is possible to supplement with another nozzle within a predetermined nozzle group and executes a printing process on the basis of the supplementing printing data in a case in which it is determined that a predetermined nozzle within the predetermined nozzle group is a non-discharging nozzle when forming a plurality of raster lines on the medium by discharging the liquid from the nozzles of the plurality of nozzle groups.


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