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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2019
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Yuki Nakazawa, Suwa-gun, JP;
Naoki Maruyama, Matsumoto, JP;
Assignee:
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/0451 (2013.01); B41J 2/04586 (2013.01); B41J 2/21 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is a printing method for forming ink dots on a printing medium by using a plurality of nozzle rows that discharge a plurality of types of photocurable inks. The printing method includes detecting a defective nozzle that has an ink discharge fault, and compensating for dot omission by causing, preceding the defective nozzle, a preceding nozzle that discharges an inducing ink different from a compensation target ink, which the defective nozzle should have discharged, to discharge the inducing ink to a position on the printing medium where dot omission occur due to the defective nozzle.