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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2019
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Satoru Arakane, Nagoya, JP;
Masashi Kuno, Obu, JP;
Shota Morikawa, Nagoya, JP;
Shin Hasegawa, Nagoya, JP;
Yoshiharu Furuhata, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A control device controls an image printing by a printing execution unit. The control device performs: determination processing of determining whether a first condition indicating that a supply of ink from an ink supply unit to a printing head is possibly delayed at a partial printing is satisfied, for each of a plurality of band images included in an image to be printed and aligned in a sub-scanning direction; first printing processing of, in a case where the first condition is not satisfied, causing the printing execution unit to print the band image by single time partial printing; and second printing processing of, in a case where the first condition is satisfied, causing the printing execution unit to print each of N partial images included in the band image and aligned in the sub-scanning direction by single time partial printing, to print the band image by N times partial printings.