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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2020
Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Eiichi Ohara, Nagano, JP;
Akira Takatsu, Nagano, JP;
MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Nagano, JP;
Abstract
The present disclosure prevents a visible pattern corresponding to the pattern of a mask from being noticeable and enables more appropriate printing. A printing apparatusperforming printing by an inkjet scheme includes: an inkjet head; and a controller, configured to control the operation of a main scan driverand a sub scan driverto 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 controllercauses the inkjet headto eject an ink droplet in accordance with a mask for selecting part of the at least part of ejection positions. In the main scanning operation at one time, the controllercauses the inkjet headto eject an ink droplet in accordance with a preset first mask. In the main scanning operation at another time different from the one time, the controllercauses the inkjet headto eject an ink droplet in accordance with a second mask for selecting an ejection position in a pattern different from the first mask.