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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2020
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Eishin Yoshikawa, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
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 acquires a possible printing Duty of a predetermined nozzle group on the basis of a number of occurrences of non-discharging nozzles in the predetermined nozzle group, compares a set printing Duty that the predetermined nozzle group is to print among an overall printing Duty, and the possible printing Duty. and supplements a printing Duty with another nozzle group in a case in which the possible printing Duty is smaller than the set printing Duty.