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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2021
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Yuta Toda, Nagoya, JP;
Masayoshi Hayashi, Nagoya, JP;
Yasuhiro Nakano, Nagoya, JP;
Shunsuke Minamikawa, Nagoya, JP;
Toshiro Ueda, Inazawa, JP;
Haruka Azechi, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An image recording system includes a plurality of image recording apparatuses. In a case where a certain image recording apparatus of the image recording apparatuses has a failure nozzle proportion of failure nozzles of all the nozzles of the recording head smaller than or equal to a threshold, image recording is performed on the certain image recording apparatus based on a recording instruction. In a case where the certain image recording apparatus has a failure nozzle proportion exceeding the threshold, a recording instruction is transmitted to a different image recording apparatus having a failure nozzle proportion smaller than that of the certain image recording apparatus, and image recording is performed on the different image recording apparatus based on the recording instruction.