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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2022
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Nagahara, Matsumoto, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a control unit configured to generate color chart data, a transport unit configured to intermittently transport a medium, a printing unit configured to print a colorimetric patches on a processing unit region, a drying unit configured to dry the processing unit region, and a colorimetric unit configured to measure a color of the colorimetric patches in the processing unit region subjected to the drying, wherein the control unit is configured to acquire, based on a printing setting, a drying holding time during which the processing unit region is held at the drying unit, calculate a color-measurable patch number which is measurable by the colorimetric unit within the drying holding time, and generate the color chart data for printing a number of the colorimetric patches in the processing unit region, the number being less than or equal to the color-measurable patch number.