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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2023
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Shingo Nishioka, Kanagawa, JP;
Takayoshi Kikuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hajime Nagai, Kanagawa, JP;
Shin Genta, Kanagawa, JP;
Ayumi Yasuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Keiji Kuriyama, Saitama, JP;
Serena Yoshikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Wada, Tokyo, JP;
Fumihiro Goto, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Yoshitoku, Kanagawa, JP;
Naoko Baba, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Kawafuji, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiyuki Honda, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihiro Mouri, Tokyo, JP;
Shunsuke Kakei, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a printing-medium conveyance unit, a printhead, and a control unit. The printhead has a first array of ejection ports ejecting a first ink and a second array of ejection ports ejecting a second ink, with the ports arranged in a printing-medium conveyance direction and the arrays arranged in a predetermined direction intersecting the conveyance direction. The control unit performs control to print an image of a foundation layer and images in stack and non-stack regions on the printing medium by having the conveyance unit convey the printing medium while scanning the printhead. The control unit performs control so that in printing in the non-stack region, the image of the foundation layer is printed using an ejection-port group in the first array at the same position as an ejection-port group in the second array for printing the image in the non-stack region, in an ejection-port arrangement direction.