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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 1983

Filed:

Nov. 03, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:

Hideo Horiuchi, Kanagawa, JP;

Kazutaka Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358 75 ; 358 78 ;
Abstract

An ink-jet color printing apparatus is comprised of a rotary drum that bears the paper or other medium to receive the color printing and rotates in a primary scanning direction. A group of yellow ink-jet heads, a group of magenta ink-jet heads, a group of cyan ink-jet heads and a group of black ink-jet heads are provided, with each group of ink-jet heads arranged in the secondary scanning direction parallel to the axis of rotation of the drum. These ink-jet heads form simultaneously dot lines of four different colors. Groups of ink-jet heads of respective color are comprised of a plurality of ink-jet heads arranged in the primary scanning direction so as to form a plurality of dot lines constituting a single scanning line. A single picture element is formed by a dot matrix having n.times.m possible positions on a plurality of dot lines. Intermediate colors and color densities thereof can be achieved by combinations of several kinds of colored inks and dot patterns formed on a single matrix.


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