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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:
Aug. 06, 2002

Filed:

Feb. 09, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Akira Iwaishi, Tokyo, JP;

Akihiko Miyaki, Yokohama, JP;

Takumi Kawamura, Fuchu, JP;

Masahiro Ono, Zama, JP;

Assignee:

Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/205 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/205 ;
Abstract

A halftone printing is realized by jetting ink drops of mutually different sizes toward a print medium. Among them, the ink drop having the middle size is set to be a reference ink drop for determining injection timings of the ink drops. When the ink drop to be jetted is bigger than the reference ink drop, an injection timing thereof is delayed relative to that of the reference ink drop. On the other hand, when the ink drop to be jetted is smaller than the reference ink drop, an injection timing thereof is advanced relative to that of the reference ink drop. This allows all the ink drops to be hit upon the print medium precisely at given positions.


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