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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/205 ; B41J 2/17 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/205 ; B41J 2/17 ;
Abstract
An ink-jet recording apparatus and recording method uses a recording head wherein nozzles with small diameter are arrayed in high density, to achieve both high quality and high speed. Accordingly, whether to record a certain area in the image with recording ink alone or with both recording ink and clear ink is determined according to the image data of the certain area, and recording is performed based on the determined results, using a recording head wherein ink discharging nozzles and clear ink nozzles are arrayed alternately.