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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
May. 14, 2008
Takashi Kiuchi, Tomi, JP;
Noriyuki Miyagoshi, Tomi, JP;
Tadashi Kishida, Tomi, JP;
Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Abstract
A printer including a feeding unit configured to perform repeated feeding of a medium for a predetermined feeding distance in a predetermined feeding direction, a print head configured to print on a printing surface of the medium in a printing zone set each time the feeding unit performs a feeding of the medium for the feeding distance, and a printing pass setting unit configured to set the printing zone containing a plurality of printing passes. The printing pass setting unit sets the printing passes such that boundaries between the printing passes extend diagonally relative to a width direction of the medium that is perpendicular to the feeding direction. The printing pass setting unit can set the printing passes such that the boundaries between the printing passes extend in waveform in the width direction with oscillation of the waveform being in the feeding direction.