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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2006
Tomomi Furuichi, Yokohama, JP;
Daigoro Kanematsu, Yokohama, JP;
Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Tokyo, JP;
Takao Ogata, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Tomomi Furuichi, Yokohama, JP;
Daigoro Kanematsu, Yokohama, JP;
Mitsutoshi Nagamura, Tokyo, JP;
Takao Ogata, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a serial inkjet printing apparatus mounting a plurality of kinds of inks which have different properties and are arranged in parallel, high-speed bidirectional printing is realized without causing an influence of fixing period to prolong output time more than necessary. In order to realize the high-speed bidirectional printing, an order of executing forward print scanning and backward print scanning is controlled so as to further reduce a sum of time required to form an image and time required to wait for the formed image to be fixed. Thus, also in the bidirectional printing, between a forward direction and a backward direction, print scanning in a direction having shorter fixing period is set prior to that in the other direction. Consequently, total time required for image output can be further reduced.