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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2007
Setsuji Tatsumi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Setsuji Tatsumi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording apparatus includes: a recording device which includes recording elements by performing deposition of ink droplets including main droplets forming main dots on a recording medium and satellite droplets accompanying the main droplets and forming subsidiary dots; a dot pattern storage device which beforehand stores a plurality of dot patterns; and a dot pattern selector device which selects the dot patterns from the dot pattern storage device, wherein when one pixel satisfies i+j≦k, where i is a main dots total number to be recorded for the pixel, j is a subsidiary dots total number to be recorded for the pixel and k is a number of the main dots to be recorded for the pixel by the recording elements of one type, then the dot pattern selector device selects certain dot patterns for the pixel.