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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2011
Mitsutaka Nakata, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsutaka Nakata, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing device includes one or more engines that are attachable to and detachable from the printing device and print an image on a recording medium. Each engine includes a plurality of head modules each having a plurality of heads that eject ink, one or more data transfer control units that control an image data, pixel by pixel, the image data being subjected to print and being transferred from an upper level device, and an output control unit that requests the data transfer control unit to transfer the image data in a pixel order in accordance with an ink ejection order determined by the engine mounted on the printing device, transfers the image data having been transferred in the pixel order to the head module, in the same pixel order, that is subjected to eject ink, and make the head module eject the ink onto the recording medium.