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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2011
Yuichi Sakurada, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuyuki Satoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Masato Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Arata Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsuhiko Okada, Saitama, JP;
Daisaku Horikawa, Saitama, JP;
Daisuke Sawada, Saitama, JP;
Norikazu Taki, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichi Sakurada, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuyuki Satoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Masato Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Arata Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsuhiko Okada, Saitama, JP;
Daisaku Horikawa, Saitama, JP;
Daisuke Sawada, Saitama, JP;
Norikazu Taki, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording apparatus includes a carriage having a recording head including nozzles, a moving unit moving the carriage, a platen including plate members connected in a carriage traveling direction to support a recording medium when the nozzles eject ink onto the recording medium, a transferring unit transferring the recording medium in a transferring direction perpendicular to the carriage traveling direction, a recording control unit recording patterns at predetermined positions in the carriage traveling direction while moving the carriage in forward and backward traveling directions to form a carriage traveling direction pattern array, a determination unit determining ink ejecting times at the predetermined positions in the carriage traveling direction, and a time control unit to linearly interpolate between the determined ink ejecting times at the predetermined positions in the carriage traveling direction to control ink ejecting times for intervals between the predetermined positions based on a result of the linear interpolation.