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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2011
Yoshiaki Inoue, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Yoshiaki Inoue, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image recording method of recording a desired image on a recording medium by a recording head having recording elements which form pixels on the recording medium, while moving at least one of the recording medium and the recording head relatively to each other in a prescribed conveyance direction, the method includes: a defective recording element information acquisition step of acquiring defective recording element information including position information of defective recording elements included in the recording elements; and a defective recording element compensation step of performing compensation for the defective recording elements by using compensation recording elements in accordance with a distance between a pair of the defective recording elements derived from the position information, the compensation recording elements being of normal recording elements included in the recording elements situated nearby the pair of the defective recording elements.