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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2011
Seishin Yoshida, Azumino, JP;
Seishin Yoshida, Azumino, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The printing device includes a print head having a specialty gloss ink ejection head for ejecting a specialty gloss ink that creates a special gloss effect and a dye-based color ink ejection head for ejecting a dye-based color ink, and an ejection control unit configured to carry out ejection of the specialty gloss ink from the specialty gloss ink ejection head and ejection of the dye-based color ink from the dye-based color ink ejection head, and to carry out printing of a special gloss area with the specialty gloss ink and printing of a reproduction area onto the special gloss area with the dye-based color ink. The ejection control unit has a first printing mode for carrying out printing of the reproduction area in a main scan that chronologically follows a main scan of the print head in which printing of the special gloss area is carried out.