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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2012
Yoshihiko Sugimura, Nagoya, JP;
Yoshihiko Sugimura, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Abstract
A printer includes a feeding portion, a printing portion and a processor. The feeding portion is configured to feed a printing medium in an auxiliary scanning direction. The printing portion includes a plurality of heating elements arrayed in a main scanning direction and configured to perform printing of one line at a time on the printing medium. The processor is configured to set, based on a first speed, a number of lines for each of which a number of ON dots is specified, specify numbers of ON dots for the set number of lines, set a second speed based on a maximum value among the specified numbers of ON dots, control the feeding portion such that the feed speed is changed from the first speed to the second speed, and control the printing portion such that the printing is performed sequentially one line at a time.