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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2012
Takamitsu Kondo, Nagano, JP;
Toru Takahashi, Nagano, JP;
Hiroshi Wada, Nagano, JP;
Toshio Tanaka, Nagano, JP;
Takamitsu Kondo, Nagano, JP;
Toru Takahashi, Nagano, JP;
Hiroshi Wada, Nagano, JP;
Toshio Tanaka, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To reduce the tendency of glossiness to vary according to the ink ejection quantity, a printing device includes a color ink head for ejecting color ink to a medium, a clear ink head for ejecting transparent clear ink to the medium, and a controller for controlling ejection of the clear ink so that the clear ink is ejected to a region in which an ejection quantity of the color ink per unit area of the medium is less than a predetermined quantity, and the clear ink is not ejected to a region in which the ejection quantity of the color ink per unit area of the medium is greater than the predetermined quantity.