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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2015
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takuma Hayashi, Nagano, JP;
Tomonaga Hasegawa, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing control apparatus includes a dither halftone component configured to convert printing data into a multi-value dot pattern. A reference pattern is a pattern that includes a first dot row in which two or more dots are arranged side by side in a main scanning direction and a second dot or second dot row that is arranged side by side in the main scanning direction, the second dot or second dot row having a number of dots not greater than a number of dots of the first dot row including a dot adjacent in an oblique direction with respect to the main scanning direction to a predetermined dot included in the first dot row. The dither halftone component carries out halftoning by using a mask pattern with which a probability that the reference pattern occurs in a dot pattern that is generated is substantially high.