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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2014
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tetsuro Yasukawa, Ichikawa, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/393 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01); H04N 1/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/21 (2013.01); H04N 1/6033 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ink color mixing in an inkjet printing head can be securely detected without being influenced by foreign matters such as the existence of dust and without requiring a complicated image processing. To realize this, the occurrence of a color mixing is detected when a printing density-changed part of a printed image of an inspection pattern continuously extends over a predetermined range or more in a direction in which the printing head is moved relative to the printing medium during the printing of the inspection pattern.