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Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016

Filed:

May. 28, 2014
Applicant:

Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Manabu Kondo, Nagano, JP;

Yasuhiko Yoshihisa, Nagano, JP;

Takayuki Tanaka, Nagano, JP;

Yohei Nunokawa, Nagano, JP;

Hitoshi Igarashi, Nagano, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 2/07 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 19/20 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/07 (2013.01); B41J 3/407 (2013.01); B41J 13/0027 (2013.01); B41J 19/207 (2013.01);
Abstract

When printing is performed by discharging ink from a printing head onto a lenticular, a carriage motor is controlled such that a carriage is moved in a main scanning direction at a velocity which is slower than a movement velocity of the carriage at the time of performing a normal printing process with respect to a recording medium different from the lenticular as a recording paper and further separated from a home position, and the printing head is controlled such that an ink discharge having a color according to printing data is started with respect to an end portion of the lenticular, and thus the printing of one pass is started. Since the velocity is slower than the movement velocity of the carriage at the time of performing the normal printing process, it is possible to improve printing quality at the time of performing printing with respect to the lenticular.


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