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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2015
Printing apparatus and print control method controlling printing based on measured detection pattern
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Shinjiro Hori, Yokohama, JP;
Nobutaka Miyake, Yokohama, JP;
Junichi Nakagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiromitsu Akiba, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a printing apparatus that conveys a print medium and performs printing on the conveyed print medium, the printing apparatus including a print data generation unit configured to generate print data by performing predetermined pseudo halftone processing of image data to be printed for quantizing the image data; a pattern data generation unit configured to generate print data on a detection pattern by performing the same predetermined pseudo halftone processing of data on the detection pattern for quantizing the data on the detection pattern; a pattern printing unit configured to print a detection pattern based on the generated print data on the detection pattern; a measuring unit configured to measure the printed detection pattern; and a print control unit configured to control printing based on the print data generated for the image data, based on a measurement result of the detection pattern.