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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2015
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Fumiko Suzuki, Kawasaki, JP;
Atsuhiko Masuyama, Yokohama, JP;
Norihiro Kawatoko, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshiyuki Honda, Yokohama, JP;
Yutaka Kano, Yokohama, JP;
Hitoshi Nishikori, Inagi, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a printing apparatus including a printhead and a print control unit, wherein the printhead includes two nozzle arrays, each arranged in a first direction and including nozzles arranged along a second direction, the print control unit performs a first operation of expanding print data onto a memory, a second operation of selecting, for each nozzle array, some of the nozzles as non-driving nozzles and the remaining nozzles as driving nozzles, and a third operation of distributing the expanded print data to the two nozzle arrays such that dots corresponding to the non-driving nozzles of one nozzle array are printed by the driving nozzles of the other nozzle array.