公开(公告)号：US10124580B2

公开(公告)日：2018-11-13

申请号：US15740465

申请日：2016-05-30

Applicant: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION

Inventor： Azusa Hirano ,  Yasutsugu Tsuruoka ,  Junsuke Komito

IPC: B41J2/045 ,  B41J2/145 ,  B41J3/407 ,  B41M5/00 ,  B41J2/125 ,  B41J2/14

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a tablet printing apparatus and a tablet printing method that can perform printing with high quality by ejecting ink droplets to a tablet with a various posture from a plurality of nozzles.[Solution] A tablet printing apparatus includes: inclined posture detector (23, 100) that detects an inclined posture of a conveyed tablet with respect to a conveying surface; a printer including an inkjet head 21 equipped with a plurality of nozzles for ejecting an ink droplet, the printer performing printing on the conveyed tablet by ejecting ink to the conveyed tablet from the plurality of nozzles; and a controller 100 for adjusting preset printing data corresponding to an inclined posture of the tablet detected by the inclined posture detector such that predetermined printing is performed on the tablet, wherein the printer performs printing on the tablet based on printing data adjusted by the printing data adjuster.