摘要:
Disclosed is an inkjet printing apparatus for forming an image by repeatedly causing the scanning of a printhead that prints an image in a scan area using inks of a plurality of types. Residual duty, which is obtained by quantifying the mixed state of the inks used in printing the image in the scan area, is defined. The residual duty with regard to the next scan area is found from image data, the scanning direction for printing in the next scan area is decided based upon the residual duty, and the area is printed in the scanning direction that has been decided. Thus, back-and-forth scanning and unidirectional scanning are used jointly in appropriate fashion in accordance with the printed image. As a result, high-quality printing of an image becomes possible and a higher printing speed is achieved.
摘要:
A method and an apparatus for ink jet printing use a print head including a first nozzle group for discharging a first ink, a second nozzle group for discharging a second ink and a third nozzle group for discharging a printability improving solution. The third nozzle group is displaced between the first nozzle group and the second nozzle group. The first nozzle group discharges the first ink on the printing medium based on image data to form an image, the third nozzle group discharges the printability improving solution on the image formed on the printing medium by means of another step, and the second nozzle group discharges the second ink on the image formed on the printing medium. The printability improving solution has higher penetrability into the printing medium compared to the ink.The method and apparatus can attain a clear colored, high density image without color mixing, which has high water resistance on plain paper, with a low running cost.
摘要:
An ink jet recording apparatus which carries out, in a decimated multipass print mode, paper transfer by an extra amount (2.5 .mu.m) beyond a standard paper transfer amount corresponding to a quarter of the total number of nozzles in the nozzle arrangement of a recording head. This can displace dots formed in subsequent scannings from dots formed in previous scannings by amounts of 2.5 .mu.m, 5 .mu.m, 7.5 .mu.m and 10 .mu.m, and reduce the overlap of the dots at boundary regions in the decimated multipass print mode. In a one pass print mode, the paper transfer amount per scanning is set less than the sum total of the four paper transfer amounts of the decimated multipass print mode so that dot overlaps take place as countermeasures against paper transfer errors. This makes it possible to achieve high quality image recording by preventing both the white bandings at the boundary regions in the one pass print mode that prints one unit area by one scanning, and black bandings at boundary regions in the decimated multipass print mode that prints the one unit area by a plurality of scannings, thereby achieving high quality recording.
摘要:
Disclosed are an ink-jet recording method in which scanning is performed with a recording device having a plurality of recording element groups in correspondence with inks of different hues relatively in a direction crossing the direction in which the recording medium is fed to perform recording, the method including the steps of determining the scanning direction according to the duty of the image data in the scanning for recording, and performing recording by performing scanning in the determined scanning direction, and an ink-jet recording apparatus in which scanning is performed with a recording device having a plurality of recording element groups in correspondence with inks of different hues relatively in a direction crossing the direction in which the recording medium is fed to perform recording, including a device for determining the scanning direction according to the duty of the image data in the scanning for recording, and a device for performing recording by performing scanning in the determined scanning direction.
摘要:
An ink jet apparatus using an ink jet head having a heat generating element for generating thermal energy to be used to discharge ink, comprises a unit for deriving an amount .increment.Q.sub.i indicative of a heat amount stored in i (i.gtoreq.1) portions of said ink jet head sectioned by thermal time constants, corresponding to a heat amount applied to said ink jet head at a predetermined time interval .increment.t, a unit for multiplying an amount .increment.T.sub.i (n-1) indicative of the heat amount stored in the i-sectioned portion of the predetermined time interval .increment.t earlier by a predetermined constant E.sub.i corresponding to the sectioned thermal time constant, a unit for adding the amount .increment.Q.sub.i to the product, a unit for storing the sum as the amount .increment.T.sub.i (n) indicative of the heat amount stored in the i-sectioned portion, a unit for summing all amounts .increment.T.sub.1 (n) to determine an amount .increment.T corresponding to the heat amount stored in said ink jet head and a unit for controlling said ink jet head in accordance with the amount .increment.T.
摘要:
An ink jet recording apparatus that avoids application of a treatment fluid to ink in an amount more than necessary and shows a sufficient treatment fluid effect is provided when a data generator for the treatment fluid generates the treatment fluid data using a selected mask pattern in accordance with the image data binarized by a binarizing unit. The ink jet recording apparatus generates print data based on the image data and the treatment fluid data, applies the ink and treatment fluid onto a recording material, and performs recording.
摘要:
Whether or not a color image is present adjacent to a black image is discriminated. Whether the black image is formed using a black ink or a plurality of color inks C, M, and Y is determined in accordance with the discrimination result. When the black image is formed using the plurality of color inks, it is recorded using a repetitive pattern of two of C, M, and Y so as to prevent blurring with the color image, and to improve fixing characteristics by decreasing the total ejection amount.
摘要:
According to an image processing method and apparatus of the present invention, an outline portion is extracted from input image data, and a pixel whose dot size is to be changed is extracted. The input image data is printed without any change, and the pixel whose dot size is to be changed is overlap-printed while the dot size is increased. Therefore, smoothing can be sufficiently performed in both the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction without increasing the dot density and decreasing the recording speed.
摘要:
A control portion for arithmetically predicting a temperature transition of a printing head using a predicting parameter includes an interface for receiving the predicting parameter from outside of the apparatus. The predicting parameter is based on a table regarding temperature increase of the printing head.
摘要:
Whether or not a color image is present adjacent to a black image is discriminated. Whether the black image is formed using a black ink or a plurality of color inks C, M, and Y is determined in accordance with the discrimination result. When the black image is formed using the plurality of color inks, it is recorded using a repetitive pattern of two of C, M, and Y so as to prevent blurring with the color image, and to improve fixing characteristics by decreasing the total ejection amount.