摘要:
A liquid ejection apparatus includes an ejecting section, an upstream-side transport roller, a downstream-side transport roller, and a control section. The ejecting section ejects liquid onto a medium. The upstream-side transport roller is positioned closer to an upstream side than the ejecting section in a transport direction of the medium, and the downstream-side transport roller is positioned closer to a downstream side than the ejecting section. The upstream-side transport roller and the downstream-side transport roller transport the medium in cooperation with each other by rotating. The control section forms a first pattern by causing the ejecting section to eject the liquid onto the medium in case that an upstream-side end section of the medium in the transport direction is sandwiched with a sandwich section of the upstream-side transport roller. Besides, the control section causes the upstream-side transport roller and the downstream-side transport roller to transport the medium until the upstream-side end section of the medium on which the first pattern is formed becomes positioned closer to the downstream side than the sandwich section in the transport direction and ceases to be sandwiched with the sandwich section, and forms a second pattern by causing the ejecting section to eject the liquid onto the medium the upstream-side end section of which is not sandwiched with the sandwich section.
摘要:
A correction value acquisition method includes: forming parts of a test pattern and a linear scale on a medium of which a length in a predetermined direction is shorter than a length of the test pattern in the predetermined direction; detecting positions of the scales of the linear scale from image data obtained by reading the test pattern and the linear scale; obtaining a read density of the image data; and calculating a correction value based on the read density.
摘要:
A transport amount correcting method, including; (A) storing in a memory, in regard to a medium of a predetermined size, correction values associated with relative positions of the medium and a head; and (B) when carrying out recording on the medium of the predetermined size, transporting the medium while correcting a target transport amount using a correction value associated with a relative position of the medium and the head, and when carrying out recording on a medium larger than the predetermined size, transporting the medium while correcting the target transport amount by using a portion of the correction values a plurality of times, the portion of the correction values being a portion of the correction values among the correction values used when the medium of the predetermined size is being transported by both an upstream side roller and a downstream side roller.
摘要:
A printing method includes by printing a first area in a test pattern using a first print mode, determining a first correction value corresponding to the first print mode for each of the row regions, based on a density measurement value for each of row regions in the first area, by printing a second area in the test pattern using a second print mode for a plurality of cycles of periods that is determined by a combination of the row region and the nozzle, determining a second correction value corresponding to the second print mode for each of the row regions, based on a density measurement value for each of the row regions in the second area, and in a coexistent segment in which certain row regions and other row regions are mixed, correcting an ink ejection amount in each of the row regions using a combined correction value that is obtained as a composition of the first correction value and the second correction value.
摘要:
The invention is a transport method that transports a medium by causing a transport roller to rotate based on a corrected target transport amount, after correcting the target transport amount that is targeted based on a correction value and includes: printing a first pattern on a medium, printing a second pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of less than one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the first pattern, printing a third pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the first pattern, printing a fourth pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the second pattern, calculating a first correction value based on the first pattern and the third pattern, calculating a second correction value based on the second pattern and the fourth pattern, transporting the medium by correcting the target transport amount based on the first correction value or the second correction value depending on the relative position of the medium with respect to the transport roller.
摘要:
A liquid ejecting apparatus has a head, a transport mechanism, a memory, and a controller. The head ejects a liquid. The transport mechanism transports a medium in a transport direction with respect to the head in accordance with a target transport amount that is targeted. The memory stores a plurality of correction values, each of the correction values being associated with a relative position between the head and the medium, a range of the relative position to which that correction value is to be applied being associated with that correction value. In the case where a transport using the target transport amount is performed beyond the range of the relative position associated with the correction value that is associated with the relative position before the transport, the controller corrects the target transport amount based on the correction value associated with the relative position before the transport and the correction value associated with the relative position after the transport.
摘要:
A medium is carried to a predetermined position in a carrying direction. A first pattern is formed on the medium with nozzles on the carrying direction upstream side of a nozzle row constituted by a plurality of nozzles lined up at predetermined intervals. After forming the first pattern, the medium is carried in the carrying direction by a target carry amount that is shorter than the length in the carrying direction of the nozzle row. Along with forming on the medium a second pattern that forms a boundary with the first pattern with nozzles on the carrying direction downstream side of the nozzle row, a third pattern is formed on the medium with the nozzles on the carrying direction upstream side of the nozzle row. After forming the second pattern, the medium is carried in the carrying direction by a target carry amount that is shorter than the length in the carrying direction of the nozzle row so that a carry amount of the medium after forming the first pattern is longer than the length in the carrying direction of the nozzle row. A fourth pattern that forms a boundary with the third pattern is formed on the medium with the nozzles on the carrying direction downstream side of the nozzle row.
摘要:
A line position calculating method according to the present invention includes obtaining pixel data of pixel rows each constituted by a plurality of pixels lined up in a first direction, from image data of an image constituted by a plurality of pixels lined up in a matrix form in the first direction and a second direction, the image data being of an image containing a line along the first direction, calculating each representative value indicating a tone value of each pixel row based on the pixel data of each pixel row, and calculating a position in the second direction of the line in the image based on the representative value of each pixel row. In calculating the representative value of each pixel row, the pixel data of each of the pixels that constitute that pixel row is corrected based on the pixel data of the plurality of pixels that constitute that pixel row, and a detective pixel is detected from among the plurality of pixels that constitute that pixel row based on the pixel data after correction of the pixel row.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a recording method that includes (1) preparing a recording apparatus provided with a transport mechanism that transports a medium in a transport direction in response to a target transport amount that is targeted, which has a first roller provided on an upstream side in the transport direction and a second roller provided on a downstream side in the transport direction, and a head that is movable in a movement direction, which has a plurality of nozzles lined up in the transport direction, (2) forming a plurality of lines on the medium by alternately repeating a transport operation of transporting the medium in the transport direction and a forming operation of forming lines on the medium by ejecting ink from the nozzles while causing the head to move in the movement direction, (3) calculating correction values based on an interval between the lines in the transport direction, and (4) controlling the transport mechanism based on a corrected target transport amount after correcting the target transport amount based on the correction values. And in the invention, in forming a plurality of the lines on the medium, (A) the plurality of lines are formed by repeating the forming operation by ejecting ink from a first nozzle of the plurality of nozzles when the first roller is in contact with the medium, and (B) the plurality of lines are formed by repeating the forming operation by ejecting ink from a second nozzle on a downstream side from the first nozzle in the transport direction when the first roller is not in contact with the medium and the second roller is in contact with the medium.
摘要:
The invention is a transport method that transports a medium by causing a transport roller to rotate based on a corrected target transport amount, after correcting the target transport amount that is targeted based on a correction value and includes: printing a first pattern on a medium, printing a second pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of less than one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the first pattern, printing a third pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the first pattern, printing a fourth pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the second pattern, calculating a first correction value based on the first pattern and the third pattern, calculating a second correction value based on the second pattern and the fourth pattern, transporting the medium by correcting the target transport amount based on the first correction value when a relative position of the medium with respect to the transport roller is in a predetermined range between the relative position at a time of printing the first pattern and the relative position at a time of printing the third pattern, and transporting the medium by correcting the target transport amount based on the second correction value when the relative position is in a different range, which is in a position in which the transport roller has been rotated by a rotation amount of less than one rotation from the predetermined range.