摘要:
A printing device includes a first nozzle column in which nozzles discharging liquid to a medium are arranged in a line in a predetermined direction, a second nozzle column in which nozzles discharging liquid to the medium are arranged in the predetermined direction, in which the first and second nozzle columns are arranged in a line in an intersecting direction with respect to the predetermined direction, a control portion which causes the first nozzle column and the second nozzle column to discharge the liquid to the medium while moving the first and second nozzle columns and the medium relatively to each other in a moving direction, in which the control portion forms a certain correction pattern composed of a first pattern formed by the first nozzle column and positioned on one side in the intersecting direction with respect to the moving direction and a second pattern formed by the second nozzle column and positioned on the other side in the intersecting direction with respect to the moving direction in parallel with the first pattern, and the correction pattern forms another correction pattern in which the distance between the second side end of the first pattern and the first side end of the second pattern in the intersecting direction with respect to the moving direction is different from that in the certain correction pattern.
摘要:
A method of adjusting a print apparatus includes: a first nozzle array configured of nozzles which are aligned in a predetermined direction to eject a liquid to a medium; a second nozzle array configured of nozzles which are aligned in the predetermined direction to eject a liquid to a medium; a base plate on which the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array are disposed on positions shifted in a direction cross to the predetermined direction; and a moving mechanism which moves the base plate and a medium relative to each other in a moving direction, wherein a first pattern is formed by the first nozzle array, and a second pattern is formed by the second nozzle array so as to be adjacent to the first pattern in a direction cross to the moving direction, and wherein an inclination of the base plate with respect to the moving direction is adjusted on the basis of an interval between the first pattern and the second pattern in a direction cross to the moving direction.
摘要:
The first head includes first nozzle rows each having a nozzle for ejecting a fluid of a first color and a nozzle for ejecting a fluid of a second color lined up in a color order in a cross direction. The second head includes second nozzle rows each having the two nozzles lined up in a color order in the cross direction. The controller controls a nozzle to dispose a plurality of color-overlapped dots to form a raster line, such that a ratio of A1 to “A1+A2” is larger than a ratio of B1 to “B1+B2” to form the raster line, where A1 and A2 donate amounts of a fluid of the first color from the first and second nozzle rows, respectively, and B1 and B2 donate amounts of a fluid of the second color from the first and second nozzle rows, respectively.
摘要:
To minimize any decrease in image quality, even in an instance in which there is a displacement in a landing position of a fluid in a region in which nozzle rows overlap, (A) a fluid-ejecting device including: a first nozzle column; (B) a second nozzle column, the second nozzle column being arranged so as to form an overlapping region; and (C) a control part for causing the fluid to be ejected so that in each of a plurality of raster lines arranged in a row in the predetermined direction in the overlapping region, dots to be formed are apportioned between the first nozzles and the second nozzles; the control part causing the fluid to be ejected so that there are produced.
摘要:
A liquid ejection device includes first and second heads. A first color conversion table is for converting a tone value of a first color space of a pixel, for which the liquid is ejected from the first head, to a tone value of a second color space corresponding with a color of the liquid, and a second color conversion table is for converting a tone value of the first color space of a pixel, for which the liquid is ejected from the second head, to a tone value of the second color space. For a pixel of an overlapping portion for which the liquid is ejected from the first and second heads, a tone value of the first color space is converted to a tone value of the second color space according to a third color conversion table created based on the first and second color conversion tables.
摘要:
A printing device includes a plurality of heads, a movement mechanism, and a calculation unit. The heads are configured to print an image on a medium by discharging colored inks onto the medium. The heads discharge the inks at different positions in a predetermined direction. The movement mechanism is configured to move the medium and the heads in the predetermined direction relative to each other. The calculation unit is configured to determine respective discharge amounts of ink discharged from each of the heads when the image is printed. A position in the predetermined direction, in which the inks are discharged from the heads, is varied based on the discharge amounts determined by the calculation unit.
摘要:
For each of a plurality of reference colors located at prescribed coordinates in a first color space (e.g., the RGB color space), there are associated, on an individual pixel row basis, correction vectors indicating correction amounts in the first color space. For each pixel datum of image data of first tone values (e.g., 256 tone values) of the first color space prior to a color conversion process, a correction process is carried out on the basis of the correction vector that has been associated with the pixel row to which a given pixel belongs, the correction vector also being associated with the reference color of a location surrounding the coordinates that indicate the pixel data in the first color space. The color conversion process and the halftoning process are carried out on image data composed of the pixel data that has been subjected to the correction process.
摘要:
A test pattern is formed by forming a plurality of dot rows using a first printing in a first printing region and a second printing region, transporting a medium by a predetermined transport amount, and forming a plurality of dot rows using a second printing in the second printing region. Second printing region correction values are obtained based on a reading result of a scanner. Densities of a print image constituted by a plurality of dot rows of the second printing region are corrected by correcting data corresponding to the second printing region correction values based on the second printing region correction values. In such a printing method, when forming the print image, if a transport amount of transport to be carried out between the first printing and the second printing is set shorter than the predetermined transport amount, data corresponding to a portion of correction values of the plurality of second printing region correction values is not corrected based on the portion of the correction values.
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. The first print mode is a print mode applied to an end area of a medium in a transport direction, and involves repetitively carrying out a movement-and-ejection operation of ejecting ink while moving nozzles in a movement direction that intersects the transport direction and a first transport operation of transporting the medium in the transport direction by a first transport amount. The row regions are a plurality of regions lined up in the transport direction and are each a region in which a dot row is formed along the movement direction by the movement-and-ejection operation. The first correction value is determined based on a value in which the first provisional correction value is multiplied by an attenuation coefficient. The first provisional correction value is determined for each row region based on a density measurement value of each of the row regions in the first area. The second print mode is a print mode applied to a middle area of the medium in the transport direction, and involves repetitively carrying out the movement-and-ejection operation and a second transport operation of transporting the medium in the transport direction by a second transport amount. The second correction value is determined based on a value in which the second provisional correction value is averaged. The second provisional correction value is determined for each of the row regions based on a density measurement value of each of the row regions in the second area. The certain row regions are each a row region in which the dot row is formed by the first print mode, and the other row regions are each a row region in which the dot row is formed by the second print mode.
摘要:
A liquid ejection method includes determining, according to image data, an ejection pixel that is a pixel at which a liquid is to be ejected and a non-ejection pixel that is a pixel at which a liquid is not to be ejected; determining, according to the image data, a nozzle requiring flushing; and ejecting liquid from the nozzle requiring flushing to the non-ejection pixel adjacent to the ejection pixel, the non-ejection pixel being among pixels associated with the nozzle requiring flushing.