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6412909 Printing device  
The invention comprises a printing device wherein a head comprising a plurality of nozzles at a predetermined pitch is used for repeated primary scanning and sub-scanning to print images. The...
6406111 Method of increasing the resolution of an ink jet printer  
A method is provided for printing a pixel image using an ink jet printer having a first resolution along a first axis and a second resolution along a second axis. A resolution of the pixel image is...
6406114 Tonal product recorded by ink and having a plurality of pixels with plural tonal levels  
A liquid ink jet recording apparatus and method which forms a multi-level tonal image by liquid droplets discharged through plural nozzles. A first scan of a recording head past a recording...
6406127 High productivity/multipass/ink printing system and method  
Methods and systems for an ink printing system with a printhead system comprising at least two printheads with one printhead adjacent to a second printhead, the two printheads spaced such that the...
6398342 Open jet compensation during multi-pass printing  
A method and system for compensating for nonfunctional ink jets in an ink jet printer. The ink-jet printer includes a printhead having a plurality of ink jets, each ink jet being assigned to print...
6388690 Thermal recording apparatus  
Every time after a cyan ink and a magenta ink are transferred to form respective color dots of a line with a length L 2 in a sub-scanning direction, an ribbon cassette RC is returned to a start...
6378982 Printing apparatus and a printing method  
In a multipass printing using a print head which has a plurality of staggered columns of print elements, one and the same print line is formed by using nozzles (k 1 - 129 , k 2 - 1 ) of different...
6375307 Printing apparatus and method  
An inkjet printer prints swaths which overlap by, typically, one eighth of their width at each edge, each edge region having a reduced print density so that the combined density of the overlapping...
6375294 Gray scale fluid ejection system with offset grid patterns of different size spots  
A fluid ejection system and method for variable density pattern forming by producing a plurality of large, mid-sized and small spots. The plurality of large, mid-sized and small spots are produced...
6373593 Printer which accommodates carriage speed non-uniformities  
Printing which accommodates carriage speed non-uniformities by allowing both forward and reverse printing despite the presence of ringing and other overshoot anomalies in carriage printing speed. A...
6371609 Recording apparatus and a recording method  
A recording apparatus and a recording method for controlling and driving a recording head so that an image region formed by a first ink is located between alternate image regions formed by a second...
6361144 Reduction of intercolor or bleeding in liquid ink printing  
The present invention is directed to a method for processing color image data to reduce intercolor bleeding in an image printed on a receiving medium. The method begins with the receipt of a target...
6357856 Printing with a vertical nozzle array head  
In monochromatic printing, a recording method for middle area processing is utilized in the middle portion of the recording execution area, and bottom processing, in which the sub-scanning feed...
6354692 Method and apparatus for minimizing color hue shifts in bi-directional inkjet printing  
The present invention is a single-pass, bi-directional printer where two color maps are being employed. One color map is used for left to right printing and the second color map is used for...
6341840 Method of printing a substrate and a printing system containing a printing device suitable for use of the method  
A method and system for printing a substrate with an inkjet printing device provided with at least one printhead comprising at least one row of nozzles having a first end and a second end, such...
6338544 Reduction of stitch joint error by alternating print head firing mode  
An apparatus and method for forming an image with a print head that fires groups of drops of fluid results in a reduction in stitch joint error. The stitch joint error is reduced by changing the...
6336703 Printer, printing method, and recording medium  
An inkjet printer uses interlaced printing to form raster lines at intervals in the sub-scanning direction. The paper is transported by feed rollers on the upstream side relative to the...
6328406 Image recording method  
Disclosed herein is an image recording method capable of greatly increasing a record data processing speed and thereby performing high-speed recording. According to the image recording method, a...
6328419 Dot printing using partial overlap scheme  
A print head has a nozzle array to achieve printing of dots of identical color along a plurality of main scanning lines during a main scanning pass, and to achieve formation of multiple dots of the...
6325487 Systems and methods for generating high addressability images  
Image systems and methods generate improved high addressability images. The generated image may be input into a printer for printing. An image is processed so that the location of an ink drop in a...
6325489 Ink-jet printing apparatus  
A recording head is so designed that a plurality of nozzle openings for each of the nozzle opening arrays are arranged at intervals of at least four or more print-pitches in the sub-scanning...
6322197 Printing method and apparatus  
In a printing method which can suppress half band irregularity caused by 2-pass printing and implement high-image-quality printing, image data is distributed into two sets of data for front and...
6318827 Method of improving print quality by selectively changing print direction  
An ink jet printer wherein unidirectional or bidirectional printing is adaptively selected for predetermined print modes as a function of whether bidirectional alignment has been performed.
6315380 Ink jet head having operating characteristic information, and recording apparatus using such a head  
An ink jet recording apparatus includes a feeder for feeding a recording medium; a carriage reciprocally movable relative to the recording medium; an ink jet recording head detachably mountable on...
6312098 Banding reduction in incremental printing, through use of complementary weights for complementary printhead regions  
A structure of bands is associated with printhead-array image-forming elements, forming a printmask. Some band pairs are complementary. A low usage percent is stated for at least one band and a...
6310640 Banding reduction in multipass printmodes  
A swath printer and multipass printing method for improving print quality. The printer minimizes dot placement errors on a printed medium due to depositing drops of ink from lower quality printhead...
6309041 Odd number of passes, odd number of advances, and separated-diagonal-line masking, in liquid-ink printers  
Methods of printing a desired color image on a printing medium by construction from individual ink drops deposited in pixel arrays includes passing a multiple-nozzle ink-discharging pen or an odd...
6310638 Carriage bearing preloader and antirotation restoring force for reducing carriage vibration  
A carriage, driven along a carriage rod, rests on the carriage rod at carriage V-bearings. The V-bearing connection is open at the bottom. A magnetic preloader applies a magnetic force biasing the...
6302517 Printing apparatus and printing method using multiple nozzle groups  
A print head 2 has multiple nozzle groups 2a, 2b spaced apart in the sub-scanning direction by a prescribed inter-group distance pn i . Each nozzle group 2a, 2b has multiple nozzles aligned in the...
6299283 Dot recording using plural sub-scan feed amounts  
Integers that are no less than 2 and relatively prime are selected for the nozzle pitch k and the number of effective nozzles Neff which represents the net number of raster lines in a main scanning...
6293643 Printing apparatus, printing method, and recording medium  
The printing apparatus of the present invention adopts the technique of effectively utilizing two or more different types of dots having different ink densities and different ink weights. The...
6293651 Multi-head printer  
To provide an inexpensive printer capable of printing a high-resolution print data item at high speed. A multi-head printer, wherein taking a pitch at which the printing elements are moved in the...
6290327 Image-forming device and printing apparatus incorporating the device as well as image-forming method therefor  
There are provided an image-forming device and method for varying an elongation rate of a basic image in at least one of a direction of length of the basic image and a direction of width of the...
6290328 Multi-pass banded printing  
A method for printing raster data on a recording medium using a plurality of ink jet nozzles includes assigning first raster data of a first set of rasters to the plurality of ink jet nozzles for...
6278469 Customizing printmasks for printhead nozzle aberrations  
An inkjet printer and printing method for improving print quality. The printer minimizes the visually perceptible effect of dot placement errors, dot size errors, and dot shape errors on a printed...
6273549 Multiple pass color shift correction technique for an inkjet printer  
In one embodiment of the present invention, for a two-pass print mode, instead of two or more color printheads depositing the same amount of ink for each pass, one of the passes (the primary pass)...
6273548 Method and circuit for controlling nozzle heads in inkjet printers, in particular nozzle heads of piezoelectric device type  
A circuit for controlling nozzle heads in inkjet printers includes a first plurality of nozzles disposed in a row forming an angle relative to a horizontal and to a line direction, respectively,...
6270186 Reduction of intercolor bleeding in liquid ink printing  
The present invention provides a method for processing color image data for printing on an inkjet printer to reduce intercolor bleeding in an image recorded on a receiving medium. The method...
6264298 High frequency shingled multiple drop per pixel ink overprinting method  
A method of printing an image on a recording medium with a liquid ink printhead moving in a scanning direction having drop ejectors depositing ink drops on a recording medium at a given default...
6260939 Tone recording method using ink jet recording head that records pixels using a plurality of liquid droplets  
A liquid jet recording method of recording on a recording material with liquid droplets discharged trough plural scanning nozzles, in which: n/(s/p)≥2 n/(s/p)×k=g-1 are satisfied, where n...
6260946 Multifunction printing device capable of selecting printing method according to free space in memory  
In order to select an interlace printing method, first, a resolution for a video print process is specified. Next, the actual amount of the free space in the shared area 33b of the RAM is detected....
6250734 Method and apparatus for printing with different sheet feeding amounts and accuracies  
In an inkjet printer controlled by a program in a recording medium, the interlace method is applied to record an image in a first area where the rollers in the feeding section ensure the accuracy...
6250739 Bidirectional color printmodes with semistaggered swaths to minimize hue shift and other artifacts  
Bidirectional scanning printheads discharge color-ink drops at ultrahigh resolution while scanning in each direction, to form color swaths on a print medium. The heads are at least partially...
6247788 Inkjet recording apparatus and method for preventing generation of unevenness in density of a recorded image  
An inkjet recording apparatus and method reduces band-like unevenness in a recorded image which unevenness is generated in relation to an interlace printing method. A recording head has a plurality...
6238037 Method of multi-dot interlace printing  
A method of performing interlace printing on a print medium with a printhead of an ink jet printer includes providing an array of pixel locations on the print medium. Each pixel location has a...
6217142 Ink jet recording system using decomposed images  
An image corresponding to a single sheet of recording paper is divided into three decomposed images each having the substantially same expansion as that of the image, and one of the decomposed...
6217148 Method for operating an ink jet printer  
A method of operating for an ink jet printer having a printer head bearing a plurality of equi-distantly spaced ink jets for printing parallel lines of dots on a substrate in n passes of the print...
6213585 Image formation apparatus  
Provided is an image formation apparatus for printing pixel dots on a recording paper at pitches smaller than intervals between ink jet-out ports by using an ink jet recording head while moving the...
6206502 Printing method and printing apparatus  
A printing apparatus and a printing method which eliminate a problem of boundary stripes by taking advantage of features of the multipass printing performed by the printing apparatus without...
6203140 Method of compensating for the failure of a dot generating unit in a printing system  
A method of compensating for the failure of a dot generating unit in a printing system including a multiple-unit printhead scanning an image receiving medium in line direction and capable of...