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7614726 Recording head chip, recording head employing recording head chip, and recording apparatus employing recording head  
A recording head substrate includes a plurality of groups of recording elements arranged in arrays; a number, corresponding to a number of the groups, input contacts for receiving driving pulse...
7591532 Inkjet printing apparatus and inkjet printing method  
This invention reduces an unprinted stripe occurred by edge deviation of a printhead. An inkjet printing apparatus according to this invention can execute a first printing mode in which an image is...
7588305 Dual drop printing mode using full length waveforms to achieve head drop mass differences  
A dual-drop mode for a printer uses at least two full length waveforms and switches between the waveforms according to one or more patterning methodologies to print a page length document having a...
7575299 Printing apparatus and printing method  
A printing apparatus of the present invention is provided with a carry unit for carrying a medium in a carrying direction, and a print head that has a plurality of nozzle rows each made up of a...
7571982 Liquid ejecting apparatus, liquid ejecting system, and liquid ejecting method  
A liquid ejecting apparatus is provided that carries out dot forming at high speed and carries out dot forming at high resolution with respect to a medium. For this purpose, a controller that...
7559624 Printer device and control method thereof  
A printing device with at least one bi-directional scanning print head can print images on an image-receiving member in multiple traverses. After each traverse, the image-receiving member is...
7559618 Scanning type inkjet image forming apparatus  
A scanning type inkjet image forming apparatus. The inkjet image forming apparatus includes a printhead having at least one nozzle group having a plurality of nozzles, a driving unit to drive the...
7556345 Image recording apparatus and method for recording an image on a recording medium  
An image recording apparatus records an image on a recording medium by causing a recording head having an arrangement of a plurality of recording elements to conduct its main scanning for the...
7543928 Inkjet image forming apparatus and method of performing high resolution printing using a multi-pass method  
An inkjet image forming apparatus and a method of performing a high resolution printing using multiple passes. In the inkjet image forming apparatus and a method of performing a high resolution...
7543911 Systems and methods for reducing cross process direction registration errors of a printhead using a linear array sensor  
Systems and methods are provided for determining registration errors in the cross process direction of a printer. A first straight line is obtained by detecting line centers of a first plurality of...
7540588 Method for printing data and ink jet printer using the same  
A method for printing data includes the following steps. First, an ink jet printer, having a print head with a black jet and a color jet, for printing a swath of data is provided. Then, the print...
7537310 Ink jet printing apparatus, ink jet printing method, and ink jet print head  
For a horizontally arranged print head, in which nozzle rows are arranged parallel with a scanning direction of the print head, two of a plurality of ink colors used, which have the greatest hue...
7537307 Liquid-droplet jetting apparatus  
An ink-jet printer as a liquid-droplet jetting apparatus includes an ink-jet head which includes a channel unit having a plurality of recovery nozzles formed in the vicinity of a plurality of...
7533962 Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method  
To provide an ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method capable of printing at high speed and high image quality in accordance with the distance between the head and the paper. In...
7533961 Imaging method and image forming apparatus  
An imaging method is disclosed that is implemented in an image forming apparatus for forming a tone pattern on a recording medium by forming an arrangement of dots on the recording medium. The...
7524008 Fluid discharging device and control method therefor  
A fluid discharging device includes: a head having a predetermined number of nozzle arrays in which n (n is an integral number equal to or more than 2) nozzles capable of discharging a...
7513597 Computer readable medium with a program for minimizing banding artifacts in an ink jet printing apparatus  
A computer readable medium contains a program for causing a printer to execute a multipass printing method characterized in that, on any given pass, the number of selected print locations onto...
7510254 Image forming apparatus and method thereof  
An image forming apparatus and a method thereof for preventing degradation of image quality by a malfunctioning nozzle are disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a print head including a...
7506950 Data processing apparatus, printing apparatus and method of creating mask pattern  
A data processing apparatus includes a mask processor for performing a mask process for binary data, which is obtained by a binarization process using a dot arrangement pattern, by using mask...
7503641 Ink jet printing apparatus having a programmed controller that minimizes banding artifacts  
A multipass printing apparatus is characterized by a computer-implemented controller that controls printing operation so that, on any given pass, the number of selected print locations onto which...
7503635 Ink jet printing method and ink jet printing apparatus  
An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet printing method and ink jet printing apparatus capable of outputting a smooth monochrome photograph with indistinctive beading and...
7500727 Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method  
This invention provides an ink jet printing method which ejects different kinds of ink from print heads onto a print medium to form an image according to print data transferred from a predetermined...
7497553 Inkjet recording method and inkjet recording apparatus  
Provided are a recording head 6 for emitting a photocurable ink onto a recording medium, this photocurable ink being cured by application of light; an ultraviolet irradiation device equipped for...
7497538 Method of multipass printing using a plurality of halftone patterns of dots  
A method of printing dots in an area on a page using a plurality of printing passes of a printhead over the area, includes processing continuous tone data representing an image through N halftoning...
7484827 Image forming method and apparatus, and a recording medium storing a program for performing an image forming method  
An image forming method is performed by an image forming apparatus having a head mounting a plurality of writing units that form an image on a recording medium. The writing units are aligned in a...
7484822 Image forming method and apparatus  
The image forming method for forming an image on a recording medium, wherein the image is divided into a plurality of regions the method comprising: a droplet deposition rate calculation step; a...
7481516 Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method  
In an inkjet recording apparatus and an inkjet recording method, recording on a first unit region, of unit regions provided on a recording medium, is performed by scanning a recording head an even...
7481515 Method and apparatus for producing color filter, method and apparatus for manufacturing liquid crystal device, method and apparatus for manufacturing EL device, method of discharging material, apparatus for controlling head and electronic apparatus  
The invention makes uniform, in a plane, optical properties of optical members, such as the distribution properties of light transmission of a color filter, the color display properties of a liquid...
7481514 Printing method, control method, printing apparatus, control apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium  
A method for printing an image whose resolution in a first direction is higher than that in a second direction by forming first dots or smaller second dots at positions on the medium of pixels...
7475958 Image forming device  
An image forming device comprises a carriage on which a printing head is carried, a plurality of nozzles each discharging a droplet of printing liquid being arrayed in the printing head. A main...
7472983 Intelligent print mask  
A multi swath printing method for printing an image on an ink jet printing system is used to reduce image banding. The ink jet printing system includes a printhead with one or more ink ejection...
7467847 Printing apparatus and method  
A printing apparatus is adapted for printing on a printing surface of a three-dimensional object 12 . The apparatus comprises an inkjet printhead 14 having a plurality of nozzles, and being...
7465008 Printing apparatus, printing method, and computer-readable medium  
The appearance of images printed by draft printing or the like is improved. Provided are, for example, a print head having a first dot formation section and a second dot formation section that are...
7458658 Printing method  
A printing method is provided. In the printing method, a printing head is rotated with an angle, such that all the nozzles of the printing head are aligned with the dots of the data to be printed....
7458657 Single-pass inkjet printing  
A single-pass print head has multiple orifice plates each serving some but not all of the area to be printed.
7452047 Method of printing using error diffused shingling masks  
A method of printing dots in an area on a page using a plurality of printing passes of a printhead over the area, includes processing continuous tone data through a halftoning mechanism to generate...
7448707 Method of expelling ink from nozzels in groups, starting at outside nozzels of each group  
A method of expelling ink from a printhead module is provided. The printhead module includes at least one row that has a plurality of sets of n adjacent nozzles. Each of the nozzles is configured...
7445313 Inkjet recording apparatus  
An inkjet recording apparatus including: a line head type recording head having nozzles for jetting ink to a recording medium; a moving apparatus for moving the recording head relative to the...
7438375 Printing device, printing device control program and method, and printing data generation device, program, and method  
A printing device that prints an image onto a printing medium using a printing head that includes a plurality of nozzles each being capable of dot formation to the printing medium. The printing...
7431426 Recording apparatus and recording method thereof, and program  
Printed pages of a stably high image quality can be produced when performing printing using a recording apparatus having an elongate joint head. The recording apparatus determines whether an end of...
7429094 Ink-jet recording device and dot-pattern recording method  
A recording device drives a recording head mounted on a carriage while main-scanning by moving the carriage in a direction generally orthogonal to the sheet-feeding direction of a sheet. The...
7425054 Reduced memory usage for delay buffer during printing swaths in an inkjet printer  
Disclosed is a method for printing swaths of an image in an inkjet printer with reduced memory usage for delay buffer. The present invention provides methods for allocating a memory space of M 1 ,...
7407260 Printer device  
A scanning type printing device is capable of operating in a multiple printing stage mode. When operating in a multiple printing stage mode, this printing device is controlled such upon receipt of...
7407249 Array type inkjet printer with multi-pass structure and method of compensating an irregular nozzle defect thereof  
An array type inkjet printer with a multi pass structure and a method of compensating an irregular nozzle defect thereof. The array type inkjet printer includes a scattering portion that is...
7399058 Liquid jet head  
End portions on one side of respective heads in a head unit are inserted and arranged in respective spaces between end portions on the other side of respective heads in an adjoining head unit.
7399051 Ejection device, material coating method, method of manufacturing color filter substrate, method of manufacturing electroluminescence display device, and method of manufacturing plasma display device  
A method of coating with a material includes the steps of moving at least one of a stage and a head relative to the other in a Y axis direction perpendicular to an X axis direction in a first pass...
7396107 Ink jet printing with low coverage second pass  
A method of operating an ink jet printer including printing a first image having substantially solid fill regions on a transfer surface disposed on a print drum, printing a second image on the...
7396106 Ink jet printing device and image forming apparatus  
An ink jet printing device comprises a head unit, a head-unit moving unit, a recording-medium moving unit, and a control unit controlling the head unit, the head-unit moving unit, and the...
7396100 Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method  
There is provided an ink jet printing apparatus that suppresses density unevenness caused by a difference in print time resulting from printing based on a bidirectional multi-pass printing system....
7387361 Failed nozzle correction system and method for borderless printing  
A method for compensating for failed nozzles in multi-pass printing using an inkjet printer having at least one printhead containing a plurality of nozzles to print an input image having a...