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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120081432 | STATIONARY INKJET PRINTHEAD WITH DEAD NOZZLE COMPENSATION PROVIDED BY NOZZLES IN SAME NOZZLES ROW A stationary pagewidth inkjet printhead has one or more nozzle rows extending along a longitudinal axis of the printhead. Each nozzle is configurable to fire a droplet of ink at a plurality of predetermined different dot positions along the longitudinal axis, and each n... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081433 | LIQUID DROPLET JETTING APPARATUS A liquid droplet jetting apparatus includes a liquid droplet jetting head which has a liquid droplet jetting surface provided with a plurality of nozzles opening thereon in order to jet liquid droplets of a liquid; a cap member which has a size to cover the openings of ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081434 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS Each of a plurality of unit ejection portions includes a pressure chamber filled with liquid, nozzles which communicate with the pressure chamber, and a piezoelectric vibrator that varies the pressure within the pressure chamber, and ejects ink from each nozzle accordin... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120044291 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD The present invention provides a printing apparatus and a printing method according to which, even when misalignment in mounted print heads or a print medium conveying error has occurred, a high quality image can be printed by performing one-pass printing or multi-pass ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044290 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD An inkjet recording apparatus may include a recording unit, an ink receiver, and a control unit. The recording unit records an image on a sheet by causing a recording head including a plurality of nozzle arrays to reciprocate along a surface of the sheet in a direction ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120019579 | FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND FLUID EJECTING METHOD An apparatus includes: a main image nozzle group that forms a main image; a background image nozzle group which has nozzles of a number greater than the main image nozzle group for forming a background image of the main image, and has a first nozzle group situated to on... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120001972 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING POSITION ADJUSTING METHOD THEREOF A printing apparatus prints by discharging inks from respective nozzle arrays, the printhead having a plurality of nozzle arrays including at least a first nozzle array, a second nozzle array, and a third nozzle array, and the first nozzle array and the second nozzle ar... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120001973 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD A printer includes a moving section that moves an upstream background color nozzles and an upstream color nozzles in either an outward direction or a returning direction from among intersecting directions that intersect the transporting direction, and moves a downstream... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110316918 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS A liquid ejection head has a recording element including a set of ejection elements. Each of the ejection elements includes a pressure chamber, a supply flow channel connected to the pressure chamber, an ejection energy generating device arranged correspondingly to the ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310150 | PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A printing device performs band printing during two-way printing, wherein the band printing uses black pigment ink and dye ink. In this printing device, in an advancing printed area for which a print head moves in an advancing direction, pigment ink dots are formed firs... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304664 | ELEMENT SUBSTRATE, PRINTHEAD, HEAD CARTRIDGE, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONFIRMING ELECTRICAL CONNECTION STATUS OF PRINTHEAD AND PRINTING APPARATUS An element substrate capable of independently confirming an electrical connection status with a logic power source without increasing costs due to increasing the number of terminals or the like. The element substrate includes a connection status output circuit that outp... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110298852 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head having three rows of nozzles which are three-phase driven and arranged in a staggered arrangement. The nozzles are arranged in the main scanning direction at an interval of L/3, where L is a pixel pitch, and each n... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110261100 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD A first pseudo band is printed, a second pseudo band is printed so as to partially overlap the first pseudo band, and the overlap printed area is divided by a single continuously boundary line into a first area first area printed by the first pseudo band, and a second a... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261099 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD A printing device is configured to print a first band in a first pass and to print a second band in a second pass so that the second band partially overlaps the first band for from an overlap printed area. The overlap printed area is divided by a single continuous bound... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261101 | Method and Apparatus for Droplet Deposition A method for depositing droplets onto a substrate employs an apparatus, such as an inkjet printhead, the apparatus having: an array of channels, acting as fluid chambers, separated by interspersed walls, with each channel communicating with an aperture or nozzle for the... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110254888 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE AND LIQUID EJECTION METHOD In a printing device for discharging ink from a plurality of print heads and printing on a print medium, the print heads are arrayed in a direction orthogonal to a movement direction relative to the print medium so that overlapping areas are created which overlap in the... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110234670 | OPTIMIZATON OF DOT PLACEMENT FOR THERMAL DRIFT A method of printing executes a software instruction using a print system controller to measure a vertical position of each row of an array of jets, having at least one offset subset of the array offset in a movement direction, adjusts timing of firing intervals for the... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110227978 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT A printing apparatus that is an inkjet printing apparatus includes a print head that includes a plurality of nozzles that eject liquid droplets, and prints output data onto a recording medium in a plurality of scans, a storage unit including number of storage areas, the... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110221810 | PRINTING PROCESS OF FORMING TWO IMAGES ON PRINTING MEDIUM IN OVERLAPPING MANNER A printing apparatus includes a controller forming an image on a printing-medium by repeating an image-forming-operation of allowing a plurality of nozzle-columns to be moved and allowing the plurality of nozzle-columns to eject ink and a transporting-operations of allo... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110221811 | PRINTING PROCESS OF FORMING TWO IMAGES ON PRINT MEDIUM IN OVERLAPPING MANNER The printing apparatus includes a control-section for forming an image on a print-medium by repeating an image-formation-operation and a transport-operation. Through the image-formation-operation, a plurality of nozzle-arrays discharges an ink while a moving-mechanism m... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110216115 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS In the printing method, on a medium transported in a transport direction, while nozzle rows including a plurality of nozzles move in a scanning direction intersecting the transport direction, ink is ejected from the nozzles, and dots are formed to print an image. Coordi... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110187774 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD An inkjet printing apparatus and an inkjet printing method are provided which can correct, with high precision, print position deviations among a plurality of printing element arrays in each of a plurality of print modes that use different groups of printing elements in... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110187775 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD When a number of passes of multi-pass recording has been changed, a repetitive cycle of a drive pattern is changed, depending on change of feeding amount caused by change of the number of passes. Accordingly, the drive pattern is set to a size corresponding to the chang... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110175957 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM An image forming apparatus includes an ejection head having a plurality of nozzle arrays arranged in an orthogonal direction to an array direction thereof, a carriage on which the ejection head is loaded, and a moving unit that moves the carriage. The image forming appa... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110148964 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING SYSTEM When a gradation mask is used to distribute image data to be recorded by overlapping portions in an overlapping head, color unevenness is generated in an image recorded by the overlapping portions due to a displacement in impact positions caused by an assembly error. As... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110141174 | FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND FLUID EJECTING METHOD An apparatus includes: a first nozzles for ejecting first fluid are lined up in a predetermined direction; a second nozzles for ejecting second fluid are lined up in a movement direction; and a control unit which sets a first method of when formation of a main image wit... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110141173 | FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND FLUID EJECTING METHOD An apparatus includes: a first nozzles for ejecting a first fluid are lined up in a predetermined direction; a second nozzles for ejecting a second fluid are lined up in the predetermined direction; and a control unit performs an ejecting operation of ejecting fluid fro... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110074850 | CONTROLLER FOR PRINTHEAD HAVING ARBITRARILY JOINED NOZZLE ROWS A controller for a printhead is provided. The printhead has rows of printing nozzles with each nozzle row formed by adjacent sub-rows of printing nozzles of adjacently disposed printhead modules. Each nozzle row us arranged such that the join of the respective adjacent ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110074849 | LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE A liquid discharge device is provided with a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board is formed with a connection area where a plurality of connection terminals to be connected with a plurality of input terminals of a discharge head, and a pair of extending port... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110043560 | Fluid Ejecting Apparatus and Fluid Ejecting Method A fluid ejecting apparatus includes: a first nozzle line that includes a plurality of first nozzles that are aligned in a predetermined direction, first fluid being ejected from the first nozzles; a second nozzle line that includes a plurality of second nozzles that are... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110037800 | FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND FLUID EJECTING METHOD A fluid ejecting apparatus includes a first nozzle array in which nozzles that eject a first fluid are arrayed in a predetermined direction; a second nozzle array arranged beside the first nozzle array in a moving direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction and ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037799 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD Degradation in image quality due to disturbance in landing positions of satellites is suppressed. When scanning and printing with a printing head which has a first nozzle array ejecting relatively large ejection amount of ink, a second nozzle array arranged on one side ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110025742 | PRINT ENGINE WITH INK SUPPLY CONDUITS EXTENDING FROM A LONG SIDE OF ELONGATE PRINTHEAD CARRIAGE A print engine for an inkjet printer which has a media path extending past a printhead assembly along a paper axis, has an elongate printhead carriage extending transverse to the paper axis, a series of interfaces for supplying ink to respective printhead modules spaced... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110018923 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM An image forming system configured to eject ink onto a sheet conveyed in a first direction including a first head including a plurality of first ejection ports configured to eject the ink; a second head including a plurality of second ejection ports configured to eject ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110012950 | ELEMENT BOARD FOR PRINTHEAD, AND PRINTHEAD HAVING THE SAME In a printhead element board including a plurality of printing elements which align in a predetermined direction, driving circuits which drive the printing elements, and an element selection circuit which selects printing elements within each group for each group having... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110012949 | PRINTING METHOD FOR REDUCING STITCH ERROR BETWEEN OVERLAPPING JETTING MODULES A method of printing is described for a page-width printer including a line head having a plurality of jetting modules that are staggered in a page-width direction. In a set up procedure, a test pattern is printed using the nozzles of adjacent jetting modules, and the p... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110007107 | High Speed High Resolution Fluid Ejection The first plurality of nozzles and the second plurality of nozzles in a fluid ejection system are arranged in a plurality of nozzle pairs, each nozzle pair of the plurality of nozzle pairs including a first nozzle from the first plurality of nozzles and an associated se... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100328383 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND PATTERN FORMING METHOD A pattern forming method that includes forming a pattern for detecting defective discharges of a plurality of ink discharging nozzles and recording a first dot pattern with the plurality of ink discharging nozzles. The pattern forming method also includes recording a se... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328384 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD An inkjet printing apparatus and an inkjet printing method are provided which can minimize air current disturbances that occur between the print head and the print medium and also minimize density unevenness caused by mask patterns. For this purpose, the 2-pass printing... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328385 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK JET PRINTING METHOD The present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus configured to allow the ejection performance of a print head with a large number of nozzles densely arranged therein to be kept in a favorable condition by preliminary ejection and to enable degradation of ima... | 12/30/2010 |
