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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8167404 | Staggered head stitch shifts in a continuous feed direct marking printer An imaging device includes an image receiving surface configured to move in a process direction in the imaging device. A plurality of printhead arrays are arranged to deposit marking material onto the image receiving surface. Each printhead array includes a pluralit... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8157351 | Inkjet printing apparatus and inkjet printing method There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus which are used to obtain a printed matter having a small degree of glossiness unevenness and a flat surface. The apparatus is the inkjet printing apparatus for forming an image on a print medium by relatively scanning a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8109605 | Image recording apparatus and image recording method The array pitch between image recording element dots, the swath tilt angle, the image recording pitch between image recording dots in a direction y, or the phase difference between image recording positions in the direction y of adjacent image recording dots that ar... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8096637 | Liquid droplet ejection apparatus, method of manufacturing electrooptical device, electrooptical device, and electronic apparatus A method of drawing on a workpiece by ejecting functional liquid thereon while relatively scanning the workpiece and an ejection head is provided. The method comprises the steps of: a first scanning for drawing in a plurality of first areas along a scanning directio... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8083319 | Inkjet printer The recording head is formed with ejection holes including first ejection holes and second ejection holes arranged in a first direction. A recording medium has invisible columns extending in the first direction and invisible rows extending in a second direction orth... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8016385 | Printer and printing method A printer including a feeding unit configured to perform repeated feeding of a medium for a predetermined feeding distance in a predetermined feeding direction, a print head configured to print on a printing surface of the medium in a printing zone set each time the... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7971961 | Forming images with stitched swaths A method for forming an image on recording media includes providing a support adapted to receive the recording media; providing a controller programmed for controlling a print head comprising a plurality of individually controllable marking elements to form the imag... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7959259 | Inkjet printing apparatus and driving control method In a configuration in which a printhead including a plurality of first printing elements for discharging ink droplets and a plurality of second printing elements for discharging ink droplets larger than ink droplets discharged by the first printing elements is used,... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7954923 | Liquid ejecting apparatus and liquid ejecting method A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a printing head that ejects liquid to form dots on a recording medium; a head driving section that performs a main scanning for the printing head; a transporting section that performs a sub-scanning for the recording medium; an ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7946678 | Printing apparatus and data processing method In the case where a multipass printing and an interlace printing are used together, the present invention enables outputting an image of good quality independently of the relation between the number of passes in the multipass printing and increase in the resolution ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7909433 | Liquid ejecting apparatus and raster line forming method A liquid ejecting apparatus including a head unit that has a plurality of heads along a first direction, in which a plurality of nozzles that eject a liquid onto a medium are lined up in the first direction, and that ejects the liquid while moving relative to the me... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7901037 | Print engine having printhead control modes A print engine is provided which has a printhead capable of printing a maximum of n channels of print data and a controller. Each channel is associated with rows of printing nozzles of the printhead. The controller controls the printhead to print in: a first mode, i... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7878626 | Printing method, printing apparatus, printing control apparatus and storage medium A printing method includes: preparing a printing apparatus provided with a carry unit that carries a medium in a carrying direction, and a plurality of nozzle groups that have respectively a plurality of nozzles lined up in the carrying direction; and printing an im... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7828414 | Head adjustment method and image forming apparatus A head adjustment method of adjusting overlaps of a plurality of print heads, which are arranged in a widthwise direction of a print medium in an image forming apparatus, in the widthwise direction. The head adjustment method includes setting a theoretical input pat... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7815285 | Printhead having a plurality of print modes Printheads configured to operate in accordance with a plurality of print modes. For example, one of the plurality of print modes can be selected in accordance with a bit of address data received by the printhead. In an exemplary embodiment, the selection of print mo... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7802869 | Printer and printing method An inkjet printer includes a printing head having nozzle units, a main scanning control unit, a sub scanning control unit, and a printing pass setting unit. Each nozzle unit includes a nozzle array where the nozzles are arranged in a nozzle array direction. The main... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7798604 | Inkjet printer and inkjet printing method An image is output, the image having high quality in which density unevenness due to an end-deviation is excellently reduced in all colors in forming an image with use of a bidirectional inkjet printing head provided with ejection port arrays of a plurality of color... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7748825 | Droplet discharge method, droplet discharge apparatus, manufacturing method for liquid crystal device, liquid crystal device, and electronic apparatus A droplet discharge method for discharging a liquid material from a discharge device and arranging the liquid material in a specified quantity on a substrate, the discharge device includes a nozzle for discharging the liquid material in droplets, and the droplet dis... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7740336 | Array type multi-pass inkjet printer and operating method thereof An array type multi-pass inkjet printer head and an operating method thereof. The array type inkjet printer includes an image dividing unit to divide an image to be printed into a plurality of images, a printing unit having a head and to print one of the plurality o... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7722157 | Ink jet printing method and printer An ink jet or other printer serves to print for each row of input pixels, two superimposed rows of contiguous “super pixels,” each print pixel being capable of receiving print contributions from N super pixels. The super pixels are twice the width of the input p... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7708379 | Method and apparatus for driving printer head and image formation Provided are a method and apparatus for driving printing elements of a printer head in an image forming apparatus. The method includes calculating a number of driving groups among multiple driving groups in which at least a first predetermined number of printing ele... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7699436 | Ink jet printing method and ink jet printing apparatus The present invention allows a high-speed printing by a print head in which nozzles are arranged with a high density to reduce eddy flow caused between the print head and a print medium, providing an image with a high quality. Thus, the present invention allows the ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7677693 | Line printing type inkjet image forming apparatus and method of enhancing printed image quality A line printing type inkjet image forming apparatus and a method of enhancing printed image quality. The inkjet image forming apparatus includes a printhead having one or more subheads having nozzles and a length corresponding to a width of a print medium, a driving... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677694 | Image-forming apparatus and image-forming method An image-forming apparatus is provided which is capable of forming a high-quality image without adverse effect (deterioration in printing precision) which may be caused by a dimensional error in producing ink ejection orifice rows, an error in arranging the ink ejec... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7648225 | Printing method, printing system and storage medium A printing method includes: printing an image to be printed on a medium by repeating alternately a dot forming process for forming dots on the medium by ejecting ink from each nozzle of a plurality of nozzles, and a carrying process for carrying the medium in a carr... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7641308 | Printing method, printing apparatus, printing control apparatus and storage medium A printing method includes: preparing a printing apparatus provided with a carry unit that carries a medium in a carrying direction, and a plurality of nozzle groups that have respectively a plurality of nozzles lined up in the carrying direction; and printing an im... | 01/05/2010 |
| 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 printed by scanning the printhead in a first region on the printing ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 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 controls a liquid ejecting section and a relative movement mechanism such ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 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 displaced with respect to the print head in the sub scanning direction over... | 07/14/2009 |
| 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 recording medium interrelatedly in the direction opposite to the arrangeme... | 07/07/2009 |
| 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 dashes in a test pattern. A second straight line is obtained by dete... | 06/09/2009 |
| 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 head is driven to start to print the swath of data on one side of the ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 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 arrangement of dots is formed on the recording medium by jetting a record... | 05/19/2009 |
| 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 performing a first print mode for printing to a unit region of the print ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 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 which printing ink is deposited by each of N nozzles varies from nozzle t... | 04/07/2009 |
| 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 printing ink is deposited by each of N nozzles varies from nozzle to n... | 03/17/2009 |
| 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 applying ultraviolet light to the emitted ink; a carriage drive ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 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 number of times over the first unit region, and recording on a second... | 01/27/2009 |
| 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 crystal device, and the light emission properties of an EL luminesce... | 01/27/2009 |
| 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 structuring the image. The second dot is formed at a position of a certai... | 01/27/2009 |
