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| 20080211850 | Liquid Ejecting Method and Liquid Ejecting Apparatus - A liquid ejecting method includes detecting a faulty nozzle in which an ejection fault occurs when a liquid should be ejected, calculating corrected tone values by correcting tone values of pixels adjacent to pixels at which the liquid should be ejected from the faulty nozzle based on a correction amount, and a liquid ejecting apparatus ejecting the liquid to the adjacent pixels based on the corrected tone values. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080246795 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, LIQUID EJECTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head group having a plurality of heads provided with supply ports for supplying liquid to the heads, the heads being arranged in a nozzle-array direction and ejecting the liquid therefrom to form an image; and a heating portion that heats the liquid to be supplied to the head group, the heating portion being disposed between the supply ports of the heads located at opposite ends in the nozzle-array direction. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080253607 | LINE POSITION CALCULATING METHOD, CORRECTION VALUE OBTAINING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM STORED THEREON - A line position calculating method is a method for calculating a position, in a second direction, of a line along a first direction in an image, based on image data of the image constituted by a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form in the first direction and in the second direction, the method obtains pixel data of each of a plurality of pixels arranged in the first direction, calculates an extent of unevenness of each tone value indicating the pixel data of each of the plurality of pixels arranged in the first direction, sets a threshold value according to the extent of unevenness, sets a range based on the threshold value, detects a defective pixel in which the tone value indicating the pixel data is out of the range, calculates a representative value indicating a tone value of a pixel row, based on the pixel data of the pixels other than the defective pixel of the plurality of pixels constituting the pixel row, and calculates a position, in the second direction, of the line, based on the representative value of each pixel row. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20090002408 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS, LIQUID DISCHARGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A liquid discharging apparatus includes a head that is driven in response to a driving signal to discharge liquid, a controller that drives the head by generating the driving signal, an adjustment unit that adjusts the temperature of the liquid, and a supply path that supplies the head with the liquid having the temperature adjusted by the adjustment unit. The controller alters the driving signal in accordance with a flow amount of the liquid, which flows in the supply path. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090027437 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND LIQUID EJECTING METHOD - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a plurality of heads that eject liquids, a plurality of driving signal generating units that are disposed in the plurality of heads and generate driving signals used for driving the plurality of heads, a temperature control unit that controls temperatures of the liquids, a supply path that supplies the liquids of which temperatures are controlled by the temperature control unit to the plurality of heads, and a controller that changes the driving signals, which are generated by the plurality of driving signal generating units corresponding to the plurality of heads, based on the temperatures of the liquids in the plurality of heads. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090115807 | LIQUID EJECTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING LIQUID EJECTING DEVICE - A liquid ejecting device includes a nozzle group formed by aligning nozzles that eject a liquid, and a liquid ejecting head that ejects liquids from the nozzles based on ejection serial data that represents ejection or non-ejection of each nozzle of the nozzle group. The liquid ejecting head ejects a liquid to a landing target while the liquid ejecting head and the landing target are relatively moved in a second direction that is perpendicular to a first direction in which the nozzles are aligned. The liquid ejecting device further includes a meandering correction pattern forming unit that forms a meandering correction pattern along the second direction in a margin outside the regulated landing area of the landing target and a meandering correction pattern detecting unit that detects the meandering correction pattern formed in the landing target by the meandering correction pattern forming unit. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20100085397 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a transporting unit that transports a printing medium in a transport direction. A print head group has print heads disposed at an interval in the transport direction. Each of the print heads has ink ejecting nozzles in a range substantially perpendicular to the transport direction, including a margin area outside an image forming area in the printing medium. Image detection units correspond to the print heads except for at least the uppermost upstream side print head in the transport direction. A printing control unit controls the print heads so that the print heads eject ink on the printing medium. The uppermost upstream side print head prints a reference timing pattern on the margin area. A print head corresponding to the detection unit prints a checking timing pattern when the reference timing pattern is detected, thereby controlling the ink ejection timing of the printing apparatus. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100194809 | Liquid Ejection Method and Liquid Ejection Apparatus - 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. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100220140 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND TRANSPORTING METHOD - A recording apparatus of this invention includes a head; a transport mechanism that transports a medium in a transport direction with respect to the head, according to a target transport amount to be targeted; a memory that stores a plurality of correction values associated with a relative position of the head and the medium; and a controller that controls the transport mechanism based on the target transport amount that has been corrected, after correcting the target transport amount based on correction values, which are in number according to a size of the target transport amount, and which include the correction value according to the relative position when transporting by the target transport amount. | 09-02-2010 |
