Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100009136 | INK SET, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, RECORDED MATTER, AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink set includes an oil-based ink composition containing a metallic pigment; and at least one oil-based ink composition selected from the group consisting of a chromatic color ink composition containing a chromatic color oil dye, a black ink composition containing a black oil dye, and a colorless and transparent ink composition that does not contain a colorant. | 01-14-2010 |
20100055424 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, PROGRAM AND PRINTED PRODUCT - A printing apparatus, a printing method, an application program and a printing medium are disclosed. The printing apparatus is coupled to a control circuit which with the help of the application program, controls the operation of the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus contains at least two kinds of glossy recording materials with different concentrations. The printing apparatus performs glossy printing on a printing medium by controlling the usage of the two kinds of glossy recording materials. | 03-04-2010 |
20100177131 | METHOD OF CREATING LOOKUP TABLE, PRINTING APPARATUS, LOOKUP TABLE, AND PRINTING METHOD - A method of creating a lookup table which describes a correspondence relationship between an input value to a printing apparatus for performing printing by ejecting ink onto a printing medium, and output values of a special gloss ink and a color ink of the printing apparatus, includes: a first process of determining the output value of the special gloss ink to be relatively low at a lattice point where an index value relating to color intensity is dark to be equal to or lower than a predetermined value, with regard to each lattice point of the lookup table; and a second process of determining the output value of the color ink at each lattice point by increasing an ink duty limit value which is the upper limit of the sum of the color ink that can be ejected onto a unit area of the printing medium, according to the determined output value of the special gloss ink. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177354 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CREATING LOOKUP TABLE, LOOKUP TABLE, PRINTING METHOD, AND PRINTED PRODUCT - A printing apparatus for performing printing using a special gloss material and a coloring material, includes: an input unit that inputs image data; and a printing unit that controls an arrangement of the special gloss material and the coloring material on a printing medium on the basis of the input data and prints the image data, wherein the printing unit relatively reduces an amount of the special gloss material to be used in a shadow region that is a printing region where an index value relating to color intensity expressed by the coloring material is equal to or lower than a predetermined darkness value. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177357 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CREATING LOOKUP TABLE, LOOKUP TABLE, PRINTING METHOD, AND PRINTED MATTER - A printing apparatus for performing printing with the use of a special gloss material and a coloring material is provided. The printing apparatus includes: an inputting unit that receives or acquires image data as an input; and a printing unit that controls the arrangement of the special gloss material and the coloring material on a print target medium on the basis of the inputted image data to print the image data. The printing unit changes the amount of use of the special gloss material depending on an index value that is related to the lightness of a color represented by the coloring material. | 07-15-2010 |
20100209677 | IMAGE RECORDING METHOD, RECORD AND IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM - [Problems] There is provided an image recording method that provides resulting images with an excellent gloss and an improved closeness of contact with the recording medium used. | 08-19-2010 |
20110037804 | INK SET, INK JET RECORDING METHOD, RECORDED MATTER, AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink set includes an oil-based ink composition containing a metallic pigment; and at least one oil-based ink composition selected from the group consisting of a chromatic color ink composition containing a chromatic color oil dye, a black ink composition containing a black oil dye, and a colorless and transparent ink composition that does not contain a colorant. | 02-17-2011 |
20110221807 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - The printing device includes a print head having a specialty gloss ink ejection head for ejecting a specialty gloss ink that creates a special gloss effect and a dye-based color ink ejection head for ejecting a dye-based color ink, and an ejection control unit configured to carry out ejection of the specialty gloss ink from the specialty gloss ink ejection head and ejection of the dye-based color ink from the dye-based color ink ejection head, and to carry out printing of a special gloss area with the specialty gloss ink and printing of a reproduction area onto the special gloss area with the dye-based color ink. The ejection control unit has a first printing mode for carrying out printing of the reproduction area in a main scan that chronologically follows a main scan of the print head in which printing of the special gloss area is carried out. | 09-15-2011 |
20120056922 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a print head that is able to apply light-blocking ink that blocks light and metallic ink that creates a metallic look on a printing medium, a metallic look control unit that determines the ink amount per unit area of the light-blocking ink that the print head applies based on the created metallic look, and an ink application control unit that controls the print head, applies the metallic ink and the light-blocking ink based on the determined ink amount on the printing medium, and laminates the metallic ink and the light-blocking ink such that the side that is viewed has the metallic ink. | 03-08-2012 |
20120113178 | PRINTING APPARATUS, COLOR CONVERSION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A printing apparatus, which performs the printing using a polish and a colorant includes a reduction region setting portion that sets a reduction region, which is a region where an amount of the polish is reduced, at a dark portion side of a color gamut of the printing apparatus in a device-independent color space; and a color conversion portion which converts color of an image to be input to the printing apparatus into a print color to be expressed by the polish and the colorant, wherein, among pixels constituting the image, in a pixel included in the reduction region, the color conversion portion reduces the amount of the polish compared to a pixel not included in the reduction region, and converts color of the image to the print color. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113444 | PRINTING APPARATUS, COLOR CONVERSION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The printing apparatus is a printing apparatus which prints an image by forming a layer containing a colorant on a recording medium having luster, and is provided with a color conversion unit which converts a color of an image into a printed color expressed by the colorant such that a degree of change in brightness with respect to a gradation change for pixels belonging to a highlighted part in which index values relating to the brightness are equal to or greater than a predetermined value is greater than that for pixels with index values which do not belong to the highlighted part, among the pixels constituting the image. | 05-10-2012 |
20120113476 | PRINTING APPARATUS, COLOR CONVERSION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A printing apparatus prints an image with the use of a luster agent and a colorant, and is provided with a color conversion unit which converts a color of an image into a printed color expressed by the luster agent and the colorant such that a degree of change in brightness with respect to a gradation change for pixels belonging to a highlighted part, in which index values relating to the brightness are equal to or greater than a first predetermined value, is greater than that for pixels with index values which do not belong to the highlighted part, among the pixels constituting the image. | 05-10-2012 |
20130063516 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A printer as an ink ejecting apparatus capable of ejecting sedimentation ink includes an LED as a first light emitting unit that emits light to a patch as a measurement target portion printed on a printing medium by the sedimentation ink, a light receiving sensor as a first light receiving unit that receives light transmitted from the LED and passing through the patch, and a control unit as a shielding degree determining unit that determines whether or not the patch has a predetermined shielding degree on the basis of a light reception signal output from the light receiving sensor. | 03-14-2013 |
20130308145 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CREATING LOOKUP TABLE, LOOKUP TABLE, PRINTING METHOD, AND PRINTED MATTER - A printing apparatus for performing printing with the use of a special gloss material and a coloring material is provided. The printing apparatus includes: an inputting unit that receives or acquires image data as an input; and a printing unit that controls the arrangement of the special gloss material and the coloring material on a print target medium on the basis of the inputted image data to print the image data. The printing unit changes the amount of use of the special gloss material depending on an index value that is related to the lightness of a color represented by the coloring material. | 11-21-2013 |