Printing apparatus and printing method
Printing apparatus and printing method
Patent Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto - New York, NY, US
Patent Inventors: YOSHIAKI MURAYAMA, Kiichiro Takahashi, Minoru Teshigawara, Tetsuya Edamura, Akiko Maru
Applicaton #: 20070019031
Class: 347043000 (USPTO)
01/25/07
A smooth, uniform image is produced by minimizing the occurrence of satellites of secondary color and dispersing landing positions of the satellites as uniformly as possible. For this purpose, the printing operation performed so that satellites of the two inks (cyan and magenta ink, foe example) ejected toward the same pixel are separated and landed on opposite sides of the main dots on the same pixel. This makes the distribution of satellites uniform and makes individual satellites less noticeable, maintaining the uniformity of an image.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0026] The present invention has been accomplished to solve the above-mentioned problems and it is an object of this invention to provide an ink jet printing method and an ink jet printing apparatus which can produce smooth, uniform images by minimizing the forming of satellites of secondary color as practically as possible and dispersing the landing positions of satellites as uniformly as possible.
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