Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080218777 | Printer colorimetry control device, print colorimetry control method and printer - A print and colorimetry control device includes a print control section which controls so that an image for which colorimetry is to be carried out is printed on a printing medium, based on predetermined image data, a determining section which determines a position where a colorimetry section is caused to carry out colorimetry for the image based on a printing position of the image on the printing medium, a feeding section which feeds the printing medium having finished printing, based on the determined position, a colorimetry control section which controls the colorimetry section based on the determined position so that the colorimetry section is caused to carry out colorimetry thereby to obtain a calorimetric value of the image. | 09-11-2008 |
20080231874 | Printer control system, printer control method and printer - A print and colorimetry instructing section delivers an exclusive-use start instruction to start exclusive use of the printer prior to delivery of the printing instruction and the colorimetry instruction, the print and colorimetry instructing section delivering an exclusive-use canceling instruction to cancel the exclusive use of the printer at a predetermined time subsequent to delivery of the exclusive-use start instruction. The printer carries out only a process according to the instruction from the print and colorimetry instructing section having delivered the exclusive-use start instruction until accepting a predetermined exclusive-use canceling instruction subsequent to acceptance of the exclusive-use start instruction. | 09-25-2008 |
20080240829 | PRINTING COLORIMETRIC INSTRUCTION METHOD AND PRINTER - A printing calorimetric control device of the present invention is configured to comprise a reception section which receives a designation for a colorimetry position on a predetermined image; a printing control section which prints an image on a print medium on the basis of image data which represent the predetermined image; a determination section which determines a position when a colorimetry section is caused to perform colorimetry on the predetermined image printed on the print medium on the basis of the designation; a conveyance section which conveys the print medium for which printing has been completed on the basis of the position thus determined; and a colorimetric control section which acquires a colorimetry value of the colorimetry position of the designation by causing the colorimetry section to execute colorimetry on the basis of the position thus determined. | 10-02-2008 |
20090160895 | Liquid ejecting method, liquid ejecting apparatus, and storage medium having program stored thereon - A liquid ejecting method according to the present invention includes the following: varying dots that are to constitute a dot row that is to be formed with a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row, according to a usage rate of each of the first and second nozzle rows when forming that dot row, the first nozzle row including a plurality of first nozzles lined up in a transport direction, the second nozzle row including a plurality of second nozzles in the transport direction, the first nozzles of the first nozzle row forming dots on a medium by ejecting liquid while moving in a movement direction, the second nozzles of the second nozzle row forming dots on the medium by ejecting liquid while moving in the movement direction, the dot row that has been formed on the medium being composed of a plurality of the dots to be lined up on the medium in the movement direction; and forming a plurality of the dot rows in the transport direction by alternately repeating a transport operation of transporting the medium in the transport direction and a dot forming operation of forming a dot on the medium by ejecting liquid from the first nozzles and the second nozzles while the first and second nozzles moving in the movement direction, at least one of the dot rows that have been formed by the first and second nozzles being composed of the dots that are varied according to the usage rate of each of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row. | 06-25-2009 |
20090201562 | Method of Determining Number of Patches - A test chart used for color calibration includes: the number of patches of a first color; and the number of patches of a second color. The number of patches of the first color is determined on the basis of the degree of variation in the colorimetric value of the first color in a color space on a medium, and the number of patches of the second color is determined on the basis of the degree of variation in the colorimetric value of the second color in the color space on the medium. | 08-13-2009 |
20100253724 | PRINTING USING INKS OF PLURAL COLORS INCLUDING WHITE COLOR - Disclosed is a printing apparatus that performs printing by using inks of plural colors including a white color, which includes a first nozzle group that ejects an ink of one color including a white color and at least one color other than the white color, and a second nozzle group that ejects the inks of plural colors. An image formed by the first nozzle group is an undercoat layer or an overcoat layer of an image formed by the second nozzle group. | 10-07-2010 |
20100253957 | PRINTING USING INKS OF PLURAL COLORS INCLUDING WHITE COLOR - Disclosed is a printing apparatus that performs printing by using inks of plural colors including a white color, which includes a first image forming unit that forms a first image, and a second image forming unit that forms a second image such that at least a part of the second image overlaps the first image. The second image forming unit forms at least a part of a section of the second image, which overlaps the first image, by using only a white ink, and forms at least a part of a section of the second image, which does not overlap the first image, by using inks of a white color and at least one color other than the white color. | 10-07-2010 |
20100253958 | MEASUREMENT OF OPTICAL TRANSMITTANCE OF PRINTED MATTER - A printing method of performing printing on a printed matter by using a printing apparatus is disclosed. The print method includes obtaining from the printed matter a wavelength-based transmittance which is transmittance to plural visible light; determining an optical transmittance of the printed matter based on the wavelength-based transmittance; and ejecting white ink onto the printed matter based on the optical transmittance. | 10-07-2010 |
20110051196 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS - A print control apparatus is provided, which controls a printing apparatus that performs printing using a plurality of color inks including a white ink. The print control apparatus includes a toning white designation unit that designates a plurality of partial regions in a print region where the printing by the printing apparatus is performed, and designating at least one of sets of density values and color specification values with respect to a toning white that is defined by a combination of the density value and the color specification value in a predetermined color system with respect to the partial regions; and a print control unit that controls a first image forming unit that forms a color image on the print region and a second image forming unit that forms a toning white image on the partial regions in which the sets of the density values and the color specification values are designated. | 03-03-2011 |
20110058192 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS - A print control apparatus is provided, which controls a printing apparatus that performs printing using a plurality of color inks including a white ink. The print control apparatus includes a toning white designation unit that acquires a characteristic color of a print medium and designates sets of density values and color specification values with respect to a toning white that is defined by a combination of the density value and the color specification value in a predetermined color specification system based on the characteristic color of the print medium; and a control unit that controls a first image forming unit forming a color image on a print region where the printing by the printing apparatus is performed and a second image forming unit forming a toning white image on the print region. | 03-10-2011 |
20110134445 | PRINTER COLORIMETRY CONTROL DEVICE, PRINT COLORIMETRY METHOD AND PRINTER - A print and colorimetry control device includes a print control section which controls so that an image for which colorimetry is to be carried out is printed on a printing medium, based on predetermined image data, a determining section which determines a position where a colorimetry section is caused to carry out colorimetry for the image based on a printing position of the image on the printing medium, a feeding section which feeds the printing medium having finished printing, based on the determined position, a colorimetry control section which controls the colorimetry section based on the determined position so that the colorimetry section is caused to carry out colorimetry thereby to obtain a colorimetric value of the image. | 06-09-2011 |
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 from the nozzles, wherein the control unit forms an image on a medium in one of a first mode of forming a main image with the first fluid and a second mode of forming the main image and a background image with the second fluid to be overlapped, forms the main image using a certain nozzle group in the first nozzles when the main image is formed in the first mode, and forms the main image using the same nozzle group as the certain nozzle group when the main image is formed in the second mode. | 06-16-2011 |
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 with the first fluid by a nozzle group of a part of the first nozzle row and formation of a background image with the second fluid by a nozzle group of a part of the second nozzles are performed to overlap the main image and the background image with each other on the medium, in a case where one of the nozzle group of the part of the first nozzles and the nozzle group of the part of the second nozzles is positioned closer to the other direction side of the predetermined direction than the other nozzle group to perform the image formation on a predetermined area of the medium in advance of the other nozzle group. | 06-16-2011 |
20120200885 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing system includes a storage unit that associates and stores print job data and post processing job data; a printing unit that prints a code regarding the association on media when an image is printed on the media based on the print job data; a code reading unit that reads the code that is printed on the media; and a post processing unit that selects the post processing job data that is associated from the storage unit based on the read code and performs the post processing with respect to the media based on the selected post processing job data. | 08-09-2012 |
20140347693 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing system includes a storage unit that associates and stores print job data and post processing job data; a printing unit that prints a code regarding the association on media when an image is printed on the media based on the print job data; a code reading unit that reads the code that is printed on the media; and a post processing unit that selects the post processing job data that is associated from the storage unit based on the read code and performs the post processing with respect to the media based on the selected post processing job data. | 11-27-2014 |