Printing control device, printing apparatus, control method of printing control device, and program
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorHirofumi Terasawa
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Abstract
Provided is a printer control device that controls a printer that includes an ink jet head unit that has head arrays, in which three or more ink jet heads for ejecting ink from nozzle arrays are aligned in a nozzle array extending direction, the printer control device includes a head control section that causes an ink jet head unit to execute printing without using a designated head that is an ink jet head designated and all ink jet heads aligned on one side in the nozzle array extending direction with reference to the designated head, in a designation mode, in which inhibition of use of the ink jet heads is designated.
Claims10
A printing control device that controls a printing apparatus provided with a head unit that has head arrays, in which three or more heads for ejecting ink from nozzle arrays are aligned in a first direction that is a nozzle array extending direction, the device comprising:
- a printing control section that causes the head unit to execute printing without using a designated head that is a head designated and all heads aligned at least on one side in the first direction with reference to the designated head, in a designation mode in which inhibition of use of the head is designated,
- wherein in a case in which all the heads aligned on one side in the first direction with reference to the designated head are not used, the printing control section causes the head unit to execute printing without using all the heads aligned on the one side in the first direction, the number of which aligned in the first direction from the designated head is the smallest.
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a head unit that has head arrays, in which three or more heads for ejecting ink from nozzle arrays are aligned in a first direction that is a nozzle array extending direction;
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- a printing control device that has a printing control section that causes the head unit to execute printing without using a designated head that is a head designated and all heads aligned at least on one side in the first direction with reference to the designated head, in a designation mode in which inhibition of use of the head is designated,
- wherein in a case in which all the heads aligned on one side in the first direction with reference to the designated head are not used, the printing control section causes the head unit to execute printing without using all the heads aligned on the one side in the first direction, the number of which aligned in the first direction from the designated head is the smallest.
A control method of a printing control device that controls a printing apparatus provided with a head unit that has head arrays, in which three or more heads for ejecting ink from nozzle arrays are aligned in a first direction that is a nozzle array extending direction, the method comprising:
- causing the head unit to execute printing without using a designated head that is a head designated and all heads aligned at least on one side in the first direction with reference to the designated head, in a designation mode in which inhibition of use of the head is designated, and
- causing, in a case in which all the heads aligned on one side in the first direction with reference to the designated head are not used, the head unit to execute printing without using all the heads aligned on the one side in the first direction, the number of which aligned in the first direction from the designated head is the smallest.
A non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium for storing a program which, when executed by a control section of a printing control device that controls a printing apparatus provided with a head unit that has head arrays, in which three or more heads for ejecting ink from nozzle arrays are aligned in a first direction that is a nozzle array extending direction, causes the control section to:
- cause the head unit to execute printing without using a designated head that is a head designated and all heads aligned on at least one side in the first direction with reference to the designated head, in a designation mode in which inhibition of use of the head is designated, and
- cause, in a case in which all the heads aligned on one side in the first direction with reference to the designated head are not used, the head unit to execute printing without using all the heads aligned on the one side in the first direction, the number of which aligned in the first direction from the designated head is the smallest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.