Printing apparatus
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorChikahiro Saegusa
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a conveyor configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path, a print head on the conveyance path, a main scan direction of the print head crossing the conveyance path, and a controller configured to control the print head to, in a first printing mode, set a print reference position to a first end of the print head in the main scan direction and print an image on the sheet from a leading end side of the image, and in a second printing mode, set the print reference position to a second end of the print head in the main scan direction and print the image on the sheet from a trailing end side of the image.
Claims20
A printing apparatus, comprising:
- a conveyor configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path;
- a print head on the conveyance path, a main scan direction of the print head crossing the conveyance path;
- and
- a controller configured to control the print head to:
- in a first printing mode, set a print reference position to a first end of the print head in the main scan direction and print an image on the sheet from a leading end side of the image as the sheet is conveyed along the conveyance path across the print head, and
- in a second printing mode, set the print reference position to a second end of the print head in the main scan direction and print the image on the sheet from a trailing end side of the image as the sheet is conveyed along the conveyance path across the print head.
A printing system, comprising:
- a printing apparatus including:
- a first conveyor configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path,
- a print head on the conveyance path, a main scan direction of the print head crossing the conveyance path, and
- a controller configured to control the print head to:
- in a first printing mode, set a print reference position to a first end of the print head in the main scan direction and print an image on the sheet from a leading end side of the image as the sheet is conveyed along the conveyance path across the print head, and
- in a second printing mode, set the print reference position to a second end of the print head in the main scan direction and print the image on the sheet from a trailing end side of the image as the sheet is conveyed along the conveyance path across the print head;
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- a second conveyor configured to convey an object to which the printed sheet is attached.
A printing method executed by a printing apparatus including a print head on a conveyance path of a sheet, a main scan direction of the print head crossing the conveyance path, the method comprising:
- conveying the sheet along the conveyance path;
- and
- controlling the print head to:
- in a first printing mode, set a print reference position to a first end of the print head in the main scan direction and print an image on the sheet from a leading end side of the image as the sheet is conveyed along the conveyance path across the print head, and
- in a second printing mode, set the print reference position to a second end of the print head in the main scan direction and print the image on the sheet from a trailing end side of the image as the sheet is conveyed along the conveyance path across the print head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.