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US 12,752,547 B2Granted
Printing apparatus, printing method, and program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTaichi Yokokawa, Hidehiko Kanda, Yuji Konno, Masaki Nitta, Takeshi Yazawa, Takayuki Ushiyama, Jumpei Jogo
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Abstract
Two areas having different application amounts of chromatic color ink are disposed adjacent to each other, and an amount of reactive liquid is appropriately determined in accordance with a print result of a test pattern in which an amount of reactive liquid is varied.
Claims10
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a printing unit configured to print an image on a print medium by applying chromatic color ink containing coloring material and reactive liquid containing a component that reacts with the coloring material;
- a control unit configured to control the printing unit such that the printing unit prints a test pattern in which a plurality of patches is arranged, wherein each of the plurality of patches has a first area and a second area adjacent to the first area, and wherein, in each of the plurality of patches, an application amount of the chromatic color ink per unit area of the first area is equal to one another, an application amount of the reactive liquid per unit area of the first area is equal to one another, an application amount of the chromatic color ink per unit area of the second area is equal to one another, and an application amount of the reactive liquid per unit area of the second area is different from one another;
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- a determining unit configured to determine an application amount of the reactive liquid, corresponding to an application amount of the chromatic color ink, in accordance with a print result of the test pattern.
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A printing method comprising:
- printing an image on a print medium by applying chromatic color ink containing coloring material and reactive liquid containing a component that reacts with the coloring material;
- printing a test pattern in which a plurality of patches is arranged, wherein each of the plurality of patches has a first area and a second area adjacent to the first area, and wherein, in each of the plurality of patches, an application amount of the chromatic color ink per unit area of the first area is equal to one another, an application amount of the reactive liquid per unit area of the first area is equal to one another, an application amount of the chromatic color ink per unit area of the second area is equal to one another, and an application amount of the reactive liquid per unit area of the second area is different from one another;
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- determining an application amount of the reactive liquid, corresponding to an application amount of the chromatic color ink, in accordance with a print result of the test pattern.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more programs including instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of a printing apparatus, cause the printing apparatus to perform a method comprising:
- printing an image on a print medium by applying chromatic color ink containing coloring material and reactive liquid containing a component that reacts with the coloring material;
- printing a test pattern in which a plurality of patches is arranged, wherein each of the plurality of patches has a first area and a second area adjacent to the first area, and wherein, in each of the plurality of patches, an application amount of the chromatic color ink per unit area of the first area is equal to one another, an application amount of the reactive liquid per unit area of the first area is equal to one another, an application amount of the chromatic color ink per unit area of the second area is equal to one another, and an application amount of the reactive liquid per unit area of the second area is different from one another;
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- determining an application amount of the reactive liquid, corresponding to an application amount of the chromatic color ink, in accordance with a print result of the test pattern.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.