Bidirectional printing that takes account of mechanical vibrations of print head
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorKoichi Otsuki
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AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorKoichi Otsuki
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The recording technique of the present invention is applied to a printer that has a print head, which causes a partial area of main scan to have a lower positional accuracy of dot creation, and carries out bi-directional printing, which causes the print head to create dots on a printing medium in both forward and backward passes of the main scan. The recording technique records dots in such a manner that forward pass dots created in the forward pass of the main scan and backward pass dots created in the backward pass of the main scan are present at substantially equal rates in at least specific areas close to both ends of the main scan. This arrangement of the present invention desirably improves the printing quality in the case of bi-directional printing.
A print control apparatus that generates print data, which is to be supplied to a printer unit that actually creates dots on a printing medium to implement printing,
A printing system comprising a printer unit and a print control apparatus,
A method of creating dots on a printing medium to print an image, said method comprising the steps of:
A recording medium in which a computer program is recorded in a computer readable manner, said computer program functioning to control a printer unit that comprises a print head, which causes a specific partial area of main scan to have a lower positional accuracy of dot creation, and carries out bi-directional printing, which causes said print head to create dots on a printing medium in both forward and backward passes of the main scan,
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