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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMinoru Teshigawara, Yoshiaki Murayama, Masahiko Umezawa, Shinsuke Ikegami
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A printing apparatus which uses a plurality of print element arrays in each of which a plurality of print elements are arranged, and drives a predetermined number of print elements of each of blocks obtained by dividing each of the plurality of the print element arrays into pieces of the predetermined number of the print elements respectively in a time division driving manner, to perform printing on a print medium conveyed, including: a position displacement detecting unit configured to detect print position displacements; and a correction unit configured to perform correction in which pixels which are to be printed by print elements is shifted, the number of the print elements corresponding to an amount of the print position displacement, by a block in each of the plurality of the print element arrays.
A printing apparatus which uses a plurality of print element arrays in each of which a plurality of print elements are arranged, and drives a predetermined number of print elements of each of blocks that are obtained by dividing each of the plurality of the print element arrays into pieces of the predetermined number of the print elements respectively in a time division driving manner, to perform printing on a print medium that is conveyed, said printing apparatus comprising:
A method for correcting print position displacement in a printing apparatus which uses a plurality of print element arrays in each of which a plurality of print elements are arranged, and drives a predetermined number of print elements of each of blocks that are obtained by dividing each of the plurality of the print element arrays into pieces of the predetermined number of the print elements respectively in a time division driving manner, to perform printing on a print medium that is conveyed, said method comprising:
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