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US 2015/0103111 A1Published application
Printing device and printing method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorYutaka KOBASHI
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Abstract
Dots with metallic ink are formed in an arrangement in which an average of distances between dots with the metallic dots is shorter than an average of distances between dots with color ink. The “distance between dots with the color ink” indicates a distance from a color dot to be focused to one color dot at the closest position thereto. The same holds true for the metallic ink.
Claims4
A printing method comprising:
- a dot forming step that forms color dots on a medium by ejecting a color ink from a nozzle and forms metallic dots on the medium by ejecting a metallic ink from a nozzle, wherein a value obtained by normalizing an average of a distance between the metallic dots by a dot generation ratio of the metallic dots, is shorter than a value obtained by normalizing an average of a distance between the color dots by a dot generation ratio of the color dots.
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