Ink jet image recording device with pitch-shifted recording elements
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYohji Matsufuji, Hiroo Ichihashi
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Abstract
An image recording device comprises a plural number of recording heads for jetting inks with respective different colors. The device performs recording of color images on a paper while reciprocally moving the recording heads in the direction in which they are arranged. First and second groups of recording heads are provided for respective colors, and the first group of recording heads are arranged in position with a predetermined pitch shifted in the direction of the arrangement of the ink jetting orifices of the respective heads from the second group of recording heads.
Claims6
An image recording device comprising:
- at least two groups of ink-jetting orifices, each said group being arranged in a plurality of arrays of orifices for jetting inks of a like plurality of different colors, for recording a color image;
- means for relatively moving the image recording device and a recording medium in a predetermined direction along which said arrays are disposed while a color image is recorded, wherein said groups are disposed in said arrays with a predetermined pitch and said arrays in one said group are shifted from said arrays in the other said group in a direction substantially normal to the predetermined direction;
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- means for providing each said array in one said group with a different color ink.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.