Narrowing the operating range of the nozzle head in a printing system and printing method
AssigneeShima Seiki Manufacturing, Ltd.
InventorsShinji Morimoto, Takahiko Tamura
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Abstract
A printing system and a printing method, the printing method including the steps of horizontally placing cloth on a table, moving a nozzle head for ink jet printing in main and auxiliary scanning directions by a carriage for printing, extracting the presence area of printed data from print data, disassembling the presence area into a plurality of blocks, and controlling the carriage so that the nozzle head moves in the blocks for printing.
Claims6
A printing system comprising a table for placing a medium to be printed thereon, and a carriage for shifting a nozzle head for ink jet printing, in relation to said table, in both an operation of the nozzle head in a main scanning direction (X direction) and an operation of the carriage in the auxiliary direction (Y direction) which are independent of each other within a printable range on said table, said printing system further comprising:
- a block extracting means for extracting areas to be printed from print data inputted and for decomposing the print data into blocks narrower than the printable range in both the main scanning direction and the auxiliary scanning direction;
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- a control means for making the carriage and the nozzle head scan only within the blocks decomoposed and print the print data within the blocks extracted.
A printing method using a printer comprising a table for placing a medium to be printed thereon and a carriage for shifting a nozzle head for ink jet printing, in relation to said table, in both an operation of the nozzle head in a main scanning direction (X direction) and an operation of the carriage in the auxiliary direction (Y direction) which are independent of each other within a printable range, said printing method further comprising:
- a step for extracting areas to be printed from print data inputted and for decomposing the print data into blocks narrower than the printable range in both the main scanning direction and the auxiliary scanning direction;
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- a step for making the carriage and the nozzle head scan only within the blocks decomposed and print the print data within the blocks extracted.
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