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US 7,726,762 B2Granted
Printing method and printing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorKoichi Otsuki
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Abstract
A printing method of the present invention includes the steps of: carrying a medium and ejecting ink from a print head to print, on the medium, a mark that can be filled in by a user; detecting, with a sensor, whether or not the mark has been filled in; and performing a process in accordance with a result of the detection by the sensor. With this printing method, operations with respect to a printing apparatus can be performed with ease.
Claims6
A printing method comprising the steps of:
- carrying a medium and ejecting ink from a print head to print, on said medium, a plurality of fill-in marks that can be filled in by a user;
- detecting, with a sensor, whether or not said fill-in marks have been filled in;
- and
- performing a process in accordance with a result of the detection by said sensor,
- wherein said sensor moves together with said print head,
- wherein said print head prints, on said medium,
- a position-adjustment mark,
- a bidirectional printing adjustment pattern including a plurality of ruled-line pairs, each ruled-line pair including a first ruled line formed during a forward movement of said print head and a second ruled line formed during a return movement of said print head, a distance between said first ruled line and said second ruled line being different among said ruled-line pairs, and
- said plurality of fill-in marks respectively corresponding to said plurality of ruled-line pairs,
- wherein said sensor detects said position-adjustment mark,
- wherein said sensor detects whether or not one of said fill-in marks has been filled in, in accordance with a result of detecting said position-adjustment mark, and
- wherein an ink ejection timing at which ink is to be ejected from said print head upon bidirectional printing is adjusted in accordance with a result of detecting said fill-in mark.
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A printing method comprising the steps of:
- carrying a medium and ejecting ink from a print head to print, on said medium, a plurality of fill-in marks that can be filled in by a user;
- detecting, with a sensor that moves together with said print head, whether or not said fill-in marks have been filled in;
- and
- performing a process in accordance with a result of the detection by said sensor,
- wherein said print head prints, on said medium,
- a position-adjustment mark,
- a bidirectional printing adjustment pattern including a plurality of ruled-line pairs, each ruled-line pair including a first ruled line formed during a forward movement of said print head and a second ruled line formed during a return movement of said print head, a distance between said first ruled line and said second ruled line being different among said ruled-line pairs, and
- said plurality of fill-in marks respectively corresponding to said plurality of ruled-line pairs,
- wherein said sensor detects said position-adjustment mark,
- wherein said sensor detects whether or not one of said fill-in marks has been filled in, in accordance with a result of detecting said position-adjustment mark, and
- wherein an ink ejection timing at which ink is to be ejected from said print head upon bidirectional printing is adjusted in accordance with a result of detecting said fill-in mark.
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A printing apparatus comprising:
- a printing mechanism that is provided with a carrying mechanism for carrying a medium and a print head for ejecting ink, and that is for printing an image on said medium;
- a sensor for detecting said image that has been printed on said medium;
- and
- a controller for causing a plurality of fill-in marks that can be filled in by a user to be printed on said medium, causing said sensor to detect whether or not said fill-in marks have been filled in, and performing a process in accordance with a result of the detection by said sensor,
- wherein said print head prints, on said medium,
- a position-adjustment mark,
- a bidirectional printing adjustment pattern including a plurality of ruled-line pairs, each ruled-line pair including a first ruled line formed during a forward movement of said print head and a second ruled line formed during a return movement of said print head, a distance between said first ruled line and said second ruled line being different among said ruled-line pairs, and
- said plurality of fill-in marks respectively corresponding to said plurality of ruled-line pairs,
- wherein said sensor detects said position-adjustment mark,
- wherein said sensor detects whether or not one of said fill-in marks has been filled in, in accordance with a result of detecting said position-adjustment mark, and,
- wherein an ink ejection timing at which ink is to be ejected from said print head upon bidirectional printing is adjusted in accordance with a result of detecting said fill-in mark.
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A printing method comprising the steps of:
- carrying a medium and ejecting ink from a print head to print, on said medium, a plurality of fill-in marks that can be filled in by a user;
- detecting, with a sensor, whether or not said plurality of fill-in marks have been filled in;
- and
- performing a process in accordance with a result of the detection by said sensor,
- wherein said sensor moves together with said print head,
- wherein said print head prints, on said medium,
- a position-adjustment mark,
- a bidirectional printing adjustment pattern including a plurality of ruled-line pairs, each ruled-line pair including a first ruled line formed during a forward movement of said print head and a second ruled line formed during a return movement of said print head, a distance between said first ruled line and said second ruled line being different among said ruled-line pairs, and
- said plurality of fill-in marks respectively corresponding to said plurality of ruled-line pairs,
- wherein said sensor detects said position-adjustment mark,
- wherein said sensor detects whether or not one of said fill-in marks has been filled in, in accordance with a result of detecting said position-adjustment mark, and
- wherein data indicating the position of said fill-in marks is read from a memory;
- wherein based on said data, said sensor detects whether or not one of said fill-in marks has been filled in,
- wherein a list of a plurality of images and said fill-in marks respectively corresponding to said images are printed on said medium,
- wherein an image to be printed is determined according to a result of detecting said fill-in mark with said sensor,
- wherein a print signal is created in accordance with said result of the detection,
- wherein an image is formed on said medium in accordance with said print signal,
- wherein said print signal is created after adjusting a dot recording ratio in accordance with said result of the detection,
- wherein adjustment of a printing mechanism for carrying said medium and ejecting ink from said print head is performed in accordance with said result of the detection, and
- wherein an ink ejection timing at which ink is to be ejected from said print head upon bidirectional printing is adjusted in accordance with a result of detecting said fill-in mark.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.