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US 8,783,812 B2Granted
Printing apparatus and printing method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorTakayoshi Kagata
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a nozzle that ejects brilliant ink to a medium to form a brilliant image, a nozzle that ejects color ink to the medium to form a color image, and a control unit that ejects the color ink after ejecting the brilliant ink to the medium, applies, to the color image, a pattern in which blocks each having a predetermined area and each formed of pixels with the same gradation are arranged, and ejects the color ink so that the color image after the application is formed.
Claims10
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a nozzle that ejects brilliant ink to a medium to form a brilliant image;
- a nozzle that ejects color ink to the medium to form a color image;
- and
- a control unit that controls the nozzles for ejecting the color ink after ejecting the brilliant ink to the medium, and applies, to the color image, a lame-tone pattern in which blocks each having a predetermined area and each formed of pixels with the same gradation are arranged.
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A printing method, comprising the steps of:
- applying, to a color image, a lamé-tone pattern in which blocks each having a predetermined area and each formed of pixels with the same gradation are arranged thereby to form the color image after the step of applying;
- ejecting color ink to a medium to form the color image after the step of applying;
- and
- ejecting brilliant ink to the medium to form a brilliant image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.