US 9,039,132 B2 · Printing apparatus and printing method

Abstract

A printing apparatus which prints an image on a transparent medium using a head which discharges ink droplets from nozzles. Two pieces of image data are prepared, one piece of image data is selected from the two pieces of image data to set the selected image data to one of a first image and a second image, and the other piece of image data is set to the other of the first image and the second image. The image data set to the first image is subjected to a processing to be mirror image data. The head prints the mirror image of the first image on the medium, prints a background image on the mirror image of the first image, and prints a real image of the second image on the background image.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A printing apparatus which prints a first image and a second image on a transparent medium, comprising:

a head which discharges ink droplets from nozzles;
and
a controller that controls the head;
wherein the controller is able to perform a transmission mode in which the controller controls the head to print the second image such that the second image can be seen through from a first image side and a reflection mode in which the controller controls the head to print the first image on the transparent medium, to print a background image on the first image and to print the second image on the background image, and
wherein a transmission density of a background image in the transmission mode is higher than a transmission density of the background image in the reflection mode.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/133,764Filed 19 Dec 2013 · continuation

Priority

JP 2009-09632910 Apr 2009

Published

US 2014/0104336 A117 Apr 2014

Granted

26 May 2015

Term ends

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Classification10 codes

B41J 29/393
Drives, motors, controls or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism: devices for controlling or analysing the entire machine ;…
B41J 2/04581
Control methods or devices therefor, e.g. driver circuits, control circuits: controlling heads based on piezoelectric elements
B41J 2/04588
Control methods or devices therefor, e.g. driver circuits, control circuits: using a specific waveform
B41J 2/04596
Control methods or devices therefor, e.g. driver circuits, control circuits: non-ejecting pulses

Family

Application12/754,673Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Apr 2010

US 2014/0104336 A1Pre-grant publication · published 17 Apr 2014

US 8,638,469 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2010/0259770 A1Published application

US 9,039,132 B2This patent

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Abstract

Claims16