Printing apparatus and printing method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsHidenori Usuda, Shinichi Kamoshida, Mitsuaki Yoshizawa
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Abstract
An apparatus for printing an image on a transparent medium based on a selected mode, the apparatus includes: a head that ejects ink droplets from nozzles, wherein when a first mode is selected, the head prints a first image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the first image, and prints a second image which is different from the first image on the background image, and wherein when a second mode is selected, the head prints a second image on the transparent medium, prints a background image on the second image, and prints a first image on the background image.
Claims6
A printing apparatus for printing an image on a medium, comprising:
- a first head unit;
- a second head unit that is located upstream from the first head unit in a transport direction along which the medium is transported;
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- a controller that
- performs printing that prints a first image to the medium by the first head,
- transports the medium, on which the first image is printed, in a reverse transport direction that is reverse from the transport direction,
- prints a background image to the first image by the second head unit,
- transports the medium, on which the background image is printed, in the transport direction, and
- prints a second image to the background image by the first head unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.