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Printing apparatus, printing method, and printing system

US10538107B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 18, 2019
Grant dateJan 21, 2020
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Expiry dateMar 18, 2039

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/4053
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

From among a plurality of elements included in a printing head and arrayed in a predetermined direction, a faulty element that is unable to form dots properly on a printing medium is identified. At least one of correction processing for increasing a value of multi-valued input image data corresponding to the faulty element and correction processing for decreasing a threshold in a quantization process for the faulty element is performed. Complementary dot data is generated for the faulty element by taking the dot data generated for the identified faulty element as dot data corresponding to an element near the identified faulty element in the predetermined direction.

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