Printing Device And Printing Method

Abstract: The throughput of a serial printer is improved. A ink jet printer 100 has a print unit 3, 9 that prints on a print medium 50; a first transportation unit 1, 2 that conveys the print medium 50 in the primary-scanning direction; a second transportation unit 4, 5 that conveys the print unit 3, 9 in a secondary scanning direction perpendicular to the primary scanning direction; and a control unit 16 that control the transportation operations of the first transportation unit 1, 2 and second transportation unit 4, 5. So that the time required to move the print unit 3, 9 from the stop-printing position where the print unit 3 , 9 finishes printing one print area to the start-print ingposition where transportation for printing the next print area starts is shortest, the control unit 16 determines a transportation range that may include the print unit 3, 9 going beyond the stop-printing position when the print unit 3, 9 prints the one print area.

Patent Information

Application #

Filing Date

22 February 2011

Publication Number

36/2016

Publication Type

INA

Invention Field

NO SUBJECT

Status

Email

Parent Application

Applicants

SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

4-1, NISHISHINJUKU 2-CHOME, SHINJUKU-KU, TOKYO 163-0811, JAPAN,

Inventors

1. AKIZUKI, MASAYUKI

C/O SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, 3-5, OWA 3-CHOME, SUWA-SHI, NAGANO 392-8502, JAPAN

2. NAKAGAWA, MASAYUKI

C/O SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, 3-5, OWA 3-CHOME, SUWA-SHI, NAGANO 392-8502, JAPAN

3. USHIYAMA, YOSHIKI

C/O SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, 3-5, OWA 3-CHOME, SUWA-SHI, NAGANO 392-8502, JAPAN,

4. TAKEUCHI, KATSUNORI

C/O SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, 3-5, OWA 3-CHOME, SUWA-SHI, NAGANO 392-8502, JAPAN,

Specification

Documents

Application Documents

#	Name	Date
1	457-DEL-2011-Form-18-(24-02-2011).pdf	2011-02-24
2	457-DEL-2011-Correspondence-Others-(24-02-2011).pdf	2011-02-24
3	457-DEL-2011-Form-3-(14-06-2011).pdf	2011-06-14
4	457-DEL-2011-Correspondence Others-(14-06-2011).pdf	2011-06-14
5	457-del-2011-GPA-(27-06-2011).pdf	2011-06-27
6	457-del-2011-Correspondence Others-(27-06-2011).pdf	2011-06-27
7	457-del-2011-Form-5.pdf	2011-10-01
8	457-del-2011-Form-3.pdf	2011-10-01
9	457-del-2011-Form-2.pdf	2011-10-01
10	457-del-2011-Form-1.pdf	2011-10-01
11	457-del-2011-Drawings.pdf	2011-10-01
12	457-del-2011-Description (Complete).pdf	2011-10-01
13	457-del-2011-Correspondence-others.pdf	2011-10-01
14	457-del-2011-Claims.pdf	2011-10-01
15	457-del-2011-Abstract.pdf	2011-10-01
16	457-del-2011-Form-1-(12-02-2015).pdf	2015-02-12
17	457-del-2011-Correspondance Others-(12-02-2015).pdf	2015-02-12
18	457-DEL-2011-FER.pdf	2017-02-01
19	457-DEL-2011-AbandonedLetter.pdf	2017-11-10

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