Printing apparatus and driving control method for printhead

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PATENT NO 9764562
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14858374

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In a printing apparatus including a printhead and a print control unit, wherein the printhead includes two nozzle arrays, each arranged in a first direction and including nozzles arranged along a second direction, the print control unit performs a first operation of expanding print data onto a memory, a second operation of selecting, for each nozzle array, some of the nozzles as non-driving nozzles and the remaining nozzles as driving nozzles, and a third operation of distributing the expanded print data to the two nozzle arrays such that dots corresponding to the non-driving nozzles of one nozzle array are printed by the driving nozzles of the other nozzle array.

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  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Honda, Yoshiyuki Yokohama, JP 44 492
Kano, Yutaka Yokohama, JP 61 437
Kawatoko, Norihiro Yokohama, JP 109 1544
Masuyama, Atsuhiko Yokohama, JP 80 902
Nishikori, Hitoshi Inagi, JP 154 2545
Suzuki, Fumiko Kawasaki, JP 23 144

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