Image forming apparatus and image forming method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8851654
APP PUB NO 20120287188A1
SERIAL NO

13456483

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An image forming apparatus provided with a first mode in which one nozzle row group is positioned so as to be shifted to the downstream side of the medium transport direction with respect to another nozzle row group, ink forming a main image is filled into the first nozzle row in the one nozzle row group, ink forming a background image is filled into the second nozzle row in the other nozzle row group, and the one nozzle row group and the other nozzle row group are used to form the background image before the main image, and a second mode, in which ink forming a background image is filled into the first nozzle row, ink forming the main image is filled into the second nozzle row, and the one nozzle row group and the other nozzle row group are used to form the main image before the background image.

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  • SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Shimada, Yoshitaka Matsumoto, JP 34 182
Yoshizawa, Mitsuaki Minowa-machi, JP 42 244

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