Inkjet recording system and inkjet recording method

• US 20050052483A1
• Filed: 09/01/2004
• Published: 03/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hattori, Hiroshi, Nakagawa, Seiji, Esaki, Takahiro, Matsuo, Hidetoshi, Miyazono, Yutaka
• Application Number:
  US10/930,783
• Publication Number:
  US 20050052483A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 347/12
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 25/001 Mechanisms for bodily moving print heads or carriages parallel to the paper surface
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/4071 Printing on disk-shaped media, e.g. CDs

Abstract

A recording system includes a line head having a plurality of nozzles arranged in a Y direction, a LF motor for feeding a role sheet in an X direction, and a CR motor for shifting a set position of the line head sequentially. When the set position of the line head is shifted by a given distance in the Y direction, the recording system converts image data in such a manner that an image is shifted in an opposite direction by a distance equal to the given distance so that the same image is recorded in different positions of the nozzles.

Claims

1. An inkjet recording system comprising:

an inkjet recording head having a plurality of nozzles arranged along a first direction;

a moving mechanism for supporting said recording head and/or a recording medium and moving said recording head and said recording medium relatively to each other along a second direction not parallel to said first direction in a recording operation;

a controller for accepting image data for recording an image by allowing said nozzles of said recording head to discharge an ink and for controlling said recording head and said moving mechanism for recording said image on said recording medium; and

an image data converter for converting said image data,

wherein said image is recorded by a nozzle combination of which nozzles are a part of said nozzles that said inkjet recording head has and which includes nozzles arranged in a string along said first direction,

said image data converter converts said image data so as to shift a position of said nozzle combination along said first direction, and

said controller accepts said converted image data and controls said recording head for recording said image with said position of said nozzle combination shifted along said first direction.

2. The inkjet recording system of claim 1,

further comprising position changing means for changing a relative position along said first direction of said recording head against said recording medium by a given distance in a non-recording operation,

wherein said image data converter converts said image data in such a manner that said image is shifted along a direction opposite to a direction of the relative movement between said recording head and said recording medium by a distance equal to said given distance.

3. The inkjet recording system of claim 1,

further comprising a carriage motor for driving said recording head along said first direction.

4. The inkjet recording system of claim 2, further comprising:

a recovery system mechanism provided in a position away at least along said first direction from a recording position of said recording head and including at least caps for covering said nozzles of said recording head; and

a driving mechanism for moving said recording head between said recording position and the position of said recovery system mechanism,

wherein said driving mechanism also works as said position changing means.

5. The inkjet recording system of claim 4,

wherein said position changing means changes the relative position along said first direction of said recording head against said recording medium between before moving said recording head toward said recovery system mechanism and after moving said recording head toward said recovery system mechanism and returning said recording head to said recording position.

6. The inkjet recording system of claim 1,

wherein said recording medium is a roll type recording medium,

said moving mechanism includes a feeding mechanism for feeding said roll type recording medium along said second direction, and

said image data converter converts said image data when said roll type recording medium is exchanged.

7. The inkjet recording system of claim 2,

wherein said recording medium is a roll type recording medium,

said moving mechanism includes a feeding mechanism for feeding said roll type recording medium along said second direction, and

said position changing means changes the relative position along said first direction of said recording head against said recording medium when said roll type recording medium is exchanged.

8. The inkjet recording system of claim 1,

wherein said image includes a line extending along said second direction.

9. The inkjet recording system of claim 1,

wherein a plurality of images at least partly common in image contents are continuously recorded.

10. The inkjet recording system of claim 1,

wherein said image data converter converts said image data in such a manner that said image is shifted along said first direction and is rotated.

11. The inkjet recording system of claim 10,

wherein said image data converter rotates said image by 180 degrees.

12. An inkjet recording method comprising:

a recording step of moving an inkjet recording head having a plurality of nozzles arranged along a first direction and a recording medium relatively to each other along a second direction not parallel to said first direction and recording, on the basis of image data for recording a given image, said image on said recording medium by using said recording head by allowing said nozzles of said recording head to discharge an ink; and

an image data converting step of converting said image data,

wherein said image is recorded by a nozzle combination of which nozzles are a part of said nozzles that said inkjet recording head has and which includes nozzles arranged in a string along said first direction,

in said image data converting step, said image data is converted so as to shift a position of said nozzle combination along said first direction, and

in said recording step, said image is recorded by using said recording head with said position of said nozzle combination shifted along said first direction on the basis of said converted image data after converting said image data in the image data converting step.

13. The inkjet recording method of claim 12,

further comprising a position changing step of changing a relative position along said first direction of said recording head against said recording medium by a given distance,

wherein, in the image data converting step, said image data is converted in such a manner that said image is shifted along a direction opposite to a direction of the relative movement of said recording head by a distance equal to said given distance.

14. The inkjet recording method of claim 12,

wherein, in the image data converting step, said image data is converted in such a manner that said image is shifted along said first direction and is rotated.