RECORDING APPARATUS AND PROJECTION METHOD

• US 20160283831A1
• Filed: 02/26/2016
• Published: 09/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: ANZAI, Sumito, YAMASHITA, Norihiro
• Application Number:
  US15/054,396
• Publication Number:
  US 20160283831A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 11/00 Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form script supports connected to the typewriter or printer B41J29/15
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 11/06 Flat page-size platens or smaller flat platens having a greater size than line-size platens B41J11/0085 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 13/26 Registering devices
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/4078 Printing on textile
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/16 Means for paper feeding or form feeding
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1849 using an intermediate representation, e.g. a list of graphical primitives
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 2215/101 involving the use of ink jets

Abstract

A recording apparatus includes a support unit that can support and move a medium toward the moving direction, a recording unit that records an image on the medium supported by the support unit based on digital data, and a projection unit that projects an object which is a reference of a recording position on the medium, on the medium supported by the support unit. By configuring the recording apparatus like this, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of the deviation between the recording position assumed from the digital data and the actual recording position.

Claims

1. A recording apparatus comprising:

a support unit that can support and move a medium toward the moving direction;

a recording unit that records an image on the medium supported by the support unit based on digital data; and

a projection unit that projects an object which is a reference of a recording position on the medium, on the medium supported by the support unit.

2. The recording apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, a change of the recording position in the digital data is accepted, and then, a projection position of the object is changed in correspondence with the change of the recording position.

3. The recording apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the projection position of the object can be changed, and

wherein the recording position in the digital data is changed in correspondence with the change of the projection position of the object.

4. The recording apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the projection unit includes a first projection unit and a second projection unit, and

wherein the first projection unit projects a first object among the objects corresponding to one end of the recording position in one direction among the moving direction and a crossing direction intersecting the moving direction, and

wherein the second projection unit projects a second object among the objects corresponding to the other end of the recording position in the one direction.

5. The recording apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein a size of the image recorded on the medium is changed in correspondence with a distance between the one end and the other end in the one direction.

6. The recording apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the projection unit includes a third projection unit and a fourth projection unit,

wherein the third projection unit projects a third object among the objects corresponding to one end of the recording position in the other direction among the moving direction and the crossing direction, and

wherein the fourth projection unit projects a fourth object among the objects corresponding to the other end of the recording position in the other direction.

7. A projection method for projecting a recording position in a recording apparatus that includes a support unit that can support and move a medium toward the moving direction, and a recording unit that records an image on the medium supported by the support unit based on digital data, the method comprising:

projecting an object which is a reference of a recording position on the medium, on the medium supported by the support unit.