Printing apparatus and printing method

• US 7,978,363 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2007
• Issued: 07/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: King JIM Company Limited, Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Takayama, Shoji
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Douglas Q
• Application Number:
  US11/672,384
• Publication Number:
  US 20070187508A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,616 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.13, 358/1.14, 358/1.18, 358/3.28, 358/3.27
• US Class Current: 358/1.18
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06037 multi-dimensional coding

Abstract

There is provided a printing apparatus including: an image creating device which creates a plurality of two-dimensional code images; an interval setting device which sets an interval between the plurality of two-dimensional code images; and a printing device which prints the plurality of two-dimensional code images having the interval set therebetween by the interval setting device.

Claims

1. A printing apparatus comprising:

an image creating device which creates a plurality of two-dimensional code images;

an interval setting device which sets an interval between the plurality of two-dimensional code images, secures a margin necessary for the two-dimensional code images, and includes a plurality of alternatives by which the interval is selected and set to make the two-dimensional code images fall within a printing medium; and

a printing device which prints the plurality of two-dimensional code images having the interval set therebetween by the interval setting device.

2. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of two-dimensional code images are formed of a plurality of divided two-dimensional code images resulting from division of a series of input data.

3. The printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of two-dimensional code images are formed of a plurality of divided two-dimensional code images resulting from division of a series of input data and formed of a single two-dimensional code image.

4. A printing method comprising:

an image creating step of creating a plurality of two-dimensional code images;

an interval setting step of setting an interval between the plurality of two-dimensional code images, wherein a margin necessary for the two-dimensional code images is secured and a plurality of alternatives are included by which the interval is selected and set to make the two-dimensional code images fall within a printing medium; and

a printing step of printing the plurality of two-dimensional code images having the interval set therebetween by the interval setting step.

5. A printing apparatus comprising:

an image creating device which creates a plurality of two-dimensional code images formed of a plurality of divided two-dimensional code images resulting from division of a series of input data and formed of a single two-dimensional code image;

an interval setting device which sets an interval between the plurality of two-dimensional code images; and

a printing device which prints the plurality of two-dimensional code images having the interval set therebetween by the interval setting device.