Image forming apparatus and method

Details Image forming apparatus and method Image forming apparatus and method

2007-09-25

2007-09-25

Nguyen, Lamson (Department: 2861)

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Ink jet

Ejector mechanism

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10950592

ABSTRACT:
The image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium by using coloring materials of a plurality of colors including at least cyan, magenta and yellow, and the apparatus comprises: a cyan recording head which has a plurality of cyan recording elements for forming cyan recording pixels on the recording medium; a magenta recording head which has a plurality of magenta recording elements for forming magenta recording pixels on the recording medium; a yellow recording head which has a plurality of yellow recording elements for forming yellow recording pixels on the recording medium, a density of the plurality of yellow recording elements arranged in the yellow recording head being lower than each of a density of the plurality of cyan recording elements arranged in the cyan recording head and a density of the plurality of magenta recording elements arranged in the magenta recording head; and a recording control device which controls a recording operation in such a manner that a recording density of the yellow recording pixels formed on the recording medium with the yellow recording head is lower than each of a recording density of the cyan recording pixels formed on the recording medium with the cyan recording head and a recording density of the magenta recording pixels formed on the recording medium with the magenta recording head.

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