Incremental printing of symbolic information – Ink jet – Controller
Reexamination Certificate
2007-03-20
2007-03-20
Nguyen, Lamson (Department: 2861)
Incremental printing of symbolic information
Ink jet
Controller
C347S013000, C347S016000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10947238
ABSTRACT:
The image recording apparatus which records an image to a recording medium with a full-line recording head in which a plurality of image-recording elements are arrayed across a length that corresponds to an entire width of the recording medium while at least one of the recording medium and the recording head is conveyed in a direction that is substantially orthogonal to a width direction of the recording medium, and the recording head and the recording medium are relatively moved, the image recording apparatus comprises: a defective pixel detecting device which detects defective pixels in the image recorded on the recording medium by the recording head; a recording medium conveying device which conveys the recording medium on which the defective pixels have been detected, to a position for re-recording the image with the recording head when the defective pixels have been detected in the image recorded on the recording medium; and a defective pixel position detecting device which detects positions of the defective pixels before re-recording the image with the recording head on the recording medium on which the defective pixels have been detected, wherein, when the defective pixels are detected, the defective pixels on the recording medium are restored by moving at least one of the recording head and the recording medium, and re-recording the pixels in the detected defective pixel positions by using different image-recording elements than the image-recording elements that have recorded the defective pixels, or by repairing defects of the image recoding elements which have recorded the defective pixels, and re-recording the image.
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Fuji Photo Film Co. , Ltd.
Nguyen Lamson
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