Patent ID: 11969993
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 5:
6. The setting device according to claim 4, wherein:
the print head further includes a third head unit including N3 third nozzles, N3 being an integer of 4 or more, located at positions different from each other in the specific direction,
the third head unit and the second head unit are located at positions different from each other in the intersecting direction,
a third range includes a second overlapping range and a second non-overlapping range,
the second overlapping range overlaps with the second range,
the second non-overlapping range does not overlap with the second range,
the N3 third nozzles are located in the third range,
the N3 third nozzles and the N2 second nozzles are nozzles that ejects ink of the same color,
the N3 third nozzles include two or more nozzle groups being at positions different from each other in the intersecting direction,
the second range is located between the first non-overlapping range and the second non-overlapping range,
the specific image further includes a third image to be printed using at least some of the N3 third nozzles,
the relative position information includes information indicating a positional deviation amount in the specific direction between the N3 third nozzles and the N2 second nozzles,
the setting device is configured to set, based on the relative position information, second use nozzles to be used for printing and second non-use nozzles not to be used for printing among the N2 second nozzles and the N3 third nozzles within the second overlapping range,
the second use nozzles and the second non-use nozzles are set such that a distance between a third boundary nozzle and a fourth boundary nozzle in the intersecting direction becomes the shortest,
the third boundary nozzle is one nozzle of the N3 third nozzles and is located at a second boundary between the second range and the second non-overlapping range of the third range, and
the fourth boundary nozzle is one of the N2 second nozzles and is located at the second boundary.