Patent ID: 11884083
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A liquid discharge apparatus, comprising:
a discharge head including a plurality of nozzles;
a head scanning mechanism configured to reciprocatingly move the discharge head in a main scanning direction;
a conveyer configured to convey a recording medium in a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction; and
a controller,
wherein the controller is configured to execute, in one pass,
recording processing in which an image is formed on the recording medium by moving the discharge head in the main scanning direction and discharging liquid from the discharge head,
setting processing, executed after completion of the recording processing, in which the discharge head is moved from an ending position of the recording processing for the one pass to a starting position of the recording processing for a subsequent pass following the one pass by changing a moving direction of the discharge head at a standstill position, and
conveyance processing in which the recording medium is conveyed in the sub-scanning direction,

wherein the controller is further configured to:
determine whether the subsequent pass is a first state pass or a second state pass based on image data of the image, the second state pass being different from the first state pass;
set setting processing time required for the setting processing for the one pass as a first setting time in a case that the subsequent pass is the first state pass, and
set the setting processing time required for the setting processing for the one pass as a second setting time longer than the first setting time in a case that the subsequent pass is the second state pass.