Patent ID: 11919311
Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 13:
14. The inkjet printer as set forth in claim 11, further comprising
a controller that controls a printing operation of the inkjet head; wherein
the controller,
causes each of the inkjet heads to perform printing on the recording medium by a multi-pass method of performing a plurality of main scans for a plurality of print passes with respect to each position of the recording medium, and
causes each of the inkjet heads to eject ink droplets to a pixel designated by mask data using mask data, the mask data being data designating a pixel to which ink droplets are to be ejected in each of the plurality of print passes performed on each position of the recording medium; and
in the mask data, a nozzle usage frequency on the other end portion side proximate to each other of the nozzle rows of the pair of inkjet heads becomes high, and a nozzle usage frequency on the one end portion side of the nozzle row becomes low.