Patent ID: 11938742
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 2:
3. The printing apparatus according to claim 1,
wherein the line head further includes a third nozzle row arranged in the conveying direction with respect to the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row,
the third nozzle row is positioned upstream in the conveying direction from the second nozzle row,
the third nozzle row includes a plurality of nozzles aligned in the width direction,
the nozzles in the third nozzle row are shifted in the width direction with respect to the nozzles of the first nozzle row and the nozzles of the second nozzle row,
the third nozzle row includes: a plurality of first nozzles forming a group; and a plurality of second nozzles forming a group adjacently in the width direction to the group of first nozzles in the third nozzle row, and
a ratio of a third positional shift amount and the second positional shift amount is equal to a ratio of an interval in the conveying direction between the third nozzle row and first nozzle row and an interval in the conveying direction between the second nozzle row and first nozzle row, the third positional shift amount being a positional shift amount in the conveying direction between the third dot and a fifth dot, which is a landing position on the print medium of the liquid discharged from one of the second nozzles in the third nozzle row.