Patent ID: 11900188
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 4:
5. The printer according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to be capable of executing a printing in a first printing mode, and a printing in a second printing mode,
wherein the print image is a first print image printed in the first printing mode,
wherein in a case that the controller causes the printing part to print a second print image which is printed in the second printing mode, the controller is configured to execute:
causing the printing head to execute a fifth partial printing the N times, the fifth partial printing being the partial printing executed in the state that the medium faces the facing member;
causing the conveyor to convey the medium by a fifth conveying amount, after causing the printing head to execute the fifth partial printing the N times;
causing the printing head to execute a sixth partial printing the N times, after causing the conveyor to convey the medium by the fifth conveying amount, the sixth partial printing being the partial printing executed in the state that the medium faces the facing member;
causing the conveyor to convey the medium by a sixth conveying amount, which is smaller than the fifth conveying amount, after causing the printing head to execute the sixth partial printing the N times;
causing the printing head to execute a seventh partial printing the N times, after causing the conveyor to convey the medium by the sixth conveying amount, the seventh partial printing being the partial printing executed in the state that the medium is arranged at the specified position in the conveying direction at which the predetermined position, of the end part on the upstream side in the conveying direction of the medium, faces the facing member;
causing the conveyor to convey the medium, after causing the printing head to execute the seventh partial printing the N times; and
then, causing the printing head to execute an eighth partial printing the N times, the eighth partial printing being the partial printing executed in the state that the medium does not face the facing member, and

wherein a fifth area printed by the fifth partial printing performed the N times is printed only by the fifth partial printing,
wherein a sixth area printed by the sixth partial printing performed the N times is printed only by the sixth partial printing,
wherein a seventh area printed by the seventh partial printing performed the N times is printed only by the seventh partial printing,
wherein an eighth area printed by the eighth partial printing performed the N times is printed only by the eighth partial printing,
wherein N pieces of a fifth raster line, which are adjacent to each other and which are included in a plurality of fifth raster lines within the fifth area and arranged in the conveying direction, are printed, respectively, by the fifth partial printing and the fifth partial printing which are mutually different from each other and performed separately from each other,
wherein N pieces of a sixth raster line, which are adjacent to each other and which are included in a plurality of sixth raster lines within the sixth area and arranged in the conveying direction, are printed, respectively, by the sixth partial printing and the sixth partial printing which are mutually different from each other and performed separately from each other,
wherein N pieces of a seventh raster line, which are adjacent to each other and which are included in a plurality of seventh raster lines within the seventh area and arranged in the conveying direction, are printed, respectively, by the seventh partial printing and the seventh partial printing which are mutually different from each other and performed separately from each other,
wherein N pieces of an eighth raster line, which are adjacent to each other and which are included in a plurality of eighth raster lines within the eight area and arranged in the conveying direction, are printed, respectively, by the eighth partial printing and the eighth partial printing which are mutually different from each other and performed separately from each other;
wherein the controller is configured to execute performing the (N−1) time of the conveyance of the medium each between the N times of the fifth partial printing, between N times of the sixth partial printing, between the N times of the seventh partial printing, and between the N times of the eighth partial printing, and
wherein a conveying amount of the (N−1) time of the conveyance of the medium in the second printing mode is smaller than a conveying amount of the (N−1) time of the conveyance of the medium in the first printing mode.