Patent ID: 8902267
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: B41J,B41M

Abstract:
1. A drawing control method which controls, by a computer, a drawing device to draw line segments on a surface of a medium in a single line segment direction by providing pulse signals to the drawing device, each line segment corresponding to the length of one of the pulse signals and defining the length of a unit region, wherein multiple unit regions are adjacently arranged in the line segment direction, the method comprising: a drawing order determining step wherein the computer determines a drawing order of the line segments by determining, for each one of the line segments to be drawn in any one of said unit regions, whether another line segment to be drawn in an adjacent one of the unit regions forms a continuation in the line segment direction of said one of the line segments, and where it is determined that the another line segment to be drawn in an adjacent one of the unit regions forms a continuation in the line segment direction of said one of the line segments, determining that said one of the line segments and the another line segment are to be drawn sequentially with no intervening line segment being drawn between said one of the line segments and the another line segment, and if it is determined that there is no adjacent unit region to be drawn, determines a drawing order in which the following line segment within the same unit region is drawn; and a step of controlling the drawing device to draw the line segments onto the multiple unit regions on the surface of the medium according to the drawing order determined in the drawing order determining step, wherein a plurality of line segments that are mutually spaced in a direction transverse to the line segment direction are sequentially drawn onto each of the unit regions.