Patent ID: 8630017
Filing Date: 2014-01-14
Classification: B41J,G06K

Abstract:
1. An ink jet printing apparatus, comprising: a print head adapted to eject ink to a print medium to perform printing according to print data; a generating unit configured to generate the print data by thinning out a first region of image data, the first region being adjacent to a contour of a character and being located outside of the contour of the character, with the character being, composed of pixels to which ink is not ejected, and without thinning out a second region of the image data, the second region being located outside the contour of the character, where a distance from the contour of the character to the second region is greater than a distance from the contour of the character to the first region; and a control unit configured to cause the print head to perform a printing operation based on the print data generated by the generating unit.