Patent ID: 6886904
Filing Date: 2005-05-03
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A method for setting adjustment values designed to reduce dot formation misalignment in a direction of main scanning during a printing process in which a printing device equipped with a plurality of single color nozzle groups for ejecting ink drops having mutually different colors is used to deposit the ink drops and to form dots on a print medium while at least one of the plurality of single color nozzle groups and the print medium is moved in a main scan direction, the method comprising: selecting a first adjustment value for a first print mode from a plurality of first possible adjustment values using a first misalignment verification pattern; and selecting a second adjustment value for a second print mode from a plurality of second possible adjustment values using a second misalignment verification pattern, wherein, a form of the second misalignment verification pattern is different from a form of the first misalignment verification pattern.