Patent ID: 8933981
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: B41J,B41M,G06K

Abstract:
1. A marking control device for controlling a marking device that marks a target image on a thermoreversible recording medium by applying a laser beam thereto, the marking control device comprising: a marking position determination unit configured to divide the target image into a first marking line and a second marking line that are adjacent to each other, and determine a marking position of each of the adjacent first and second marking lines; a marking line order determination unit configured to determine a marking order of the adjacent first and second marking lines for marking the target image such that the second marking line is marked by reversing a scanning direction of the second marking line relative to a scanning direction of the first marking line; an adjusting unit configured to adjust, when the first marking line is initially scanned and the second marking line is scanned adjacent and subsequent to the first marking line by substantially reversing the scanning direction from a location near a first ending point of the first marking line, a first distance between the first ending point of the first marking line and a second starting point of the second marking line to be longer than a second distance between a first starting point of the first marking line and a second ending point of the second marking line so that the first marking line and the second marking line are not parallel lines but are close enough together so as to fill the target image; and a marking instruction generator unit configured to generate a set of marking instructions including the respective marking positions of the first and second marking lines and the marking order of the first and second marking lines.