Patent ID: 8672438
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing device comprising: pigment ink nozzles arranged to discharge pigment ink to form pigment ink dots on a print medium; dye ink nozzles arranged to discharge dye ink to form dye ink dots on a print medium; and a nozzle control unit arranged to control sizes of the pigment ink dots and the dye ink dots by controlling ink quantities discharged from the pigment ink nozzles and the dye ink nozzles, the nozzle control unit being arranged to perform the nozzle control unit being arranged to form a printed image including first and second printed image areas formed respectively by the first and second printing processes, when the nozzle control unit forms a first type of ink dots selected in advance from between two types of ink dots including the pigment ink dots and the dye ink dots in the first or second printing process, the nozzle control unit being arranged to perform a dot size adjustment process in which