Patent ID: 6700593
Filing Date: 2004-03-02
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
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 the plurality of single-color nozzle groups and/or the print medium is moved in a main scan, the method comprising the steps of:(a) selecting a first adjustment value from a plurality of first possible adjustment values using a first misalignment verification pattern; and (b) selecting a second adjustment value from a plurality of second possible adjustment values using a second misalignment verification pattern, which is different from the first misalignment verification pattern, wherein the second misalignment verification pattern is formed on the basis of the selected first adjustment value.