Patent ID: 7221464
Filing Date: 2007-05-22
Classification: B41J,G03G,H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for printing a medical image on a recording medium, comprising: a printing section to print either said medical image or a test-pattern for evaluating a quality of said medical image, on said recording medium, based on image data; a printing-condition setting section to set a printing condition for printing said test-pattern; and a printing-condition displaying section to display said printing condition set by said printing-condition setting section, wherein said printing section prints at least one of a sharpness-evaluating pattern and a granularity-evaluating pattern, and wherein said sharpness-evaluating pattern includes more than four kinds of pattern elements, spatial frequencies of said pattern elements are different relative to each other and in each of which 1 to 20 periods of each spatial frequency is aligned.