| US 7,537,306 B2 | ||
| Ink jet printing method and ink jet printing apparatus | ||
| Michinari Mizutani, Kawasaki (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 12, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/954,903. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2006-341387 (JP), filed on Dec. 19, 2006. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0145068 A1, Jun. 19, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. B41J 29/393 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 347—19 [347/14] | 11 Claims |
| 1. An ink jet printing method which forms an image on a print medium by using at least a first nozzle array for ejecting an
ink and a second nozzle array with a better first ejection stability than that of the first nozzle array and by ejecting inks
according to image data, the ink jet printing method comprising the steps of:
acquiring information on a non-ejection time for each of nozzles included in the first nozzle array;
generating ejection data to cause associated nozzles included in the second nozzle array to eject an ink according to the
information on the non-ejection time for each nozzle; and
ejecting the ink from the second nozzle array according to the ejection data.
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