US 7,581,801 B2
Image forming apparatus
Hikaru Oike, Ibaraki-ken (Japan)
Assigned to Riso Kagaku Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Apr. 04, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/730,829.
Claims priority of application No. P2006-106252 (JP), filed on Apr. 07, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0297823 A1, Dec. 27, 2007
Int. Cl. B41J 29/38 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 347—14  [347/19] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image-forming apparatus comprising:
a transfer unit that transfers an image-formed medium by rotation thereof;
an image-forming unit that includes a first ink head and a second ink head arranged in a transfer direction of the image-formed medium at a predetermined interval and controls the first and second ink heads to eject first and second inks on the image-formed medium;
a transfer amount detecting unit that outputs a pulse signal in response to a rotational motion of the transfer unit;
a transfer reference position detecting unit that detects a reference position provided on the transfer unit;
an ink landing position calculating unit that calculates an ink landing position corresponding to the reference position on the image-formed medium by counting a pulse signal after detection of the reference position;
a storage unit that stores correction values for printing timing for one rotational cycle of the transfer unit as a correction table; and
a printing timing signal generating unit that reads out a correction value for printing timing, which corresponds to the ink landing position on the image-formed medium, from the correction table and generates a printing timing signal by shifting a phase of the pulse signal by the correction value for printing timing;
wherein the correction table includes a set of values, each value being calculated based on a measurement value of an interval between a first ink landing position by the first ink head and a second ink landing position by the second ink head in a predetermined image pattern formed on the predetermined image-formed media which are corresponding to a length longer than the one rotational cycle of the transfer unit, and canceling an error of a transfer amount of the predetermined image-formed media by the transfer unit, and
wherein the image-forming unit forms an image on the image-formed medium in transfer by controlling the first and second ink heads to eject the first and second inks in synchronization with the printing timing signal.