Abstract: The invention is a transport method that transports a medium by causing a transport roller to rotate based on a corrected target transport amount, after correcting the target transport amount that is targeted based on a correction value and includes: printing a first pattern on a medium, printing a second pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of less than one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the first pattern, printing a third pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the first pattern, printing a fourth pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the second pattern, calculating a first correc

Abstract: There is provided a method of calculating a correction value in a liquid ejecting apparatus in which a plurality of heads is arranged in a predetermined direction and each of the heads has a nozzle row in which nozzles ejecting a liquid on a medium are arranged in the predetermined direction. The method includes: forming a first and second pattern by a first and second operation; and calculating, on the basis of the first pattern, a first correction value and, on the basis of the first and second patterns, a second correction valve to line up a landed position of the liquid ejected in the first operation and the second operation.

Abstract: A fluid ejecting apparatus and a method for correcting pixel data are disclosed. The fluid ejecting apparatus includes a nozzle line having nozzles which eject fluid onto a medium and are lined up in a predetermined direction; a moving mechanism relatively moving the nozzle line and the medium in a direction intersecting the predetermined direction; and a control unit that ejects the fluid from the nozzle line while relatively moving the nozzle line and the medium in the intersecting direction by using the moving mechanism, based on pixel data of the predetermined number of gradations according to certain kinds of dots which can be formed by the fluid ejected from the nozzles, the control unit correcting the pixel data of the predetermined number of gradations in accordance with the correction value set for every image line data which is the plurality of pixel data lined up in a direction corresponding to the intersecting direction in the pixel data.

Abstract: A method for correcting pixel data and a fluid ejecting apparatus and are disclosed.

Abstract: A medium is carried to a predetermined position in a carrying direction. A first pattern is formed on the medium with nozzles on the carrying direction upstream side of a nozzle row constituted by a plurality of nozzles lined up at predetermined intervals. After forming the first pattern, the medium is carried in the carrying direction by a target carry amount that is shorter than the length in the carrying direction of the nozzle row. Along with forming on the medium a second pattern that forms a boundary with the first pattern with nozzles on the carrying direction downstream side of the nozzle row, a third pattern is formed on the medium with the nozzles on the carrying direction upstream side of the nozzle row.

Abstract: A recording apparatus of this invention includes a head; a transport mechanism that transports a medium in a transport direction with respect to the head, according to a target transport amount to be targeted; a memory that stores a plurality of correction values associated with a relative position of the head and the medium; and a controller that controls the transport mechanism based on the target transport amount that has been corrected, after correcting the target transport amount based on correction values, which are in number according to a size of the target transport amount, and which include the correction value according to the relative position when transporting by the target transport amount.

Abstract: A printing method includes determining a first correction value corresponding to a first print mode, determining a second correction value corresponding to a second print mode, and correcting an ink ejection amount of each row region individually, using a combined correction value obtained by combining the first correction value and the second correction value. The first print mode is a print mode that is applied to a front end area, with respect to a transport direction, of a medium. Dot rows are formed extending in a nozzle movement direction that is perpendicular to the transport direction, on a plurality of row regions lined up in the transport direction. The dot rows are formed by repeating a movement ejection operation of ejecting ink onto the medium while moving nozzles in the movement direction, and a transport operation of transporting the medium in the transport direction. The first correction value is for correcting an ejection amount of the ink in each row region individually.

Abstract: A printing method according to the present invention includes carrying a medium, and printing, using a nozzle for ejecting ink, a plurality of images each having a section to be detected for detecting an inclination of the image with respect to the carried medium.

Abstract: The invention is a transport method that transports a medium by causing a transport roller to rotate based on a corrected target transport amount, after correcting the target transport amount that is targeted based on a correction value and includes: printing a first pattern on a medium, printing a second pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of less than one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the first pattern, printing a third pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the first pattern, printing a fourth pattern after the medium has been transported by causing the transport roller to rotate by a rotation amount of one rotation from a rotation position of the transport roller at a time of printing the second pattern, calculating a first correc

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus has a head, a transport mechanism, a memory, and a controller. The head ejects a liquid. The transport mechanism transports a medium in a transport direction with respect to the head in accordance with a target transport amount that is targeted. The memory stores a plurality of correction values, each of the correction values being associated with a relative position between the head and the medium, a range of the relative position to which that correction value is to be applied being associated with that correction value. In the case where a transport using the target transport amount is performed beyond the range of the relative position associated with the correction value that is associated with the relative position before the transport, the controller corrects the target transport amount based on the correction value associated with the relative position before the transport and the correction value associated with the relative position after the transport.

Abstract: A recording apparatus of this invention includes a head; a transport mechanism that transports a medium in a transport direction with respect to the head, according to a target transport amount to be targeted; a memory that stores a plurality of correction values associated with a relative position of the head and the medium; and a controller that controls the transport mechanism based on the target transport amount that has been corrected, after correcting the target transport amount based on correction values, which are in number according to a size of the target transport amount, and which include the correction value according to the relative position when transporting by the target transport amount.

Abstract: A method for measuring density, includes: forming on a medium a pattern that consists of a plurality of dot rows formed respectively in a plurality of row regions lined up in a direction intersecting a movement direction in which a plurality of nozzles move, by forming each of the dot rows in the row region arranged in the movement direction by ejecting ink from the nozzles; reading the pattern by a scanner; measuring density of each of the row regions of the read pattern; calculating respective modification values corresponding to each of the row regions, based on at least a part of a measurement result of the density of the plurality of the row regions; and modifying respective measured values of the density of each of the row regions based on the respective modification values corresponding to each of the row regions.

Abstract: A printing method according to the present invention includes carrying a medium, and printing, using a nozzle for ejecting ink, a plurality of images each having a section to be detected for detecting an inclination of the image with respect to the carried medium.

Abstract: A method for measuring density, includes: forming on a medium a pattern that consists of a plurality of dot rows formed respectively in a plurality of row regions lined up in a direction intersecting a movement direction in which a plurality of nozzles move, by forming each of the dot rows in the row region arranged in the movement direction by ejecting ink from the nozzles; reading the pattern by a scanner; measuring density of each of the row regions of the read pattern; calculating respective modification values corresponding to each of the row regions, based on at least a part of a measurement result of the density of the plurality of the row regions; and modifying respective measured values of the density of each of the row regions based on the respective modification values corresponding to each of the row regions.

Abstract: Darkness correction is carried out effectively. A printing method is provided with the following steps: A step of, when a plurality of nozzles arranged in a predetermined direction for each of a plurality of colors of ink is moved in a movement direction intersecting with the predetermined direction while ejecting ink of the plurality of different colors, correcting a darkness of only a predetermined color, of the plurality of colors, for each dot row region so as to inhibit darkness non-uniformities between dot row regions that are formed on a medium by dot rows in the movement direction of the nozzles, and a step of performing printing by moving the plurality of nozzles while ejecting ink.

Abstract: A printing product manufacturing method of printing a plurality of printing products on a medium includes: generating first and second images on the basis of a printing target image; printing the first image in a first area of a print area and printing the second image in a second area of the print area on the downstream side of the first area in a transport direction; and transporting the first image printed in the first area to the second area, wherein the printing products in which the printing target image is printed on the medium are manufactured by alternately repeating the printing and the transporting.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a plurality of printed patterns on a continuous medium.

Abstract: A method for judging achievability of density correction of an image, the density correction being performed by a printing apparatus during printing of the image, the printing apparatus including a plurality of nozzle groups each consisting of a plurality of nozzles that are lined up in a predetermined direction, the method, includes: printing on a medium a comparison pattern whose density is not corrected and a comparison pattern whose density is corrected, by causing at least two nozzle groups among a plurality of the nozzle groups to eject ink and forming dots in a mixed manner with the ink ejected from the at least two nozzle groups, reading the density of each of the comparison patterns, and judging, based on the read density, achievability of density correction of an image.

Abstract: A method of calculating a correction value includes: forming a test pattern by ejecting a liquid by a liquid ejecting apparatus, which has a first nozzle row in which a plurality of nozzles ejecting the liquid to a medium are arranged in a predetermined direction and a second nozzle row in which a plurality of nozzles ejecting the liquid to the medium are arranged in the predetermined direction, the second nozzle row being disposed so that an end portion on one side thereof in the predetermined direction overlaps with an end portion on the other side of the first nozzle row in the predetermined direction, to an area of the medium corresponding to certain pixel data on the basis of the certain pixel data from first nozzles belonging to the end portion on the other side of the first nozzle row and second nozzles belonging to the end portion on the one side of the second nozzle row; acquiring a read-out gray scale value by allowing a scanner to read-out the test pattern; and calculating a correction value used t

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes an ejecting section, an upstream-side transport roller, a downstream-side transport roller, and a control section. The ejecting section ejects liquid onto a medium. The upstream-side transport roller is positioned closer to an upstream side than the ejecting section in a transport direction of the medium, and the downstream-side transport roller is positioned closer to a downstream side than the ejecting section. The upstream-side transport roller and the downstream-side transport roller transport the medium in cooperation with each other by rotating. The control section forms a first pattern by causing the ejecting section to eject the liquid onto the medium in case that an upstream-side end section of the medium in the transport direction is sandwiched with a sandwich section of the upstream-side transport roller.