Patents Examined by J E Barlow
  • Inkjet printer and method of printing
    Patent number: 6270181
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an inkjet printer (11) in which printing can be conducted with a normal ink and a light ink each having a plurality of ink droplet sizes to generate high quality pictures. When the number of the sizes is three, the 7 level gray scale printing can be performed because the three different densities for the respective two links and another density in which no dot is printed are utilized. Further disclosed is a printing method employing the inkjet printer (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Ota