US 12,251,932 B2
Ink jet system
Tomonaga Hasegawa, Matsumoto (JP); Shunya Fukuda, Azumino (JP); and Nobuaki Ito, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/059,252.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-193119 (JP), filed on Nov. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0166501 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/045 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/04573 (2013.01) [B41J 2/04581 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ink jet system comprising:
a head unit that includes a nozzle discharging ink, a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle, and a drive element applying pressure fluctuation to the ink in the pressure chamber by supplying a drive pulse;
an acquisition portion that acquires output information including one or both of first output information regarding the head unit and second output information regarding the ink used for the head unit;
a first coupling portion that is communicably network-coupled to a server;
a first output portion that outputs the output information to the server via the first coupling portion;
a first input portion to which input information is input from the server via the first coupling portion; and
a determination portion that determines the number of times of scanning or a scanning direction of the head unit with respect to a unit region on a medium based on the input information, wherein
the server includes
a storage portion in which correspondence information regarding a correspondence relationship between the output information and the number of times of scanning or the scanning direction of print processing to be executed is stored in advance, and
a calculation portion that performs a calculation generating the input information based on the output information and the correspondence information.