US 12,001,901 B2
Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method
Naoki Shimada, Kanagawa (JP); and Yuto Kajiwara, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/182,658.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-043942 (JP), filed on Mar. 18, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0294433 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. G06K 15/10 (2006.01); B41J 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 15/107 (2013.01) [B41J 3/01 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An inkjet recording apparatus comprising:
a recording unit in which a plurality of nozzles for discharging ink supplied from a common liquid chamber is arranged in a first direction;
a scan unit configured to perform a relative scan relative to a recording medium in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and
an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data including at least one recording target,
wherein, in a case where a width in the second direction of the recording target is a first number of pixels, the recording unit performs recording using a first nozzle but not a second nozzle adjacent to the first nozzle in the first direction in a single relative scan in an edge region of the recording target, and
wherein, in a case where the width in the second direction of the recording target is a second number of pixels smaller than the first number of pixels, the recording unit performs recording using the first and second nozzles in the single relative scan in the edge region of the recording target.