CPC B41J 3/4078 (2013.01) [B41J 3/543 (2013.01); B41J 15/165 (2013.01)] | 3 Claims |
3. A printing method comprising:
an (n−1)-th image processing and an n-th image processing next to the (n−1)-th image processing, each of the (n−1)-th image processing and the n-th image processing including division and combination of image data, n being a positive integer and 2 or more, the executing being performed by
acquiring (n−1)-th image data as a target of the (n−1)-th image processing and n-th image data as a target of the n-th image processing,
generating an (n−1)-th upper image having a horizontal lower side and an (n−1)-th lower image having a horizontal upper side for the (n−1)-th image data by dividing the (n−1)-th image data by a first horizontal line,
generating an n-th upper image having a horizontal lower side and an n-th lower image having a horizontal upper side for the n-th image data by dividing the n-th image data by a second horizontal line different from the first horizontal line, and
generating combined image data having a horizontal upper side and a horizontal lower side by combining the (n−1)-th lower image of the (n−1)-th image data, which is generated by the dividing of the (n−1)-th image data in the (n−1)-th image processing, to the upper side of the n-th upper image of the n-th image data, which is generated by the dividing of the n-th image data in the n-th image processing; and
performing printing on a printing medium based on the combined image data after the n-th image processing;
transport, by a transport unit, clothing fabric that is the printing medium where a pattern is formed;
imaging, by an imaging unit, the clothing fabric transported by the transport unit;
extracting, based on a comparison between first image data representing the pattern and second image data generated by the imaging of the clothing fabric by the imaging unit, a pattern region in the second image data corresponding to the pattern;
correcting third image data representing an image to be printed overlapping the pattern so that the third image data matches a shape of the pattern region; and
setting the corrected third image data as a target of the n-th image processing.
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