US 12,081,704 B2
Image forming device and control method for printing adjustment patterns
Ikumi Watanabe, Shiojiri (JP); and Masahiro Someno, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/182,218.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-038062 (JP), filed on Mar. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0291843 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00045 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00034 (2013.01); H04N 1/00042 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
8. A control method of an image forming device, wherein
the image forming device includes
a scanner mechanism,
an inkjet-type print mechanism,
a display mechanism, and
a control unit configured to control the scanner mechanism, the print mechanism, and the display mechanism,
the control unit includes a memory configured to store a temperature, a humidity, and an adjustment pattern group including a plurality of adjustment patterns, in association with each other, and
the control unit executes
an acquisition step of acquiring a measured temperature and a measured humidity from a temperature and humidity sensor; and
a data generation step of reading an adjustment pattern group corresponding to the measured temperature and the measured humidity acquired in the acquisition step from the memory, and generating print data including the read adjustment pattern group and first group identification information which is information for identifying the adjustment pattern group,
wherein, when an elapsed time from a date and time when the control unit generates an adjustment sheet to a date and time when the control unit reads the adjustment pattern group formed on the adjustment sheet is equal to or longer than a threshold value time, the control unit displays an error message by the display mechanism, and
the threshold value time is set in accordance with a quality of a print image required for the image forming device.