US 11,775,232 B2
Printer and printing system for reprinting low quality image and marking discard images
Shoko Ota, Okazaki (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/709,901.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-061651 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0317946 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/1208 (2013.01) [G06F 3/121 (2013.01); G06F 3/1234 (2013.01); G06F 3/1282 (2013.01); H04N 1/00801 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printer, comprising:
a conveyer configured to convey a continuous sheet, on which a plurality of printing areas are aligned, in an aligning direction of the plurality of printing areas;
a print engine configured to perform printing to print a plurality of images on the plurality of printing areas of the continuous sheet conveyed by the conveyer in a feeding direction along the aligning direction; and
a controller configured to perform:
causing the print engine to perform a serial printing to print a plurality of images represented by a series of print data on the plurality of printing areas one by one;
when a low quality image of the plurality of images is printed on the printing area and read by an image reader arranged downstream in the feeding direction with respect to the print engine and a print result determined based on image data representing the low quality image read by the image reader does not satisfy a standard quality, causing the print engine to stop the serial printing and perform reprinting of a plurality of reprint images that includes
a second image represented by print data corresponding to the low quality image of which print result does not satisfy the standard quality, and
a plurality of sequential images represented by print data corresponding to a plurality of discard-target images that are on the printing areas located upstream in the feeding direction between the printing area on which the low quality image has been printed and the printing position;
wherein the second image and each of the plurality of sequential images are printed on respective new printing areas located upstream in the feeding direction with respect to the discard-target images in an order of the series of print data; and
wherein the print engine is configured to overprint a particular image on the printing areas on which the low quality image and the discard-target images are printed.