US Patent Issued to SCREEN Holdings on June 30 for "Printing apparatus and print control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,067, issued on June 30, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Printing apparatus and print control method" was invented by Mutsuki Oura (Kyoto, Japan) and Susumu Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an inkjet printing apparatus having a meandering correction function, a layout processing unit, configured to generate printing image data by determining the print positions of the respective images on each of a plurality of pages to be printed, shifts, for a normal page, the print positions of all the images in a paper width direction on the basis of the meandering amount of the printing paper wit...