US Patent Issued to SCREEN Holdings on March 31 for "Printing apparatus and printing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,589, issued on March 31, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Printing apparatus and printing method" was invented by Takaaki Masuhara (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveform DB for holding a plurality of pieces of waveform data representing respective waveforms of a plurality of drive signals is provided. Each print job is associated with waveform data in a control unit and a waveform number for specifying the waveform data is transmitted from the control unit to a head control unit. The head control unit transfers the waveform number transmitted from the control unit to a head drive board for e...