US Patent Issued to SCREEN Holdings on Nov. 3 for "Printing apparatus and printing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,843, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Printing apparatus and printing method" was invented by Kazuaki Yoneya (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomoyuki Sakai (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To suppress the occurrence of image defects caused by a defective nozzle and other factors in a printed image on a base material by an inkjet printing apparatus, a region to be corrected in the image is determined. When the region to be corrected is a single-color high-density region to be formed by ejecting a single-color ink, or when the region is a mixed-color high-density region to be formed using two or...