US 6,982,738 B2
Color printer and color printing method
Shusuke Mogi, Saitama (Japan)
Assigned to Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 23, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/782,860.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-093622 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2004/0189782 A1, Sep. 30, 2004
Int. Cl. B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 11/42 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 347—218 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A color printer having at least one recording head and a feed roller pair, said recording head recording at least a first, a second, and a third primary color image within a recording area of recording material by frame sequential printing, said feed roller pair alternately conveying said recording material in a first direction and a second direction, said color printer comprising:
a detector for detecting a conveyance amount of said recording material by said feed roller pair;
a controller for performing a print sequence and a return sequence for said respective primary color images, and in said print sequence, said controller making said feed roller pair convey said recording material in said first direction, and when the conveyance amount from the start of conveyance of said recording material in said first direction reaches a first target conveyance amount, said controller driving said recording head to record one of said first to third primary color images within said recording area of said recording material, and in said return sequence, said controller making said feed roller pair convey said recording material in said second direction, and when the conveyance amount from the start of conveyance of said recording material in said second direction reaches a second target conveyance amount, said controller stopping its conveyance; and
correction means for correcting said first target conveyance amount or said second target conveyance amount related to recording said second or said third primary color image, said correction means obtaining the correction amount of conveyance based on conveyance speed of said recording material in said return sequence.