| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing device and a printing method excellent in scalability. <P>SOLUTION: A printing device includes one or more engines that are attachable to and detachable from the printing device and print an image on a recording medium. Each engine includes: a plurality of head modules each having a plurality of heads that eject ink; one or more data transfer control parts that control an image data, pixel by pixel, the image data being subjected to print and being transferred from an upper level device through a predetermined transmission path; and an output control part that requests the data transfer control part being subjected to request transfer to transfer the image data in a pixel order in accordance with an ink ejection order determined by the engine mounted on the printing device, transfers the image data having been transferred in the pixel order to the head module that is subjected to eject ink out of the plurality of head modules, in the same pixel order, and make the head module eject the ink onto the recording medium. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
