Halftone processing apparatus and method, printing apparatus

摘要

A halftone processing apparatus that is incorporated in a printing apparatus capable of representing the gradation of one pixel by using a plurality of dots or that is incorporated in an information processing apparatus for generating print data to be supplied to the printing apparatus is provided. The halftoning processing apparatus includes a defect position storage section storing position information for specifying an area in which a print defect is confirmed; an error diffusion processing section quantizing an input density signal of multi-valued gradation corresponding to each pixel by using a threshold value and adding the resultant quantization error to front pixels in a diffused manner; and a quantization input switching section controlling a quantization input of an input density signal of a pixel corresponding to position information to zero when the input density signal is quantized by the error diffusion processing section.