PRINTING APPARATUS AND ADJUSTMENT METHOD

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PRINTING APPARATUS AND ADJUSTMENT METHOD

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18926482 titled 'PRINTING APPARATUS AND ADJUSTMENT METHOD

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A printing apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a printing head including a plurality of printing chips including a plurality of nozzles, a main scanning unit, a sub-scanning unit, and a control unit, and is capable of printing a test pattern for acquiring a correction value for adjusting an ejection characteristic for each of the printing chips. The test pattern includes a reference pattern and an adjustment pattern. The control unit performs print control such that the reference pattern and the adjustment pattern are formed at positions adjacent to each other, and liquid is ejected onto an identical target region of a medium using at least two printing chips among the printing chips included in the printing head for the reference pattern to be formed in the identical target region.