Patent ID: 6070963
Filing Date: 2000-06-06
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A recording apparatus for recording onto a recording medium at a higher density than a density at which recording elements of a recording head are arranged by performing interlace recording, said recording apparatus comprising:main scanning means for main scanning the recording head to record lines of dots;sub-scanning means for relatively sub-scanning the recording head and the recording medium;scanning control means for controlling sub-scan between the recording head and the recording medium to enable the recording head to interlace record between the lines of dots recorded in main scanning;a memory storing recording data of the lines of dots;a selector; andread-out means for reading out a set of the recording data from said memory, the set of recording data for recording at separate sub-scanning positions, and supplying the set of recording data to said selector,wherein said selector complementarily selects subsets of recording data from the set of recording data supplied by said read-out means, each subset of selected recording data corresponding to different image lines in the sub-scanning direction and alternately supplies the selected subsets of recording data corresponding to the different image lines to the recording head with each main scanning.