Patent ID: 6437814
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
An ink sheet type-printing apparatus designed to use an ink sheet in recording on a sheet of record paper a number of times at a same position thereof, comprising:moving means for permitting the ink sheet to be moved in a sub-scanning direction of thereof; first calculating means for dividing the ink sheet in a virtual manner into a plurality of blocks in both a main scanning direction of the ink sheet and the sub-scanning direction thereof, and further for calculating accumulated printing ratios &eegr;1, &eegr;2 for each of the blocks, which correspond to amounts of ink to be consumed for printing; second calculating means in response to an output from the first calculating means, for calculating an evaluation value for each of a plurality of print areas different in the sub-scanning direction of the ink sheet, the evaluation value being related to accumulated printing ratios &eegr;1, &eegr;2; and, print area-deciding means in response to an output from the second calculating means, for deciding a print area of the ink sheet to be used, according to the evaluation value, and for forcing the moving means to move the ink sheet in the sub-scanning direction of the ink sheet in order to carry out printing on a sheet of record paper using the decided print area of the ink sheet.