Patent ID: 6012798
Filing Date: 2000-01-11
Classification: B41J,G06K

Abstract:
A recording apparatus usable with a recording head having a plurality of recording elements for recording an image on a recording medium, said apparatus comprising:drive means for driving the recording head relative to the recording medium;dividing means for dividing image data to be recorded into a plurality of sub-images having mutually complementary relationships; andcontrol means for controlling said drive means to drive the recording head a plurality of sets of times in corresponding sets of drive directions relative to the recording medium, at least one of the drive directions relative to the recording medium in a corresponding one of the drive sets being non-parallel to another of the drive directions relative to the recording medium in the corresponding one of the drive sets, and controlling the recording head such that the recording head records portions of the image in a plurality of non-parallel swaths for each corresponding one of the drive sets, wherein sub-images having complementary relationships are recorded in an area where the plurality of swaths cross by recording the sub-images during respective drives of the recording head, and driving of the recording head in one of the drive directions records one of the sub-images and driving of the recording head in another of the drive directions records a complementary sub-image.