Patent ID: 6313858
Filing Date: 2001-11-06
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A recording apparatus using an ink sheet having ink of plural colors coated sequentially thereon and transferring ink to a recording medium for recording in accordance with image data, said recording apparatus being capable of recording on a plurality of recording media having different sizes, and being capable of using selectively plural ink sheets corresponding to the plural recording media of different sizes, respectively, said apparatus comprising:means for detecting the size of a recording medium to detect the size of the recording medium to be used for recording;means for detecting the size of an ink sheet to detect the size of a recording medium corresponding to the ink sheet to be used for recording; andcontrolling means to control the recording operation in accordance with the size of the detected recording medium and the size of the recording medium corresponding to the detected ink sheet,wherein said recording apparatus further comprises means for processing image data to execute an editing process of said image data, said image data processing means being capable of executing an enlargement and reduction process to change the size of image to be recorded in accordance with the image data, and capable of executing an image rotation process to change the directions of the image, andwherein in accordance with the result of detection, said controlling means controls the recording operation so as not to be executed if the size of a recording medium and the size of a recording medium corresponding to the ink sheet are not in agreement, and controls the execution of the editing process by said means for processing image data in accordance with the size of the recorded image based on said image data and the size of the recording medium, and then controls to execute the recording operation after the image data has been edited.