Patent ID: 7101011
Filing Date: 2006-09-05
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus for recording a color image on a recording medium by utilizing a recording head having a plurality of recording elements for recording a plurality of colors, comprising: recording head driving means for driving said plurality of recording elements of said recording head in accordance with image data; and compensation means for compensating a position to be recorded by a recording element, among said plurality of recording elements, which does not execute a recording operation with dots of a color different from that of said recording element which does not execute the recording operation, wherein a number of compensation dots recorded by said compensation means is less than a number of dots intended to be recorded by said recording element which does not execute the recording operation, and the lightness per a predetermined area of an image obtained by the compensation dots is within a range of ±20% of the lightness per the predetermined area of the image obtained by dots intended to be recorded by said recording element which does not execute the recording operation.