Patent ID: 6776471
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
An ink-jet recording apparatus which performs recording by emitting ink from a record head to a record medium in accordance with record data, comprising:a carriage, equipped with the record head, for performing reciprocation; a first ink tank mounted on said carriage; a second ink tank disposed at a position distant from said carriage; ink supply means for supplying the ink from said second ink tank to said first ink tank; remaining ink amount detection means for detecting a remaining ink amount in said first ink tank; first calculation storage means for calculating a first ink amount required to record a part of the image data which has already been subjected to a development process, and for storing the calculated first ink amount; second calculation storage means for calculating a maximum ink amount required to record image data which has not already been subjected to the development process, and for storing the calculated maximum ink amount; and control means for starting the record operation at a time when a sum total value of the first ink amount stored in said first calculation storage means and the maximum ink amount stored in said second calculation storage means becomes lower than the ink amount detected by said remaining ink amount detection means.