Patent ID: 6585354
Filing Date: 2003-07-01
Classification: B41J,G06K

Abstract:
An image printing apparatus which causes a carriage having, for each of a plurality of inks, a printing head having a plurality of printing elements arrayed in a predetermined direction to scan on a printing medium in a direction perpendicular to the array direction of the printing elements, thereby forming a color image on the printing medium, comprising:a reception buffer for storing print data transmitted in a raster format; printing buffers for divisionally storing the data stored in said reception buffer for each ink and for each predetermined area to be printed by the printing head; determination means for determining whether a designated printing buffer and an undesignated printing buffer in said printing buffers have data to be printed at the same position; and preventing means for, when it is determined that the data to be printed at the same position are present, preventing any ink smearing that occurs in printing at the same position.