Patent ID: 6972784

Claim:
A recording control apparatus which performs recording on a recording medium by using a recording head, said apparatus comprising: said recording head, which includes at least one recording element array in which plural recording elements are aligned along a predetermined direction; a driving correction table which includes pixel correction data for correcting a recording driving characteristic of each recording element constituting said recording element array by the pixel unit of image data, and in which the pixel correction data is provided corresponding to plural lines of the image data in a sub-scan direction; and driving control means for correcting light emission characteristic dispersion of each recording element by means of an average value of a recording driving time of corresponding recording elements in plural lines of said recording element array, by modifying the recording driving time by the pixel unit, according to switching of the correction data for each line based on said driving correction table including the pixel correction data of the plural lines, wherein said driving control means comprises: a correction memory for storing said driving correction table including the pixel correction data of the plural lines; correction pixel designation means for designating a correction pixel number of the pixel correction data stored in said correction memory: correction queue designation means for designating a correction queue of the pixel correction data stored in said correction memory; and driving time calculation means for calculating the recording driving time of each recording element of said recording element array by the pixel unit, by using the pixel correction data of each line to which the correction pixel number and the correction queue have been designated.