Patent ID: 7859557

Claim:
A method for recording digital data on an image-receiving medium by means of a recording head, wherein the image-receiving medium and the recording head are driven and moved relatively to each other along a fast-scan direction, the image-receiving medium and the recording head are driven and moved relatively to each other along a slow-scan direction, and digital image data is recorded on the image-receiving medium, wherein while recording the image data the image-receiving medium and the recording head are moving on relatively to each other along the fast-scan direction, without being driven, by means of inertia, and a non-driven motion behaviour of the recording head relative to the image-receiving medium along the fast-scan direction is detected prior to and/or while recording of the image data, and synchronisation signals and a momentary clock frequency for retrieving and recording the image data are derived therefrom by suitable interpolation and/or extrapolation.