Patent ID: 8608266

Claim:
A recording apparatus configured to drive a recording element to perform recording on a recording medium, the recording apparatus comprising: a drive waveform data acquisition device configured to acquire drive waveform data which contain waveform value information for a plurality of predetermined periods of time of a drive waveform for driving the recording element and contain identification information of the drive waveform data embedded in at least two pieces of the waveform value information; an identification information analysis device configured to extract the identification information from the drive waveform data and to interpret the extracted identification information; a waveform generation device configured to receive the waveform value information for each of the predetermined periods of time of the drive waveform data and to generate the drive waveform according to the received waveform value information, the waveform value information for the predetermined periods of time of the drive waveform data being sequentially inputted to the waveform generation device; and a drive device configured to drive the recording element according to the drive waveform generated by the waveform generation device.