Patent ID: 8201907

Claim:
A recording apparatus, comprising: a recording head having a recording element row in which a plurality of recording elements are disposed, and with recording elements at dispersed positions in said recording element row as blocks; a scanning unit configured to move said recording head and a recording medium relatively in a main scanning direction; a driving unit configured to drive said recording elements such that recording elements belonging to one group configured of consecutive recording elements in said recording element row are driven respectively at a predetermined different timing in a sequential order; a storing unit configured to store recording data; an obtaining unit configured to obtain information relating to the inclination of said recording element row relative to said main scanning direction; and a changing unit operable to change, in increments of individual recording elements, a storage position in the main scanning direction of recording data stored in said storing unit that is to be provided to recording elements of a plurality of groups, based on said obtained information, wherein the sequential order in the plurality of groups is not changed even when the storage position of the recording data is changed by the changing unit.