Patent ID: 7436416

Claim:
A color printing apparatus having a pulse-width modulation means which performs pulse-width modulation for tone control, comprising: first determination means for determining whether a printing mode of printing data supplied is a CAD mode that places great value on thin line reproducibility; second determination means for determining whether the printing data is to be processed as single-color data; and setting means for setting a pulse width modulation pattern to be used by the pulse-width modulation means in accordance with determination results produced respectively by said first and said second determination means, wherein said setting means set a first pulse-width modulation pattern when said first determination means determine that the printing mode of the printing data is not the CAD mode or said second determination means determine that the printing data is to be processed as single-color data, and wherein said setting means set a second pulse-width modulation pattern, which has a smaller developer adhesion amount than the first pulse-width modulation pattern, when said first determination means determine that the printing mode is the CAD mode and in addition said second determination means determine that the printing data is not to be processed as single-color data.