Patent ID: 8755727

Claim:
A control apparatus for controlling a surface processing apparatus including feeding means for feeding a medium-to-be-processed, and heating means for selectively heating different, with respect to a direction substantially perpendicular a feeding direction of the medium-to-be-processed, positions of a surface of the medium-to-be-processed through a film, wherein the heating means partially heats the surface of the medium-to-be-processed on which an image is formed in accordance with original image information, while the medium-to-be-processed is being fed by the feeding means, said apparatus comprising: control means for controlling a heating of the heating means; original image information inputting means for inputting the original image information to said control means; reading means, provided upstream of a heating portion for heating the medium-to-be-processed by the heating means, for reading an outer configuration of the medium-to-be-processed and an image formed on the medium-to-be-processed and for inputting to said control means outer configuration information indicative of the outer configuration of the medium-to-be-processed and actual image information indicative of the image on the medium-to-be-processed; and heating position information inputting means for inputting to said control means heating position information indicative of a heating position on the medium-to-be-processed by the heating means, wherein said control means determines a difference between a position, on the medium-to-be-processed, of the image indicated by the original image information and a position, on the medium-to-be-processed, of the actually formed image on the medium-to-be-processed indicated by the outer configuration information and the actual image information, and for correcting inputted heating position information on the basis of information of the difference, and for controlling the heating of the heating means in accordance with the corrected heating position information.