Patent ID: 7463370

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a recording head for performing recording on a medium according to first recording data; a controller for managing control of said recording apparatus; a data generator that is connected to said controller via a first transfer path, said data generator being capable of generator said first recording data; a memory that is connected to said data generator via a second transfer path; and a data obtaining section for obtaining data from an external source wherein: second recording data that are stored in said memory based on the data obtained by sail data obtaining section are transferred to said data generator through said second transfer path; and based on said second recording data that have been transferred, said data generator generates said first recording data; said data generator has a plurality of processing units; said memory is capable of storing unprocessed data that are to be processed by each of said processing units and processed data that have been processed each of said processing units; each of said processing units: obtains the unprocessed data from said memory via said second transfer path, processes the obtained unprocessed data, and transfers the processed data that have been processed to said memory via said second transfer path; said recording head has a plurality of dot forming sections; and said data generator has at least a color conversion processing unit for performing color conversion processing with respect to said second recording data that have been obtained by said data obtaining section and that are stored in said memory, and a rearrangement unit for rearranging said second recording data that have been subjected to the color conversion processing by said color conversion processing unit into data corresponding to each of said dot forming sections as said plurality of processing units.