Patent ID: 7460264

Claim:
A recording apparatus having a plurality of types of interfaces capable of communicating with external devices, for recording using a recording head based on recording data input through any one of the plurality of types of interfaces, the recording apparatus comprising: interface determination means for determining which interface from the plurality of types of interfaces is used for receiving the recording data and for determining whether the interface being used for receiving the recording data has a transfer rate selected from one of at least a relatively high transfer rate and a relatively low transfer rate; conversion means for performing conversion processing on the received recording data; and control means for controlling the conversion processing performed by the conversion means in accordance with a determination result from the interface determination means, the control means controlling the conversion means to perform conversion processing including quantization processing on the recording data with increasing the amount of data when the interface determined by the interface determination means is an interface having a relatively low transfer rate among the plurality of types of interfaces and the control means controlling the conversion means not to perform conversion processing on the recording data when the interface determined by the interface determination means is an interface having a relatively high transfer rate among the plurality of types of interfaces.