Patent ID: 7284811

Claim:
A method for controlling a recording apparatus having a buffer for dividing a storage area into a plurality of areas in a scanning direction of a recording head to record data of a plurality of colors by allowing a carriage loaded with the recording head to scan a record medium, storing the divided image data corresponding to each color of the plurality of colors in a divided area unit, comprising: a receiving step of receiving information transmitted from external equipment, dividing a record area in the received information into a plurality of areas, and processing data separately between image data in a unit of the divided area and setting information for control of a write and a read of the image data for each color of the plurality of colors; a setting step of setting information about image data for each color of the plurality of colors in the area unit in a register of a write control unit and a read control unit according to the setting information; a first controlling step of generating address information for a writing process on the image data in the area unit according to the information for the image data for each color set in the register; a second controlling step of generating address information for a read of the image data handled in the writing process according to the information for the image data for each color set in the register; and a record data generating step of generating record data for each color in the divided area unit according to the read image data for each color.