Patent ID: 8540345

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a recording unit configured to record an image on a recording medium using a recording head in which a first recording element array including a plurality of recording elements aligned along a predetermined direction and a second recording element array including a plurality of recording elements aligned along the predetermined direction, are arranged to be displaced in the predetermined direction so that there is an overlapping portion formed by an end of the first recording element array and an end of the second recording element array overlapping along a direction intersecting with the predetermined direction; a first distribution unit configured to distribute test pattern data to a first recording element array and a second recording element array in the overlapping portion; a generation unit configured to generate, based on a colorimetric result of a test pattern recorded according to data distributed by the first distribution unit, recording data corresponding to an image that is different from the test pattern; a second distribution unit configured to distribute recording data generated by the generation unit to the first recording element array and the second recording element array in the overlapping portion; and a control unit configured to control the first distribution unit and the second distribution unit so that a number of recording elements corresponding to an approximately constant distribution rate, among distribution rates of the first recording element array and the second recording element array in the predetermined direction, set by the first distribution unit, becomes larger than a number of recording elements corresponding to an approximately constant distribution rate, among distribution rates of the first recording element array and the second recording element array in the predetermined direction, set by the second distribution unit.