Patent ID: 8804183

Claim:
A recording control device that controls a recording mechanism section which performs recording on a recording medium by a recording head, the recording control device comprising: an image expansion section that expands data input from an outside source to create image data for recording in prescribed job units of at least one row or at least one dot line to be recorded, and outputs the image data in said job units; an image buffer memory that receives and temporarily stores the job units output from the image expansion section, wherein a time span from a most-previously received job unit to a currently received job unit constitutes a job-receiving-interval that corresponds to the currently received job unit; and a recording control section that reads the job units stored in the image buffer memory, and controls the recording mechanism section to record the read job units on the recording medium by the recording head; wherein for each read job unit, the recording control section controls a recording speed of the recording mechanism section in accordance with a creation speed of each read job unit by the image expansion section as determined from each read job unit's corresponding job-receiving-interval.