Patent ID: 7059785

Claim:
A hybrid printer comprising: an original stage; a scanner scanning a scan region of the original stage and outputting image data corresponding to the scan region; a controller controlling the scan region; an image-processor processing the image data output from the scanner, and a printer using the image data output by the processor to carry out printing at print medium; wherein the controller has means for controlling the scan region so as to cause the scan region to match or be larger than an original region detected or assumed to exist at the original stage in order to permit the scan region to encompass the original region, wherein the processor has means for enlarging, so as to be larger than the size of the print medium, the image data corresponding to the original region encompassed by the image data corresponding to the scan region from the scanner; and wherein the print engine carries out printing at the print medium using the image data corresponding to the original region enlarged by the processor so as to be larger than the size of the print medium.