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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 11, 1993
Koichiro Akimoto, Fujisawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus for superposing and recording images of respective recording color components constituting one page on a predetermined recording medium to form a color image includes an operation unit for instructing to stop printing processing, an output section for converting input printing data into pattern images of the respective color components and storing the pattern images in an image buffer memory, a printer engine for superposing and recording the pattern images converted by the output section on the recording medium in units of recording color components, and an instruction section for controlling to stop processing upon completion of current color component superposition recording when at least a printing stop instruction is output from the operation unit while sequential superposition recording of the images of the respective color components is being performed by the printer engine.