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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 09, 1994
Yasushi Miura, Kawasaki, JP;
Hisashi Fukushima, Yokohama, JP;
Haruhiko Moriguchi, Yokohama, JP;
Akio Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording apparatus includes an ink jet recording head having plural ejection outlets and thermal energy generating elements provided for the respective ejection outlets; a limiter for defining a using range of the heat generating elements in accordance with image forming conditions, a recording head driver for supplying to the heat generating elements outside the using range defined by the limiter driving signals insufficient to eject the ink and for supplying to the heat generating elements in the using range defined by the limiter a driving signal sufficient to eject the ink in accordance with an image signal.