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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1996
Naoki Oda, Kasugai, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
To increase the printing speed by distributing data processing of a printing head, an image recorder is provided with a print buffer for storing print data received from an information processor, a printing head having nozzles for plural channels that print on the basis of the print data stored in the print buffer, a 4-bit shift register unit that temporarily stores the print data of the print buffer and sequentially supplies the print data for each dot to the printing elements, and a buffer controller that divides the nozzles into odd and even channel groups and transfers the print data corresponding to the channel groups with a staggered timing to the 4-bit shift register unit from the print buffer.