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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1993
Hiromitsu Hirabayashi, Yokohama, JP;
Koji Terasawa, Mitaka, JP;
Makoto Takemura, Tokyo, JP;
Kenjiro Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeyasu Nagoshi, Kawasaki, JP;
Hideo Fukazawa, Yokohama, JP;
Atsushi Arai, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuji Akiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Hitoshi Sugimoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Miyuki Matsubara, Tokyo, JP;
Jiro Moriyama, Kawasaki, JP;
Toshiharu Inui, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording apparatus comprises a recording head adapted for ejecting at least two colors of ink, a discriminater for discriminating between character data and bit map data, and a controller for selecting a character data recording mode or a bit map data recording mode in accordance with a discrimination result by the discriminater. The controller controls an amount of ink ejection in the bit map data recording mode to be less than that in the character data recording mode.