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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1995
Hiromitsu Hirabayashi, Yokohama, JP;
Koji Terasawa, Mitaka, JP;
Makoto Takemura, Tokyo, JP;
Kenjiro Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeyasu Nagoshi, Kawasaki, JP;
Hideo Fukazawa, Yomohama, JP;
Atsushi Arai, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuji Akiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Hitoshi Sugimoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Miyuki Matsubara, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording apparatus for performing recording using a recording head for ejecting an ink from a plurality of ejection orifices, includes a print control unit for performing a print operation while switching a print mode between a thin multi-pass print mode for sequentially recording divided recording data in a plurality of number of times of relative scan operations of the recording head with respect to a single recording area, and a 1-pass print mode for recording all recording data in a single relative scan operation of the recording head, and an eject quantity control unit for controlling the eject quantity of the ink ejected from the recording head so that a total ink quantity on the recording area in the thin multi-pass print mode is larger than a total ink quantity in the 1-pass print mode.