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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 02, 1998
Yuji Akiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Fumihiro Gotoh, Kawasaki, JP;
Hidehiko Kanda, Yokohama, JP;
Hiromitsu Hirabayashi, Yokohama, JP;
Nobuo Ohnuma, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording apparatus for performing recording on a recording medium by scanning the medium with a recording device having heads of a plurality of colors has a setting device for setting a color recording mode for recording a color image or a monochromic recording mode for recording a monochromic image, and a drive device having a first recording mode for driving the recording device while reducing a drive load on the recording device and a second recording mode for driving without reducing the drive load. The apparatus also has a determination device for determining the drive load with which the recording means is driven in a unit time on the basis of a data signal corresponding to a region of a scanning recording width of the recording device, and a changing device for changing the drive means into the first recording mode when the drive load determined by the determination device is large, and into the second recording mode when the drive load is small, if the color recording mode is set by the setting device.