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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1997
Akitoshi Yamada, Irvine, CA (US);
Hiromitsu Hirabayashi, Irvine, CA (US);
Canon Business Machines, Inc., Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Abstract
A printing system in which an image is printed within multiple printable areas of a recording medium, the multiple printable areas defining an overlapped printing area, includes detection of a break position in image data to be printed within the overlapped printing area using at least one of a plurality of break detection systems on the image data to be printed within the overlapped printing area, selective division of, at the detected break position and among the multiple printable areas, the image data to be printed within the overlapped printing area, and printing of the divided image data within the multiple printable areas.