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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2002
Yasuhiro Numata, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording apparatus using full-line type ink jet recording heads needs a large amount of electrical power for ink ejection due to a large number of nozzles of the recording heads. Therefore, a power supply capacity of the recording apparatus needs to be increased, resulting in increase in an overall apparatus cost. When simultaneously recording on plural recording media using a recording apparatus having recording heads with different electrical power consumptions arranged in a transfer direction of the recording media, recording is performed so that the recording heads to be simultaneously driven are combined so as to be a combination of the recording heads with different electrical power consumptions.