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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2005
Applicant:
Yoshiyuki Shimamura, Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshiyuki Shimamura, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/44 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A printing apparatus has a printhead which can print in a multi tone levels, and a font memory for storing font data for respective colors including at least different grayscale data, in correspondence with codes. The apparatus reads out font data for respective colors which are stored in font memory in correspondence to an input code, and renders the font data to image data in print buffers for respective colors. The apparatus then outputs the image data for respective colors stored in the print buffers to the printhead, thus printing a color image.