Recording apparatus with adjustable recording material usage
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSatoru Arakane, Shota Morikawa, Tomoya Kondo
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Abstract
There is provided a recording apparatus including: a recording part configured to perform a recording of an image onto a recording medium with a recording material; and a controller configured to adjust, based on an adjustment value, an amount of the recording material which is to be used at a time of the recording. The controller is configured to execute, based on an index value regarding dirtiness, a changing processing of changing at least one of the adjustment value and a value regarding the adjustment value, in a direction of decreasing the amount of the recording material.
Claims6
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording part configured to perform a single-sided recording of an image onto a recording medium, with a recording material;
- an input part configured to accept an adjustment value input by a user;
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- a controller configured to adjust an amount of the recording material to be used at a time of the single-sided recording, based on the adjustment value, wherein
- the controller is configured to execute, based on an index value regarding dirtiness, a changing processing of changing at least one of the adjustment value and a value regarding the adjustment value, in a direction of decreasing the amount of the recording material, and
- the controller is configured to change, based on the index value regarding dirtiness, a maximum value of the adjustment value in the input part, that is allowed for input by the user in the changing processing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.