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US 6,535,631 B1Granted
Recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShunya Mitsuhashi, Shuichi Kumada
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Abstract
A recording apparatus includes a color table for storing color information corresponding 1:1 to color information codes. The apparatus executes color recording by providing color information corresponding to the color information code, to the given character data or image data. The apparatus features a function of expanding the color information, and a function of confirming the color information.
Claims4
A method for supplying color image data to a printing apparatus which prints a color image on a medium based on a command from an external apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- receiving the command from the external apparatus;
- analyzing the command and generating color image data;
- registering color information which represents a relationship between a color information code and plural color component values in a color registration memory;
- entering color information corresponding to a color information code;
- comparing the color information so entered with already stored color information;
- expanding the color information according to the result of the comparison in said comparing step;
- affecting image formation according to the color information code;
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- supplying color image data such that the content of the color registration memory is printed on the medium in the form of a registration color list.
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