US 6,664,994 B2Granted

Recording apparatus, recording method, and storage medium

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsHiroshi Kyogoku, Takashi Sasaki, Yoshinobu Shiraiwa, Kenji Takahashi, Shinya Hirai

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Abstract

A recording apparatus, which uses an ink sheet having ink of plural colors coated sequentially thereon and transferring ink to a recording medium for recording in accordance with image data, is capable of recording on a plurality of recording media having different sizes, at the same time, being capable of using selectively plural ink sheets each corresponding to each of the plural recording media of different sizes. This recording apparatus comprises a device for detecting the size of a recording medium to detect the size of the recording medium to be used for recording; a device for detecting the size of an ink sheet to detect the size of a recording medium corresponding to the ink sheet to be used for recording; and controlling a device to control the recording operation in accordance with the size of the detected recording medium and the size of the recording medium corresponding to the detected ink sheet. With these devices thus arranged, it is made possible to record without recording improperly any smaller images that may be unfit for the size of the recording sheet or staining the platen and others in the interior of the apparatus even when the recording medium and the ink sheet installed thereon are different in its sizes or the user does not designate the size of the recording medium to be used.

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Dependent claims

A recording apparatus comprising means for carrying to carry a recording medium, means for carrying to carry an ink sheet having ink of plural colors sequentially coated thereon, and a recording head for transferring ink on said ink sheet to said recording medium, and said apparatus recording the image by transferring ink to said recording medium by driving said recording head in accordance with image data, said apparatus being capable of recording on a plurality of recording media having different sizes, and being capable of using selectively plural ink sheets corresponding to the plural recording media of different sizes, respectively, said apparatus comprising:

means for outputting information to indicate the contents of the operation regarding a recording operation;
means for determining to determine at least either one of the size of the recording medium used for recording and the size of the recording medium corresponding to the ink sheet used for recording;
and
means for controlling to change the contents of indication by said outputting means in accordance with the result of determination by said determining means;,
wherein said outputting means outputs information to be indicated by using equipment connected with said recording apparatus, and said outputting means outputs information to display a screen regarding the contents of the operation, and
wherein said controlling means controls the output of said outputting means to indicate the contents regarding the recording operation executable corresponding to the size of the recording medium or the size of the recording medium corresponding to the ink sheet in accordance with the result of the determination.

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A recording method for a recording apparatus which is provided with carrying means to carry a recording medium, carrying means to carry an ink sheet having ink of plural colors coated sequentially thereon, and a recording head for transferring ink of said ink sheet to said recording medium, and records images by transferring ink to the recording medium by driving said recording head in accordance with image data, said recording method comprising the steps of:

determining at least either one of the size of the recording medium used for recording and the size of the recording medium corresponding to the ink sheet used for recording;
and
controlling the output to change the contents displayed on equipment externally connected with said recording apparatus in accordance with the result of the determination in said determination step;
wherein said step of controlling output outputs information to be displayed on the equipment connected with said recording apparatus, and said step of controlling output outputs information to display a screen for the contents of the operation, and
wherein, based on the result of determination, said step of controlling output controls the output to the equipment externally connected with said recording apparatus for displaying the contents of the recording operation executable in accordance with the size of the recording medium or the size of the recording medium corresponding to the ink sheet.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.