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.
Claims17
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 plural color component data;
- registering color information which represents a relationship between a color information code and plural color component data values in a color registration memory;
- and
- supplying plural color component data such that the content of the color registration memory is printed on the medium in the form of a registration color list,
- wherein, in said supplying step, the color image represented by the plural color component data, the color information code and the plural color component data values are printed together on the medium.
An apparatus 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:
- receiving means for receiving the command from the external apparatus;
- analyzing means for analyzing the command and generating plural color component data;
- registering means for storing color information which represents a relationship between a color information code and plural color component data values;
- and
- supplying means for supplying plural color component data such that the content of said registering means can be printed on the medium in the form of a registration color list,
- wherein the content of said registering means printed on the medium includes the color image represented by the plural color component data, the color information code and the plural color component data values.
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