Recording apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12502886-B2
Application number	US-202318486516-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 13, 2023
Priority date	Nov 30, 2022
Publication date	Dec 23, 2025
Grant date	Dec 23, 2025

Abstract

There is provided a recording apparatus including: a recording part configured to perform, with a recording material, a recording of an image with respect to a recording medium; and a controller configured to control the recording part in a plurality of modes. The plurality of modes includes a first mode and a second mode. The controller is configured to adjust an amount of the recording material to be used at a time of the recording in the second mode. An adjustment width in a direction of decreasing the amount of the recording material in the first mode is smaller than an adjustment width in the direction of decreasing the amount of the recording material in the second mode.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A recording apparatus comprising:
a recording part configured to perform a recording of an image onto a recording medium with a recording material; and a controller configured to control the recording part in a plurality of modes, wherein the plurality of modes includes a first mode and a second mode, the controller is configured to adjust an amount of the recording material to be used at a time of the recording in the second mode, and an adjustment width in a direction of decreasing the amount of the recording material in the first mode is smaller than an adjustment width in the direction of decreasing the amount of the recording material in the second mode.

2 . The recording apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured not to adjust the amount of the recording material in the first mode.

3 . The recording apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a receiving part configured to receive image data indicating the image; and a memory configured to store the image data, wherein the second mode is a mode of causing the memory to store the image data received by the receiving part and of performing the recording, by the recording part, based on the image data read from the memory, and the first mode is a mode of performing the recording, with the recording part, based on the image data, without causing the memory to store the image data received by the receiving part.

4 . The recording apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
the first mode includes a facsimile mode.

5 . The recording apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to perform, in the first mode, an adjustment in a direction of increasing the amount of the recording material.

6 . The recording apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first input part configured to be input an adjustment value of the amount of the recording material in the first mode; and a second input part configured to be input an adjustment value of the amount of the recording material in the second mode, wherein wherein the controller is configured to:
adjust the amount of the recording material in the first mode, based on the adjustment value input into the first input part; and
adjust the amount of the recording material in the second mode, based on the adjustment value input into the second input part, and
in a case that each of the adjustment value input into the first input part and the adjustment value input into the second input part is an adjustment value in the direction of decreasing the amount of the recording material and that the adjustment value input into the first input part and the adjustment value input into the second input part are mutually same, the controller is configured to make the amount of the recording material in the first mode to be greater than the amount of the recording material in the second mode.

7 . The recording apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to execute:
conversion of a pixel value of the image into a density value corresponding to a density of the recording material; and
conversion of the density value into data indicating the amount of the recording material, and
after the controller has performed the conversion of the pixel value of the image into the density value corresponding to the density of the recording material and before the controller performs the conversion of the density value into the data indicating the amount of the recording material, the controller is configured to adjust the density value based on an adjustment value.

Assignees

• Brother Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Arakane Satoru
• Morikawa Shota
• Kondo Tomoya

Classifications

• B41J2/04586

  controlling heads of a type not covered by groups B41J2/04575 - B41J2/04585, or of an undefined type · CPC title

• B41J2/21 Primary

  for multi-colour printing · CPC title

• B41J2/04551 Primary

  using several operating modes · CPC title