RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD

摘要

A recording apparatus includes a recording head including a plurality of recording elements arranged in a predetermined direction, and a determination unit configured to determine a first mode in which a specified image is recorded or a second mode in which a pattern is recorded in each of recording scannings in forward and backward directions to form an adjustment pattern for adjusting a recording position in the intersecting direction of the recording head, and the recording position of the recording head in accordance with the formed adjustment pattern is adjusted, in which a driving unit controls driving of the recording elements in a manner that a correspondence relationship between positions in the predetermined direction and the intersecting direction among a plurality of dots that form the same column is varied or is the same in the recording scannings in the forward and backward directions in accordance with the determined mode.

主权项

1. A recording apparatus comprising:
a recording head including a plurality of recording elements configured to eject ink which are arranged in a predetermined direction, the recording elements being arranged into a plurality of groups each of which is constituted by a plurality of predetermined adjacent recording elements; a scanning unit configured to execute a recording scanning in a forward direction and a recording scanning in a backward direction along an intersecting direction that intersects with the predetermined direction with respect to a unit area including a pixel area equivalent to a plurality of pixels on a recording medium by the recording head; a driving unit configured to drive each of the plurality of predetermined recording elements in order at different timings in the plurality of recording scannings; and a determination unit configured to determine a first mode in which an image specified by a user is recorded or a second mode in which a pattern is recorded in each of the recording scannings in the forward direction and the recording scannings in the backward direction by the scanning unit so as to form an adjustment pattern for adjusting a recording position in the intersecting direction of the recording head, and the recording position of the recording head in accordance with the formed adjustment pattern is adjusted, wherein the driving unit is arranged to drive the plurality of recording elements in a manner that, in a case where the determination unit determines the first mode, a correspondence relationship between positions in the predetermined direction and positions in the intersecting direction among a plurality of dots that form the same column is varied in the recording scanning in the forward direction and the recording scanning in the backward direction, and in a case where the determination unit determines the second mode, the correspondence relationship between the positions in the predetermined direction and the positions in the intersecting direction among the plurality of dots that form the same column is the same in the recording scanning in the forward direction and the recording scanning in the backward direction.