A recording apparatus causes a recording head to scan a recording medium to perform recording on an area within the recording medium and on an overflow area adjacent to and outside the area within the recording medium, and includes a feed control unit for controlling feed of the recording medium in a feed direction different from a scanning direction of the recording head, such that the recording medium is fed during a period between a previous scan to perform recording and a next scan to perfor...

User data is recorded in succession to the recording of a guard block on a next recording layer when the user data is recorded with a recording position shifted from one recording layer to the next recording layer. If a record start position of the user data is learned beforehand in the next recording layer, the guard block is formed on the next recording layer prior to the recording of the user data. In other words, when recording layer shifting is performed, an area ahead of the recording posi...

The recording apparatus and the recording method of the invention are provided with a recording head for ejecting ink onto a recording medium, a scanning section for moving the recording head in a predetermined direction to scan the recording medium and a correction section for controlling an ejection timing of the ink according to a discrepancy information on the recording medium to correct landing positions of the ink droplet on the recording medium. The discrepancy information on the recordin...

A recording apparatus which performs recording by scanning across a recording medium a carriage mounted with a recording head and which is configured to be capable of setting a carriage moving speed for scanning out of a plurality of values, it is possible to perform recording in a short time irrespective of record widths by calculating the record widths for recording by scans and selecting out of the plurality of values a carriage moving speed at which a total of periods for all scans from star...

In an n-th primary scanning (forward trip) the rasters by white circle dots are formed. After this primary scanning, printing paper is conveyed toward a secondary-scanning-direction downstream side by the secondary scanning distance which is the same as the interval d between dots, and in the (n+1)-th primary scanning (backward trip) after the conveyance, the rasters by black circle dots are formed. Subsequently, the printing paper is conveyed toward the secondary-scanning-direction downstream s...

A recording material wherein heating causes surface tension inclination, thus generating surface tension convection which causes the recording material to fly, is used in a recording method which uses surface tension convection for causing ink to fly. This recording material has a surface tension temperature coefficient C represented by: Thus, surface tension convection is effectively generated, thereby improving transfer efficiency.

A recording method in which an inputted analog signal is converted into a digital signal to be recorded on a recording medium wherein the signal level of the inputted analog signal is detected and a recording to the recording medium is stopped when it is detected that the signal level of the inputted analog signal becomes lower than a predetermined signal level for a predetermined time after it is detected that the detected signal level becomes lower than the predetermined signal level.

A recording element and a recording device is disclosed which may stably eject very fine liquid drops without nozzles and with low frequency low voltage driving. The element of the present invention provides vibrators on a substrate. On the vibrators are provided elastic members. The elastic members have their tips in a sharpened form, plate-like form, or needle-like form. The free surface of liquid are positioned closer to the bottom side of the elastic members than the tip of the elastic membe...

A recording disk has a surface provided with guide grooves for controlling the position of a recording head, and recording bits formed in the guide grooves for high-density recording. The recording bits have the shape of a tadpole in a plane. The width Ws of the recording bits is greater than the width Wg of the guide grooves. An AFM probe serving as a recording head travels along the guide grooves without running off the guide grooves. When a tip part of the AFM probe coincides with the recordi...

A recording apparatus and a recording method for controlling and driving a recording head so that an image region formed by a first ink is located between alternate image regions formed by a second ink and that the ends of a region onto which a liquid is ejected are located with substantially the same interval as the end-to-end interval of the image region of the first ink, and are shifted to a plurality of locations. A plurality of timings of ejecting the liquid corresponding to the plurality o...