Claims
- 1. 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.
- 2. A recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said outputting means outputs the contents to be indicated on an indication means of the equipment externally connected with said recording apparatus, and said outputting means outputs information to display an editing screen regarding the contents of the operation, on said indication means.
- 3. A recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:means for detecting the length of the recording medium to detect the length of said recording medium in the carrying direction of said carrying means, wherein said determination means determines the size of said recording medium in accordance with the detected length of the recording medium.
- 4. A recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:a sheet feed unit for containing said recording medium, said sheet feed unit being provided with a movable member shiftable to a position corresponding to the size of said recording medium to be contained, and the user being able to shift said movable member, wherein said determination means determines the size of said recording medium in accordance with the position of said movable member.
- 5. A recording apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said sheet feed unit is in the mode of a cassette detachably mountable on the recording apparatus.
- 6. A recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each area of the region having ink of each color coated thereon of said plural ink sheets is different in accordance with the size of the recording medium corresponding thereto.
- 7. A recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said ink sheet is in the mode of an ink sheet cassette containing ink sheets and arranged to be detachably mountable on said recording apparatus, and said determination means determines the size of the ink sheet in accordance with the condition of said ink sheet cassette.
- 8. A recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:means for processing image data to execute an editing process of said image data, said means for processing image data arranging a plurality of images processed by an image size reduction process, said controlling means controls the output of said outputting means to indicate the contents for executing the recording operation to record by arranging a plurality of same images on the recording medium using said means for processing image data when the size of the determined recording medium or the recording medium corresponding to the determined ink sheet is a specific size.
- 9. A recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein ink coated on said ink sheet has a property of being sublimated when thermal energy is applied.
- 10. A recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein ink coated on said ink sheet has a property of being fused when thermal energy is applied.
- 11. 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.
- 12. A recording method according to claim 11, wherein said step of controlling output outputs the contents to be displayed on an indication unit of the equipment externally connected with said recording apparatus, and said step of controlling output outputs information to display an editing screen for the contents of the operation, on said indication unit.
- 13. A recording method according to claim 11, further comprising the step of:determining the size of the recording medium in accordance with the length of the detected recording medium in said determination step comprising the step of carrying the recording medium and the step of detecting the length of the recording medium in said carrying direction.
- 14. A recording method according to claim 11, wherein said determination step determines the size of the recording medium in accordance with a position of a movable member of a sheet feed unit provided for the recording apparatus, said movable member being shiftable to a position corresponding to the size of the recording medium contained in said sheet feed unit, and the user being able to shift said movable member.
- 15. A recording method according to claim 14, wherein said sheet feed unit is in the mode of a cassette detachably mountable on the recording apparatus.
- 16. A recording method according to claim 11, wherein said ink sheet is in the mode of an ink sheet cassette having the ink sheet contained therein, being detachably mountable on said recording apparatus, and said determination step determines the size of the ink sheet in accordance with the condition of said ink sheet cassette.
- 17. A recording method according to claim 11, further comprising the step of:processing image data to execute an editing process of said image data prior to the recording operation, said step of processing image data arranging a plurality of images processed by an image size reduction process, wherein said step of controlling controls the output to display the contents of the execution of the recording operation to record by arranging a plurality of same images on the recording medium in said step of processing image data when the size of the detected recording medium is a specific size.
- 18. A recording method according to claim 17, wherein said step of processing image data can execute enlargement and reduction processes to change the size of image to be recorded in accordance with the image data, and the image rotation process to change the directions of the image.
- 19. A recording method according to claim 11, wherein ink coated on said ink sheet has a property of being sublimated when thermal energy is applied.
- 20. A recording method according to claim 11, wherein ink coated on said ink sheet has a property of being fused when thermal energy is applied.
Priority Claims (2)
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10-020858 |
Feb 1998 |
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10-178981 |
Jun 1998 |
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Parent Case Info
This is a divisional application of Application Ser. No. 09/240,845, filed Feb. 1, 1999.
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