Printing apparatus and printing method with respect to medium

Abstract

A user operates the operation panel portion 6 and selects an image quality mode in a pre-stage of carrying out CD-R printing. If an operation of commencing CD-R printing on the operation panel portion 6 is enabled, the CPU 16 causes the scanner unit 21 to scan a sample CD-R 25 and takes in the image data. The CPU 16 causes the taken-in image data to be subjected to an image working process and masks pixels not required to be printed. The ASIC 20 transfers the processed image data to the printer unit 22 and executes CD-R printing. At this time, the CPU 16 carries out scanning and printing at a resolution responsive to the image quality mode.

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       7 . A printing method comprising: 
 scanning a medium, shaped in a disk shape having a hole portion in the middle thereof and disposed on a document table;    recognizing a non-printing region on data obtained by scanning the medium in accordance with the kind of a print medium to be printed;    executing an image processing, processing the data corresponding to the non-printing region as a non-printing region on the print medium and obtaining a processed data; and    printing the processed data on the print medium.    
   
   
       8 . The printing method according to  claim 7 , wherein each of the medium and the print medium is a CD-R or a DVD-R.  
   
   
       9 . The printing method according to  claim 8 , wherein the print medium is determined by setting a CD-R scan-print mode or a DVD-R scan-print mode.  
   
   
       10 . The printing method according to  claim 7 , wherein the non-printing region on data is recognized based on the size of the medium in length and width derived from the data obtained by scanning the medium and information of a non-printing region prepared in accordance with the kind of the print medium.  
   
   
       11 . The printing method according to  claim 10 , wherein the information of the non-printing region is stored in a ROM.  
   
   
       12 . The printing method according to  claim 7 , wherein the non-printing region on the data includes a region corresponding to at least one of a shadow portion of an edge portion of the medium, the middle hole portion, and a part of the document table placed outside the medium.  
   
   
       13 . The printing method according to  claim 7 , wherein the scanning step includes a first scanning step to judge the position of the medium disposed on the document table and a second scanning step to recognize the non-printing region on the data.  
   
   
       14 . A printing method used in a printing apparatus which can scan a disk-shaped medium having a hole portion in the middle thereof on a document table and print scanned data on a print medium, the printing method comprising: 
 determining a non-printing region from scanned data in accordance with the kind of the print medium to create a printed data;    printing the printed data on the print medium.    
   
   
       15 . The printing method according to  claim 14 , wherein each of the medium and the print medium is a CD-R or a DVD-R.  
   
   
       16 . The printing method according to  claim 14 , wherein the non-printing region is determined by comparing the size of the medium obtained from the scanned data with information of a non-printing region prepared in accordance with the kind of the print medium.  
   
   
       17 . The printing method according to  claim 14 , wherein the non-printing region includes a region corresponding to at least one of a shadow portion of an edge portion of the medium, the middle hole portion, and a part of the document table placed outside the medium.