Printing apparatus and 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 but 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 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.   
   
   
       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 7 , 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. 
   
   
       10 . The printing method according to  claim 7 , 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.