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Abstract

A printing apparatus capable of printing in an appropriate print mode, for a short print period, with maintaining excellent image quality, and a facsimile apparatus or image processing apparatus using the printing apparatus. The type of the image data is examined, in accordance with the source of input image data, and main controller 1 instructs print controller 8 to perform printing in multipath print mode or in normal print mode, in accordance with the image type. The print controller 8 controls printhead 9 in accordance with the instruction. For example, a high-precision image or halftone image is printed in the multipath print mode, while a low-density image or binary image is printed in the normal print mode.

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