METHOD FOR DOWNLOADING CONTROL PROGRAM IN IMAGE PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL UNIT OF IMAGE PRINTING ENGINE THEREFOR

摘要

The present invention relates to an image recording apparatus, which makes it possible to shorten the time for downloading a control program from an image processing unit to an image recording engine. To this end, the present invention provides an image recording apparatus having an image processing unit and an image recording engine. The data of a control program is transmitted through a communication channel for transferring image data of an image to be recorded by the image recording engine from the image processing unit to the image recording engine. Send it. As a result, a large amount of control programs can be downloaded from the image processing unit to the image recording engine in a short time.