JPS6486765A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve transmission efficiency and the quality of a dither halftone image by recognizing the size of the dither matrix of received dither halftone picture data when the recording density of a transmission side terminal is larger than that of a reception side terminal, and recording the data after converting the size to dither density which coincides with the recording density of the reception side terminal. CONSTITUTION:A main control part 1, after recognizing the fact that the picture data received from an NSS is the dither halftone image, confirms, further the size of the dither matrix. When the recording density of its own terminal is high, the convertion of the dither density is performed so that the dither halftone picture data stored in a communication buffer 3 can coincide with the recording density of its own terminal. And after the halftone picture data is stored in a recording buffer 9 transiently, it is recorded at a recording part 10, and is reproduced as the dither halftone image with quality corresponding to the recording density. Therefore, it is possible to perform the recording of the halftone image with high density even when a few quantity of data is transmitted with low density, and to contribute for both the improvement of the transmission efficiency and the recording quality of the dither halftone image.