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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAkiyoshi Sahara, Toshiyuki Kuroda
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A printing apparatus comprises: a maintenance unit that performs a maintenance operation for a printhead that includes a plurality of operation patterns; a storage unit that stores information indicating which of the operation patterns was performed when the maintenance operation was performed; a timer that measures an elapsed time from a previous printing operation; a determination unit that determines whether or not to execute the maintenance operation; and a control unit that controls the operation patterns of the maintenance operation to be performed in accordance with the elapsed time and the information, wherein in a case where a scanning instruction is received and the determination unit determines to execute the maintenance operation, the control unit performs control for executing the maintenance operation not in accordance with the elapsed time but in accordance with the information before the operation of scanning.
A printing apparatus comprising:
A method of controlling a printing apparatus provided with a scanning unit for performing a scanning operation scanning an original document based on a scanning instruction, and a printhead for performing a printing operation, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer provided with a scanning unit for performing a scanning operation scanning an original document based on a scanning instruction and a printhead for performing a printing operation to function as:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.