Printing apparatus and control method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakuya Hamada
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path, a printing unit configured to print an image by discharging ink to the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, a heating unit configured to, in a heating section on the conveyance path, heat the sheet on which the image has been printed by the printing unit, and a control unit configured to control the heating unit so that the heating section is changed in accordance with a print condition.
Claims18
A printing apparatus, comprising:
- a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path in a conveyance direction;
- a printing unit configured to print an image by discharging ink on the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit;
- a heating unit configured to, in a heating section on the conveyance path, heat the sheet on which the image has been printed by the printing unit;
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- a control unit configured to control the heating unit so that the heating section is changed in accordance with a print condition,
- wherein the control unit is configured to control the heating unit so that:
- the heating unit heats the sheet in a first heating section on the conveyance path under a first print condition, and
- the heating unit heats the sheet in a second heating section on the conveyance path under a second print condition, and
- the second heating section includes the first heating section and has a length in the conveyance direction longer than a length of the first heating section in the conveyance direction.
A method of controlling a printing apparatus including a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path in a conveyance direction, a printing unit configured to print an image by discharging ink on the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, and a heating unit configured to heat the sheet on which the image has been printed by the printing unit in a heating section on the conveyance path, the method comprising:
- controlling the heating unit so that the heating section is changed in accordance with a print condition,
- wherein in the controlling, the heating unit heats the sheet in a first heating section on the conveyance path under a first print condition, and the heating unit heats the sheet in a second heating section on the conveyance path under a second print condition, and
- the second heating section includes the first heating section and has a length in the conveyance direction longer than a length of the first heating section in the conveyance direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.