Printing apparatus and carriage apparatus

A printing apparatus comprising:

• a carriage mounted with a printing unit configured to perform printing on a print medium;
• a belt configured to reciprocate the carriage in a widthwise direction of the print medium;
• a first motor configured to drive the belt at one end in the widthwise direction;
• a second motor configured to drive the belt at the other end in the widthwise direction;
• and
• a control unit configured to control the first motor and the second motor,
• wherein the control unit performs control for driving the first motor and the second motor to move the carriage at a predetermined velocity and then decelerate and stop the carriage, and
• in the control, during a period from a start of deceleration to a stop of the carriage, one of the first motor or the second motor is controlled to a state in which an output torque of the one motor is lower than an output torque of the other motor.

A carriage apparatus comprising:

• a carriage;
• a belt configured to reciprocate the carriage in a widthwise direction of a print medium;
• a first motor configured to drive the belt at one end in the widthwise direction;
• a second motor configured to drive the belt at the other end in the widthwise direction;
• and
• a control unit configured to control the first motor and the second motor,
• wherein the control unit performs first control by driving the first motor in which the carriage moves from a state in which the carriage is stopped, and
• in the first control, the second motor is controlled from a first state in which an output torque of the second motor is lower than an output torque of the first motor to a second state in which the output torque of the second motor is higher than the output torque of the second motor in the first state.