Printing apparatus and method of controlling printing apparatus for changing printing condition
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorEishin Yoshikawa
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to perform printing on a recording target, a projection unit configured to project a printing sample image onto the recording target, a detection unit configured to detect a user operation within a projection area into which the projection unit is configured to perform projection, and a control unit configured to control the printing unit based on a printing condition, wherein the control unit changes the printing condition, based on the user operation that is detected by the detection unit.
Claims10
A printing apparatus, comprising:
- a printing unit including a print head and configured to perform printing on a recording target;
- a projection unit configured to project a printing sample image onto the recording target;
- a detection unit configured to detect image including a part of a body of a user, who uses the printing apparatus, in an area between the projection unit and the recording target;
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- a control unit including a processor that is configured to control the printing unit based on a printing condition,
- the control unit being further configured to determine, based on the image detected by the detection unit, a gesture of the user, and change the printing condition based on the gesture of the user, wherein
- the projection unit is configured to project the printing sample image corresponding to print data when printing is performed by the printing unit on the recording target, and
- in a case in which a detection image detected by the detection unit includes the printing sample image, when the detection image does not include at least a part of the printing sample image in a range of the recording target, the control unit causes the projection unit to project alert information.
A method of controlling a printing apparatus, the printing apparatus including:
- a printing unit including a print head and configured to perform printing on a recording target, based on a printing condition;
- a projection unit configured to project a printing sample image onto the recording target, the projection unit being configured to project the printing sample image corresponding to print data when printing is performed by the printing unit on the recording target, and
- a detection unit configured to detect image including a part of a body of a user, who uses the printing apparatus, in an area between the projection unit and the recording target,
- the method comprising:
- determining, based on the image detected by the detection unit, a gesture of the user;
- changing the printing condition based on the gesture of the user, and
- projecting alert information by the projection unit, in a case in which a detection image detected by the detection unit includes the printing sample image, when the detection image does not include at least a part of the printing sample image in a range of the recording target.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.