Printing apparatus and computer-readable storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKento Tamari, Masashi Ito, Keisuke Arita, Motoyuki Taguchi, Sho Takahashi, Ryota Komatsu
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Abstract
A printing apparatus, includes a control unit to perform first control of, while performing printing by a printing unit in a state in which a trailing end portion of a preceding print medium overlaps a leading end portion of a succeeding print medium, controlling a conveying unit to separate the preceding print medium and the succeeding print medium from each other and, in the first control, adjusts a conveyance amount by the conveying unit to allow a conveying speed by the conveying unit to meet a criterion and adjusts a driving range of a nozzle based on the adjusted conveyance amount.
Claims11
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a conveying unit configured to convey a print medium;
- a printing unit including a printhead having a nozzle, and configured to perform scanning printing for performing printing on the print medium while scanning the printhead in a direction crossing a conveyance direction of the print medium;
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- a control unit configured to control the conveying unit and the printing unit so that conveyance of the print medium and scanning printing of the printhead are alternately performed,
- wherein the control unit performs first control of, while performing printing by the printing unit in a state in which a trailing end portion of a preceding print medium overlaps a leading end portion of a succeeding print medium, controlling the conveying unit to separate the preceding print medium and the succeeding print medium from each other and, in the first control, adjusts a conveyance amount by the conveying unit to allow a conveying speed by the conveying unit to meet a criterion and adjusts a driving range of the nozzle based on the adjusted conveyance amount.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.