Printing apparatus, controlling method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKei Yoshizawa, Kazuki Narumi
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Abstract
The present invention provides a printing apparatus, a controlling method, and a storage medium capable of outputting high-quality images. To this end, the air blow condition for the air blow unit during printing is varied with a light-shielding ink laminating print mode, which is a print mode, and the effect of cockling on the print medium taken into account in addition to the wettability of the print medium.
Claims19
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a printing unit configured to perform printing by ejecting a liquid onto a print medium;
- a support unit configured to support the print medium to be printed by the printing unit;
- a blow unit configured to blow air onto the print medium supported by the support unit;
- and
- a control unit configured to cause the blow unit to blow air under a first condition in a case where the print medium is a first print medium, and cause the blow unit to blow air under a second condition which exerts a higher drying effect than the first condition in a case where the print medium is a second print medium on which a contact angle of the liquid is smaller than a contact angle of the liquid on the first print medium.
A method of controlling a printing apparatus including:
- a printing unit configured to perform printing by ejecting a liquid onto a print medium;
- a support unit configured to support the print medium to be printed by the printing unit;
- and
- a blow unit configured to blow air onto the print medium supported by the support unit,
- the method comprising:
- causing the blow unit to blow air under a first condition in a case of performing printing on a first print medium;
- and
- causing the blow unit to blow air under a second condition which exerts a higher drying effect than the first condition in a case of performing printing on a second print medium on which a contact angle of the liquid is smaller than a contact angle of the liquid on the first print medium.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program which causes a computer of a printing apparatus including:
- a printing unit configured to perform printing by ejecting a liquid onto a print medium;
- a support unit configured to support the print medium to be printed by the printing unit;
- and
- a blow unit configured to blow air onto the print medium supported by the support unit,
- to execute a control method comprising:
- causing the blow unit to blow air under a first condition in a case of performing printing on a first print medium;
- and
- causing the blow unit to blow air under a second condition which exerts a higher drying effect than the first condition in a case of performing printing on a second print medium on which a contact angle of the liquid is smaller than a contact angle of the liquid on the first print medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.