Printing apparatus and method for producing printed matter
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsTsuyoshi Himeno, Toshihiro Hayashi, Daisuke Shinohara, Ayako Kobayashi
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes: a printing unit configured to perform printing on a medium; a conveyance unit configured to convey the medium; a winding unit configured to wind up the medium after printing; and a stopping unit configured to stop conveyance of the medium by the conveyance unit in response to a break of a printed image reaching a printing position in the printing unit in a state where a leading end of the medium is located in a fixing work range.
Claims11
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a printing unit configured to perform printing on a medium at a printing position in the printing unit;
- a conveyance unit configured to convey the medium along a conveyance path;
- a winding unit configured to wind up the medium;
- and
- a processor configured to
- determine whether a leading end of the medium reaches a predetermined range during conveyance of the medium while the printing is being performed,
- determine whether the leading end of the medium reaches a predetermined position disposed downstream relative to an upstream end of the predetermined range along the conveyance path during the conveyance of the medium while the printing is being performed, with the predetermined position corresponding to a position of the leading end of the medium when a break of a printed image on the medium reaches the printing position in the printing unit, and
- stop the conveyance of the medium in response to determining that the leading end of the medium reaches the predetermined position after determining that the leading end of the medium reaches the predetermined range, wherein
- when the processor stops the conveyance, lower end processing is executed on a printed image adjacent upstream to the break, and upper end processing is executed on a printed image adjacent downstream to the break.
A method for producing a printed matter by performing printing on a medium using a printing apparatus, the printing apparatus including a printing unit configured to perform printing on the medium at a printing position in the printing unit, a conveyance unit configured to convey the medium along a conveyance path, and a winding unit configured to wind up the medium, the method comprising:
- determining whether a leading end of the medium reaches a predetermined range during conveyance of the medium while the printing is being performed,
- determining whether the leading end of the medium reaches a predetermined position disposed downstream relative to an upstream end of the predetermined range along the conveyance path during the conveyance of the medium while the printing is being performed, with the predetermined position corresponding to a position of the leading end of the medium when a break of a printed image on the medium reaches the printing position in the printing unit, and
- stopping the conveyance of the medium in response to determining that the leading end of the medium reaches the predetermined position after determining that the leading end of the medium reaches the predetermined range, wherein
- upon stopping the conveyance, lower end processing is executed on a printed image adjacent upstream to the break, and upper end processing is executed on a printed image adjacent downstream to the break.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.