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US 12,697,830 B2Granted
Printing apparatus and control method of printing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuki Ohira
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuki Ohira
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A printing apparatus includes a first determining unit configured to determine a conveyance profile corresponding to a print mode, a conveying unit configured to convey a printing medium on which on an image is printed, according to the conveyance profile, a fixing unit configured to fix the image onto the printing medium by heating the printing medium, a measuring unit configured to measure each of a length of the printing medium before heating in the fixing unit and a length of the printing medium after the heating by detecting the image on the printing medium conveyed according to the conveyance profile, a deriving unit configured to derive a characteristic of a deformation amount of the printing medium with respect to temperature based on the measured lengths, and a second determining unit configured to determine a fixation temperature to be used for the printing medium based on the derived characteristic.
A printing apparatus comprising:
A control method of a printing apparatus including a printing unit configured to print an image onto a printing medium, a conveying unit configured to convey the printing medium on which the image was printed, according to a conveyance profile, a fixing unit configured to fix the image onto the printing medium by heating the printing medium, and a measuring unit configured to measure each of a length of the printing medium before heating in the fixing unit and a length of the printing medium after the heating in the fixing unit by detecting the image on the printing medium conveyed according to the conveyance profile, the control method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.