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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakatoshi Nakano, Minoru Teshigawara, Susumu Hirosawa, Seiji Suzuki, Kentarou Muro
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To provide an ink jet printing apparatus which can reduce waste ink as much as possible and shorten the amount of time spend on the following wiping process, and a recovery operation method therefor, whereby a first process and a second process are carried out, the first process for discharging ink that does not contribute to the printing from the print head while supplying ink from the ink reservoir portion to the print head by way of the first ink passage connected to one end of the print head, and the second process for discharging ink that does not contribute to the printing from the print head while supplying ink from the ink reservoir portion to the print head by way of the second ink passage connected to the other end of the print head.
A printing apparatus, comprising:
A method for controlling a printing apparatus, the printing apparatus provided with a print head having nozzle arrays including a plurality of nozzles arranged thereon, the plurality of nozzles ejecting ink stored in an ink reservoir portion, a first ink passage connecting one end side of the nozzle arrays to the ink reservoir portion of the print head, and a second ink passage connecting the other end side of the nozzle arrays to the ink reservoir portion of the print head, the method comprising;
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