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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAsako Tomida, Masaya Uetsuki, Kazuo Suzuki, Toshimitsu Danzuka, Masataka Kato, Tsuyoshi Ibe, Hiroaki Komatsu
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A printing apparatus includes a print head, a scanning unit, a sheet-form member, a winding device, and a determining unit. The print head includes an orifice face having an ejection orifice to eject a liquid. The scanning unit performs scanning while reciprocating the print head. The sheet-form member performs a wiping operation of the orifice face of the print head, wherein the wiping operation includes a first wiping operation and a second wiping operation. The winding device performs a winding operation of the sheet-form member. The determining unit determines a length of the sheet-form member that is to be wound by the winding device in accordance with a length of time between the first wiping operation performed by the sheet-form member and the second wiping operation performed by the sheet-form member that follows the first wiping operation.
A printing apparatus comprising:
A method for a printing apparatus, wherein the printing apparatus includes a print head having an orifice face and a sheet-form member configured to perform a wiping operation of the orifice face, wherein the orifice face includes an ejection orifice configured to eject a liquid, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.