Inkjet printing apparatus and method for controlling inkjet printing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Finetech Inc.
InventorHideyuki Ito
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Abstract
There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus capable of performing a printing operation to eject ink from an ejection port provided for a print head to a print medium while covering the ejection port with a capping portion in a standby state in which the printing operation is not performed, the apparatus including: a humidifying unit configured to perform a humidification operation to humidify a space formed between the capping portion and the print head in the standby state; and a control unit configured to cause the humidifying unit to perform the humidification operation on the space in the standby state, wherein the control unit suspends the humidification operation at a predetermined timing after performing the humidification operation multiple times.
Claims10
An inkjet printing apparatus capable of performing a printing operation to eject ink from an ejection port provided for a print head to a print medium while covering the ejection port with a capping portion in a standby state in which the printing operation is not performed, the apparatus comprising:
- a humidifying unit configured to perform a humidification operation to humidify a space formed between the capping portion and the print head in the standby state;
- and
- a control unit configured to cause the humidifying unit to perform the humidification operation on the space in the standby state,
- wherein the control unit suspends the humidification operation at a predetermined timing after performing the humidification operation multiple times.
A method for controlling an inkjet printing apparatus capable of performing a printing operation to eject ink from an ejection port provided for a print head to a print medium while covering the ejection port with a capping portion in a standby state in which the printing operation is not performed,
- wherein after a humidification operation is repeated in the standby state to a space formed between the capping portion and the print head at predetermined intervals, the humidification operation is suspended.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.