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US 2016/0243834 A1Published application
Printing apparatus and mist collection method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshinori Nakagawa, Masaya Uetsuki, Toshimitsu Danzuka, Kazuo Suzuki, Masataka Kato, Tsuyoshi Ibe, Shin Genta, Tomoki Yamamuro
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Abstract
Mist generated in an inkjet printing are efficiently collected. Specifically in a mist collection operation at the maintenance, a fan is rotated in a rotating speed larger than a rotating speed of the fan at the time of the mist collection operation at the printing time.
Claims10
A printing apparatus performing printing by using a print head for ejecting ink, the printing apparatus comprising:
- a collection unit configured to collect mist generated from the print head;
- and
- a control unit configured to control a collection power of the collection unit in ink ejection from the print head at a maintenance operation that is differ from a printing operation to be made greater than the collection power in the printing operation in which ink is ejected to a sheet from the print head.
A mist collection method of collecting mist generated form a print head for ejecting ink, the mist collection method comprising:
- a first step of collecting the mist generated in ink ejection to a sheet from the print head;
- and
- a second step of collecting the mist generated in ink ejection to a portion other than the sheet from the print head,
- wherein the second step performs the collection of mist with greater collection power than the first step.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.