Printing apparatus, control method thereof and storage medium

A control method of a printing apparatus having:

• a conveyance unit configured to convey a printing medium along a conveyance path;
• a print head having an ejection unit configured to eject a liquid to the printing medium and performing a printing operation to eject the liquid in a printing area including a part of the conveyance path;
• a blower unit configured to blow air from a downstream of the printing area toward the printing area in the conveyance path;
• and
• a cap member switchable between a cap-closed state where an ejection port surface of the ejection unit is capped and a cap-open state where the ejection port surface is not capped, the control method having:
• a step of blowing air by the blower unit during the printing operation in the printing area;
• a step of stopping blowing by the blower unit after the printing operation terminates;
• and
• a step of resuming blowing by the blower unit after the cap member switches from the cap-open state into a cap-closed state.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform a control method of a printing apparatus having:

• a conveyance unit configured to convey a printing medium along a conveyance path;
• a print head having an ejection unit configured to eject a liquid to the printing medium and performing a printing operation to eject the liquid in a printing area including a part of the conveyance path;
• a blower unit configured to blow air from a downstream of the printing area toward the printing area in the conveyance path;
• and
• a cap member switchable between a cap-closed state where an ejection port surface of the ejection unit is capped and a cap-open state where the ejection port surface is not capped, the control method having:
• a step of blowing air by the blower unit during the printing operation in the printing area;
• a step of stopping blowing by the blower unit after the printing operation terminates;
• and
• a step of resuming blowing by the blower unit after the cap member switches from the cap-open state into a cap-closed state.