Printing apparatus and control method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSyuu UTZUI
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Abstract
A printing apparatus comprises: a printing unit configured to print onto a sheet by ejecting ink from a printing head; a maintenance unit configured to perform a maintenance operation capable of being performed in parallel with the printing performed by the printing unit; and a control unit configured to control the maintenance unit such that when the printing by the printing unit and the maintenance operation by the maintenance unit are performed in parallel, and the maintenance operation is not completed by the time the printing by the printing unit has ended, the maintenance operation is ended without being completed.
Claims15
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a printing unit configured to print onto a sheet by ejecting ink from a printing head;
- a maintenance unit configured to perform a maintenance operation capable of being performed in parallel with the printing performed by the printing unit;
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- a control unit configured to control the maintenance unit such that when the printing by the printing unit and the maintenance operation by the maintenance unit are performed in parallel, and the maintenance operation is not completed by the time the printing by the printing unit has ended, the maintenance operation is ended without being completed.
A control method executed by a printing apparatus,
- the printing apparatus including a printing unit configured to print onto a sheet by ejecting ink from a printing head and a maintenance unit configured to perform a maintenance operation capable of being performed in parallel with the printing performed by the printing unit, the method comprising:
- controlling the maintenance unit such that when the printing by the printing unit and the maintenance operation by the maintenance unit are performed in parallel, and the maintenance operation is not completed by the time the printing by the printing unit has ended, the maintenance operation is ended without being completed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.