Printing apparatus and program

Abstract

A printing apparatus includes: a power supply unit configured to supply electric power to a print head configured to perform printing based on rendering data, a control device which includes a rendering data generation module configured to generate the rendering data from print data provided from a host device, and a separate device which is a device other than the print head and the control device; and a distribution unit configured to distribute the electric power supplied by the power supply unit to the control device, the print head, and the separate device. The control device includes: an acquisition module configured to acquire the print data; a distribution control module configured to switch between a first state in which the electric power distributed to the separate device is not reduced and a second state in which the electric power distributed to the separate device is reduced, at an asynchronous timing with respect to an acquisition timing of the print data; and a printing control module configured to start, after receiving the print data, a rendering data generation operation by the rendering data generation module to generate the rendering data from the print data in the first state, and to start, after switching from the first state to the second state, a printing operation by the print head based on the rendering data.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.