Printing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKENJI KUBOZONO, AKIRA KURONUMA, HIDEYA TABETA
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a liquid storage unit that stores liquid to be supplied to a printhead, which performs printing by discharging the liquid, a liquid amount detection unit that detects an amount of the liquid stored in the liquid storage unit, and a control unit that performs control to, in response to a start of liquid filling into the liquid storage unit, provide notification of the amount of the liquid detected by the liquid amount detection unit.
Claims20
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit configured to store liquid to be supplied to a printhead, which performs printing by discharging the liquid;
- a liquid amount detection unit configured to detect an amount of the liquid stored in the storage unit;
- and
- a control unit configured to perform control to, in response to a start of liquid filling into the storage unit, provide notification of the amount of the liquid detected by the liquid amount detection unit.
A method of controlling a printing apparatus including a storage unit configured to store a liquid to be supplied to a printhead, which performs printing by discharging the liquid, the method comprising:
- detecting an amount of the liquid stored in the storage unit;
- and
- controlling, in response to a start of liquid filling into the storage unit, notification of the amount of the liquid detected by the liquid amount detection unit.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a method of controlling a printing apparatus including a storage unit configured to store a liquid to be supplied to a printhead, which performs printing by discharging the liquid, the method comprising:
- detecting an amount of the liquid stored in the storage unit;
- and
- controlling, in response to a start of liquid filling into the storage unit, notification of the amount of the liquid detected by the liquid amount detection unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.