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US 8,783,811 B2Granted
Printing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaki Nitta, Satoshi Hayashi, Taku Yokozawa, Hiroaki Shirakawa, Yuhei Oikawa, Yosuke Ishii
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Abstract
A printing apparatus, which includes a heating unit for heating a recording medium during printing, determines a pass number for multi-pass printing based on acquired information relating to the duty in each of a plurality of regions in one band of print region. The printing apparatus sets an amount of heat of the heating unit based on the acquired information.
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A printing apparatus comprising:
- a printing unit, having a carriage and a print head mounted on the carriage, configured to print an image by applying ink on a recording medium while repeating movement of the carriage to record one band of print region to perform multi-pass printing;
- a heating unit configured to apply heat onto the recording medium during printing to dry the ink, wherein the heating unit is provided above an area where the carriage moves reciprocally, and applies the heat in the area;
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire information relating to duty in each of a plurality of regions divided within one band of print region;
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- a determination unit configured to determine a number of print passes based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit,
- wherein the multi-pass printing is performed based on the number of print passes determined by the determination unit.
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A printing apparatus comprising:
- a printing unit, having a carriage and a print head mounted on the carriage, configured to print an image by applying ink on a recording medium while repeating movement of the carriage to record one band of print region;
- a heating unit configured to apply heat onto the recording medium during printing to dry the ink, wherein the heating unit is provided above an area where the carriage moves reciprocally, and applies the heat in the area;
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire a maximum duty among a plurality of regions divided within one band of print region;
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- a setting unit configured to set an amount of heat of the heating unit so that a surface temperature of the recording medium becomes a temperature suitable for the maximum duty.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.