18904670. PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM (CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA)
PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
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SHINGO Nishioka of Kanagawa JP
PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18904670 titled 'PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
Original Abstract Submitted
One embodiment is a printing apparatus comprising: a conveyance unit configured to convey a printing medium in a conveyance direction; and a printing head configured to eject a liquid, and being capable of conducting a maintenance control on the printing head while temporarily pausing a printing operation and configured to execute tiled printing of printing an image in which a plurality of printed products obtained by printing are assumed to be arranged adjacent to each other, while dividing the image into a plurality of pages including at least a first page and a second page, wherein the printing apparatus is configured to control whether or not to conduct the maintenance control based on a conveyance-direction distance from a top of the page along the conveyance direction for the page during printing in a case of executing the tiled printing and printing each of the plurality of pages.