Printing apparatus and control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9108410-B2
Application number	US-201414444053-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 28, 2014
Priority date	Aug 6, 2013
Publication date	Aug 18, 2015
Grant date	Aug 18, 2015

Abstract

The present invention provides a printing apparatus including, a printhead; a preliminary discharge unit; a detecting unit detecting a size of a printing medium; and a scaling process unit. The scaling process unit scales an image to be formed on the printing medium in accordance with a detected size when a size of a printing medium indicated by size setting information and the detected size do not match each other. The preliminary discharge unit causes the printhead to perform preliminary discharge in accordance with a scaling result of the scaling process unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a printhead configured to print an image by discharging ink to a printing medium;
a preliminary discharge unit configured to cause said printhead to perform preliminary discharge;
a detecting unit configured to detect a size of a printing medium on which an image is to be printed; and
a scaling process unit configured to, when a size of a printing medium indicated by size setting information and a detected size of the p…

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Hamasaki Yuji
• Takahashi Atsushi
• Kosaka Kei
• Yoshikawa Hirokazu
• Tenkawa Tomoyuki

Classifications

• B41J2002/16573

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J11/008

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J11/003

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2/16526 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J2/16508

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic