Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kosuke Yamamoto

Makoto Takamiya

Ken Tsuchii

Hidejiro Kadowaki

Hiroshi Tajika

Yoshiaki Suzuki

Hitoshi Nishikori

Hiroyuki Saito

Takeshi Yazawa

Atsuhiko Masuyama

Haruo Uchida

Yasushi Miura

Daisaku Ide

Hideaki Takamiya

Satoshi Seki

Hiroshi Sugiyama

Ryosuke Sato

Akiko Maru

Akihiro Tomoda

Hirokazu Yoshikawa

Yasuyuki Tamura

Osamu Iwasaki

Akio Suzuki

Haruhiko Takahashi

Yuki Emoto

Norio Sakurai

Toshiaki Somano

Masafumi Wataya

Toshiyuki Yanaka

Noriyuki Aoki

Yuji Kanome

Kenji Shigeno

Masakazu Tsukuda

Kazuhisa Kawakami

Yasushi Murayama

Haruhiko Moriguchi

Hiroyuki Kinoshita

Hideyuki Terashima

Naohiro Iwata

Yoshitaka Okamura

Kentaro Muro

Hiroshi Nakai

Nobuyuki Kuwabara

Hisashi Fukushima

Hirofumi Hirano

Yoichi Tosaka

Tadashi Yamamoto

Nobuhiko Takekoshi

Masami Izumizaki

Tetsuya Saito

Junichi Yoshikawa

Yasuhiko Ishida

Hitoshi Kishino

Norihiro Kawatoko

Yuji Konno

Katsuhiro Shirota

Masashi Miyagawa

Manabu Yamazoe

Eiji Hayashi

Yoshinori Watanabe

Genji Inada

Yoshihiro Takada

Tetsuji Kurata

Masao Maeda

Masahiko Watanabe

Masayoshi Tachihara

Masashi Ito

Yoshito Mizoguchi

Akio Okubo

Hideki Tanaka

Fumiko Yano

Kenichiro Hashimoto

Kenichi Moriya

Yasuyuki Hirai

Fumie Kameyama

Atsushi Miyahara

Shusuke Inamura

Kenichirou Hashimoto

Masayuki Hongo

Koji Furusawa

Provided is a technique that enables proper sorting of discharged print media by suppressing curling of each of the print media sufficiently. A determining unit determines a curling suppressing operation to be executed such that in a case where sorting operation is executed, the suppressing operation having a higher effect of suppressing curling is executed than in a case where the sorting operation is executed. Then, a print control unit controls a print head to perform printing on print media while executing the suppressing operation determined by the determining unit.

Printing apparatus and printing method

A printing apparatus can prevent a print medium from buckling during discharging. In a case in which the print conveyance speed determined by the print mode is higher than or equal to a specified speed, the print medium after printing is conveyed to a discharging tray at the print conveyance speed, and in a case in which the print conveyance speed determined by the print mode is lower than the specified speed, the print medium after printing is conveyed to the discharging tray at the specified speed increased from the print conveyance speed.

Printing apparatus, method of controlling printing apparatus, and storage medium

Provided is a printing apparatus comprising: a discharging unit configured to convey and discharge print media; a tray configured to receive print media discharged in a first direction from the discharging unit; and a drive unit configured to move the tray in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. In discharging print media, the tray is moved in the second direction to thereby receive the discharged print media at a plurality of different positions on the tray. The tray is movable to a take-out position being a position closer in the second direction to a take-out side where print media are taken out than any of the positions at which the tray receives the print media discharged from the discharging unit.

Printing apparatus and method of controlling printing apparatus

An image printing apparatus has a first side plate and a second side plate that are part of a frame body housing an image printing unit and face each other in a widthwise direction crossing a discharging direction. The image printing apparatus also has a movable tray that is movable between the first side plate and the second side plate and receive a discharged print medium a support member that supports the movable tray in a movable manner. Further, the image printing apparatus has a drive unit that moves the movable tray and a frame that is fixed so as to couple the first side plate and the second side plate together in the widthwise direction, the support member and the drive unit being provided on the frame.

Image printing apparatus

A printing apparatus includes a displacement member configured to be in contact with discharged print media and be displaced according to the amount of a stack of the print media, and detects the stack amount based on the displacement of the displacement member. The apparatus performs a first or second detection operation based on the detected stack amount. In the first detection operation, after a specified number of print media are discharged with the displacement member positioned at the evacuation position where it does not come into contact with a print medium, the displacement member is brought into contact with the print media to detect the stack amount. In the second detection operation, the stack amount is detected with the displacement member in contact with the print media.

Printing apparatus

An image printing apparatus includes a print unit, a tray moving unit that moves a tray for receiving a print medium discharged in a first direction, in a second direction crossing the first direction, a lever moving unit that moves a lever that contacts to the print medium stacked on the tray and is rotatable according to an amount of stacking between a first position at which the lever is contactable to the stacked print medium and a second position at which the lever is separated from the stacked print medium. A control unit causes the tray moving unit to move the tray in the second direction in a state in which the control unit has caused the lever moving unit to move the lever to the second position.

Image printing apparatus, control method therefor, and print medium discharging apparatus

Provided is a technique capable of detecting the amount of a stack of discharged print media and increasing print speed. A printing apparatus includes a displacement member configured to be in contact with the discharged print media and be displaced according to the amount of the stack of the print media, and detects the stack amount based on the displacement of the displacement member. The apparatus performs a first or second detection operation based on the detected stack amount. In the first detection operation, after a specified number of print media are discharged with the displacement member positioned at the evacuation position where it does not come into contact with a print medium, the displacement member is brought into contact with the print media to detect the stack amount. In the second detection operation, the stack amount is detected with the displacement member in contact with the print media.

When waiting for printing, a cam that rotates together with the rotation of a gear locks a knurl at position on the upstream side in the sheet conveyance direction, which prevents sheets from dropping down. Moreover, during printing, when the cam is rotated 180&#xb0; from the locked position, the knurl is in a state capable of sliding toward the downstream side. As a result, with the force that returns the knurl to the upstream side being too small, it is possible to prevent feeding overlapping sheet due to the front end of a sheet further on the down side than a sheet being fed from dropping toward the downstream side further than the knurl.

Feeding apparatus and printing apparatus

In a printing apparatus improvement of drying ability and reduction of consumed power are concurrently achieved by improving the efficiency of drying ink. More concretely, hot air is blown onto a print medium printed by ink, and a portion of the blown hot air is recovered and blown again. Before the hot air is blown, the print medium is heated by a preheating unit, making it higher than the dew point temperature of the blown hot air.

Printing apparatus and inkjet method

In an inkjet printing apparatus capable of automatic duplex printing, time required to fix ink is shortened and throughput is improved without producing uneven fixing. The inkjet printing apparatus includes a printing unit that prints onto a sheet, a fixing unit that heats a sheet printed by the printing unit, a conveying unit that conveys a sheet with respect to the printing unit and the fixing unit, and a controller that controls the conveying unit such that a printing region of a sheet printed on the first side by the printing unit passes through the fixing unit, and afterwards, the conveyance direction of the sheet is reversed in order to print on the second side and the printing region once again passes through the fixing unit. The controller variably controls the conveyance speed of the sheet when the printing region once again passes through the fixing unit.

Inkjet printing apparatus

Provided is a printing apparatus including a sensor unit for measuring a moving state of a sheet by optically detecting a surface of the sheet conveyed by a conveying unit. The sensor unit measures and compares the moving states of the sheet at a first measurement position and a second measurement position which are distinct from each other in a main scanning direction, to thereby obtain information on a skew state of a skew component of the moving sheet.

There is disclosed a method of controlling a television system which can connect to a printing apparatus, and has a display unit. Display/non-display of the status information is set (S, S). Status information of the printing apparatus is received from the printing apparatus (S). The control is made to display the status information on the display unit when the display of the status information is set, and not to display the status information on the display unit when the non-display of the status information is set (S, S).

Television system and control method thereof

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Yokohama, Japan

Kosuke Yamamoto