Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Norio Sakurai

Kosuke Yamamoto

Yuki Emoto

Toshiaki Somano

Taiji Maruyama

Yusuke Naratani

Kentaro Muro

Takashi Abe

Yasuyuki Takanaka

Atsushi Kohnotoh

Kousuke Tanaka

Shuhei Yamaguchi

Wataru Takahashi

Tatsuo Nanjo

Tsuyoshi Saeki

Shota Asada

Keisuke Iinuma

Hideaki Matsumura

Hiromasa Tsutsumi

Takashi Hayasaka

Tomohisa Jonouchi

A printing apparatus includes a suction unit configured to suction liquid from an ejection port, a valve provided at a first position in a supply passage and configured to be switchable between an open state in which the supply passage communicates and a closed state in which the supply passage is blocked, and a control unit configured to perform control of first suction in which the valve is set to the open state and the suction unit performs the suction, such that the liquid reaches the first position or a second position downstream of the first position, after the first suction, to perform control of second suction in which the valve is set to the closed state and the suction unit performs the suction, and, after the second suction, to perform control of setting the valve to the open state.

Printing apparatus and method for controlling printing apparatus

A liquid storage container including a positioning configuration contributing to downsizing is provided. The container capable of storing liquid therein includes a fitting portion including a communication port establishing communication between an inside and an outside, wherein a supply member supplying liquid is fitted and can supply the inside with liquid via the communication port; a first positioning portion positioning the supply member at one point; and a second positioning portion including a guide provided in the fitting portion and capable of guiding the supply member to a position where the supply member is fitted into the fitting portion when the supply member is fitted into the fitting portion while being positioned by the first positioning portion and a restriction portion restricting movement of the supply member using the first positioning portion as a rotation axis in the position where the supply member is fitted into the fitting portion.

Liquid storage container

An image recording apparatus includes a belt passed around a drive pulley and a driven pulley, a support member configured to support a recording head and fixed to the belt, a holder member, having a claw part, configured to hold the driven pulley, and a frame having a first opening for the claw part to penetrate. The holder member is attached to the frame such as to be movable relative to the drive pulley. The first opening has an enlarged opening portion allowing the claw part to pass through without engaging with the frame on one side closer to the drive pulley. At least a portion of the claw part is positioned within a part of the first opening excluding the enlarged opening portion in a state where the holder member is positioned in a predetermined location closer to the drive pulley.

Image recording apparatus

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 recording apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a carriage, a recording head, a frame, and a guide member. The conveyance unit conveys a sheet in a conveyance direction. The carriage moves in a scanning direction crossing the conveyance direction and has a first abutment portion and a second abutment portion higher in position than the first abutment portion. The recording head is mounted on the carriage, arranged to face a sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, and ejects a liquid onto the conveyed sheet to record an image. The frame has a first sliding portion in abutment with the first abutment portion and has a second sliding portion in abutment with the second abutment portion. The guide member supports the carriage and is fixed to the frame at a position separated from the first sliding portion.

Recording apparatus

A printing apparatus includes a container for a liquid configured to contain a liquid to be supplied to a print head configured to eject the liquid, the container including an injection port configured to enable a user to inject the liquid; a supply channel used to supply the liquid from the container to the print head; and an on-off valve mechanism disposed at the supply channel and configured to be switched between an open state to establish communication of the supply channel and a closed state not to establish communication of the supply channel. The on-off valve mechanism is configured to be switched by any of an automatic operation and a manual operation.

Printing apparatus

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.

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.

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Tokyo, Japan

Norio Sakurai