Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.

Canon Finetech Inc.

Shizuka Akahori

Kazuki Sakamoto

Noritaka Nakashima

Hirohisa Niida

The present invention intends to provide a printing apparatus that can lessen a reduction in ejection performance caused by thickening, solidification, or the like of print liquid in an ejection port of a printing unit even in the case of stopping a print operation by the printing unit to perform a post-process on a print medium. The printing apparatus includes a post-processing part configured to, in a state of stopping the print operation by the printing unit, perform the post-process on a printed print medium as well as including an open/close unit configured to selectively perform a closing operation or an opening operation of the ejection port provided in the printing unit. Further, when the print medium is stopped in the post-processing part, the open/close unit is controlled so as to bring the ejection port into a close state.

Printing apparatus and printing method

The sheet conveying apparatus includes a conveying belt including a placement area having a suction hole, and configured to convey a sheet with a vacuum force from the suction hole, a sheet supply unit capable of supplying a sheet to a supply position of the sheet with respect to the conveying belt; and a control unit configured to control the conveying belt so as to further move the conveying belt after the conveying belt conveys a last sheet to be conveyed. The control unit causes the conveying belt to wait after moving the placement area to a predetermined position in an area from a position in an upstream direction with respect to the moving direction of the conveying belt to the supply position in a conveying amount of the conveying belt corresponding to a time required for the sheet supply unit to convey a next first sheet to the supply position.

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Nagareyama, Japan

Shizuka Akahori