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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2015
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Osamu Iwasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoyuki Tenkawa, Yokohama, JP;
Atsushi Takahashi, Tama, JP;
Kei Kosaka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/165 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/16532 (2013.01); B41J 2/16508 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus that can execute a recovery process appropriate for a print head according to a use condition of the inkjet printing apparatus. Therefore a recovery operation is performed based upon both an elapsed time in a non-use state where the printing is not performed and an elapsed time from the previous recovery process.