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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2018
Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Masaki Ito, Ome, JP;
CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a thermal head and a processor. The thermal head has heat-generating elements and prints on a plurality of lines in a medium in setting periods. The processor sets a second period within each setting period. The second period is a time period for adjusting a temperature change of the heat-generating elements without printing, after a first period for printing. The processor determines a nline (n: an integer of 1 or greater) among the lines based on printing data for printing the image. The nline is a line estimated to have a possibility of sticking on the medium by the thermal head. The processor adjusts a temperature change of at least a part of the heat-generating elements in the second periods corresponding to at least the nline and a (n+1)line, to suppress the sticking.