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Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2019
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Ayako Iwasaki, Yokohama, JP;

Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Kawasaki, JP;

Yoshihiro Hamada, Yokohama, JP;

Masashi Hayashi, Yokohama, JP;

Kentaro Muro, Tokyo, JP;

Yutaka Kano, Kawasaki, JP;

Takahide Takeishi, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 2/18 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 2/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/0456 (2013.01); B41J 2/04508 (2013.01); B41J 2/04585 (2013.01); B41J 2/04586 (2013.01); B41J 2/14145 (2013.01); B41J 2/175 (2013.01); B41J 2/17596 (2013.01); B41J 2/18 (2013.01); B41J 2002/14459 (2013.01); B41J 2202/12 (2013.01); B41J 2202/19 (2013.01); B41J 2202/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image forming apparatuscapable of performing printing with a high image quality, and a control method of the image forming apparatusare provided. For this purpose, a threshold value Dt is preliminarily set that allows printing without occurrence of blur, for each of preliminarily set monitoring areas A. In the case where a print duty for each of the monitoring areas A has exceeded the threshold value Dt, an ejection frequency of ink and conveying speed of a print medium are reduced in association therebetween.


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