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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2020
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention is a printing apparatus including: a print head having a printing element column in which a plurality of printing elements for ejecting ink from ejection ports is arrayed and performing printing on a printing medium by ejecting ink based on print data; a sensor that detects temperature of the print head; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a number of dots to be printed by printing elements corresponding to a predetermined area in the printing element column; and a control unit configured to control a printing operation of the print head based on temperature detected by the sensor and the number of dots acquired by the acquisition unit, and the printing apparatus performs printing on the printing medium by ejecting ink from the print head while the print head and the printing medium are moving relatively.