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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2020
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Edamura, Inagi, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit for conveying a print medium fed from a feeding apparatus, a detection unit for detecting the fed print medium, a printhead, provided downstream of the detection unit with respect to a conveyance direction of the print medium, for printing an image by discharging ink to the conveyed print medium, and a heating unit, provided downstream of the printhead with respect to the conveyance direction, for heating the print medium on which the image is printed. The printing apparatus exclusively controls to stop driving of the heating unit if it is determined, based on a timing of detecting the print medium, that the print medium is at a print position, and to drive the heating unit if it is determined that the print medium is not at the print position.