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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2020
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takashi Kikuchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 2/165 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/17566 (2013.01); B41J 2002/17569 (2013.01);
Abstract
To provide a control device and a control method with which a consumed amount of ink can be calculated with higher accuracy, a processing unit configured to execute image processing to image data, based on a reference value according to a state of a print head of a printing apparatus, and a calculating unit configured to calculate a consumed amount of ink during printing, based on print data and a parameter indicating a condition of printing, the print data being generated based on the image data to which the image processing has been performed by the processing unit, are included.