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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2021
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Otokita, Yamagata-mura, JP;
Takahiro Imai, Shiojiri, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printer control unit controls a fan, based on an acquired reference temperature and an output of a sensor, to cause a temperature of a platen drum or a temperature of a sheet supported by the platen drum to be the reference temperature. Specifically, at step S, the printer control unit acquires a type of the printing medium to be used for printing, acquires the reference temperature at step S, and at step S, controls an operating state of the fan, based on the temperature of the platen drum output by the sensor, such that the temperature of the platen drum becomes the reference temperature acquired at step S. As a result, a temperature increase of the platen drum becomes substantially saturated at the targeted reference temperature.