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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2022
Screen Holdings Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Kensuke Usui, Kyoto, JP;
Susumu Takahashi, Kyoto, JP;
SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus is achieved that has an auto-splice function and is capable of performing, when roll paper is replaced, suitable maintenance taking into account a print process scheduled to be executed after replacement of the roll paper. When a splicer replaces, regarding the roll paper to be used, the preceding roll paper with the subsequent roll paper, a print control unit controls an operation of a printing unit such that an inspection pattern is printed at a tail of continuous paper unwound from the preceding roll paper, and a maintenance content control unit determines maintenance content for an inkjet head in accordance with a criterion suitable for printing on continuous paper unwound from the subsequent roll paper based on an inspection result obtained by inspection of a print image for the inspection pattern.