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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
May. 03, 2023
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus including a printing unit to print an ink image on a print medium, a recovery unit executing a recovery operation for maintaining and recovering favorable ink ejection performance, an obtainment unit obtaining a dot count value, which is the number of times ink is ejected during printing, and a printing time period, which is a time period required for the printing, and a control unit controlling the recovery operation, based on a count value, which is an accumulated value of the dot count value, and a threshold value for determining whether to execute the recovery operation. When a dot count value per unit time based on the dot count value and the printing time period is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the control unit updates the count value to a value to which the dot count value is added, to control the recovery operation.