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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1996
Hitoshi Nakamura, Yokohama, JP;
Soichi Hiramatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Yamaguchi, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Inoue, Yokohama, JP;
Seiji Takahashi, Yokohama, JP;
Takashi Nojima, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Kida, Yokohama, JP;
Hideaki Kawakami, Yokohama, JP;
Takeshi Iwasaki, Yohohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording apparatus includes a movable carriage capable of moving as designed while carrying, hereon, a plurality of different recording heads for discharging ink to record characters and/or images and a plurality of different ink tanks for storing ink to be supplied to the recording heads, the recording heads and the ink tanks being changeable; a restoring unit capable of restoring the recording heads; a detection unit for determining the type of the recording head or the ink tank; and a control unit for causing the restoring unit to restore the recording head in a case where the detection unit has detected change of the recording head or the ink tank to the recording head or the ink tank of the same type, and inhibiting the restoring unit from restoring the recording head in a case where the detection unit has detected change to the recording head or the ink tank of a different type.