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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
May. 31, 2000
Masaya Uetsuki, Yokohama, JP;
Yohji Ara, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Inoue, Yokohama, JP;
Hideo Fukazawa, Chigasaki, JP;
Tetsuji Kurata, Yokohama, JP;
Hirofumi Hirano, Zama, JP;
Hiroshi Netsu, Yokohama, JP;
Hideaki Okamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroki Hayashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Noriyasu Asaki, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink-jet printing apparatus, an ink-supplying apparatus, and a method for supplying ink are configured so that a mode of ink supply is changed to another mode, for example the mode of supplying ink to an ink tank is changed to another in accordance with a fact that a next page is intended to be printed or not, when an ink tank that requires the supply of ink is detected, with the result that the printing speed is increased.