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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2002
Applicants:
Takeshi Irizawa, Yokohama, JP;
Makoto Aoki, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshiko Miyashita, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J029/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An ink/print media discriminating portion discriminates kind of ink to be used in an apparatus on the basis of information of kind of the ink or a printing medium input by a user. The discrimination information is fed to a thermal energy generation amount control portion. The thermal energy generation amount control portion sets a driving condition, such as a pulse width of a drive pulse or the like corresponding to the kind of the ink represented by the discriminated information, is set in a head driving portion.