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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2012
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Yasuzaki, Tokorozawa, JP;
Kazunari Shishido, Yokohama, JP;
Sho Nakamura, Yokohama, JP;
Ruriko Mikami, Kawasaki, JP;
Atsushi Hirahara, Kawasaki, JP;
Takayoshi Noguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Akiteru Naka, Machida, JP;
Tatsuhiko Tomita, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A print control apparatus configured to cause a printing unit to perform print processing includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a condition for executing maintenance processing of the printing unit is satisfied, a shortening unit configured to shorten redundant maintenance operations in first maintenance processing and second maintenance processing in a case where the determination unit determines that a condition for executing the second maintenance processing is satisfied before completion of the first maintenance processing, and a control unit configured to cause the first maintenance processing and the second maintenance processing to be carried out after the shortening unit shortens the redundant maintenance operations.