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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Hamasaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Atsushi Takahashi, Tama, JP;
Kei Kosaka, Tokyo, JP;
Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Yokohama, JP;
Tomoyuki Tenkawa, Kawasaki, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a printing apparatus including, a printhead; a preliminary discharge unit; a detecting unit detecting a size of a printing medium; and a scaling process unit. The scaling process unit scales an image to be formed on the printing medium in accordance with a detected size when a size of a printing medium indicated by size setting information and the detected size do not match each other. The preliminary discharge unit causes the printhead to perform preliminary discharge in accordance with a scaling result of the scaling process unit.