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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2015
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Akiyoshi Sahara, Funabashi, JP;
Tetsuya Edamura, Inagi, JP;
Atsushi Takahashi, Tama, JP;
Tomofumi Nishida, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiyuki Kuroda, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus comprises a maintenance unit configured to execute a maintenance operation between a completion of printing on a preceding sheet serving as the printing sheet fed from a stacking unit first and a start of printing on a succeeding sheet serving as the printing sheet fed from the stacking unit next, and a determination unit configured to determine whether to execute the maintenance operation, wherein the determination unit determines, based on a feeding method of the succeeding sheet, whether to execute the maintenance operation.