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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2016
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takashi Saikawa, Matsumoto, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/01 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 11/0085 (2013.01); B41J 2/01 (2013.01); G06K 15/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
An inkjet printer having a platen to which a suction unit is disposed suppresses increasing the time required for printing to end and suppresses unnecessary operation of the suction fan. The inkjet printerreceives control data from a host computer, and starts operation of the suction fanif a printing-related command instructing rendering image data to be printed by the inkjet headin the image buffer BF is included in the received control data.