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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2016
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tomofumi Nishida, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 29/38 (2006.01); B41J 3/60 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01); B65H 5/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 3/60 (2013.01); B41J 13/0018 (2013.01); B65H 5/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes: a feeding unit feeding a sheet; a conveying unit conveying the sheet fed by the feeding unit; a printing unit printing the sheet conveyed by the conveying unit; an inversion path inverting the sheet printed on a first surface by the printing unit and conveying the sheet to the conveying unit; and a conveyance control unit performing conveyance control of overlapping a trailing edge of a preceding sheet conveyed through the inversion path and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet fed following the preceding sheet.