US 11,752,789 B2
Printing apparatus, control method for the printing apparatus, and medium storing program
Satoru Arakane, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Jun. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/355,594.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-108737 (JP), filed on Jun. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0402814 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. B41J 19/14 (2006.01); B41J 25/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/10 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01); B41J 19/20 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 25/006 (2013.01) [B41J 19/142 (2013.01); B41J 19/202 (2013.01); G06K 15/105 (2013.01); G06K 15/1822 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a head configured to discharge liquid;
a carriage configured to support the head and reciprocate in a forward direction and a backward direction; and
a controller,
wherein the controller is configured to execute:
a printing process to print one image in a plurality of copies by discharging the liquid from the head while moving the carriage in the forward direction and the backward direction, based on a print job for printing the one image in the plurality of copies; and
a first determining process to determine a moving direction of the carriage for second and following copies, based on a moving result of the carriage in printing of all passes where the carriage moves in the forward direction and/or the backward direction for a first copy in the printing process, and
wherein the controller is configured to determine the moving direction of the carriage for the second and following copies in the first determining process, such that a total moving time of the carriage in printing of all passes where the carriage moves in the forward direction and/or the backward direction for the second copy is equal to or shorter than a total moving time of the carriage in printing of all passes where the carriage moves in the forward direction and/or the backward direction for the first copy, or a total moving distance of the carriage in the printing of all passes where the carriage moves in the forward direction and/or the backward direction for the second copy is equal to or shorter than a total moving distance of the carriage in the printing of all passes where the carriage moves in the forward direction and/or the backward direction for the first copy.