US 11,987,043 B2
Printing apparatus and control method controlling heating of medium
Takuya Hamada, Kawasaki (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/902,351.
Application 17/902,351 is a continuation of application No. 16/990,722, filed on Aug. 11, 2020, granted, now 11,446,936.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-154973 (JP), filed on Aug. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0166532 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41J 3/60 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01); B41J 13/03 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/002 (2013.01) [B41J 3/60 (2013.01); B41J 11/00222 (2021.01); B41J 11/00224 (2021.01); B41J 11/0024 (2021.01); B41J 13/0027 (2013.01); B41J 13/0045 (2013.01); B41J 13/009 (2013.01); B41J 13/03 (2013.01); B41J 2202/20 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus, comprising:
a conveyance unit configured to convey a medium along a conveyance path in a conveyance direction, the conveyance path including an inversion path configured to invert a first surface and a second surface of the medium;
a printing unit configured to discharge ink onto the first surface of the medium conveyed without passing through the inversion path, and to discharge ink onto the second surface of the medium conveyed through the inversion path; and
a heating unit configured to:
heat the medium at a first region; and
heat the medium at a second region on a downstream side of the first region with respect to the conveyance direction,
wherein heating by the heating unit at least at a part of the second region is not performed in a case in which the heating unit heats the medium at the first region.