US 12,330,411 B2
Printing apparatus and method for controlling the same
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. 17/902,491.
Application 17/902,491 is a continuation of application No. 16/990,452, filed on Aug. 11, 2020, granted, now 11,458,740.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-154054 (JP), filed on Aug. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0410588 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/002 (2013.01) 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus, comprising:
a discharge head configured to discharge ink onto a printing medium conveyed by a conveyance unit configured to convey the printing medium;
a first heating unit configured to heat the printing medium onto which ink is discharged by the discharge head;
a second heating unit arranged on a downstream side of the first heating unit in a conveyance direction of the conveyance unit, and configured to heat the printing medium; and
a control unit configured to control an amount of heat from the first heating unit or the second heating unit applied to the printing medium so as to change the amount of heat based on an amount of ink discharged onto the printing medium,
wherein in a case of double-sided printing in which both sides of the printing medium are printed, the printing medium is conveyed by the conveyance unit so that each side of the printing medium is heated by the first heating unit and one side of the printing medium is heated by the second heating unit.