US 12,070,939 B2
Printing apparatus and printing method
Masaaki Matsuura, Kawasaki (JP); Seiji Ogasawara, Machida (JP); Takaaki Ishida, Kawasaki (JP); Masakazu Tsukuda, Yokohama (JP); Shuichi Tokuda, Kawasaki (JP); and Kazuki Matsuo, Kawasaki (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/508,318.
Application 17/508,318 is a division of application No. 16/220,871, filed on Dec. 14, 2018, granted, now 11,167,945.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-243016 (JP), filed on Dec. 19, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0041388 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 13/00 (2006.01); B41J 13/03 (2006.01); B65H 5/06 (2006.01); B65H 7/20 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 13/0027 (2013.01) [B41J 13/03 (2013.01); B65H 5/068 (2013.01); B65H 7/20 (2013.01); H04N 1/00602 (2013.01); B65H 2513/10 (2013.01); B65H 2513/512 (2013.01); B65H 2601/2525 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a conveyance unit configured to convey printing media including a first printing medium and a second printing medium that follows the first printing medium along a conveying path;
a print unit disposed in the conveying path and configured to print on a print area of each of the printing media according to print data; and
a control unit configured to control the conveyance unit,
wherein the control unit compares a first conveyance speed at the print area of the first printing medium and a second conveyance speed at the print area of the second printing medium, and
wherein in a case in which the second conveyance speed is higher than the first conveyance speed, the control unit starts conveyance of the second printing medium after the first printing medium is discharged from the conveying path.