US 12,420,564 B2
Printing apparatus, control method of printing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium therefor
Yasuhiro Nakano, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Apr. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/308,053.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-073397 (JP), filed on Apr. 27, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0347662 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 3/60 (2006.01); B41J 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 3/60 (2013.01) [B41J 13/0045 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
an image printer configured to print a page image on a printing medium based on print data including a plurality of pieces of image data, each of the plurality of image data indicating a page image;
a first conveying mechanism configured to convey the printing medium on which the page image is printed in a first conveying direction, the first conveying direction being a direction the printing medium is discharged to a discharge part;
a second conveying mechanism configured to convey the printing medium in a second conveying direction opposite to the first conveying direction;
a cutting mechanism arranged on a downstream side of the image printer, the cutting mechanism being configured to cut the printing medium into n equal pieces, the n being an integer equal to or more than 2; and
a controller,
wherein the controller is configured to perform:
a first conveying process of causing the first conveying mechanism to convey the printing medium in the first conveying direction to print the page image on a front surface of the printing medium;
a second conveying process of causing the second conveying mechanism to convey the printing medium in the second conveying direction to print the page image on a back surface of the printing medium after the first conveying process;
an image printing process of causing the image printer to print the page images on each of the front surface and the back surface and causing the first conveying mechanism to discharge the printing medium to the discharge part with page numbers decreasing sequentially as the printing medium is discharged in such a manner that page images printed on the printing medium cut by the cutting mechanism and stacked in the discharge part are arranged in a page number order specified by the print data; and
a first cutting process of, while the first conveying process, causing the cutting mechanism to cut the printing medium on which a last page image corresponding to a last page number of the print data is to be printed when a number of pages of the page images included in the print data is not divisible by 2n.