US 12,447,746 B2
Recording apparatus, control method, and storage medium
Toshimitsu Danzuka, Tokyo (JP); Masataka Kato, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroto Kango, Tokyo (JP); Rie Takekoshi, Kanagawa (JP); Akihiro Tomida, Kanagawa (JP); Tomoki Yamamuro, Kanagawa (JP); Keita Ishimi, Kanagawa (JP); Kazuki Narumi, Tokyo (JP); Taku Yokozawa, Kanagawa (JP); Kazuo Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP); and Kazuhiko Sato, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/148,893.
Application 18/148,893 is a continuation of application No. 17/373,176, filed on Jul. 12, 2021, granted, now 11,560,003.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-123120 (JP), filed on Jul. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0136284 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 2/165 (2006.01); B41J 2/045 (2006.01); B41J 2/45 (2006.01); B41J 25/00 (2006.01); B41J 29/38 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/12 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/16517 (2013.01) [B41J 2/04551 (2013.01); B41J 25/001 (2013.01); B41J 29/38 (2013.01); H04N 1/00084 (2013.01); H04N 1/12 (2013.01); B41J 2002/16573 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0081 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0082 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image recording apparatus, comprising:
a recording unit configured to record an image by applying a recording material to a recording medium;
an execution unit configured to execute relative scanning of the recording unit and the recording medium with respect to a unit region on the recording medium; and
a recovery unit configured to perform a recovery operation for maintaining or recovering a recording performance of the recording unit for application of the recording material,
wherein, based on a value corresponding to a number of dots recorded after the recovery operation performed last time and based on a number of times of the relative scanning for completion of an image at a unit region of an (n+1)-th page, the recovery unit performs the recovery operation at a timing that is after recording of an n-th page but before recording of the (n+1)-th page, where the n is a natural number,
wherein
in a case of a one-pass mode, in which the number of times of the scanning for completion of the image at the unit region of the (n+1)-th page is once, the recovery unit performs the recovery operation when the value is greater than a first threshold,
in a case of a multi-pass mode, in which the number of times of the scanning for completion of the image at the unit region of the (n+1)-th page is twice or more, the recovery unit performs the recovery operation when the value is greater than a second threshold, and
the first threshold is greater than the second threshold.