US 12,145,369 B2
Image printing apparatus, control method of image printing apparatus and processing apparatus
Akiyoshi Sahara, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/868,701.
Application 17/868,701 is a continuation of application No. 17/109,736, filed on Dec. 2, 2020, granted, now 11,427,006.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-225535 (JP), filed on Dec. 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0355591 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 2/14 (2006.01); B41J 2/18 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/17506 (2013.01) [B41J 2/14024 (2013.01); B41J 2/18 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image printing apparatus unit on which a tank storing ink is mountable, the image printing apparatus comprising:
a print head configured to eject ink based on print data;
a sub tank configured to receive ink from the mounted tank and to supply the ink to the print head; and
a controller configured to, in a case where the mounted tank is a specific tank corresponding to a predetermined contract and the predetermined contract for the image printing apparatus has been concluded, control refilling of the sub tank with the ink from the mounted tank,
wherein in a case where the mounted tank is the specific tank and the predetermined contract for the image printing apparatus has not been concluded, a printing using the ink stored in the mounted tank is not performed, and
wherein the predetermined contract is a usage contract under which the use of the specific tank is permitted for a specified period on the image printing apparatus.