Patent attributes
An ink jet record apparatus has a record head that ejects ink from a nozzle to form an image on a record medium, a maintenance portion that executes maintenance operation to prevent drying of the nozzle at regular time intervals when image formation is not executed, a first mode setting portion that sets the ink jet record apparatus on a usual power mode in which usual power is consumed or a power saving mode in which power supply to other parts than those required for returning to the usual power mode is reduced, and a second mode setting portion that sets the ink jet record apparatus on a permission mode in which the maintenance operation and predetermined operation other than the maintenance operation are permitted or an inhibition mode in which the predetermined operation is inhibited although the maintenance operation is permitted during the power saving mode.
