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Atsushi Takahashi0
Kei Kosaka0
Tomoyuki Tenkawa0
Date of Patent
December 13, 2016
0Patent Application Number
148151510
Date Filed
July 31, 2015
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Patent abstract
A printing apparatus comprises an ink tank containing ink, a sub-tank containing the ink supplied from the ink tank, a printhead discharging the ink supplied from the sub-tank, a detection unit configured to perform a detection operation of detecting an ink remaining amount of the sub-tank, a suction unit configured to perform a suction operation of sucking the ink from the printhead, and a control unit configured to stop the suction unit from performing the suction operation when the detection unit detects that the ink remaining amount becomes smaller than a predetermined residual amount during execution of the suction operation.
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