US 11,679,606 B2
Printing apparatus, control method, and storage medium
Hiromasa Yoneyama, Kanagawa (JP); Yasuyuki Asai, Tokyo (JP); Ryohei Maruyama, Kanagawa (JP); Itaru Wada, Kanagawa (JP); Yoshiaki Suzuki, Chiba (JP); Tomohito Abe, Kanagawa (JP); Tsutomu Obata, Tokyo (JP); and Noriyuki Aoki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/120,422.
Claims priority of application No. JP2019-239281 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0197592 A1, Jul. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. B41J 11/66 (2006.01); B41J 11/70 (2006.01); B65H 35/06 (2006.01); B26D 1/24 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 11/706 (2013.01) [B26D 1/245 (2013.01); B65H 35/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a printing unit configured to print an image on a printing medium and configured to move in a scanning direction;
a cutter unit configured to be able to connect with or separate from the printing unit, and configured to cut the printing medium by moving with the printing unit; and
a control unit configured to perform:
(1) a first control in which (a) the cutter unit is separated from the printing unit, and (b) the printing unit performs printing with moving in the scanning direction;
(2) a second control in which (a) the cutter unit is connected with the printing unit and cuts the printing medium by moving with the printing unit, and (b) the printing unit does not perform printing; and
(3) a third control in which, in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied after the printing medium is cut by the cutter unit, the printing unit performs printing on a succeeding printing medium, while moving the printing unit in a state in which the cutter unit is connected with the printing unit.