| US 7,567,357 B2 | ||
| Ink jet record apparatus | ||
| Tokunori Kato, Ichinomiya (Japan); and Shozo Kabeya, Gamagori (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 16, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/892,374. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2003-277140 (JP), filed on Jul. 18, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0012776 A1, Jan. 20, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 15/00 (2006.01); B41J 29/38 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 358—1.14 [347/11] | 24 Claims |
| 1. An ink jet record apparatus comprising:
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, during the power saving mode, 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.
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