Patent ID: 9701114
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: B41J

Claim:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a transport section which has a support surface that supports a recording medium with a sheet form, and supports and transports the recording medium on the support surface; a printing section which is disposed facing the support surface via a gap, and has a nozzle that executes printing on the recording medium which is transported by the transport section; a detecting section which is arranged further on the upstream side in the transport direction of the recording medium than the nozzle, and detects an upper surface position of the recording medium; an adjustment section which adjusts a separation distance between the support surface and the nozzle; and a control section which controls the operation of the transport section, the printing section, the detecting section, and the adjustment section, and the control section comparing the upper surface position, which the detection section has detected, with a reference position, in response to the comparing, the control section selecting one of a first mode and a second mode, the first mode being a mode in which the control section controls the adjustment section to increase the separation distance and controls the nozzle to execute the printing on the recording medium and which is selected when the upper surface position is lower than the reference position, the second mode being a mode in which the control section controls the nozzle to stop executing of the printing on the recording medium.