Patent ID: 9724939
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: B41J

Claim:
1. A liquid discharging apparatus comprising: a head that discharges a liquid onto a medium; a medium supporting portion that supports the medium; a heater that heats the medium supported by the medium supporting portion; a detecting unit that performs sensing and detects energy; and a control unit that controls radiation energy of the heater based on the energy detected by the detecting unit, wherein a size of a sensing area that the detecting unit senses is controlled by the control unit to be variable based upon whether the medium is sensed or not by the detecting unit, such that when the medium is not sensed by the detecting unit, the control unit causes the detecting unit to reduce the size of the sensing area sensed by the detecting unit and when the medium is sensed by the detecting unit, the control unit causes the detecting unit to increase the size of the sensing area sensed by the detecting unit.