Patent ID: 9090059
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a piezoelectric element configured to be displaced in response to voltage of a drive signal; a cavity in which ink is filled, and whose internal volume is increased or decreased by displacement of the piezoelectric element; a nozzle connected to the cavity and configured to eject the ink as ink droplets onto a print medium by increasing or decreasing of the internal volume of the cavity; a printing mode receiver configured to receive selection of at least one photographic paper printing mode for printing onto photographic paper and at least two plain paper printing modes for printing onto plain paper from among printing modes; and a control unit configured to control a meniscus position in the nozzle to be separated further from an orifice surface of the nozzle when the selection of one plain paper printing mode from among the at least two plain paper printing modes is received by the printing mode receiver than when the selection of the photographic paper printing mode is received.