Patent ID: 8950844
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An inkjet printing apparatus comprising: a printing device having a first ink group and a second ink group, which prevents a sedimentation of the first ink group; a platen ink absorber configured to receive inks ejected from the printing device during a marginless printing; a counting device configured to count, for each of a plurality of regions into which the platen ink absorber is divided, ink volumes of the first ink group and the second ink group ejected from the printing device; an estimation device configured to estimate a ratio of the first ink group and the second ink group for each of the plurality of regions; and an ink providing device configured to provide an ink of the second ink group when the estimation by the estimation device indicates that an ink of the first ink group sediments, wherein a priority order is established in the second ink group, and the ink providing device provides the ink of the second ink group based on the priority order.