Patent ID: 8882224
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a driving unit that moves a carriage having a liquid ejecting head which ejects liquid to a printing medium; a cleaning unit that performs cleaning on the liquid ejecting head; a detecting unit that detects a jam of the printing medium based on change in operation of the carriage; a control unit that controls the driving unit to move the carriage and stops the driving of the driving unit to stop the carriage movement when the detecting unit detects the jam; an instruction unit that is operated to give an instruction to continue printing after the jam is released; a cleaning control unit that causes the cleaning unit to perform cleaning on the liquid ejecting head when the instruction to continue printing is given from the instruction unit; a transporting unit which transports the printing medium in a transporting direction crossing a moving direction of the carriage and has a pair of transporting rollers in each of an upstream side and a downstream side of the transporting direction with respect to the liquid ejecting head; and a determination unit that determines whether the printing medium is in a one-side supporting state in which the printing medium is supported by only one of the pairs of transporting rollers or in a both-side support state in which the printing medium is supported by both of the pairs of transporting rollers when the detecting unit detects the jam of the printing medium, wherein, when the instruction to continue printing is given from the instruction unit, the cleaning control unit causes the cleaning unit to perform cleaning in the case where it is determined that the printing medium is in the one-side supporting state by the determination unit, and the cleaning control unit causes the cleaning unit not to perform cleaning in the case where it is determined that the printing medium is in the both-side support state.