Patent ID: 8845049
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing device, in which printing is conducted by ejecting ink from a printing head to a medium based on print data, comprising: a carriage that installs the printing head and an ink cartridge for storing ink; a moving section that moves the carriage in a main scanning direction; an ink remaining amount detecting section that can detect an ink remaining amount in the ink cartridge when the carriage moves in a part of a movable range of the carriage in the main scanning direction, the ink remaining amount detecting section being provided spaced apart from the carriage in the movable range of the carriage in the main scanning direction; a remaining amount detection requesting section that makes a request for detection of an ink remaining amount in the ink cartridge by the ink remaining amount detecting section in a case where predetermined detection conditions are met; and a print processing section that conducts a print process for detection of an ink remaining amount in which the movable range of the carriage in the main scanning direction based on the print data is enlarged to a range including the part of the movable range so as to make detection of an ink remaining amount possible, and the printing head and the moving section are controlled such that the printing head ejects ink while the carriage is moving in the enlarged movable range in a case where a request for detection of an ink remaining amount is made.