Patent ID: 7506956

Claim:
A printing apparatus, comprising: a carry mechanism for carrying a medium; a nozzle for performing a moving-and-ejecting operation of ejecting ink toward the medium while moving relative to the medium during an intermission of a carrying operation performed by the carry mechanism; an element for performing an ink ejecting operation for causing the ink to be ejected from the nozzle; a drive signal outputting section for outputting a drive signal for causing the element to perform the ink ejecting operation; a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of the drive signal outputting section or in the vicinity thereof; a cap for blocking an ejection opening of the nozzle; and a controller that, when printing is carried out on the medium by ejecting the ink from the nozzle, is adapted to: perform, at least once between the moving-and-ejecting operation and the carrying operation, a first standby operation in which neither the moving-and-ejecting operation nor the carrying operation is performed for a first predetermined time, if a detected temperature detected by the temperature sensor is higher than a first temperature, and perform, before performing the moving-and-ejecting operation, a second standby operation in which standby is performed for a second predetermined time that is longer than said first predetermined time by blocking the ejection opening of the nozzle with the cap, if the detected temperature is higher than a second temperature that is higher than the first temperature, wherein the cap does not block the ejection opening of the nozzle in the first standby operation.