Patent ID: 7914101

Claim:
An ink jet printing apparatus including a carriage on which a print head and an ink tank can be mounted, the print head being capable of ejecting ink on the basis of print data, the ink tank supplying ink to the print head, the ink jet printing apparatus performing a printing operation of printing an image on a print medium through reciprocations of the carriage, the apparatus comprising: measuring means for measuring an elapsed time from end of movement of the carriage; acquiring means for acquiring information correlated with a degree of ink stifling involved in the printing operation performed after the carriage movement has been finished; setting means for, if the elapsed time is shorter than a specified time, setting conditions for carriage movement for stifling the ink in the ink tank on the basis of the information acquired; and control means for reciprocating the carriage in accordance with the set movement conditions, wherein the ink tank comprises a stirring member that is displaced by reciprocations of the carriage to stir the ink.