Patent ID: 7350894

Claim:
An ink jet printer, comprising: a print head having plural nozzles for jetting ink over a length corresponding to a dimension of a recording medium that is perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the recording medium; a recording medium conveying section that supplies the recording medium to the print head and conveys the recording medium under the print head; a print head driving section that drives the print head to jet ink in synchronization with conveyance of the recording medium; a speed setting section to set a printing speed based on an instruction of a user; and a control section, which determines: (i) a conveyance speed of the recording medium under the print head based on the printing speed established by the speed setting section, and (ii) a time interval from completion of printing of one page to a start of printing of a next page, and which controls the recording medium conveying section to convey and supply the recording medium at the determined conveyance speed and the determined time interval.