Patent ID: 7360857

Claim:
An ink jet printing apparatus for printing on a first print surface and a second print surface of a print medium successively by using a printing unit for ejecting ink according to print data, the ink jet printing apparatus comprising: retrieval means for retrieving information on an amount of ink applied to a particular area in the first print surface; standby time setting means for setting, according to the information on the ink application amount retrieved by the retrieval means, a standby time from when the printing on the first print surface is finished until an operation associated with a printing on the second print surface starts; and control means for starting the operation associated with the printing on the second print surface according to the standby time set by the standby time setting means after the printing on the first print surface is finished, wherein the retrieval means retrieves information on the amounts of ink applied to each of a plurality sub-areas obtained by dividing the particular area, and the standby time setting means retrieves the respective standby times for the respective sub-areas according to their ink application amounts and sets the longest of the retrieved standby times.