Patent ID: 7399046

Claim:
An inkjet printing apparatus comprising: a printing head that includes ink ejection nozzles; feeding means for sequentially feeding a printing medium from a media storage unit in which printing media are stored to a printing position for the printing head; recovery means for enabling execution of a plurality of recovery modes to recover an ejection function for the ink ejection nozzles within a period of time extending from the end of printing for a preceding printing medium which is fed first by the feeding means, to the start of printing for a succeeding printing medium, which is to be fed by the feeding means; first setup means, for designating one of a plurality of feeding conditions for different speeds at which the printing medium is to be fed; second setup means for setting one of the recovery modes performed by the recovery means based on the feeding condition that is designated; and control means for controlling the feeding means in accordance with the feeding condition that is designated, and for controlling the recovery means based on the recovery mode that is set.