Patent ID: 8840208

Claim:
A printing apparatus which discharges ink to perform printing, comprising: a printing section which discharges the ink to print an image; a storage section in which an image data of the image to be printed by the printing section is stored; a judgment section which judges as to whether or not a flushing condition to execute a flushing, in which the ink is discharged from the printing section irrespective of the printing of the image, is satisfied; and a controller which controls the printing section to execute the flushing in a case that the judgment section judges that the flushing condition is satisfied and that the image data is not stored in the storage section, and which controls the printing section to print the image instead of executing the flushing in a case that the judgment section judges that the flushing condition is satisfied and that the image data is stored in the storage section such that printing the image serves as the flushing.