Patent ID: 8011751

Claim:
An inkjet printer comprising: a print head for printing by discharging ink droplets from nozzles; a recovery process unit that executes a print head recovery process; a clock unit that outputs time information; a print operation measuring unit that acquires printing operation data for a plurality of time periods, wherein the printing operation data represents a printing operation value in each of the plurality of time periods; a recovery process starting unit that sets a low print demand period based on a plurality of low print demand periods in the printing operation data in which the printing operation value is less than or equal to a threshold value, sets a recovery process start time so that the print head recovery process is executed in the low print demand period, and starts the print head recovery process when the recovery process start time arrives; and a head recovery drive control unit that controls the recovery process unit based on a start signal from the recovery process starting unit, and executes the executing the print head recovery process.