Patent ID: 8191989

Claim:
A printing apparatus that prints an image using a printhead that discharges ink supplied from an ink tank that has a negative pressure generation chamber, and an ink storage chamber that is communicated with the negative pressure generation chamber and is for holding ink, the printing apparatus comprising: a temperature sensor configured to detect an environmental temperature of the printing apparatus; a suction unit configured to suck ink from the printhead according to a target suction amount indicating amount of ink that the suction unit should suck per unit time at a predetermined environmental temperature; and a controller configured to cause the suction unit to suck ink such that the target suction amount in a case where the environmental temperature detected by the temperature sensor is higher than a predetermined temperature is greater than the target suction amount in a case where the environmental temperature is lower than the predetermined temperature, wherein the controller causes, in a case where the environmental temperature is higher than the predetermined temperature, the suction unit to suck ink such that the target suction amount for when an elapsed time since the ink tank was mounted is longer than a predetermined time is greater than the target suction amount for when the elapsed time is shorter than the predetermined time.