Patent ID: 8083311

Claim:
An ink-jet printing apparatus which prints an image on a print medium using an ink-jet head having at least a first nozzle group and a second nozzle group, comprising: a first capping device which caps the first nozzle group; a second capping device which caps the second nozzle group; a suction device configured to suck ink from the first and second nozzle groups through said first and second capping devices, said suction device being provided commonly for said first and second capping devices; and a controller configured to control a first suction mode for sucking ink simultaneously from the first and second nozzle groups by said suction device and a second suction mode for sucking ink sequentially from the first and second nozzle groups by said suction device, wherein said controller controls to perform the first suction mode in a case that a temperature rise rate when the ink-jet head ejects the ink is not more than a threshold temperature rise rate, and to perform the second suction mode in a case that the temperature rise rate is more than the threshold temperature rise rate.