Printing apparatus for detecting and avoiding unprintable regions on recording mediums

摘要

A printing apparatus for performing printing on a recording medium includes a printing unit configured to perform printing a plurality of images sequentially on a recording medium, a detection unit configured to detect an unsuitable area that is not suitable for printing on the recording medium, and a control unit configured to control, when the detection unit detects the unsuitable area, so as to define an unprintable region, including the unsuitable area, where the image is not to be printed on the recording medium based on a length of the unsuitable area in a direction of conveyance of the recording medium, and to continue printing the images while avoiding the set unprintable region.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
a determining unit configured to determine an unsuitable area that is not suitable for printing of a print medium; and a print control unit configured to cause a print unit to print an image on the print medium and to cause the print unit to skip printing of the image so as not to print the image on the unsuitable area in accordance with the unsuitable area determined by the determining unit, wherein the print control unit varies an amount for causing the print unit to skip the printing of the image, according to the unsuitable area, and wherein the print control unit causes the print unit to skip the printing of the image by inserting a blank-margin job into a queue of a print job table.