Printing method and printing apparatus

摘要

A printing method and apparatus can achieve both of highly reliable detection of a mark and suppression of a sheet consumption amount when a continuous sheet is cut on an image basis after a plurality of images has been printed on the continuous sheet. For this purpose, at the time of arranging a non-image area including a cut mark between two images to be successively printed, the length of the non-image area in a conveyance direction is set on the basis of the length of a precedently conveyed image in the conveyance direction and image data in a rear end part of the image.

主权项

1. A printing method comprising:
printing a plurality of images on a continuous sheet and forming a mark in a non-image area between adjacent two images; and cutting the sheet on a basis of a detection of the mark, wherein a length of the non-image area is set on a basis of image data in a rear end part of a precedent image of the two images, and a position where a mark detecting operation in the non-image area is started, is determined on a basis of the length of the non-image area.