INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD

摘要

An ink jet recording apparatus includes: a container to store ink; a detector to detect a remaining ink amount; a liquid feeding unit to supply the ink to the container; an energy generation unit to cause the ink to be discharged; a storage unit to store correspondence information in which driving information for driving the energy generation unit is associated with each piece of time information indicating a supply time taken to supply the ink; and a setting unit to set new driving information using the correspondence information when an actual supply time is different from the supply time indicated by the time information associated with current driving information among the pieces of time information. The actual supply time indicates a time period from when the liquid feeding unit starts supplying the ink until the detector detects that the remaining ink amount is equal to or higher than a threshold.

主权项

1. An ink jet recording apparatus comprising:
a container to store therein ink; a first detector to detect a remaining amount of the ink in the container; a liquid feeding unit to supply the ink to the container; an energy generation unit to cause the ink to be discharged; a storage unit to store therein correspondence information in which driving information indicating information for driving the energy generation unit is associated with each piece of time information indicating a predetermined supply time taken to supply the ink; and a setting unit to set new driving information using the correspondence information when an actual supply time is different from the supply time indicated by the time information associated with current driving information among the pieces of time information contained in the correspondence information, the actual supply time indicating a time period from when the liquid feeding unit starts supplying the ink until the first detector detects that the remaining amount of the ink in the container is equal to or higher than a threshold.