ELECTRONIC PRINTER CONTROL DEVICE AND PREPARATORY OPERATION METHOD FOR AN ELECTRONIC PRINTER

摘要

The disclosed control device (70) controls a liquid toner pump (25c), a recovery pump (25d), and another recovery pump (25e). The control device (70) has an electronic printer (10) execute a pre-printing preparatory operation when the control device has determined either that a prescribed amount of time has passed since the electronic printer (10) has finished printing, or that a passage cleaning operation, in which a carrier is run through a supply passage (F04), another supply passage (F05), a recovery passage (F06), and another recovery passage (F07), has finished. For the preparatory operation, the control device (70) runs the liquid toner pump (25c), the recovery pump (25d), and the other recovery pump (25e).