摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a recorder capable of reducing a processing time period before recording relating to a recovery operation for an inkjet recording head and improving a total throughput relating to recording of an image, and a method of recovering the inkjet recording head. SOLUTION: One of the plurality of recovery operations having different filling amounts of ink is selected in order to recover the inkjet recording head based on a detected residual amount of the ink and a time period elapsed from the previous recording operation. When the selected recovery operation is carried out, an ink-filling speed for filling the ink is varied depending on the selected recovery operation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |