| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a selecting means which can continue printing at a user's own responsibility even after an ink end and can suppress wasting of ink to a minimum in an inkjet recorder with a soft ink end detection. SOLUTION: The inkjet recorder which carries out printing on the basis of printing data has an ink consumption counting means for calculating a consumption of ink stored in an ink cartridge, and obtaining an ink consumption counter value of the ink cartridge; an ink end detecting means for judging that it is the ink end when the ink consumption counter value of the ink cartridge by the ink consumption counting means reaches a predetermined value; and the continued printing selection means for enabling printing by releasing an ink end protection of suspending a printing operation, when the ink end is detected by the ink end detecting means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO |
