| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the user from recognizing the waiting time by driving a waiting timer for setting a predetermined waiting time after executing a cleaning operation as well as allowing the receipt of a printing command at the same time. SOLUTION: A cleaning operation is completed by driving a carriage by a low speed mode for a finish wiping of wiping a nozzle plate of a recording head 7 at a low speed. Thereafter, timing by a waiting timer 28 is started, and at the same time, the apparatus is in the printing command waiting state of allowing the receipt of a printing command. A printing control means 20 monitors whether or not a printing command exists. Accordingly, in the case a printing command is received, the waiting timer 28 already times the predetermined waiting time so that printing can be started immediately after the passage of the predetermined time counted by the waiting timer 28. When the waiting time has passed, a signal for the idle ejection is applied to the recording head 7 for flashing so as to start printing. |
