Printing apparatus that controls a sequence of a print unit based on a predicted electrical energy amount necessary to execute the sequence, and related control method

摘要

A printing apparatus includes an electrical storage that is charged by power input from an external power supply, a print unit that sequentially executes, by discharging the power charged in the electrical storage, a plurality of sequences in an operation sequence for printing on a print medium, and a charge unit that charges the power in the electrical storage from a period beginning when execution of one sequence by the print unit ends, until a next sequence starts. A prediction unit predicts an electrical energy amount necessary to execute the next sequence, and a control unit controls the print unit to execute the next sequence in a case in which an electrical storage amount of the electrical storage becomes greater than a threshold based on the electrical energy necessary to execute the next sequence by charging of the electrical storage by the charge unit.