Printing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSeiji Suzuki
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to form an ink image on a transfer member by discharging ink, a transfer unit configured to transfer the ink image formed on the transfer member to a print medium, a recovery unit configured to recover performance of the printing unit, a guide unit configured to guide the printing unit to a recovery position for the recovery unit to recover the performance of the printing unit and a discharge position for the printing unit to discharge the ink to the transfer member, and a positioning structure configured to position the printing unit at the discharge position.
Claims7
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a transfer drum;
- a printing unit configured to form an ink image on the transfer drum by discharging ink;
- a pressurizing drum configured to transfer the ink image formed on the transfer drum to a print medium which passes between the pressurizing drum and the transfer drum;
- a guide unit configured to guide the printing unit to a discharge position for the printing unit to discharge the ink to the transfer drum and a retreat position where the printing unit retreats from the discharge position;
- an adjusting member supporting a rotation-center axis of the transfer drum and configured to adjust a position of the transfer drum with regard to the pressurizing drum, and
- a positioning unit configured to position the printing unit at the discharge position and be displaced together with the transfer drum displaced by the adjusting member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.