Recording apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsHidenobu Ota, Takao Yamamoto
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Abstract
Meandering of a medium at a time of transporting is reduced. A recording apparatus which transports medium and performs recording on the medium is provided. The apparatus includes a recording unit, a medium clamping unit which is provided on a side further upstream than the recording unit in a transport direction, and clamps the medium therebetween, and a medium support unit which is provided on the side further upstream than the medium clamping unit in the transport direction, and supports the medium. The medium is slackened between the medium clamping unit and the medium support unit.
Claims6
A recording apparatus which transports a medium, and performs recording with respect to the transported medium, the apparatus comprising:
- a recording unit;
- a medium clamping unit which is provided on a side further upstream than the recording unit in a transport direction from the medium clamping unit to the recording unit, and clamps the medium therebetween;
- a medium support unit which is provided on a side further upstream than the medium clamping unit in the transport direction, and supports the medium, the medium support unit being higher than the medium clamping unit in an antigravity direction;
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- a regulation unit configured such that entry of the medium to an inside of a bending path is minimized and such that the medium is slackened in a gravity direction between the medium support unit and the medium clamping unit in the transport direction,
- wherein the medium is slackened along the bending path between the medium clamping unit and the medium support unit.
A recording apparatus which transports a medium from a roll, and performs recording on a first surface of the medium, the first surface is an outside surface of the roll, the apparatus comprising;
- a recording unit,
- a medium clamping unit configured to clamp the medium, the medium clamping unit being on a side further upstream than the recording unit in a transport direction from the roll to the recording unit;
- a medium support unit configured to support the medium, the medium support unit being on a side further upstream than the medium clamping unit in the transport direction, wherein the medium support unit is higher than the medium clamping unit in an antigravity direction;
- and a regulation unit configured such that the medium is slackened so that the first surface of the medium is an inner surface of a curve, and such that the medium is slackened in a gravity direction between the medium support unit and the medium clamping unit in the transport direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.