Printer
AssigneeSato Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasuyuki Kakui
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Abstract
The printer has a closed state where the printing head portion and the damper portion are positioned on a position printable on the print mediums, and an open state where the printing head portion and the damper portion are positioned on a position separated from the print mediums. In a case of a transition from the closed state to the open state, the printing head portion and the damper portion behave in conjunction, and in a case of a transition from the open state to the closed state, the damper portion and the printing head portion independently behave.
Claims9
A printer that performs printing on a long strip-shaped continuous paper, the printer comprising:
- a platen roller portion configured to feed the continuous paper;
- a printing head portion movable between a closed position and an open position, the printing head portion opposing the platen roller portion in the closed position, the printing head portion being separated from the platen roller portion in the open position;
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- a damper portion disposed on an upstream side of the printing head portion, the damper portion being movable between a closed position and an open position, the damper portion configured to abut the continuous paper in the closed position, and the damper portion configured to be separated from the continuous paper in the open position, wherein
- in a case of a transition from a closed state where the printing head portion is positioned in the closed position and the damper portion is positioned in the closed position to an open state where the printing head portion is positioned in the open position and the damper portion is positioned in the open position, moving the printing head portion to the open position moves the damper portion to the open position in conjunction with the printing head portion, and
- in a case where the damper portion is moved from the open state where the printing head portion and the damper portion are positioned in the open positions, respectively, to the closed position of the damper portion, the printing head portion is held in the open position without conjunction with the damper portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.