Printer
AssigneeSato Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuyuki Kakui, Takayoshi Jinnouchi
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Abstract
A printer includes, a printing portion configured to print on a print medium, a ribbon roll up shaft configured to roll up an ink ribbon used in the printing portion, a ribbon supply shaft provided movably between a first position and a second position with respect to the ribbon roll up shaft, the ribbon supply shaft configured to hold the ink ribbon to be supplied to the printing portion, and a ribbon supply shaft lock mechanism to be brought into a lock state where rotation of the ribbon supply shaft is regulated when the ribbon supply shaft is placed at the first position, and into a non-lock state where the rotation of the ribbon supply shaft is permitted when the ribbon supply shaft is placed at the second position.
Claims20
A printer, comprising:
- a printing portion configured to print on a print medium;
- a ribbon roll up shaft configured to roll up an ink ribbon used in the printing portion;
- a ribbon supply shaft provided movably between a first position and a second position, the ribbon supply shaft configured to hold the ink ribbon to be supplied to the printing portion;
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- a ribbon supply shaft lock mechanism to be brought into a lock state where rotation of the ribbon supply shaft is regulated when the ribbon supply shaft is placed at the first position, and into a non-lock state where the rotation of the ribbon supply shaft is permitted when the ribbon supply shaft is placed at the second position, wherein
- a position of a central axis of the ribbon roll up shaft and a position of a central axis of the ribbon supply shaft move relative to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.