Printing apparatus
AssigneesToppan Printing Co., Ltd., Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
InventorYuichi Aihara
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Abstract
To provide a printing apparatus of high printing quality for decreasing a transport amount of a film-shaped medium used in the printing apparatus, and suppressing skew of the film-shaped medium, a control section 100 that controls a transport section 49 for transporting a film-shaped medium 46 controls a transport amount of the film-shaped medium 46, corresponding to information on whether or not to print on only one side of a recording medium in detecting a type and/or Empty of the film-shaped medium 46, based on a mark detection result in initializing operation of the film-shaped medium 46.
Claims7
A printing apparatus for performing printing using a film-shaped medium where a region used in printing of a single sheet of printing medium is formed in the shape of a roll continuously in a longitudinal direction, comprising:
- a supply portion around which is wound a portion of printing unused regions of the film-shaped medium;
- a take-up portion around which is wound a portion of printing used regions of the film-shaped medium;
- a transport section adapted to transport the film-shaped medium between the supply portion and the take-up portion;
- a mark detecting section adapted to detect information on the film-shaped medium from a predetermined mark formed on the film-shaped medium;
- an acquiring section adapted to acquire information on whether or not printing immediately after initializing is to print on only one side of a recording medium;
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- a control section adapted to control the transport section,
- wherein in detecting a type and/or Empty of the film-shaped medium based on a detected result of the mark detecting section in an initializing operation, the control section changes a transport amount of the film-shaped medium, corresponding to the information acquired in the acquiring section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.