Printing apparatus and conveyance apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsRyo Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Suzuki, Tsutomu Obata
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Abstract
To provide a printing apparatus and a conveyance apparatus that are capable of preventing a cut position to be cut by a cutting unit from deviating, in a printing apparatus in which printing is performed by a printing unit on a printing medium that is conveyed by a conveyance unit and the printing medium is cut by a cutting unit while being conveyed by the conveyance unit and a conveying force apply unit, the conveying force apply unit is arranged on an outer side relative to the cutting unit and is configured to apply a conveying force to the printing medium in a direction outward in a width direction from an upstream side to a downstream side in a conveyance direction.
Claims13
A sheet conveyance apparatus comprising:
- a first conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction;
- a cutting unit configured to cut the sheet, which is conveyed by the first conveyance unit, along the conveyance direction between a portion which becomes a product and an end of the sheet in the width direction;
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- a second conveyance unit arranged between the end of the sheet and the cutting unit in the width direction and configured to convey the sheet conveyed by the first conveyance unit,
- wherein the second conveyance unit applies conveying force to the sheet in the conveyance direction and applies conveying force to the sheet in an outer direction relative to the end of the sheet.
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a printing unit configured to print an image on a sheet;
- a first conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet on which the image is printed by the printing unit in a conveyance direction;
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- a cutting unit configured to cut the sheet, which is conveyed by the first conveyance unit, along the conveyance direction between a portion which becomes a product and an end of the sheet in the width direction;
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- a second conveyance unit arranged between the end of the sheet and the cutting unit in the width direction and configured to convey the sheet conveyed by the first conveyance unit,
- wherein the second conveyance unit applies conveying force to the sheet in the conveyance direction and applies conveying force to the sheet in an outer direction relative to the end of the sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.