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US 12,583,243 B2Granted
Printer
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKiyotaka Nihashi
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Abstract
According to an embodiment, a printer includes a damper that moves towards a continuous sheet by a predetermined distance and applies a tensile force to the continuous sheet on a conveying path on which the continuous sheet is conveyed by the feed roller. The printer further includes a limiter that switches a state of the damper between an unlimited state in which a movement distance for the damper is not limited and a limited state in which the movement distance for the damper is limited so that no tensile force is applied to the continuous sheet.
Claims16
A printer, comprising:
- a printing head that prints a continuous sheet released from a roll around which the continuous sheet is wound;
- a feed roller that conveys the continuous sheet via the printing head;
- a damper that moves towards the continuous sheet and applies a tensile force to the continuous sheet on a conveying path for the continuous sheet conveyed by the feed roller;
- a limiter that switches a state of the damper between an unlimited state in which a movement distance for the damper is not limited and a limited state in which the movement distance for the damper is limited so that no tensile force is applied to the continuous sheet;
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- a processor that performs control for driving the limiter to switch the damper in the limited state in a case where a label sheet with a label attached to a base sheet is used as the continuous sheet.
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A printer, comprising:
- a printing head that prints a continuous sheet released from a roll around which the continuous sheet is wound;
- a feed roller that conveys the continuous sheet via the printing head;
- a damper that moves towards the continuous sheet and applies a tensile force to the continuous sheet on a conveying path for the continuous sheet conveyed by the feed roller;
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- a limiter that switches a state of the damper between an unlimited state in which a movement distance for the damper is not limited and a limited state in which the movement distance for the damper is limited so that no tensile force is applied to the continuous sheet, wherein
- the limiter includes a locked portion provided in the damper and a locking portion that locks the damper by engaging with the locked portion, and
- the locking portion is provided to be movable between a position at which the locking portion engages with the locked portion and a position at which the locking portion does not engage with the locked portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.