Printing apparatus

A printing apparatus comprising:

• a conveying unit that conveys a medium;
• a printing unit that ejects ink onto an image forming surface of the medium conveyed by the conveying unit;
• and
• a drying unit that is disposed downstream of the printing unit in a conveying direction of the medium and dries the ink ejected from the printing unit onto the image forming surface, the drying unit extending in a width direction transverse to the conveying direction of the medium with a first width end and a second width end, wherein
• the drying unit includes a support portion that supports the medium, an airflow generating unit that generates an airflow, a blowout port that is disposed at a position facing the image forming surface of the medium conveyed by the conveying unit and blows out the airflow, and an airflow direction determining portion that directs the airflow in a plurality of air blowing directions, wherein the blowout port faces the image forming surface of the medium conveyed by the conveying unit in an opposing direction, and
• a first air blowing direction of the plurality of air blowing directions is inclined in the width direction with respect to the opposing direction and a second air blowing direction of the plurality of air blowing directions is perpendicular to one of the first width end and the second width end,
• wherein the airflow generating unit includes a plurality of fans arranged in a direction intersecting the conveying direction,
• wherein the blowout port and the airflow direction determining portion are provided for each of the plurality of fans,
• wherein the first air blowing direction is inclined from upstream to downstream in the conveying direction when viewed from the opposing direction, and
• the airflow direction determining portion associated with one of the plurality of fans is located more upstream in the first air blowing direction and more upstream in the conveying direction than another airflow direction determining portion associated with another one of the plurality of fans.