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US 2010/0073449 A1Published application
Inkjet printer
AssigneeNoritsu Koki Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkihito Yamamoto, Yoshitsugu Tokai
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Abstract
In a consecutive processing in which an inkjet printer A consecutively performs printing on a plurality of media sheets and cutting the front ends and the rear ends of the media sheets, a feed interval between any two consecutive media sheets in a cutting section is set larger than that in a printing section.
Claims5
An inkjet printer, comprising:
- a printing section which prints on media sheets by ejecting ink from a print head;
- a media sheet supply section which supplies media sheets to the printing section;
- a feeding section which is provided at the printing section, and which feeds the media sheets supplied from the media sheet supply section to a side opposite to a side of the media sheet supply section when the media sheets is being printed;
- and
- a cutting section which sequentially cuts a front end part and a rear end part of the media sheets fed from the feeding section and printed by the printing section,
- wherein the cutting section includes
- a cutting/feeding section which horizontally feeds the printed media sheets to a side opposite to a side of the printing section, and
- a cutter including an upper blade and a lower blade arranged above and below a media sheet feed path of the cutting/feeding section,
- the cutting section cuts media sheets in a manner that, when a to-be-cut part of the media sheets is positioned between the upper blade and the lower blade of the cutting/feeding section, the lower blade is moved upward with the upper blade fixed,
- in a consecutive processing in which the inkjet printer consecutively prints and cuts a plurality of media sheets, the feeding section and the cutting/feeding section consecutively feed the plurality of media sheets with a feed interval left therebetween in a direction where the media sheets are fed, and
- in the consecutive processing by the inkjet printer, the feed interval between any two consecutive media sheets in the cutting section is larger than that in the printing section.
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