Recording apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsSatoshi FUJIOKA, Takayuki Ishii, Yoshitaka Shimada
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Abstract
There are provided a suction unit which sucks a recording medium, and a unit which changes sucking force of the suction unit according to the property of the recording medium. Hereby, since the sucking force of the suction unit can be set according to a state of the recording medium. Therefore, for example, even if the recording medium is greatly curled, since its recording medium can be surely sucked on the transporting surface of the recording medium by the suction unit. Further, even if the recording medium has little rigidity and is thin, it is possible to prevent the recording medium from being stuck on the transporting surface of the recording medium by the suction unit.
Claims6
A recording apparatus that records data on a recording medium comprising:
- a suction unit configured to suck the recording medium which has been recorded on by the recording apparatus;
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- a changing unit configured to change a suction force of the suction unit in accordance with a property of the recording medium.
A recording apparatus according to clam 3, wherein the operation unit performs an operation of changing the suction force of the suction unit in a multi-step manner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.