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US 2011/0085842 A1Published application
Printing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorHitoshi Igarashi
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes: a motor which drives a shaft of a roll body in which a medium is wound, in the feeding direction of the medium; a transport roller which transports the medium fed from the roll body; and a control section which supplies electric power for rotating the roll body to the motor, wherein the electric power that the control section supplies to the motor at the time of the start of the feeding of the medium is larger when the diameter of the roll body is R2 (<R1) than when the diameter of the roll body is R1.
Claims5
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a motor which drives a shaft of a roll body in which a medium is wound, in the feeding direction of the medium;
- a transport roller which transports the medium fed from the roll body;
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- a control section which supplies electric power for rotating the roll body to the motor,
- wherein the electric power that the control section supplies to the motor at the time of the start of the feeding of the medium is larger when the diameter of the roll body is R2 (<R1) than when the diameter of the roll body is R1.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.