Printing Apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKatsuyuki Kondo, Seiji Kawabata, Atsuki Sawata
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Abstract
A printing apparatus that is a vertical installation type apparatus having a height direction dimension that is larger than at least one of a width direction dimension and a length direction dimension when the printing apparatus is installed, includes an ink cartridge that can be attached to and detached from a printing apparatus body, and an attachment section to which the ink cartridge is attached. The ink cartridge can be attached to and detached from the attachment section from a top surface side of the printing apparatus. The thus-structured printing apparatus allows a user to easily reach the attachment section for the ink cartridge regardless of which face of the printing apparatus is facing the user.
Claims6
A printing apparatus, comprising:
- a printing apparatus body that is a vertical installation type body having a height direction dimension that is larger than at least one of a width direction dimension and a length direction dimension when the printing apparatus is installed;
- an ink cartridge that is attachable to and detachable from the printing apparatus body;
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- an attachment section to which the ink cartridge is attached,
- wherein the ink cartridge is attachable to and detachable from the attachment section from a top surface side of the printing apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.