Printer and printing head moving mechanism
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsTetsugo Ishida, Ken Inoue
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Abstract
A printing head moving mechanism is configured to reciprocate a carriage equipped with a printing head between a printing position facing a recording medium and a retracted position retracted outside a printing region of the recording medium. In the printing position, the carriage is disposed at a downstream side of a transporting roller which is configured to transport the recording medium in a transporting direction of the recording medium. In the retracted position, at least a portion of the carriage is disposed at an upstream side of the transporting roller in the transporting direction of the recording medium. The carriage is configured to move between the printing position and the retracted position without interfering with the transporting roller.
Claims12
A printing head moving mechanism configured to reciprocate a carriage equipped with a printing head between a printing position facing a recording medium and a retracted position retracted outside a printing region of the recording medium,
- wherein in the printing position, the carriage is disposed at a downstream side of a transporting roller which is configured to transport the recording medium in a transporting direction of the recording medium,
- wherein in the retracted position, at least a portion of the carriage is disposed at an upstream side of the transporting roller in the transporting direction of the recording medium, and
- wherein the carriage is configured to move between the printing position and the retracted position without interfering with the transporting roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.