Image recording device, image recording method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsAtsushi IMAMURA, Yujiro NOMURA
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Abstract
An image recording device includes: a conveyor unit for conveying a recording medium; a drum for rotating under force of friction against the recording medium being conveyed by the conveyor unit, the recording medium being wound around the drum; and a recording unit for recording an image onto a portion, wound around the drum, of the recording medium being conveyed by the conveyor unit; the conveyor unit starting the conveyance of the recording medium in a state where a first tension has been applied to the recording medium, but executing a switching operation for switching the tension applied to the recording medium after the conveyance of the recording medium has been started, to a second tension that is lower than the first tension.
Claims16
An image recording device, comprising:
- a conveyor unit for conveying a recording medium;
- a drum for rotating under force of friction against the recording medium being conveyed by the conveyor unit, the recording medium being wound around the drum;
- and
- a recording unit for recording an image onto a portion, wound around the drum, of the recording medium being conveyed by the conveyor unit, wherein
- the conveyor unit starts the conveyance of the recording medium in a state where a first tension has been applied to the recording medium, but executes a modification operation for modifying the tension applied to the recording medium after the conveyance of the recording medium has been started, to a second tension that is lower than the first tension.
An image recording method in which a recording medium to be conveyed is wound around a drum that rotates under force of friction against the recording medium, and an image is recorded onto a portion, wound around the drum, of the recording medium being conveyed, the image recording method comprising:
- starting the conveyance of the recording medium in a state where a first tension has been applied to the recording medium;
- and
- modifying the tension applied to the recording medium after the conveyance of the recording medium has been started, to a second tension that is lower than the first tension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.