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US 2013/0278702 A1Published application
Portable thermal printer
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroyasu Ishii, Motohito Tsuchiya
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Abstract
A portable thermal printer includes a housing and an anti-skew unit. The housing is provided with a thermal printer head and a platen roller, and is configured to convey a paper between the thermal printer head and the platen roller. The anti-skew unit inside the housing is configured to contact both side edges of the paper in a width direction to prevent the paper, which is being conveyed, from skewing, and the setting of the width of the paper by the anti-skew unit is configured to be adjustable from outside the housing.
Claims8
A portable thermal printer comprising:
- a housing provided with a thermal printer head and a platen roller, and configured to convey a paper between the thermal printer head and the platen roller;
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- an anti-skew unit disposed inside the housing, and configured to contact both side edges of the paper in a width direction to prevent the paper, which is being conveyed, from skewing, setting of a width of the paper by the anti-skew unit configured to be adjustable from outside the housing.
A portable thermal printer comprising:
- a housing configured to contain a paper being wound in a form of a roll;
- a conveying unit configured to convey the paper along a guide path inside the housing;
- a printing unit disposed on the guide path, and configured to print on the paper which is being conveyed;
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- an anti-skew unit configured to prevent the paper which is being conveyed from skewing, and provided with a slide adjustment member that contacts both side edges of the paper by setting a width of the paper in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the paper is conveyed, the slide adjustment member of the anti-skew unit protruding out of the housing, configured to be adjustable from outside of the housing.
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