Media cassette housing apparatus

A media cassette housing apparatus comprising:

• a guide portion configured to guide an insertion of a media cassette to a cassette housing area and to guide a pulling out of the media cassette from the cassette housing area;
• and
• a swingable member swingably provided to the guide portion, being swingable in inserting and pulling direction of the media cassette,
• wherein the swingable member is formed with a guide surface, the guide surface extending in insertion and pulling direction of the media cassette and configured to come into sliding contact with a part of the media cassette along the insertion and pulling direction of the media cassette, and
• the guide surface is formed with a flat surface that extends substantially parallel to the insertion and pulling direction of the media cassette.

A media cassette housing apparatus comprising:

• a medium cassette configured to be inserted to and pulled out from a cassette housing area;
• a guide portion configured to guide an insertion of the media cassette to the cassette housing area and to guide a pulling out of the media cassette from the cassette housing area;
• and
• a swingable member swingably provided to the guide portion, being swingable in inserting and pulling direction of the media cassette,
• wherein the swingable member is formed with a guide surface, the guide surface extending in insertion and pulling direction of the media cassette and configured to come into sliding contact with a part of the media cassette along the insertion and pulling direction of the media cassette, and
• the medium cassette is formed, at an insertion leading end of the media cassette, with an inclined portion with respect to the insertion direction of the media cassette, wherein the inclined portion of the media cassette is provided at an area where the inclined surface comes into contact with the swingable member upon insertion of the media cassette.