Transporting Apparatus And Printing Apparatus Including The Same

A printing apparatus comprising:

• a transporting section that transports a transport target medium;
• a printing section that performs printing on the transport target medium transported by the transporting section;
• an imaging section that includes a light emitting element that applies light towards the transport target medium and an imaging element that is an imaging element in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional manner in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction and that images the transport target medium based on the light of the light emitting element;
• a transportation amount computing section that computes a transportation amount of the transport target medium based on the image of the transport target medium captured by the imaging section;
• and
• a transporting control section that controls the transporting section based on the transportation amount of the transport target medium computed by the transportation amount computing section,
• wherein the imaging element includes a valid pixel area that is an area of a plurality of pixels in which electric charge can be accumulated in accordance with reflected light in which the light of the light emitting element is reflected on the transport target medium, and a shading area that is an area of a plurality of pixels in which the reflected light can be shaded, and
• the light emitting element emits light within a shading duration that is a duration of the imaging element reading a pixel signal of the shading area.