Recording apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorAtsushi SUMII
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Abstract
A recording apparatus include a recording head that performs recording by ejecting ink onto paper from a plurality of nozzles, in which both a length of a first curved path in a first reverse path and a length of a second curved path in a second reverse path are longer than a distance of a head surface having a plurality of nozzles from a nip position in the pair of first feed rollers that transports paper toward the recording head to a position on the most downstream side in the medium transport direction. Further, a curvature of the second curved path is configured to be longer than a curvature of the first curved path.
Claims14
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording head that is provided with a plurality of nozzles and performs recording by ejecting liquid onto a medium from the nozzles;
- a pair of transport rollers that transports the medium toward the recording head;
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- a first path and a second path that cause the medium, transported in the medium transport direction with a first surface facing the recording head, to be curved with the first surface being as an inside at a position on an upstream side of a position of the recording head in the medium transport direction, and reverse the medium so that a second surface which is a surface opposite to the first surface of the medium faces the recording head to transport the medium again toward the recording head,
- wherein both a length of a first curved path included in the first path and a length of a second curved path included in the second path are longer than a distance from a nip position in the pair of transport rollers to a most downstream side position of a head surface having the plurality of nozzles in the medium transport direction, and
- wherein a curvature of the second curved path is greater than a curvature of the first curved path.
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording head that includes a plurality of nozzles and performs recording by ejecting liquid onto a medium from the nozzles;
- a pair of first feed rollers that is disposed on an upstream side of the recording head in the medium transport direction and transports the medium to a recording area of the recording head;
- a pair of second feed rollers that is disposed on a downstream side of the recording head in the medium transport direction and transports the medium to the downstream side;
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- a first path and a second path that cause the medium, transported in the medium transport direction with a first surface facing the recording head, to be curved with the first surface being as an inside at a position on an upstream side of a position of the recording head in the medium transport direction, and reverse the medium so that a second surface which is a surface opposite to the first surface of the medium faces the recording head to transport the medium again toward the recording head,
- wherein both a length of a first curved path included in the first path and a length of a second curved path included in the second path are longer than a length of a floating suppression area that is set between the pair of first feed rollers and the pair of second feed rollers, and
- a curvature of the second curved path is greater than a curvature of the first curved path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.