Tray and printing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuhiro Ota, Koya Iwakura, Shimpei Fujisaki
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Abstract
A tray is used in a printing apparatus that includes a conveying unit configured to convey the tray holding a printing medium, and a printing unit configured to perform printing onto a print surface of the printing medium held by the tray. The tray includes a placement surface on which a printing medium is to be placed, a pressing member that presses the printing medium placed on the placement surface towards a downstream side of an inserting direction of the tray with respect to the printing apparatus, and a regulating portion configured to regulate a movement of the printing medium by abutting the printing medium pressed by the pressing member.
Claims15
A tray that is to be used in a printing apparatus that includes a conveying unit configured to convey the tray that holds a printing medium, and a printing unit configured to perform printing onto a print surface of the printing medium held by the tray, the tray comprising:
- a placement surface on which the printing medium is to be placed;
- a pressing member that presses the printing medium placed on the placement surface towards a downstream side of an inserting direction of the tray with respect to the printing apparatus;
- and
- a regulating portion configured to regulate a movement of the printing medium by abutting the printing medium pressed by the pressing member.
A tray that is to be used in a printing apparatus that includes a conveying unit configured to convey the tray that holds a printing medium, and a printing unit configured to perform printing onto a print surface of the printing medium held by the tray, the tray comprising:
- a placement surface that allows one of a first printing medium and a second printing medium whose shape is different from the first printing medium to be placed thereon;
- a pressing member that presses the printing medium placed on the placement surface towards a downstream side in an inserting direction of the tray with respect to the printing apparatus;
- and
- a first regulating portion configured to regulate a movement of the first printing medium by abutting the first printing medium pressed by the pressing member, and a second regulating portion configured to regulate a movement of the second printing medium by abutting the second printing medium pressed by the pressing member, the second regulating portion differing from the first regulating portion.
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a conveying unit configured to convey a tray that holds a printing medium;
- and a printing unit configured to perform printing onto a print surface of the printing medium held by the tray,
- wherein the tray includes
- a placement surface on which the printing medium is to be placed,
- a pressing member that presses the printing medium placed on the placement surface towards a downstream side in an inserting direction of the tray with respect to the printing apparatus, and
- a regulating portion configured to regulate a movement of the printing medium by abutting the printing medium pressed by the pressing member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.