Medium processing apparatus and recording system
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsYutaro Harada, Kohei Ueno, Nobuyuki Mizushima, Shunpei Yamaguchi
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Abstract
A first unit includes a receiving portion that receives a medium to be processed, a drying unit that processes the medium received from the receiving portion, and an end stitching unit that processes the medium received from the receiving portion or the medium processed by the drying unit. The processing performed by the drying unit is processing of drying the medium, the drying unit is located vertically below the end stitching unit, and the drying unit and the end stitching unit have a portion overlapping when viewed in a vertical direction.
Claims16
A medium processing apparatus comprising:
- a receiving portion that receives media to be processed;
- a transport path that transports the media received from the receiving portion;
- a first processing unit that performs first processing on the media received from the receiving portion;
- a second processing unit that performs second processing on the media received from the receiving portion and not processed by the first processing unit or the media received from the receiving portion and processed by the first processing unit;
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- a third processing unit that performs third processing on the media received from the receiving portion, wherein
- the first processing is processing of drying the media, and
- the first processing unit has a portion overlapping with the second processing unit and the third processing unit when viewed in a vertical direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.